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    Not doing any more to the canopy, there are a couple of places that need a little more work but that is essentially it! Touch-ups, paint-wise have started with the Dark Sea Grey, the Dark Green will be done early tomorrow and the Light Aircraft Grey soon afterwards as the engines will need to be glued in place first. The wheels are on the undercarriage legs now, fitting them will be fun It might be close but I believe that it will be presentable by the end of Friday in time for the Scottish Nationals. Gondor
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    Hope you don't mind if I post a single pic of each as motivation/inspiration All three are brush painted and the lighting in the photographs was terrible, more so in some than others. Gondor
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    I've built three so far, each a pain in the @$$ to get the cockpit to fit. Tungsten Putty sounds like a plan. Gondor
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    The link I posted shows both sets by Air Graphics. The engines are out of stock at the moment though. The only other option I know for engines you will have to be extremely lucky to find as they are M&E Models and are as easy to find as hens teeth Gondor
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    Here you go https://air-graphics.uk/shop/ols/search?keywords=Jetstream&sortOption=descend_by_match Gondor
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    This evenings update This morning the seats went inside, two-part Epoxy was used to be on the safe side, and the same adhesive was used to fix the canopy in place. The intent was to use the longer drying time to enable adjustment of the canopy placement if required. Leaving the glue to cure, I finished painting the tyres and fitted then later painted, the scissor link for the main undercarriage that was missing from my early production kit. It's not perfect, but over 90% of it will be hidden and most people will not be looking at it anyway. Next up has been the masking of the windows followed by adding filler to the joint between the canopy and the fuselage. And that's where I am at the moment. I am leaving the filler to fully cure overnight and in the morning some judicious sanding and filing will take place. Gondor
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    A few more pictures today. First up is the Navigators seat And the Pilots seat I am calling them done as time is a bit tight to do anything else really. Both the side handle and the crotch handle were solid so I have had fun and games keeping them mostly intact while opening them up, and I deliberately took some of the pictures so you could see the background through the side handles. Quite chuffed with them though they could have been better if I had more time. I have Alistairs 1/72 Buccaneer seats for another build so I look forward to what I can do with them. And here is another comparison shot for people Gondor
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    It's that Martians fault. If he says something silly he should expect something daft in return! Gondor
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    Dipping in and out of here today. Been doing lots of little bits of painting on the seats. The only problem is that I only have two decent 10/0 paint brushes at the moment and they are taking longer to dry than the paint! At least there is not much more to do paint-wise to the seats, buckles and stripes, then a go with the Scottish Paint, otherwise known as the Black Wash!* Talking about dipping, the canopy had a dunk in some Kleer That's it sitting drying on some kitchen paper on the kitchen windowsill. I am thinking that I should get a replacement for my bottle of Kleer as it's getting rather long in the tooth and I am getting dubious about its abilities. Suggestions are most welcome. Gondor * Black Wash joke was stolen from a thread on Britmodeller
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    That looks like an upside-down section of rollercoaster! So many Struts! Gobsmackingly fantastic work though. Gondor
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    I'm about to get tyred I had a thought originally about painting one side of each tyre and then the other when that was dry. But how to hold each when I was painting them? So I came up with what you see above. Unfortunately, I only had the one piece of tubing that could hold a main wheel, the second one will have to wait until tomorrow. All the surfaces other than the pliers have Gator Grip applied to their surfaces to hold the tyres in place. I'm hoping this does the trick 😕 Gondor
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    What did I do? I'm not even following this thread! Gondor the innocent
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    Well what do you expect asking a silly question like that? Gondor
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    Following this with interest. Gondor
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    No Chance! Gondor
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    So a little update Eyes Left! Eyes Right! Eyes Front! Eyes Rear! Hang on, that's not right. About Turn! And a couple of size comparison shots. First a TSR.2 And with a late WWII fighter The paint I am using is HATAKA Blue for the hairy stick. The colours are Dk Green B143, DK Sea Grey B144 and Lt Aircraft Grey B217 although the Dk Sea Grey has yet to be applied and only one coat of the Green has been added. That was mainly just to flesh out where the paint was to go with my interpretation of the camouflage given in the instructions. Still loads to do, I hope to get the seats almost finished today so hopefully they will be going into the tub tomorrow. That has just reminded me that I better do some work on the canopy Gondor
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    Yes, that would be a waste if it went wrong Gondor
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    A suggestion for replacing the doors you so meticulously chain drilled out. As you have a second Mariner available, why not use that as a template to make a buck to then crash mould new doors? Gondor
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    Wishing the two of you the best. Gondor
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    I came to the conclusion that trying to paint the undercarriage bay doors while holding them was a bit of a mugs game. All of their external surface were going to be Light Aircraft Grey so why not glue them into place? So I did! Also means I can paint the inside of each door where necessary as well. Being on a roll I decided to have a go at the handles on the sides of the ejector seats. Result, though not without casualties My 0.4mm drill bit broke. So that's a pack of ten replacements ordered as spares. So far so good I spoke too soon. That's the top of the handle go somewhere, no idea if the carpet monster got it or the workbench. No problem, make a new part. Those are 1mm divisions on the cutting mat, the numbers are for each centimetre so the part is not very large. And in place! It needs a little fetteling to get it right but as this will be the pilot's chair and that side is up against the cockpit side it should be ok when finished. Gondor
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    An update! Been a while but that didn't mean there was no work on the build. I can say that it's big and pointy. This of a 1/32 F-104 with delta wings and a squarer fuselage and for size you would not be far off. I will take pictures later to show its relative size if I can find a large flat space big enough 😕 First paint has been applied directly to the model. Possibly a bad move but we shall see how it goes. I am using Hataka Blue Line paint. Light Aircraft Grey B217, Dark Sea Grey B 144 and Dark Green B143. The Hataka Blue Line paint is for brushes so that is what I am using, and because it is an acrylic paint I can put several coats on in fairly quick succession. So a picture for everyone to squint at. Just the one picture at the moment as I wanted to show that there was progress and to get everything in the one picture at the same time. Gondor
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    What are the items at the back, launch rails for the Firestreaks? Gondor
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    So some of what I have been doing this weekend is very visible. Fore handles! Yellow ones. Then splash a bit of black around a bit and you get this.... It was only when I was painting the left side of the sets I remembered something. That little black lump above the blue belt is a handle too. So that will need opened up and painted with yellow stripes. I will be adding black stripes to the overhead and seat-pan handles, but later, not today. The rest of the time has been spent fixing seams and adding the wings. Not finished with the seams so not showing any pictures of it yet. You're going to have to put up with just the pictures of the seats, which need lots of touching up Gondor
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    The build is still moving forwards, admittedly slowly as I am having to do a fair amount of PSR to satisfy myself. So while the filler I am using is cuering I did a little work on the seats. And the picture shows that when I touched up the seat belts I missed where some of the green found its way onto one of them The difference is that I drilled and filed open the seat pan ejector handle. The main part of the seat will get painted tomorrow as well as hopefully moving onto glueing more parts to the fuselage. Gondor
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    You make it sound so simple I just find it difficult to find software that's cheap, and the main thing, easy to use. I got my 'O' level in technical drawing back in 77 so I know roughly what I want to do it's getting it into the computer screen Gondor
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