Jinxman
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Nice one - bitten by the Blitzbuild Bug!
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Wow - big difference. What primer is that please?
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That's quick progress - looks like you're the boss on this one.
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Nice progress. May I request a shot of primer - that yellow is messing with my head!
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That's a lovely set up you have there. Our whippet occasionally looks in on the modelling, gives one look, sighs and heads off again.
Toast - food of the Gods.
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Tremendous stuff!
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Session started nicely with a coffee and some Frank Cooper's on toast. Then - power cut! Stopped the session as the power has gone.
. A bit of investigation tells us the iron has gone off on one - replacement required as the napkins won't be ironed for dinner tomorrow!
Back to more interesting matters - starting to get the innards coloured so that we can button her up. Off to town now to get an iron....
Session time = 42 minutes, total time = 1 hour 55 minutes
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First session completed. Taking an early start to get around the arrival of the offspring over the next couple of days - it will be the Great Escape option for this one. Unfortunately the camera time is a day out - it'll be sorted for the next session. Assembled the fuselage halves, which is not as suggested in the instructions, but makes more sense to me this way. Some other bits and pieces tidied up, a little bit of filler applied. All in all it looks like a nice little kit.
Session time = 1 hour 13 minutes, total time = 1 hour 13 minutes
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They look like nice kits - good luck with them.
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Ah, Advocaat. The drink my Aunts loved at Christmas mixed with lemonade to make a snowball - once tasted, never forgotten. I'll be treating myself to a tot of Talisker at some stage, but don't tell @JOCKNEY , it might disturb my attempts at rigging the Fokker.
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A KUTA of a KUTA is appreciated by us aficionados.
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Nicely done - love it. A ship with a bit of rigging might be my entry into the Out of my Comfort Zone GB.
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A bit of black on to see what we have - it's not as good as I thought it might be, but it's a start. It'll be drying whilst the Blitzbuild progresses.
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20 hours ago, jean said:
It must be a genetic defect coming from my mother's side of the family, but I cannot throw anything into the bin, when it comes to plastic models... Very sad and worrisome condition.
But I am improving: only a couple of days ago I threw my first ever kit part in the rubbish. The pilot figure of my FW 190 whom I had half beheaded by mistake. And there I hovered over the dark hole of the bin for several minutes, wondering if in the near future my life would not hinge around this decapitated bit of plastic. I pried my fingers open and down it fell. A terrible sense of loss ensued.
I nonetheless agree that many a time my modelling bacon (I am a vegetarian...) was saved by what I found after a thorough search in the spare parts' box.
So unless stood upon by an elephant, no bit of plastic will go to the great landfill in the sky.
Well said! I have all sorts of bits of plastic that I have collected over the past 45 years or so - I even keep all the empty sprues, just in case. My children think I am bonkers....
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3 hours ago, AdrianMF said:
Not a lot, seeing as the much-superior Sword twin-pack is available at less than a tenner a model. There are so many different colour schemes I'm strongly tempted to get one (er, that is, two) so I can paint up a couple more. And no promises, but this may not be the only G55 in the GB...
@Enzo the Magnificent may suggest that they all get built!
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Go for it! Good luck - may the force be with you.
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If you are doing it in the yellow scheme @Hockeyboy76 will be expecting to see some pink primer in action!
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1 hour ago, 81-er said:
You could just download the Airfix instructions from Scalemates, Pat
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/airfix-a01086-fokker-eii-eindecker--957772
James
Can confirm that's exactly what I've got, and would probably be clearer than a pic. I can also photocopy and send to you just in case you can't download!
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My last chance this year to avoid the scorn of @JOCKNEY by building something that has the dirty rigging on it. At least there are no clear parts.
Airfix's version is from 2016, kit no. A01086, looks nicely moulded, and comes with decent decals. Airfix provide a detailed rigging diagram, so no excuses, other that running out of time, there. Hopefully will be able to fit some late night/early morning sessions in to do it justice.
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Lovely stuff - given that you've gone for something with rigging I may have to reciprocate - I think I have the Airfix version of this kit somewhere in the stash.
Or I may chicken out and do a Spitfire.
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Another Camel in the KUTA - looks like you've whipped most of it into shape already - good luck.
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Great service again from Martin - thank you.
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54 minutes ago, Malc2 said:
Thanks for the thread, got some brass tube super cheap!
Ditto, picked up my parcel this morning - great service from The Model Centre.
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We love a Lightning with the gears up - looking forward to seeing how the different shades turn out on the NMF as well.
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Another little Fokker - Airfix's version. +++Finished+++
in 2022 Christmas Blitzenbuild
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If it ain't carbon coated it ain't toast. Other preferences are available, of course.
Anyways, lunch was last night's leftover pizza with more coffee. Also using a bit of UFO to speed up the tempo.
Moving on steadily, and tidying up the undercarriage parts - this is a nice little kit indeed. I have noticed test fitting is essential to make sure the fine tolerances don't trip up the build.
Session time = 40 minutes, total time = 2 hour 35 minutes