S5 modeller Posted March 17, 2016 Posted March 17, 2016 Hi chaps. This is going to be my entry for the group build. The venerable curtis tomahawk. The paint brush seems to have gone missing though, so will rob one from the wife's starter set! Never tried brushing a large area camoflauge scheme, so will be fun. Will put up a pic of my other tools later, so I don't fall foul of the rules. Matt
S5 modeller Posted March 17, 2016 Author Posted March 17, 2016 As promised, a shot of the tools I'll use... Tape, a knife, tweezers, cutters and a sanding stick. Hope these are ok. Please let me know if they're not, and I'll change them out. Matt 1
S5 modeller Posted March 17, 2016 Author Posted March 17, 2016 Cherrs Darren, thanks for deleting the duplicate. Don't know why it did it. Looking forward to starting. I presume we are allowed to thin the paints, to make them go further?
dazdot Posted March 17, 2016 Posted March 17, 2016 With water yes and the airfix pots thin quite well too 1
Dazzio Posted March 18, 2016 Posted March 18, 2016 I'll be watching this one. I built this up last year and used all modern luxuries. That Sharkmouth proved difficult then, might be an idea to cut it up? These Tomahawks build up nicely. Kind Regards, Dazz 1
S5 modeller Posted March 18, 2016 Author Posted March 18, 2016 Thanks for the heads up on the sharks mouth. 1
Dazzio Posted March 19, 2016 Posted March 19, 2016 You're welcome S5, the eyes where a bugger too, particularly the right one. Kind Regards, Dazz 1
S5 modeller Posted March 22, 2016 Author Posted March 22, 2016 Hi chaps. First update. After a long drive to skegness yesterday, decided to gave a relaxing evening building and painting. Painted the sidewalls of the cockpit and glued the fuselage together. Assembled and painted the basic cockpit, plus glued the wing upper surfaces on. I didn't paint the instrument panel, where the decal fit, as I thought the glossy plastic would help the decal fit. Decal didn't want to stick to the plastic, so ended up putting a thin layer of tube glue on. The decal stuck nicely to this. This is the best I could get the lower cowel/intake to fit, there are a few small gaps. That's what I managed to get done in about 3 hours. Also managed, due to my clumsiness, to snap the control column. Next up glueing the fuselage to the wings. Matt 1
PlaStix Posted March 22, 2016 Posted March 22, 2016 Looks like a good start to the holiday in Skegness! What more could you want when you've got some bracing modelling!! The gap doesn't look that bad. I've noticed on mine where there are places where I would normally have got the filler out! I think I'm going to leave them rather than use the Humbrol tube glue to fill them - I think I'd just end up with a mess! Hope the holiday continues to go well. Kind regards, Stix 1
dazdot Posted March 22, 2016 Posted March 22, 2016 Good stuff they look like good kits to me them it may be my goto kit 1
S5 modeller Posted March 22, 2016 Author Posted March 22, 2016 Cheers chaps. To be honest, with a few more tools and a little more finessing, most of the gaps would disappear. Just treating this as a quick fun build.
S5 modeller Posted March 22, 2016 Author Posted March 22, 2016 Stix, I don't know if you know skeg well, but went in today to go to the model shop on high street, or chip pan alley as the locals call it. It's now closed down, and has been redone as a blingy fashion shop. A shame really, as it was quite a good shop. I only went in last year. I asked some locals in a café, and they said the owner retire, but I also heard he'd passed away. Matt
PlaStix Posted March 22, 2016 Posted March 22, 2016 I do know Skeggy quite well but it's been a while since we've been. It's a real shame another model shop has gone. Did you manage to get anything from the blingy fashion shop? 1
S5 modeller Posted March 22, 2016 Author Posted March 22, 2016 I do know Skeggy quite well but it's been a while since we've been. It's a real shame another model shop has gone. Did you manage to get anything from the blingy fashion shop? Nah, it was shut. 2
Dazzio Posted March 22, 2016 Posted March 22, 2016 Looking good there S5, when I built mine I had a few gaps on it. Thought it was just my heavy hand, glad to see its not. Enjoy Skegness Kind Regards, Dazz
S5 modeller Posted March 23, 2016 Author Posted March 23, 2016 Back again. A productive session has left my tomahawk nearly built. Started painting the underbelly. Not too sure on the colour though. Doesn't look much like the box. 1
dazdot Posted March 23, 2016 Posted March 23, 2016 (edited) I honestly think that is humbrols azure blue best not start a fight on that one I remember the thread in ww11 but it's looking really good keep going Edited March 23, 2016 by dazdot 1
PlaStix Posted March 23, 2016 Posted March 23, 2016 That's a very neat coat of paint but I wouldn't worry too much about the colour - I don't think Airfix did much in the way of accurate colour matching for these Starter sets - for example - the colour callouts for their 1/72 Hurricane are different in places in the starter set from the one in the standard range.......simply because they use only the colours provided with the set. 1
S5 modeller Posted March 23, 2016 Author Posted March 23, 2016 I've decided, after reading some of the kerfuffle in the ww11 section, that airfix have indeed supplied a fair representation of azure blue. Been mapping out the camo outlines tonight, and it would appear that they can't even get the demarcation right on the back of the box. The plan views don't Match up with the side elevation shots, so I'm making an educated guess.
S5 modeller Posted March 23, 2016 Author Posted March 23, 2016 I've got the first couple of coats of desert yellow on, after scratching my head over the layout of the camo. Still think it might need a few more coats. I think I overthinned it. 1
dazdot Posted March 23, 2016 Posted March 23, 2016 I have to say most brushwork on here is really good including yours 1
S5 modeller Posted March 23, 2016 Author Posted March 23, 2016 I think this might be a situation where the camera does lie. It looks patchy to tha naked eye.
Stosh65 Posted March 24, 2016 Posted March 24, 2016 Been mapping out the camo outlines tonight, and it would appear that they can't even get the demarcation right on the back of the box. The plan views don't Match up with the side elevation shots, so I'm making an educated guess. Its just non standard from in-theatre maintenance. That what I always say. 1
PlaStix Posted March 24, 2016 Posted March 24, 2016 I reckon the yellow looks very good too and it's looking good with the camo starting to go on. 1
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