In a Hurri (2 x 1/72 Hasegawa/Fly Hurricanes)

[Procopius]

5 minutes ago, Stew Dapple said:

* At least it wasn't Dog and Bear  

Prince of Space is a great episode.

[stevehnz]

44 minutes ago, Procopius said:

playing "crane and bucket truck" with Winston for about three years:

 

15 minutes ago, Stew Dapple said:

three minutes of playing Crane and Bucket

Three years, three minutes, pah, looked like 19 seconds to me, probably about 10 seconds more than my statute of limitations for that sort of thing. Gawd help my yet to be created (I think ) Grandchildren from their grumpy Granddad. 

50 minutes ago, Procopius said:

there's still a slight divot over the fuel tank on the IIa

Don't you just love the ability of sprue attachment points to reject filler.

Steve.

[Procopius]

21 minutes ago, stevehnz said:

 

Three years, three minutes, pah, looked like 19 seconds to me

Well, I'm not going to record the whole experience! Just enough to remind me that sometimes he's cute. Those nineteen seconds could save his life.

[CedB]

GREAT crane impression PC  

Siblings are bound to compete and I found the best way to handle it is not to reward either, unless they've made an effort of some sort. Life skills and parameters rule, OK?

 

Nice try with the filling... it always was a Herculean task and there's no shame in experiments that don't quite work out as you'd hoped - ask me how I know.

That said you've still got a nice Hurri there and, once the camo and decals are on, I bet she looks good.

Onwards!

[Troy Smith]

5 hours ago, Procopius said:

The slight gloss finish tends to obscure how deep the lines remain. I'm quite disappointed, but perhaps realistically anything thin enough to spread by brush was never going to have enough moxie to do the job. My fear with something like Perfect Plastic Putty is that it doesn't adhere as well as hotter fillers, but perhaps with something as rigid as a rear fuselage, that wouldn't be an issue, especially with primer laid over it. Anyway, the whole thing is so frustrating, because the rear fuselage of the Hurricane looks more like a series of angled flat plates than hills and valleys:

Last observation is correct, 

The botch job Hase did on their fabric effect on Hurricanes, both 72 and 48th, is a matter of great distress to me......

not only the "skinny cow" but the false edges of the fabric access panels,  which I have not found a satisfactory cure for...  I suspect the only 'satisfactory cure' that does not involve a massive amount of work is resin replacement fuselage...  (yes, I have considered making one...) 

 

John Adams has an interesting technique, which I tried on a scrapper 1/48 Hurricane fuselage, and it helped

read the following posts in the thread.

I presume there is a similar product available in the US?    

 

Neat bit of deduction on the various airframes @Procopius 

 

cheers

T

 

[Procopius]

I was too tired to post last night, but I did some more painting.

 

I did the black spinner/sky backplate for the 242 Squadron Hurricane IIc, and I think it looks pretty good:

 

20180824_001917 by Edward IX, on Flickr

 

Sky undersides are on both Hurricanes (and tailband painted for masking on the 71 Squadron IIb)

 

20180824_001859 by Edward IX, on Flickr

 

I opted to paint the gear wells Sky rather than silver or interior grey green on these examples.

 

Radiators painted separately:

 

20180824_001902 by Edward IX, on Flickr

 

This was stupid as I should have alcladded the grille and now I need to think of a different way.

 

 

[Beard]

20 minutes ago, Procopius said:

I opted to paint the gear wells Sky rather than silver or interior grey green on these examples. 

I've always been under the impression that Hurricane wheelwells were painted aluminium/ silver.

[Procopius]

2 minutes ago, Beard said:

I've always been under the impression that Hurricane wheelwells were painted aluminium/ silver.

Simon.

[CedB]

Nice spinner and sky. Yum  

[Cookenbacher]

The fuselage ribs look improved over where they started out anyway, and Sky makes everything better.

[Procopius]

20180826_000027 by Edward IX, on Flickr

 

HAPPY NOW BEARD?

 

I'll just mask off the bays and respray the overage away. 

 

Also the landing gear doors:

 

20180826_000032 by Edward IX, on Flickr

 

My mother in law lands tomorrow, which opens up rich new possibilities in neglecting my children in favour of models. Fingers crossed!

[Beard]

1 hour ago, Procopius said:

HAPPY NOW BEARD?

It's not, and never has been, a question of my happiness... are you happier?

[CedB]

3 hours ago, Procopius said:

My mother in law lands tomorrow,

Are the mice throwing themselves on the traps yet?

(Les Dawson RIP)

[Troy Smith]

If the aluminium overspray requires redoing, Another possibility, the IIc Trop may well have had Sky Blue undersides,  as opposed to Sky.

