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Alex Gordon

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  1. I've just had a look through your Bf 110 thread.Pages 2 and 3 have most of your images there but there are missing ones in four posts here,here,here and here.The images that are there are taking a bit of time to show up but that might be something to do with the size of them. The missing images show up as in the post and trying the right click open image in new tab gives me The image URLs are there so they have been generated and I know I've seen the images in your thread 'cos I pressed the like button before I left. Enjoy this little bit of irony,the two screenshots above have been brought to you via Imgur. I don't have any answers but I hope the above is useful in sorting out the snag.
  2. Might be worth having a look in "Non-album Images",I just have on mine for the first time ever and had the suprise find of some images that I'd thought were safely confined in their relevant albums.And a couple of duplicates that I didn't know about.
  3. Hmmm.The image URL stays the same after it has been moved from "untitled" to your album of choice so it doesn't matter when you copy the link for posting.Any chance of posting one of the offending links here so we can have a shufti?
  4. Once you've moved the images from the new "untitled" album into the one you want them in the "untitled" album can be deleted without losing the images. No,I don't like it much either.It might be worth you giving ImgBB a go for ease of use.ZippyImage works largely the same way as ImgBB but slower.If you try either of those two use the direct links for posting on BM.
  5. Personally I'd close the curtains.If you painted a neutral grey on the back of the glassware rather than black it wouldn't look as stark.
  6. G'day again Chums,more parts preparation this time. Troy,thanks old chum.From all we've read about panel lines I doubt the crowbar would be much use for getting into the panel.I'm starting to think that unless the aircraft was pancaked it's probably a groundcrew maintenance panel.Wasn't part of the oxygen system moved out that direction on the XVIe? Bob,thanks old lad.Was it an app on this type of mobile phone? I'll try to make all of this job as clear as possible,there's a bit more to it than a coat of paint.If there are any bits you want piccies of just shout in. Dennis,cheers old fruit. The propellor has been cut from the frame and there are some fairly hefty part lines on it. There are three options for the tyres,I'm going for the circumferencial tread ones. These have been cleaned up and the missing tread groove made by rotating against a saw on a suitable depth spacer.This was working just fine until I discovered that the tyre has a bulge where it contacts the ground that I hadn't spotted and my nice neatish tread groove wandered off all on its own so that's another one to chalk up to experience. The mainlegs look reasonable and let's all be thankful that they haven't used the same method as that on the Vb.The torque links don't look too chipper though. The carb air intake is going to need a bit of attention. The spinner and backplate will be painted before the propellor is fitted. I gave it a dryfit and something seemed a bit odd.It's not circular. More soon Chums,thanks for looking in.
  7. G'day Chums,I'd like to join in with this one if I may. Here's what's in the box. The map suggests starting with the cockpit.For a change all the relevant bits are to be found on the same area of the same frame making life easy by not having to search through everything twice 'cos I've missed a bit . A quick dryfit in the fuselage looked very promising but taping the fuselage together showed up a couple of joints that might not close up properly when doing this bit for real. The locations for the struts look very definite. The lower wing has been temporarily fitted using liquid latex so that I can have an easy run at setting up the struts early on in the build. The fit into the upper wing is going to require some filler. The pitot probe is there but decidedly chunky. It should look like this,photo found here https://www.coroflot.com/davidormerod/tiger-moth-restoration What I normally do for the rigging is drill holes to take the wires but on this machine it's all done on surface mounted plates using streamlined wire so I'm going to have to think about a way of doing it where I don't lose the will to live.This photo is from the BM walkaround department https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/76585-de-havilland-dh82-tiger-moth/ More soon Chums,thanks for looking in.
  8. There might be an easy way round the BR logo snag,if the decal is a single colour with no background then placing it face down will do the job.I did that with the 2 in the serial number on my Mustang E2-S build,it started life as a 5. Have fun with this one,she'll look very striking when she's done.
  9. It'll match that Belgique F104 that I'm sure you'd like to do.
  10. I wonder if the difference is a restoration collector ring from a Canadian-built and used Blenheim/Bolingbroke with the cabin heater duct holes plated over as opposed to not there in the first place as pointed out to me by @dogsbody Chris in my Gladiator build thread a while ago. The three piece cowling is fiddly to put together but not difficult,taping together is the thing to do. Getting it circular afterwards is another thing though.
