rob85 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 This is coming along very nicely, some great detail! I will also add I can’t see the seem but then it’s your model! But I would be happy with it! Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christer A Posted May 2, 2019 Author Share Posted May 2, 2019 Well, ghost seams or no seams, I did find two sink marks on top of the wings Go away! Also, all bad stuff on the underside was sanded properly, again. I also had a go with scribing and drilling out a few fasteners that the sanding had removed. All in all, it looks like I'm ready to start painting now. This should be FUN! Unless off curse the other deHavilland seduces me again. Or that little F-100F Wild Weasel that is puttering about in the Specialist GB 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchen Modeller Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 Hopefully a layer of primer will make everything good - hate this part of the Build... oh look another seam line. More sanding ahoy. It’s the pain that must be taken in order to get on to the fun part. It will be worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christer A Posted May 2, 2019 Author Share Posted May 2, 2019 Yeah, I'm crossing my fingers hoping that the worst is done now. I have a cunning plan for the topside that I'd like to play with 😎 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christer A Posted May 6, 2019 Author Share Posted May 6, 2019 Cunning plan was it? Well, here it is! I started with laying down a coat of black as a sort of preshade: Pre-shade? Well, all FB mk VI were painted at the factory in the day fighter colors because it was too much of a hassle to adapt to all different paint schemes. That meant that Coastal Command had to repaint their aircraft's to spec at their own depots, something that not always produced a superb finish. The Aviaeology sheet also shows this quite clearly, especially the colorized PDF:s. Then add that they flew over the North Sea which also add some wear and tear and one should end up with a rather tatty-looking Mossie! To liven up the surface a bit more, I went over it with XF-57 Buff: Unfortunately I was too lazy to do a proper marble coat and just randomly scribbled a bit, and I'm not too sure that those squiggles look the part. But onwards an upwards! One can always do a repaint later. I found a pot of Gunze Extra Dark Sea grey and started to spray, just enough to cover the squiggles. This was the result. A few touch ups, but I got the effect I was after, mostly. Maybe it's a bit too dark though.... 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Newsome Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 That looks very effective Christer, I think your cunning plan paid off. I used H333 on my Beaufighter and thought it looked too dark (there again it is called Extra Dark Sea Grey 😄) and lightened it considerably. Roger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christer A Posted May 6, 2019 Author Share Posted May 6, 2019 Thank Roger! I'll probably add a few patches of Dark Sea gray, since it's lighter...Spinners will be DSG for sure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob85 Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 As ever envious of your paint work christer! It’s looking great, personally don’t think it’s too dark but if your going for a more distressed look then I see what you mean Rob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christer A Posted May 7, 2019 Author Share Posted May 7, 2019 Thanks for the kind words Rob! I haven't had a second look at it yet (too much work and exercise) but it will come soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre B Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 21 hours ago, Christer A said: Cunning plan was it? Well, here it is! Unfortunately I was too lazy to do a proper marble coat and just randomly scribbled a bit, and I'm not too sure that those squiggles look the part. Ex Luftwaffe nightfighter? 😉 Cheers / André 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christer A Posted May 21, 2019 Author Share Posted May 21, 2019 Wellenmuster joking aside, I decided to add some spots with Dark Sea Grey too, which were sometimes used according to Aviaeology. The plan was to just paint the spinners like that, but then I decided to do a few touch ups as well with that color. While priming the parts with Ultimate Grey primer, I noted that the difference between that and DSG wasn't big! Maybe a shortcut for upcoming builds then? In the end, I still felt that DSG was a bit too light for my Mossie so I mixed a batch with 50/50 Extra Dark Sea Grey /Dark Sea gray instead. I also wanted a hard demarcation to the other paint, so I took out my trusty masking putty again and added a few snakes. I took the phote 3 hours later and then the goo had started to run a bit, but that's life! It removes easily though 😁 On could think that by this time, there is no need to do more pinning/priming detail painting of small parts, but that's not the case! Oh well, I hope that I can manage to construct a landing gear out of all this: I drilled out the wheel fenders, instead of buying resin parts from Quickboost. Not as perfect, but should look fine anyway. Let's see if I can paint some Sky soon! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christer A Posted May 25, 2019 Author Share Posted May 25, 2019 Today was a fine day, and a suitable amount of modelling was had 😁 After a few hours of masking, I started to lay down a preshade, but not just the same boring black a everyone deos. Oh no! I went with green and dark brown instead: The idea here is to get some variation in the color gradients, and not just lighter and darker, but e green or brown tinge. We shall see how it goes. Now, just to make things a bit more interesting I intend to paint the underside with Mission Models Sky Type S. Some people prefer to use paint mules to try out new paints but not me! I get down and dirty with my latest model instead. Foolhardy, I know 😎 One thin coat applied then! This paint feels like it goes on all splattery but then it dries and it looks a lot smoother. Weird! Well, it seams that one coat was not enough but that'll have to wait for tomorrow. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christer A Posted May 26, 2019 Author Share Posted May 26, 2019 Today I painted the final coat of Sky, and I could finally do the funniest bit of the entire painting process. Remove all masking! Bliss! The underside turned out like this in the end. ] Quite pleased with that in the end. Some overspray crept up here and there, mainly around the nacelles. That should not be too hard to do, and then: STICKER TIME! 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christer A Posted July 15, 2019 Author Share Posted July 15, 2019 Fancy that...it took me 6 weeks or mre to get to the sticker phase... I chosed HR116, sinci it looked very nice on the shee and I must say that @Terry @ Aviaeology has done a amazing jobb. Absolutely stunning decals, and they worked like a charm too! Not the last time I'll use them either, and more will be ordered. On the othe hand....I didn't get any stencil, and tried to use Tamiyas. Not a great idea, since they silvered B.A.D.L.Y. That does it! I need to do and emergency order to Canada. