Short Sunderland Mk III - Italeri 1/72

[Courageous]

On 11/21/2019 at 3:41 PM, CedB said:

Turned out OK. Turned out - see what I did there? I did them on the lathe… oh suit yourself

I thought they were decals .

I've got to do the same on some bombs...but I don't have a lathe...or a slow drill with a big enough chuck.

 

Stuart

Edited November 25, 2019 by Courageous

[CedB]

22 hours ago, Procopius said:

I don't know who that stranger was, but he shore masked them canopies.

 

https://tenor.com/view/the-rifleman-gif-7195326

 

 Thanks PC.

21 hours ago, TheBaron said:

There is a legal grey area regarding werewolves then it seems!

gulp. Silver pellets??  

20 hours ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said:

Takes you straight back: “One-banana-two-banana-three-banana-four...”

Eh, what's that Crisp? Gone bananas have you?  

18 hours ago, Courageous said:

I thought they were decals .

I've got to do the same on some bombs...but I don't have a lathe...or a slow drill with a big enough chuck.

 

Stuart

Hmmm. Of course you could buy a cheap bead lathe, although to be honest they don't go around that slowly  

 

 

Some mojo, some masking:

 

 

Wait a minute, what are those holes in the roof? Check the instructions… MORE windows!

 

 

Glued in but, as you can see, they're easy to knock (now straightened) and I'm sure I'm going to lose at least one on close up  

 

IG on the turrets:

 

 

…and I think we're ready to close up.

[giemme]

2 hours ago, CedB said:

…and I think we're ready to close up.

Yes yes  

 

Ciao

[CedB]

Thanks Giorgio  

 

Bit of white on the back of the turrets (as per previous advice) and front turret assembled:

 

 

Worried that I'd knock the bomb aimers window inside I glued it on one side now:

 

 

Getting closer…

[Cookenbacher]

Oooh, almost time for the ritual combining of fuselage halves, a meaningful moment in any build. It's looking great Ced.

[CedB]

It is indeed Cookie, it is indeed… but I don't want to rush it eh?  

 

Regular followers will know that my current obsession is with canopy blending so I'm determined to make a good job of this one.

What's it like OOB?

 

 

(Ignore the messy Klear(ish) in the trenches)

Not bad, but not good. I think it's the ridge on the top of the cockpit:

 

 

… so that was trimmed off. 

 

 

Better, but still not 'right'. It's actually the size of the fuselage halves I think - if you squeeze too hard it all goes out of shape, but be careful and things sort of wriggle into place. Like the rear turret:

 

 

It's not 'held' in the middle but can be wiggled there.

Now the second part of the fin.

 

 

Locating pin on the bottom of this and the rudder so you can't slide it in with the fuselage halves joined / dry fitted.  Hinges so you can't slide the rudder in from the back.

But I've just lined everything up nicely, including the canopy!

If I'm careful I can…

 

 

…make everything fall apart. Rats.

Oh well, gives me a chance to sort out the flash that's stopping the rudder sitting properly:

 

 

… and the remnants of the gates inside the fin that stop the rudder sitting nicely, then I can glue the fin:

 

 

…and have a calm down before starting again at the front.

 

Out to lunch today so more tomorrow, or maybe later.

[keefr22]

If it's not too late Ced, I saw a good tip from someone on here a while back - stick some decent sellotape under small windows like those in the roof to stop them falling in on closing up. Belt and braces you could even seal the edges of the tape with superglue...

 

Keith

[giemme]

Keep going Ced, you will prevail...

 

Ciao

[hendie]

keep up with this skill level Ced and you'll be doing Fly kits next!

[CedB]

4 hours ago, keefr22 said:

If it's not too late Ced, I saw a good tip from someone on here a while back - stick some decent sellotape under small windows like those in the roof to stop them falling in on closing up. Belt and braces you could even seal the edges of the tape with superglue...

 

Keith

Great tip Keith, thanks - too late for this time but in the memory bank 👍

3 hours ago, giemme said:

Keep going Ced, you will prevail...

 

Ciao

Thanks Giorgio  

3 hours ago, hendie said:

keep up with this skill level Ced and you'll be doing Fly kits next!

Awww thanks Hendie, very kind. But Fly??!!  

 

 

Finally:

 

 

…with a nice clean seam:

 

 

… and a pretty decent canopy join too:

 

 

I just need to make sure I don't pull off any masks when I remove the tape!

 

I'll give it a blast of primer in the morning and see what trenches and seams need filling.

[keefr22]

1 hour ago, CedB said:

But Fly??!!

 

Do I not recall a certain Whitley built from a certain manufacturer's kit by your good self Ced??

 

Keith

[CedB]

Indeed you do Keith - I'd erased that from my memory!  

 

 

Life got in the way today but I did get the empennage fitted with the Princess' help:

 

 

See I remembered to mask the top windows too? Phew!

 

Primer tomorrow…

Or is that manjana? As the old joke goes, it doesn't mean 'tomorrow', it means 'not today'…

[Tomoshenko]

Canopy looks good Ced. You should be able to blend that in quite nicely.

[CedB]

Thanks Tomo - fingers crossed!