  11. Hello again Chums,the conversion work starts. Troy,hello old chum thanks for dropping by.I've done a lot of digging for gen for this build,https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235057390-how-does-one-get-to-a-148-spitfire-f-mk-xviii/ , https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234923992-spitfire-xviii-camera-configuration/ for a start.There's a bit of panel bashing in this post. Dennis,cheers old fruit.I'd never have guessed your liking for a Mk XVIII https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235043675-new-questions-about-spitfire-mkxviii’s-what-type-of-rims-3-4-spoke/ . Cliff,thanks old sausage. The main undercarriage bays consist of forward and aft walls and the offset cylinders for the wheels.They all fit well but alignment of the wheelbay cylinders needs to be bang on otherwise they don't look quite right and there is enough movement for them to be off very easily.I fitted all the bits at the same time so that they could be shuffled about and pushed together for best fit. The cylinders were ever so slightly too small for the hole in the wing which makes me think that is the reason that alignment can so easily go awry.It's nothing that can't be fixed though. The tailplanes have been put together. The carb air intake bits were cut from the frame and glued together.Odd thing with these and difficult to photograph but just visible,the upper half here has a texture to it but the lower half is smooth. Troy mentioned the wing panelling.The outer gun bays were redundant on the E wing aircraft,the XVIII had the gun access doors deleted altogether and the ammunition access door relocated from the underside to the upper.All the internal structure remained the same,no need to change that,so its location can be easily determined.I put a piece of masking tape over the door on the underside and made various cuts to mark out for positioning. The tape was then moved to the upper side. Scribing against a straight edge gave me the panel lines where I wanted them as neatly as I could manage.Here's a question,I've read that these bays were used for emergency survival goodies.How was the door secured shut,did it require a tool to undo fasteners or was it a quick release handle located somewhere easy to get at.What I'm asking is do I need to scribe in any fasteners or hinges? The unwanted panel lines were filled with a couple of coats of paint. Thanks all for looking in,more soon.
  12. It's a comms and DF system antenna for the FuG 16 radio http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=18289. You've made a super job of that old fruit .Have a couple of these too,they're free .
  13. G'day Chums,being as I've finished my MiG 17 and there's a way to go before the end of this GB I'd like to chuck this one into the fray. I'm intending to build a 208 Squadron XVIII,photo found on Pinterest https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/history--774619204681454972/ My usual go to source,http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p114.html,gives the gen on the one I have decals for as TZ233 FRXVIII ALD G67 33MU 4-2-46 MED(ME) 6-7-48 109MU 31-12-48 208Sq 'RG-T' 10-2-49 SOC 10-12-51 which roughly translated means its first flight was from Aldermaston,it went to 33MU at Lyneham on the 4th February 1946 and,the bit I'm interested in,was on the strength of 208 Squadron operating out of Nicosia covering Palestine and its detatchment at Ramat David http://www.naval8-208-association.com/History1945-50Page01.html.It was struck off charge in December 1951. From the point of view of this GB it's in the frame as operating in the 1950's just. Here's what's in the box. The cockpit is much the same idea as the Vb from a little while ago and has enough in there to look convincing without adding anything.The only thing I'm not quite sure about is that the interior colour changed to green throughout towards the end of Spitfire production https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/55995-spitfire-seat-colour/page/2/ so I'm not going to be painting any aluminium in there. The seat has been put together after a little thinning and refinement. There are part lines on most bits that could do with a little attention. The rudder pedals need drilling out. The instrument decals look good and don't have the white lined perimeter that never looks right to me. More soon Chums,thanks for looking in.
  14. G'day Chums,here's my attempt at the Airfix 1/72nd scale MiG 17,the build thread is here https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235137018-airfix-mig-17-in-172nd-scalefinished/. My thanks go to Cliff and Dennis for doing their bit,Enzo for doing his and to all who looked in and encouraged.
  15. G'day again Chums, Cliff,thanks old fruit. Geoff,cheers for popping in.The canopy framing is slightly raised from the clear bits so it is relatively easy to mask up.It gives you a corner to push a blade edge into rather than an engraved panel line to cut along so it is also possible to position a tape edge if cutting in situ isn't your preferred method.Freehand painting is a possibility too,my eyesight and dexterity make that method a fond distant memory these days. The T antennae have had their holes drilled and been fitted and the wingtip lamp glasses have had a touch with the transparent carrier from red and dark blue gloss paint.Most of the stencils have been put on,there are lots of them and they are tiny wee things but there are enough there to look reasonably convincing. The wheels have been glued on and tweaked so that the moulded in flat spot sits properly on the ground.There has been an oily coloured wash in the wheelbays and speedbrake bays and the exhaust nozzle has been glued in after being painted silver and wiped over with a spot of pencil lead dust. I'm calling this one done. I nearly got it right. With the MiG 15 UTI I made not so long ago. My thanks go to Cliff and Dennis for doing their bit,Enzo for doing his and to all who looked in and encouraged.
  16. Hello again Chums,some more to show. Cliff,thanks old fruit. Dave,thanks for dropping in old lad.I'm sorry to read of your woes with your build,it was coming along well I thought. John,cheers old chum.I agree,there are some silly little niggles with this one but I'm finding it quite a stress free operation. A coat of paint revealed visible joint lines on the spine and belly.I had a couple of goes at filling them with paint,they were that small,and then overpainting once dry but it didn't work so I dug out the sanding sponge and scruffed it all away with that.And most of the surrounding detail . One thing that isn't in the kit,well two things really,the T shaped antennae that go under the wings.I used one that I broke off my MiG 15 () as a pattern and soldered up a couple using 0.7mm copper wire. It was very nearly decal time.The kit sheet looks very comprehensive and well rendered which is unsuprising because they are made by Cartograf and will handle a treat. I quite fancied doing something a little different to the kit options so I had a cast around for photos from the '50s and '60s.I didn't find many.I don't know if search engine algorithms are quietly tuning out history but there must be more than the half a dozen older images that I found out there.This was one of them,found on Pinterest I did a quick bit of reading up on Bort numbers here https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235016337-bort-number-colours/ and had a dig into the spare decals bag. These looked close to the ones in the photo in shape so I decided that with a little cut and shut they'd be near enough for me. More by luck than judgement the missing bit of yellow has been matched.A little touching in and refinement will sort it all out. Thanks all for looking in,more soon.
