Adam Poultney Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 Happy not quite Christmas from me to me. Don't really know what if any kits have been bought for me by family beyond an Airfix Victor (because I had to order it), so I got myself something suitable for the GB. Masking set also bought of course. I also may have just ordered a Tamiya 1/48 V1 on next day delivery because I needed a paint and well Amazon won't ship paints on their own and I may have needed airbrush cleaner, the local wargaming store stopped selling that and my trip there just to get some ended in 20 quid of other purchases...... A productive day for getting modelling supplies. I'll probably either do this on the 26th, 28th or 29th depending when I'm working. I'm hoping for a 12 hour total build time like with a previous build I did of a spitfire prxix because I woke up and wanted a new spitfire one day. This kit is somewhat bigger though.... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 Looking forward to seeing this one built. I’m sure you [will] have looked at some reviews, which bring up the problem of one of the propeller blades facing the wrong way from the other two! Regards, Adrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 24, 2019 Author Share Posted December 24, 2019 4 minutes ago, AdrianMF said: Looking forward to seeing this one built. I’m sure you [will] have looked at some reviews, which bring up the problem of one of the propeller blades facing the wrong way from the other two! Regards, Adrian Yes I did see something about what but I thought it meant they were all wrong, not just one... I had to grab my kit to check and yes, you are right! Should be a simple matter of removing it and glueing it back on correctly right? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 I have the Frog version of this, its a lot bigger than you think. Hopefully this will encourage lots of people ( like me ) to build theirs rather than keep looking at it in the box ! Good luck with this one 👍 Cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 24, 2019 Author Share Posted December 24, 2019 2 hours ago, JOCKNEY said: I have the Frog version of this, its a lot bigger than you think. Hopefully this will encourage lots of people ( like me ) to build theirs rather than keep looking at it in the box ! Maybe it will be your first build of the new year/decade Postie gave me something....... Oops 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kushan_Farsight Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 Will be watching this one! have a 335 by Lindberg and the 2 seater 'night fighter' frog model, so will be interested to see how easy this goes together. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 26, 2019 Author Share Posted December 26, 2019 It's on the desk and ready to open up for my first entry into this GB! Would you look at that.... That even included a watch in the box that I'd need to show times fit the GB! And let's begin! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 Looking forward to seeing how this goes together, I'm sure it's an easier build than the Dragon kit, I'm close to finishing my plane....I think! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 26, 2019 Author Share Posted December 26, 2019 A bit of surgery on this kit was needed a one of the prop blades is the wrong way around! Easy fix to make. Looks like a spaceship or something Cockpit is extremely simple Canopy masks applied ready for later 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 26, 2019 Author Share Posted December 26, 2019 Who put tape on the decal paper?!?! Ugh.... Must very carefully remove that Added a bit of nose weight just in case... Probably a bit too much since the centre of gravity is just shy of the back of the forward wheel well now. Cockpit parts were all painted up in Citadel's Mechanicus Standard Grey, which isn't too far off RLM66 when you give it a dark wash which I did once the fuselage halves were together. The instrument panel decal was applied, but was far oversized so some trimming was required. Anyway, the Dornier is taking shape. The cockpit is sealed up and the nose part is on. At least this one isn't going to be late for anything, wearing a watch that big! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 26, 2019 Author Share Posted December 26, 2019 (edited) Another hour has gone by and family has turned up; my dad's birthday is today so there will be distractions from this build along the way. Having looked over plenty of photos for reference, I decided the best course of action was a caramel latte with extra milk. I also added the nose gear as all the landing gear appears to have been painted in the same colour as the underside of the fuselage, assuming the lone surviving example is painted accurately that is. Decals are for the one anyway, so even if it's not accurate, this could easily be the museum example as it is today. It was also at this point that the Blitzenbuild method of not looking at the instructions and guessing because it's faster has found the limits of its use. Edited December 26, 2019 by Adam Poultney 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 26, 2019 Author Share Posted December 26, 2019 Left landing gear assembled... Wait.... That's a thing that shouldn't be left on left on there! Nope! Just ended up on top of the gear somehow... And it's not the left gear.... It's the right gear... The instructions have left and right mixed up.... Then I had to go eat with family because apparently eating is something that is required for humans to do. That took an hour of time up.... I resisted drinking too much as I want to have the model at least presentable and not a backwards landing gear or the props on the wrong end or something. I'll have a proper drink to celebrate the end of this build when it is finished. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 26, 2019 Author Share Posted December 26, 2019 Other gear leg on, the canopy interior framing colour painted and I'm ready to prime. Yet to use any filler as any gaps are tiny and insignificant fit a Blitzenbuild. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 Great progress Adam, these HB kits are ideal for this kind of GB,my original entry has crash and burned I have their P-40 in the stash which might be a stand in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 26, 2019 Author Share Posted December 26, 2019 So here's three(ish) hours of progress: Primed and pre shaded by 3:52 These were done just before that, RLM70 props. The painting instructions are ---- very bad indeed. I'd ignore them and use pictures of the one in the Udvar-Hazy centre as a reference. RLM65 underside and masked RLM81 on, masking ahead. Taking a while..... Almost there..... Done! Over a full hour later, the RLM82 was on. The paintjob is not 100% accurate but it is, in my opinion, pretty close in terms of the shape of the camouflage. The colours however are not. My RLM81 is far too light... https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/2006-853hjpg This image from the link above shows my RLM81 to be quite far off. I also think my 82 is not right either. But oh well, I like the look of mine. https://www.largescaleplanes.com/reviews/review.php?rid=2206 I think that link explains what I've done... I've used what appears to be RLM81 'v3' where I was looking for the 'v2' version. