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Sorry I’m Late - A Journey of Optimism
Roland Pulfrew replied to Roland Pulfrew's topic in World War 2 Twins Mega GB
Aha, a certain Swiss gentleman? 😄 Well last night I got the bluetack tubes added and tonight I got a little bit of colour on Also got her on her wheels for the first time Now just need the paints for the Me-410 to arrive. -
Sorry I’m Late - A Journey of Optimism
Roland Pulfrew replied to Roland Pulfrew's topic in World War 2 Twins Mega GB
Just a little bit of progress as today has been one of relaxing after yesterday’s disappointment with Super Saturday! Also distracted tidying up the workshop and building a Detolf cabinet I managed to secure from EBay. Today was spent adding primer to the top surfaces and then adding all over black, light black in this case. Tonight, hopefully, will be spent adding some bluetac tubes ready for the green. -
Sorry I’m Late - A Journey of Optimism
Roland Pulfrew replied to Roland Pulfrew's topic in World War 2 Twins Mega GB
Maybe, but still not clever when in close formation. Anyway, today saw some colour going on. Well, black. Black! BLACK!! (for those that remember the Fast Show). Also got the props for the Mossie and 410 sprayed up, although I have jumped the gun and done black before the yellow tips (when will I learn 🤦🏻♂️). -
Sorry I’m Late - A Journey of Optimism
Roland Pulfrew replied to Roland Pulfrew's topic in World War 2 Twins Mega GB
Indeed, I wondered about that. Not good airmanship to pop the airbrakes when in formation. Unless they wanted the drag to keep the engines running in a better power band. -
Sorry I’m Late - A Journey of Optimism
Roland Pulfrew replied to Roland Pulfrew's topic in World War 2 Twins Mega GB
A few additional bits completed tonight, mainly lots of stuff like joining halves of wheels and drop tanks. Thought the difference in props was interesting and I wonder whether the longer thinner prop blades of the Mosquito was one of the reasons it performed better than the Me. Me on the left; Mossie on the right. Well that and being powered by Merlins!! -
Sorry I’m Late - A Journey of Optimism
Roland Pulfrew replied to Roland Pulfrew's topic in World War 2 Twins Mega GB
Just thought I ought to check in to show that I’m still alive and I haven’t forgotten about the GB. Been a little distracted by building a truck. 😳 Anyway, that’s pretty much finished so on with the twins. A little progress on the Mossie with the engine nacelles added. Spent some time working on the exhaust stubs, but then realised that was a waste of time 🤦🏻♂️ Also been masking up the canopy of the Me using masks from 3Dline Models. Not much different from any other mask manufacturer, except…. They add the mask number to each part making it so much easier and quicker to identify the right bit of mask and its location on the canopy. Such a simple idea and such an improvement! Anyway, here they both are: -
In a slight divergence from my usual fayre, I decided to get this out of the stash. Liked Motörhead for a long time, and picked this up a few years ago after Lemmy departed. Overall, it’s quite a simple kit, with plenty of opportunity to go OTT with additional detailing. I decided to build OOB (although I did add a can of coke to the centre console for no reason other than there was a bit of chrome spacer that was otherwise going to get thrown out). First foray into a non-military build, so tried my best. In hindsight I could have spent more time removing some seam lines, but the kit just wanted to be built. Anyway. It’s finished (although I probably should give it a coat of varnish to protect the decals - any suggestions on what to use?). Any comments welcome, as are suggestions on what to do to improve it for next time (if there is a next time. Although I see they do an AC/DC version too 🤔).
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Sorry I’m Late - A Journey of Optimism
Roland Pulfrew replied to Roland Pulfrew's topic in World War 2 Twins Mega GB
Getting close to needing to think about painting my Me-410 and DH98, but I’m coming up with a dilemma. The Airfix 410 comes with some quite nice colour schemes for aircraft based in Norway, problem is, I haven’t (yet) got the right colours. They are on order and due to arrive end of this, or early next month. Now wondering whether to go for a 410 of 1426 Enemy Aircraft Flight, and painting it in RAC colours, like this: I’ve got some Hannants ‘P’ markings, but does this make my Axis aircraft into an Allied aircraft? Or both? Decisions, decisions. -
Sorry I’m Late - A Journey of Optimism
Roland Pulfrew replied to Roland Pulfrew's topic in World War 2 Twins Mega GB
A little bit of progress now that work has settled down a bit and our guests have left. Not a huge amount of progress, but a bit of work on the the Me-410. Engines added And the radiators added to the undersides -
Ooh, let me see. What’s in the stash: Lancaster ✅; Stirling ✅ Halifax ✅; Mosquito ✅. Choices, choices. They aren’t going to build themselves! Sign me up.
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Sorry I’m Late - A Journey of Optimism
Roland Pulfrew replied to Roland Pulfrew's topic in World War 2 Twins Mega GB
Well to be fair, it was a bomber, recce aircraft, day and night fighter, a bit like the Mossie. -
Sorry I’m Late - A Journey of Optimism
Roland Pulfrew replied to Roland Pulfrew's topic in World War 2 Twins Mega GB
A little more progress today, but firstly a tip for those that might build this kit in the future. Be careful when you clean up the sprue burrs on the wing. Airfix has moulded a couple of circular panels onto the wing, that overlap the edge of the wing. Very easy to accidentally sand these smooth: The join of the wing to fuselage is though, excellent. No need for any filler on this join! Not sure if it’s the same with all kits, but my wings do have a bit of a warp. But again, the join with the fuselage is excellent One difference between Airfix and Tamiya, is the thinness of the trailing edges. Tamiya’s is much finer and I wish I had spent a bit of time thinning the Messerschmitt trailing edges Along with the fuselage length, the wingspan of both aircraft is almost identical but then, I guess, given that these are both twin engined, twin crew night fighters of a similar era, they would be pretty similar. Either that or the Luftwaffe spy network was better than we knew. -
Sorry I’m Late - A Journey of Optimism
Roland Pulfrew replied to Roland Pulfrew's topic in World War 2 Twins Mega GB
Right, back from a trip up north, so time to get some speed on. Maybe snail pace, but at least there has been a bit of progress. Fuselages all buttoned up: Quite surprised that both aircraft have very similar fuselage lengths. Obviously different cockpit layouts: Sort of wish that I’d ignored the decals straps for the Mossie and tried the Tamiya tape version used in the Me-410. -
Sorry I’m Late - A Journey of Optimism
Roland Pulfrew replied to Roland Pulfrew's topic in World War 2 Twins Mega GB
Just dry fitting a few parts, I don’t think anyone will see the circuit breakers once it’s closed up Have to say I’m really impressed by the fit of parts. Here the wing fillet resting perfectly on the wing spar. The join of the wing and fuselage sides looks great (dry fit)