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christer A Posted July 15, 2019 Author Share Posted July 15, 2019 Order placed, so now lets' see how long it takes to go from Canada to Sweden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vingtor Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 Interesting. I thought the "3" codes were switched for "KK" before 2nd January 1945, and that the upper wing roundels had the white ring added after this date. I might be wrong though. Any references to documentation would be most welcome. Furthermore, colour photographs of Norwegian Spitfires and N-3PBs show the service flag in dull red rather than bright red. And there is a colour photo of a May 1945 333 Sqn. Mosquito with dull red flag colours on the spinners, suggesting that dull red was used instead of bright red. Apart from my markings issues - which could be argued - this is a very well done model indeed! Nils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christer A Posted July 16, 2019 Author Share Posted July 16, 2019 Thanks Nils! I have not done any research in 333sqn Mossies apart from what I read in the Aviaeology decal supplement (which encompasses a lot!) HR116 was involved in some sort of accident in november 44 and was written off after that. If I had read the instructions correctly I should've swapped the wing roundels to the earlier ones but I was lazy and just looked att the pictures. Stupid me! I wonder if I could stick the other one on top, or dare to use a Tamiya dull red roundel? It could go either way. Aviaeology said that it was hard to be sure IF the flag was dull or bright red and gave both versions. I thought it looked better with bright red... Naturally I put one on the starbord side too, where there shouldn't be one att all. This turned out to be a quite bad decalling session in the end, but everyting back behind the wings are ok atleast! Time to ponder how to get rid of the faulty decals then. Tape perhaps? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchen Modeller Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 Hey christer - great to see you back at this! I’m still on an involuntary modeling holiday... back from traveling and have moved into a new house so still unpacking boxes🤨 Getting there so hopefully will be back at it soon enough- having massive withdrawal at this stage! Regarding stripping those decals... some masking tape should be enough to lift them off cleanly - worst case, they’ll take some paint off too. I have had trouble doing this in the past and ended up stripping everything off to the primer so it could turn into a major mission. But most likely they’ll lift off easily 😀👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christer A Posted July 17, 2019 Author Share Posted July 17, 2019 Hi KM! Nice to have you back and I hope to see some of your projects back on the bench soon! Tamiya tape did take some off, but i have more luck with cellotape, and so far no paint has lifted either. More to be done later today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchen Modeller Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 14 hours ago, Christer A said: Tamiya tape did take some off, but i have more luck with cellotape, and so far no paint has lifted either. Awesome sauce! It's quite counter-intuitive and nerve racking pulling off decals - it will more than likely work fine but could potentially result in a a ton of pain - glad to hear it was the latter in this case 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christer A Posted July 28, 2019 Author Share Posted July 28, 2019 Viewer discretion is advised as they say on HBO... All my efforts with tape were in the end fruitless. Standard Tamiya-tape lifted hadly anything, not even the badly silvered Tamiya stencils, so I progress to standard cellotape, brown parcel tape and in the end DUCT TAPE! And almost nothing happened, even though I let the tape sit on for the night. But on the flip side no paint was harmed either. What has worked is to soften the decals with Micro Sol, and then try to pull it off with tape! Now I've got the wings almost clean, but some remnants of the roundels still remain. I guess a light sanding and repant can fixa that. I have completed anothe boring job, painting the propellers. It seems that I had a bunch. The differences between Mosquito and Hornet spinners are readily appearnt though! I wonder how it compares to a Spitfire spinner? Anyway, the summer is a time for distractions, and this picture shows either two droptanks, or one chinese submarine and one Phantom droptank Also, some 50km away there is an old car/aircraft museum which I visited recently together with a buddy of mine. Not many interesting pictures were taken, except this Meatbox that had been beautifully repainted. Last time I was here it didn't look this good! The Meteors were never used by Swedish Airforce, but a privetely run companey that performed target towin duties for all Swedish armed forces. Another target tug, the rather big AD-4 Skyraider is still a mess, but will hopefully be restored some time in the future. No pictures of that though! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob85 Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 That’s a beautiful shade of blue on the meteor! shame about the decals, but I’m surprised you didn’t even lift the paint!! Evidently you had a secret recipe for paint and decals we could all use! Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christer A Posted July 28, 2019 Author Share Posted July 28, 2019 The Meteor looked like that in 1954, but was sold to Sweden in 1960. Here are a few more pictures http://forum.flyghistoria.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5613 I'm also very surprised that no paint lifted! I guess that wiping the plastic clean with Ultimate Airbrush Cleaner before the first primer coat did wonders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christer A Posted August 2, 2019 Author Share Posted August 2, 2019 Well, I finally got the right stickers in place. I've also received the stencils, so there are no excuses for not putting them on I guess. Yes, there are a few hatches missing, but that's me trying to paint the business end of those brass guns properly. We'll see how that goes.... Butte mighty Mossie needs something to stand up with, and here we have the landing gear all assembled. This shiny looking thing is not a it, so after a while I had dirtied them down a bit. That should do it! The shoddy painting on the sides of the oil tanks won't be seen once the gear is in place. Score one for laziness! 😎 Little over a week until competition time, and I feel quite confident that it will get finished by then. Hooray! 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchen Modeller Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Looking good mate - still a few hours work here... washes clear coats and final assembly - nothing like dead line to motivate you to completion 😆 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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