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG X Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 Ooh and I thought my spraybooth was mucky... ...nice progress mate - it is looking really good. Steve 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 26, 2019 Author Share Posted December 26, 2019 7 minutes ago, BIG X said: Ooh and I thought my spraybooth was mucky... ...nice progress mate - it is looking really good. Steve Mm it's that citadel primer I use that mucks it up... Won't come off at all without a good scrubbing with isopropanol. Best to do that in a bath since it's so messy. I really need to find a good primer I can put through my airbrush... I tried Vallejo, it's rubbish, nothing like the rest of their range (which I love). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogsbody Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 Looking good! Here's my Casio collection: Chris 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 26, 2019 Author Share Posted December 26, 2019 6 minutes ago, dogsbody said: Looking good! Here's my Casio collection: Chris I love the look of the nice simple Casio watch. One of my mates at secondary school had the same identical Casio watch as me, and another had one in a different colour. One time I had both the identical watches on, I think I kept the right one at the end of that day! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogsbody Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 1 hour ago, Adam Poultney said: I love the look of the nice simple Casio watch. One of my mates at secondary school had the same identical Casio watch as me, and another had one in a different colour. One time I had both the identical watches on, I think I kept the right one at the end of that day! They were great watches for working in the extraction plant where I used to work. Waterproof and fairly cheap. The batteries are easy to replace, too. The left one is at least 30 years old and the right one is about 20 years old. Both are still working, though I haven't worn either since I retired almost 5 years ago. Today was the first time I've taken them out of the drawer where I chucked them. Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 26, 2019 Author Share Posted December 26, 2019 Ok so the model has been finished in under 12 hours! Very pleased with that... Not so pleased with the decals the kit has.... Anyways, stepping back in time a little to when I was yet to suffer with the quality of Hobbyboss's decals.... The gear legs all have a red bit like the preserved one. Gloss coat on, ready to suffer... A lot of yelling later the decals were completed on one side (although here I'd started the other side by the time I took a picture). They really like to break and to get into many small fragments.... My trouble only just began More had shattered into pieces and the V required surgery to get on Finished! And finished almost an hour before that 12 hour mark. Put on a matt varnish, which isn't that matt... The gear also received a wash Wheel wells got a wash as well before it was finished. Canopy masking ended up on but not the best I've ever seen. This thing dwarfs the Me262! Incidentally that 262 was the first model I posted on here. I have another in the stash to build in the other scheme from the box. Certainly dwarf my newest 109, recently (nearly) finished but I'm about a week behind on posting on its thread in WIP. So sneak preview here. And this is so late being posted because I went to have a well earned drink and then got roped into playing a board game 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 26, 2019 Author Share Posted December 26, 2019 26 minutes ago, dogsbody said: They were great watches for working in the extraction plant where I used to work. Waterproof and fairly cheap. The batteries are easy to replace, too. The left one is at least 30 years old and the right one is about 20 years old. Both are still working, though I haven't worn either since I retired almost 5 years ago. Today was the first time I've taken them out of the drawer where I chucked them. Chris Ah well mine is only about two or three years old, got it after my old one packed in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterB Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 (edited) Hi Adam, My sources mostly say that Luftwaffe planes were not totally matt but had a slight sheen so you are ok there as far as I am concerned. In Ullmann's book on camo he has a so called "official" scheme for the 335 in 81/82/65, but by that stage I would have thought 76 was more likely. There are wide variations in interpretation of 81/82 and Ullmann does have at least 2 variations of both in his book. For my recent build of the Frog He162 I used the older White Ensign version of Colourcoats and they were somewhat darker than yours, but not like the Smithsonian version which looks like 2 greens! I think my 81 is the "Braunviolett" version. Whatever, your "Pfeil" looks good to me. Pete Edited December 27, 2019 by PeterB 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 27, 2019 Author Share Posted December 27, 2019 38 minutes ago, PeterB said: Hi Adam, My sources mostly say that Luftwaffe planes were not totally matt but had a slight sheen so you are ok there as far as I am concerned. In Ullmann's book on camo he has a so called "official" scheme for the 335 in 81/82/65, but by that stage I would have thought 76 was more likely. There are wide variations in interpretation of 81/82 and Ullmann does have at least 2 variations of both in his book. For my recent build of the Frog He162 I used the older White Ensign version of Colourcotas and they were somewhat darker than yours, but not like the Smithsonian version which looks like 2 greens! I think my 81 is the "Olivebraun" version. Whatever, it looks good to me. Pete Personally I like my models as Matt as I can get them unless they were gloss, in which case they sure painted satin. So much variation can be irritating sometimes and useful at others... This is a case of it being irritating. Nice Heinkel as well there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandboof Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 Nice clean build Martin H 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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