AdrianMF Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Place holder for this build, split off from the 501+510 topic... 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 Hi Adrian I hadn't realised you were building both, best of luck with this one, which is becoming a popular choice in this GB. Cheers Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 Hi Adrian I thought you had built this one ? Is this a duplicate build thread ? Cheers Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted December 31, 2020 Author Share Posted December 31, 2020 I’ve built the 501 (red Trident). 510 (black skeleton) to follow after I’ve finished the Vampire. With two out of the three sprues the same between the two kits, a certain amount of confusion is understandable! Regards, Adrian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Hi Adrian We are into our final week of this epic GB, are you still working on your 510 ? Cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted February 9, 2021 Author Share Posted February 9, 2021 Hmm didn’t start mate! I suppose I’ve only done four, so I’ll have to have a think about whether I could squeeze it in... Finish is the end of Sunday?? Regards, Adrian 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 Yes mate, Sunday midnight Go on you know you want to ! Cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted February 10, 2021 Author Share Posted February 10, 2021 Sigh, I blame @JOCKNEY! Here is the classic boxing and the sprues (I'm building the 510, on the right, the 500/501 on the left is built here in this GB): Two out of the three sprues are identical for the 500/501 and 510, leaving the fuselage sprue as the only different one. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 Top man, you know it's the right thing to do ! Best of luck with this one. Watch out for the aerial as Steve @fightersweep will tell you I've got previous in that department ! Cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Back in the Saddle Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 19 minutes ago, JOCKNEY said: Watch out for the aerial as Steve @fightersweep will tell you I've got previous in that department ! It's a common problem! 😄 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightersweep Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 Uh oh! Another build for the "Jockney touch"! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted February 10, 2021 Author Share Posted February 10, 2021 Hmpf. The aerial is already cut out with a “v” shaped cut to the fuselage and hidden safely for later so I can knock it off properly after painting... Pat, you never considered selling timeshare apartments as a career?? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted February 11, 2021 Author Share Posted February 11, 2021 Well, retreading much the same path as for the 501, here’s the interior jazzed up a little, ready for paint tomorrow: The purple holy fragment is the remains of the wine bottle foil that’s been providing me with seat belts and landing light lenses for the past two or three years. Time to open another bottle! ... Screw tops don’t count, do they? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted February 11, 2021 Author Share Posted February 11, 2021 Well, the interior is done: However, the exhausts didn’t drill out cleanly this time. Maybe I used a 0.2mm drill last time instead of 0.5mm this time. Anyhow, I cut holes and slots for some new Albion Alloys 0.8mm brass tube: As you can see, one of the slots has gone AWOL, so repairs are happening. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted February 11, 2021 Author Share Posted February 11, 2021 Repair happened, I built a little shelf, stuck them all in, and sanded down the ends to make them uniform: If I had known it was going to be that quick, I’d have done it on the 501 as well! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toryu Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Good repair job! A few more days - you're going to make the deadline Adrian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Nifty work on those exhausts Adrian Cheers Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted February 11, 2021 Author Share Posted February 11, 2021 11 minutes ago, Toryu said: you're going to make the deadline Adrian. Thanks! Nothing can possibly go wrong now. I’ll just pop outside and shoot an albatross to make doubly sure... 12 minutes ago, JOCKNEY said: exhausts I wish I’d done that the first time around on the 501. My wife and I are currently following “The Great Pottery Throwdown”, an elimination contest for amateur potters (it’s better than it sounds). The judge on the programme has a condition that makes him cry when he sees pottery that particularly pleases him. Well, this kit and the 500/501 have pretty much the same effect on me. Are they perfect? No. But they just such beautiful kits to work with - well designed, engineered and moulded, and repaying a little extra work. I can even almost forgive @JOCKNEY for nagging me into building another one! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 3 hours ago, AdrianMF said: I can even almost forgive @JOCKNEY for nagging me into building another one! Steady now, I've got a reputation to maintain you know, dont go all "touchy feely" on me ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted February 13, 2021 Author Share Posted February 13, 2021 All ready for paint tomorrow morning: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 Great stuff Adrian, I admire your patience, I would be desperate to keep going having got it that far ! cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightersweep Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 Looking great Adrian. Love the work on the exhausts too. It's a lovely little kit and a joy to build. I've got a D.510 lined up too. I was happy enough with the 501, but the decals let me down a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted February 13, 2021 Author Share Posted February 13, 2021 1 hour ago, fightersweep said: but the decals let me down a bit. Sorry too hear that. I’ve been having a right old time with decals too. I used the original Heller roundels, which have been in the window for a couple of months to whiten up, because they had good proportions, but they kept curling up. Repeated doses of Decalfix and Future got them down in the end. The Czech replacement decals reacted with the fresh Model Air Aluminium and went a bit jelly-like too. I think I’m winning though: A bit more Future, final bits and bobs and some touch up painting tomorrow, so I should be on target to get it done. I’m going to have to get one of these to do in a camouflage scheme. Silver is not my colour! Fingers crossed... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted February 14, 2021 Author Share Posted February 14, 2021 So, I brushed on two coats of Vallejo Model Air Aluminium on to bare plastic. The finish was lovely. I left it to dry, but it only got to a sort of sticky rubber stage. This made all the decals a pain, and worst of all, when I brushed on a coat of Future, thinking “that’ll sort it”, it didn’t stick and formed into globules. I had to overbrush the Future a lot to get it to form a coat, by which time it had acquired a grey tinge and was slightly stripping paint from the raised detail. Then the undercarriage, for which I’m sure the original French instructions read “place the spats in mid air and then stretch all the connecting struts until they join everything neatly...”, refused to stay stuck (time for new CA) and stayed just out of reach of the supplied locating holes. Anyhow, enough whingeing, I got it cobbled together somehow and took some pics for the gallery. Here’s one which manages to show not too many flaws: Thanks for a great GB. It’s been great fun and educational too. Regards, Adrian 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Congratulations Adrian I remember the undercarriage only too well, I think you are supposed to put the parts in a cocktail shaker with a couple of drips of CA a few shakes above the head and voila it's finished ! cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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