 

Big holes plugged:

 

 

…and canopy 'blended' by filing the plastic around the clear part and filling the gap with Vallejo/PPP:

 

 

I'll shoot some primer on later and we'll see what it all looks like.

[Stew Dapple]

Ah now it's starting to look like a Sunderland  

 

Nice work Ced  

 

Cheers,

 

Stew

[Fritag]

Last night’s modelling was better than last nights verse Ced  

[giemme]

29 minutes ago, Fritag said:

Last night’s modelling was better than last nights verse Ced  

Definitely   

 

Ciao

 

Edited November 29, 2019 by giemme

[AdrianMF]

Coming along nicely. I like the picture over the tail, looks very majestic.

 

Although I’m a great fan of the Airfix Sunderland and fondle the plastic often, I have to admit I’m warming to the Italeri version over the course of your build, although it certainly isn’t shake’n’bake. 

 

There may be a moderately expensive stash update in prospect

 

 

Regards,

Adrian

[CedB]

2 hours ago, Stew Dapple said:

Ah now it's starting to look like a Sunderland  

 

Nice work Ced  

 

Cheers,

 

Stew

Thanks Stew  

2 hours ago, Fritag said:

Last night’s modelling was better than last nights verse Ced  

1 hour ago, giemme said:

Definitely   

 

Ciao

 

Oi! I do my best…  

 

1 hour ago, AdrianMF said:

Coming along nicely. I like the picture over the tail, looks very majestic.

 

Although I’m a great fan of the Airfix Sunderland and fondle the plastic often, I have to admit I’m warming to the Italeri version over the course of your build, although it certainly isn’t shake’n’bake. 

 

There may be a moderately expensive stash update in prospect

 

 

Regards,

Adrian

Thanks Adrian  I wouldn't recommend it, yet, but that's probably due to my mood and lack of mojo rather than the kit - most of the bits fit pretty well TBH.

 

 

Primer this morning.

Thanks to Cookie and PC's generous gift I find myself in the enviable position* of having three H&S airbrushes:

 

 

…(oooh, nice) so I've decided that the Ultra can be demoted to my primer / gloss coat airbrush. I hope it doesn't mind.

On with the Stynylrez; I also gave the wings another coat:

 

 

But wait, what's this?

 

 

Has the Ultra let me down?

Well, no. But I think it had a brief protest when I tried to clean it out:

 

 

Now I don't like to anthropomorphise things too much, but you can never be too careful so I gave it some TLC with a deep(ish) clean.

 

Afterwards I noticed this:

 

 

(Sorry about the focus)

I'd better sort that out before Mrs B diagnoses calcium deficiency and puts me on another 'It'll do you good' diet.

 

* choose your own enviable position, but watch your bad back  

[hendie]

2 hours ago, CedB said:

Afterwards I noticed this:

 

What!  you missed your manicure session again ?

 

 

looks good in primer Ced.  Do you think the trench filling exercises did any good?

 

 

3 airbrushes?         Showoff!

 

 

[CedB]

Thanks hendie - the trench filling has helped but we've yet to see the final result  

 

In fact, when I turned the wings over, they'd done the same on that side! I decided to experiment with Mr Surfacer on one:

 

 

… and to try Tony's 'scraped on filler' on the other. Tomorrow.

 

 

[perdu]

The trench warfare does not look as if it went very well there Ced, I am beginning to be a big fan of Mr Dissolved Putty which is odd because not much else in their mysterious range seems to work nicely for me.

 

Doesn't take long before I can use it to reduce trenches, might be worth a try some time later huh, quick drying stuff

 

I have to say how impressed I am that you can relegate your Ultra to dogsbody status, wow

 

Nice new blue H&S, well deserved too

 

Enjoy

[Biggles87]

An airbrush with your name on it? There’s posh isn’t it.

[keefr22]

4 hours ago, perdu said:

Nice new blue H&S

 

Too nice to put paint in it!

[CedB]

5 hours ago, perdu said:

The trench warfare does not look as if it went very well there Ced, I am beginning to be a big fan of Mr Dissolved Putty which is odd because not much else in their mysterious range seems to work nicely for me.

 

Doesn't take long before I can use it to reduce trenches, might be worth a try some time later huh, quick drying stuff

 

I have to say how impressed I am that you can relegate your Ultra to dogsbody status, wow

 

Nice new blue H&S, well deserved too

 

Enjoy

Thanks Bill  

I'm with you matey - I know a lot of people like this stuff but for me it never does the job and I can't see what I'm doing wrong?

As usual, when the stuff dried, it hadn't filled the gaps - but had left lumps around the edges:

 

 

Then when you sand that off you realise it didn't go into the trenches / holes:

 

 

What am I doing wrong?

I might give the Dissolved Putty a go tomorrow.

 

3 hours ago, Biggles87 said:

An airbrush with your name on it? There’s posh isn’t it.

1 hour ago, keefr22 said:

 

Too nice to put paint in it!

Thanks John and Keith  

I know! I'm going to build a FW190 next so I can try out mottling with the special knobs and controls on the new one. What could go wrong eh?