Severus

This week departed my two beloved tomcats, 11 and 17yrs. But also some enlightenment came this week. Perhaps, this will shed some light on the mystery of hair in the last layers of lacquer, something obviously broken and glued together...

I'm sorry, I don't get it, what do you mean on " "door" sausage"... Anyhow, my techniques are rather simple - I don't do anything, what needs extra tools...

Little progress on decaling, exhausts etc...

Decals from Propagteam. Though I hate them, as extremely thin, tending to roll, one thing is lovely, as setting solution is usable enamel thinner or gasolene Perhaps tomorrow I'll put serials on (R7143, if I remember correctly)

If nothing else, this kind of kits helps the youngsters excercise at least any motoric abilities, gives everyone chance to get within reasonable amount of time and with minimal investments (yeah, brave boy, steal the file from your mommy's manicure ) something to be proud of... Yesterday I pulled out from boneyard my old Spit Vb from heller. I also have Heller's XVI. Compare the tooling, detail level, shape accuracy, and the minimalistic decal sheets of that times of these kits, and the new IX, XIX, and I/IIa...

Recycling thread - Spitfire PR VII. As I got somehow delayed in spitfire GB... http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.p...40&start=40 ...I decided to post here... Over the gloss sea blue I shot Agama metal (Paste mixed with thinner with drop of acrylate) Unfortunately, it seems I somehow added too much acrylate, as the surface is really dull, and almost impossible to polish

A little progress on PR. VII. Gloss see blue sprayed as undercoat for some silver paint.

1. Never ever had problem to get the whatever box opened - Well the truth is, I had to be polite to the clerk. Also, as even proletariat has access to internet, there's no problem to look around, watch in progress builds... 2. What is so terribly bad on it? Yes it isn't Tamiya, on the other hand, it definitly is not Frog. Ever seen Dragon's/DML Ta-152C? What a tasty kit!!! 3. Thanks much, I take it as compliment. 2 Paul and Falke: I'm fascinated, how rendition of one plane could lead to totally different results (though pretty food).

Canopies are both surgery and replacement. On PR I.C and PR IV - Windshield is from pavla models as well sliding hood. Back part is simply cut from kit. On PR I.G, the front and back is from kit, sliding hood is from Pavla. See www.pavlamodels.cz, that produces both PR canopies and whole PR sets, AFAIK they do sets/canopies for Tamiya and new Airfix tool. To be honest, I saw much better canopies than from Pavla, but at least, they were really cheap. Thinking to vac homemade canopies, but for the moment, I'm happy with those already added.

If annoying, then what forced you to buy that damn thing? Made three so far, and another awaiting on the bench...

Thanks for kind words! I'm aware, these aren't superb builds, (I had seen many much better builds) but rather hastily and happily put together, like I was kid during my preteens, when I started on friday evening, and by sunday morning I was finished. I love the fact, that I can get the basic shape put together within some 2-4 hours (no kidding), with no worries of messing st. up because of the price.

Just to give you an idea of shades in daylight...

That's quite true, nevertheless, we are in the scale, where effect of the reflection inside scale cockpit is missing, reduced amount of light coming into scale cockpit should be kept in mind, therefore, the plain base color is too dark.

I took approx 5ml injection, pulled out the piston, and put really tiny drop of red on the tip. The drop has to be really tiny. Then I pushed piston down, and pulled approx 3ml of Hu:34. I know, it isn't too precise mixing, but I didn't want to get pink candy. Pulled some 2ml of thinner, and shook well. The PRU Pink had been depicted as white with a just the hint of pink, fading quite quickly. Progress so far. Cockpit glazing will be redone, as I'll get the next supplement of PR canopies...

Well, about darkening paints, I had the same bitter experience. Therefore, I don't use Hu:78 as base paint, but mix it in random ratio with Hu:90 or 23 according to my mood/taste, a little more on the Duck egg/Sky S. Concerning the hose, really there's no need for cnocking something up, as there should be enough space to put the hose in place.

Looks great! To my eye the cockpit base shade is too dark, perhaps, accentuating beams and longerons by drybrush of sky S might be good idea. And, don't forget the oxygen hose on the right side of cockpit (I can't remember whether right hand poinst port or starboard...)

Almost there!

I have no idea, if camotint was EdN or later Sky (S). I kept the idea I read somewhere, that Camotint was later marked as Sky. Therefore I pulled out tinlet of Humbrol 90

Almost there - just serial numbers needed to finish, and, of course, seat to add into cockpit... And here acompanied by PR I. type G.

A little late progress on my PR's. Those, who browsed around BM found another PR's from my chaotic desk. Well. I must admit, as I looked forward to build PR I. type G, I was somehow unsatisfied with result. As I got - thanks to weather - first attempted layer of paint too grainy, I stripped it off and started over. Unfortunately, the windshield looks clumsy, but for the moment I'm too lazy to do something about it.

Oh, now it's clear I was confused by hoot...

Building doors for spits. Not perfect, ribs are unaligned, but I feel, that after some sanding and painting will be passable...

Nightly build... Laziness overhelmed me. Therefore cut off kit's windshield, and glued it into place. Not an ideal fit, but I expect a thin strip of styrene resolve this issue. Peeking into cockpit you'd find decal instead of etch. Went out of supplies. Nevertheless, in effort to add a little of relief, I cut the center panel off and painted it's sides black and glued it on meanwhile decaled panel. Though, not very visible effect. And here's my twisted, perverse way to speed spit. Nothing to write mommy about. The windshield of flat canopy of Mk.II package sanded as much as possible round with armored glass removal. I know, that speedy in the assignment as speed hack had rounded canopy, on the other hand, the canopy provided in the kit is flatter than later canopies, but definitely not so flat. This matter will be resolved later, until I'll recover some unused canopies from PR's previously build

Whatsup? The amount od spits, or my simplistic windows? These are very easy to do. 1. drill the hole 2. Find the clear sprue of the approximately as the same diameter as the hole. Desired is tight fit, more on the matter later. 3. File => Sand => Polish the end of sprue flat, perpendicular to length of sprue. I polished the surface just by rubbing the flat end on normal paper. The key is dry process on the step!!! 4. Test the fit. 5. Take razor saw, and saw off some between 1 and 3 mm's off sprue, parallely to polished end. 6. Press fingertip on the already polished end, and return to step 3. If the fit is a little weak, use black paint to narrow the hole and to make the glass attachment invisible. Forgot CA, glue using future or water acrylic.

Be prepared for little effort spent on this kit, as it has some ancient features, AFAIK - as roundels moulded in, missing ribbing on the bottom surfaces, but apart from that, builds into decent kit. What a pity, it's float plane config, though adding wheels from scrapyard and evergreen beams wouldn't possess big trouble.