Mark Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Just caught up with this one. Absolutely beautiful model of a beautiful aircraft! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Yes! What Adrian said. Dennis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Yes, he's back! Now you're back, no more fumbles please. Stuart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggles.w Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 (edited) No fumbles, no fumbles, no fumbles ... But knowing one fumbles, then take appropriate precautions! I’m brush paining these, but the dark colour over white made me cautious, hence the extensive masking (Those airliner modellers - what nerves they must have!). And the colour? 100% speculative, so don’t take my choice as an authoritative reference. These radiators were a retrofit as cooling issues emerged. There’s no reference anywhere that I’ve found which confirms what they were fabricated from. So here follows the thinking I explored (jump this rabbit-hole paragraph by all means!): First, based on contemporary precedent, almost without exception, surface radiators were fashioned from brass. The Supermarine S5&6s has theirs under the aluminium skin, but the only such metal skin on this machine was limited to the floats. So back to brass. Given brass includes red tones, this would account for the very dark tone of these in the black&white photos. But what then to make of the post-accident salvage images which show them quite pale? Then I recalled one quote somewhere that noted that by the time the machine was brought up from the lagoon waters the magnesium crank-case had dissolved away .. so perhaps the reddish brass had turned to greenish verdigris? What madness.. muddles & fumbles! I decided that a discrete dark tone with a subtle hint of metal would do just fine! A couple of coats of Tamiya’s suitably generically named ‘Metallic Grey’ followed by one of ‘Dark Iron’. I’m thinking I can very gently rub back the dark colour from the raised ridges, revealing a little of the lighter highlights .. let’s see how that goes this evening. .. & above .. Edit: & now I’m in the office I see my order of decal paper has arrived! Progress.. Edited February 19, 2020 by greggles.w 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Lyttle Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 That all sounds like a reasonable bit of reasoning to me! And who's going to prove you wrong?? 😇 Lovely to see this back on the bench 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 Looking good, waiting for the 'rub back'. Stuart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggles.w Posted February 20, 2020 Author Share Posted February 20, 2020 Thanks for the ever-reliable welcome back gents! Here we go, calling that done: 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 The 'Malteser' pilot is still intact . Stuart 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastcat Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 Nice to see this one back again and looking truly beautiful. Really lovely work. Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggles.w Posted February 21, 2020 Author Share Posted February 21, 2020 On 2/21/2020 at 2:15 AM, Courageous said: The 'Malteser' pilot is still intact . Stuart Very much so, in fact he recently graduated & received his wings .. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggles.w Posted February 21, 2020 Author Share Posted February 21, 2020 On 2/21/2020 at 2:31 AM, Fastcat said: Nice to see this one back again and looking truly beautiful. Really lovely work. Dave Thanks Dave, yours & all other encouragement appreciated! Hope to update again soon .. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggles.w Posted February 24, 2020 Author Share Posted February 24, 2020 Only a few minutes to spare today, after nil time on the weekend. A few preparatory tasks of little consequence, and screwed it up! Not my usual fumbles, just a way to let me hold this thing for clear coats .. That one shows the finish on the wing radiators a little clearer .. Ok, hopefully more time soon .. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggles.w Posted February 27, 2020 Author Share Posted February 27, 2020 Teeny tiny decals printed & applied this evening. The registration of the black lettering relative to the painted white underneath is .. variable .. but let’s observe from a polite distance & say it’s true to the hand-painted original! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggles.w Posted March 1, 2020 Author Share Posted March 1, 2020 Pottering along, shuffling through the residual tasks .. This weekend an audit of work remaining to finish off the cylinder cowlings: The requisite rounds of painting were successfully finalised on the trusty peg-jig: These little things are quite fragile egg-shells, so to give them best support while micromesh buffing I glued their wooden vacform buck to the end of a skewer: .. so I can then slip each one on ready for a shoe-shine: By weekend’s end I have 4 of 9 so buffed. Miscellaneous other minor tasks were attended to in between, including painting her toenails! (the jig has been dusted off ... the moment when floats meet plane may yet arrive!) 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 Now you're just teasing! Looking great....come on, nearly there! Ian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 The floats look immaculate. Dennis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fastcat Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 Fantastic job of a very poor kit. You should be very proud of it. Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggles.w Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 21 hours ago, limeypilot said: Now you're just teasing! Looking great....come on, nearly there! Ian Thanks Ian, teased or tormented?! But yes, let’s focus on that fact we’re nearly there! 19 hours ago, DMC said: The floats look immaculate. Dennis Thanks Dennis, tonight they got the very last of the decals for this machine! .. markers for aligning the floats on the beaching trolley, like so: 18 hours ago, Fastcat said: Fantastic job of a very poor kit. You should be very proud of it. Dave Thanks Dave. You know, on reflection, I think I’m most proud of those moments when I had the capacity to declare a piece of work ‘good enough’ & move on! Tonight another two cylinder cowls buffed, so that’s 6 of 9 ‘good enough’ .. Thanks again & g’night all! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonners Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 This is looking very smart indeed. Not sure what people would say if I told them that I’d spent the evening buffing my cylinder cowls, though... Jon 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Slowly chipping away at your build, looking better and better. Stuart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggles.w Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 10 hours ago, Jonners said: Not sure what people would say if I told them that I’d spent the evening buffing my cylinder cowls, though... Well Jon, let’s keep it between you & I .. and certainly don’t tell them that I buffed another at breakfast! 7 of 9 done ... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 10 hours ago, Jonners said: This is looking very smart indeed. Not sure what people would say if I told them that I’d spent the evening buffing my cylinder cowls, though... Jon Or if you use the other, more common word for them: helmets! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Looking exceptionally good, superb work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggles.w Posted March 3, 2020 Author Share Posted March 3, 2020 9 of 9, done! Moving along ... 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 Helmets well buffed... Stuart 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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