This has been discussed here before, and, well, if you Google "Britmodeller Sky Blue tropical" you'll get a load of threads.

 

@tonyot has researched Malta extensively, so he may able to add some info as well.

 

HTH

T

PS this is a good one

 

[Procopius]

1 hour ago, Troy Smith said:

If the aluminium overspray requires redoing, Another possibility, the IIc Trop may well have had Sky Blue undersides,  as opposed to Sky.

This has been discussed here before, and, well, if you Google "Britmodeller Sky Blue tropical" you'll get a load of threads.

As much as I'd like to take my Colourcoats Sky Blue for a spin, I read another Tony thread on this very aircraft, and he proposed Sky for the undersides.

 

3 hours ago, CedB said:

Are the mice throwing themselves on the traps yet?

She told my wife to tell me to "gird his loins" (alarming!), but I just told my wife to tell her I looked forward to forgetting what my children looked like.

 

5 hours ago, Beard said:

It's not, and never has been, a question of my happiness... are you happier?

 

[woody37]

Looking great

 

[Procopius]

Minimal progress due to a combination of business and extreme heat (it's 93 F / 34 C out right now, and our circuit breakers are frequently tripped from the effort of keeping the A/C going). 

 

My PE anti-glare shields (by Owl, and viciously overpriced, too) arrived today, though, so I thought I'd stick them on.

 

The PE itself bent well, but I hadn't reckoned with the extreme heat and humidity, which caused the superglue I initially used to fail -- had I been thinking properly, I would have used my Gator Grip glue right off the bat -- ultimately that's what I had to do, after screwing things up a bit.  

 

 

20180827_214424 by Edward IX, on Flickr

 

Also, if you do a straight 90-degree bend, the base of the shield will not conform to the curvature of the fuselage, so some finagling is really needed. 

 

20180827_214435 by Edward IX, on Flickr

 

Anyway, more later.

[stevehnz]

2 hours ago, Procopius said:

(by Owl, and viciously overpriced, too) 

Pretty much what I thought when I bought some, like, I paid that much for that! Size wise they're scaled, price wise, pretty much 1:1.

They do lend something to your Hurri though, or maybe its just your finagling.  

Steve.

[Cookenbacher]

No price is too high to preserve a 1/72 pilot's night vision!

[CedB]

Nice shields PC  

'Gird your loins'? That sounds ominous...

[Procopius]

Sorry for the lack of updates, but I've caught the cold Winston and Grant caught during their ER visit, the total cost of which has now hit just under $2,000 all to discover absolutely nothing was wrong, something which could have been discovered for free if their mother was just a few notches less neurotic. We have two. There's a spare. 

 

  In any case, I masked off the wheel wells and resprayed about them:

 

20180830_211946 by Edward IX, on Flickr

 

I also prised off the anti-glare shields, sanded the superglue off their backs, sanded down the cowl area a bit, and reattached them using Gator Grip glue.

 

20180830_212155 by Edward IX, on Flickr

 

I also painted the prop tips:

 

20180830_212006 by Edward IX, on Flickr

 

Masked off the radiators:

 

20180830_213041 by Edward IX, on Flickr

 

And sprayed EXXXXXXTREEEEEEEEEEEEEME Metal Aluminium down them:

 

20180830_213614 by Edward IX, on Flickr

 

So, now:

 

Need to wait for the bellies to dry and mask. 

 

Spray uppersurface camo,

 

Assemble props and figure out how much trimming down each individual blade needs (and they do need trimming).

 

Wheels.

 

Landing gear. 

 

All the other stuff we do to finish a kit.

 

It's a long holiday weekend for me, as Monday is Labor Day, when we celebrate our complete and crushing defeat of same in this country. It's unlikely I'll get a lot of modelling done, as Mrs P doesn't get it or tomorrow off, so I'll be watching the children. As anyone who's watched sick kids while sick themselves knows, death by firing squad would be preferable.

[Stew Dapple]

50 minutes ago, Procopius said:

I also painted the prop tips:

 

20180830_212006 by Edward IX, on Flickr

 

Am I alone in noticing the subliminal message in the background here?  

 

Good progress mate - I hope your weekend turns out better than your prognosis suggests...

 

Cheers,

 

Stew

[Procopius]

Just now, Stew Dapple said:

 

Am I alone in noticing the subliminal message in the background here?  

Truly, my own subconscious works in mysterious ways. I didn't even notice that!

[06/24]

2 hours ago, Procopius said:

 

All the other stuff we do to finish a kit.

Ah. So that's where I've been going wrong. We're supposed to finish them, are we? Bugger...

 

But seriously, lovely progress and re-progress, lovely little hurris.

[Courageous]

Steadily coming along nicely Mr P.

 

Stuart