  17. Gday Chums,here's my attempt at the Mistercraft Me 262 B1a.The build thread is here https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235134876-mistercraft-me-262-b-1a-in-172nd-scalefinished/ My thanks to VP and James for doing their bit,Enzo for doing his and to all who looked in and encouraged.
  18. Hello again Chums,some tweaks. Adrian,thanks old chum. Craig,James,cheers chaps. The underfuselage antenna has been made from a sliver of plastic card and some thin wire. I only managed to make one serial number from the kit decals so I had to handball all but the 1 on the starboard side of the fin.It's a bit of a bodge but they are only 3mm or so tall. Anyway after the usual flurry of demasking,touching in and making sure all was well I'm calling this one done. I nearly got it right. With the Hobbyboss one I finished back in 2020. My thanks to VP and James for doing their bit,Enzo for doing his and to all who looked in and encouraged.
  19. G'day again Chums,some twiddly bits. Simon,cheers old lad.If you make a build thread for it I'll look in. Nigel,thanks old fruit.The simplest is always the best unless you are dealing with the bod on the counter in the plumbing department at the builders merchants. There are pitot probes and an antenna mast to be fitted. For these sausage fingers the gates were entertaining to clean up. The mainlegs were ready for fitting. With the retraction rams added they are decently sturdy. Anyway this is where we are tonight. More soon chums,thanks for looking in.
  20. G'day again Chums,more twiddly stuff. Craig,thanks old chum. James,cheers old fruit.I don't know about best,you'd be suprised what I've managed to hide with indeterminate photography. The missing case ejection chutes have been opened up and lined. Lousy photography alert,I thought there seemed to be something not quite right with the main undercarriage doors. They should look like this Photo found here https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/the-messerschmitt-me-262-jet-fighter/ .I filed the inside of the inner doors which are soon to become the outer doors,confusing this isn't it. While paint was drying on those I knocked up a replacement pitot probe from a bit of unravelled guitar string,the kit one being a bit on the chunky side of overnourished.A thick coat of paint will smooth out the stem of the tube. The maingear doors were swapped over to their relative opposite sides which looks a bit nearer.The various retraction rams have been fitted too. More soon Chums,thanks for looking in.
  21. Looking good so far old fruit.I've no idea on the seat and the only decent photo of the seat I've found so far was on Large Scale Planes If you're doing the 86th FBW option you might find my build thread https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235094756-hobbyboss-f-84-e-in-172nd-scalefinished/ worth a read.
  22. You kept that up your sleeve.
  23. Hello again Chums,glassware this time. Cliff,Gerard,thanks chaps. @Beard Something I forgot to mention last time.There was a bit of a snag fitting the wings.There is a fairly sustantial lump at the leading edge that plugs into the fuselage. When I dry fitted before gluing I found that the wings sat slightly displaced,one upwards one downwards,so that the line of the leading edge didn't run through.A couple of swipes with a coarse file took enough material away from each offending side to cure it but it was quite noticeable. The gunsight has been fitted and painted black. There are two sliding canopies provided,one with a rear view mirror one without.I'm going for the one with as suggested by the map. Dryfitting showed that it wouldn't sit down when closed. There are two upright sticky out bits either side of the seat which foul the inside of the canopy and,when shortened by a gnats,are no longer in the way. Anyway the canopy is now on and masked and we're heading for paint.Thanks all for looking in,more soon.
  24. Hello again Chums,a little more to show. Craig,James,thanks chaps. I've acquired a near complete Hobbyboss decal sheet so we can have stencils after all. The lettering is being refined to look a bit closer to presentable. The wheels and legs have been painted and some pipework made from copper wire added. Thanks all for looking in,more soon.
  25. G'day again Chums,some twiddly bits. Beard,cheers old fruit.This one's a pleasant boxful which doesn't need a lot of fettling to push it together.I've been using Butanone as the liquid glue to which this plastic responds very well.Hopefully this thread is of use and you enjoy your build. Wings,tailplanes and rudders are on. The wheelwells are going to be aluminium so I decided to fit up the doors before painting,cutting down on masking. The same with the noseleg bay,the various cannon fairings and the speedbrake bays. The speedbrake doors were prepped for painting the inner faces. Once the glue has set all the difficult to reach bits can be painted.I want the canopy on before painting.The front portion has a huge gate at its forward end which I will take a saw to hopefully avoiding cracking the thing. More soon Chums,thanks for looking in.
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