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Britain's True Interceptor - EE/BAC Lightning, 1-48th Aeroclub's F6 FINISHED


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Small update,

Ejection seat painted.

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Installed, the small l shape tabs have glued in place, this will help with fitment of the canopy.

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Canopy successfully cut out, masked and glued in place, a few small gaps nothing major.

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onto the wings, added the small metal parts for the refuelling probe.

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added brass pins to the over wing tanks, 

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mmmm picture highlights a bit more cleaning up on the tanks required.

Leave things to dry, clean up around the canopy then get on with attaching the wings.

 

Darren

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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So canopy on, sprayed black then a coat of primer over it. Not too bad a few little areas to touch up.

Wings have been attached, good joint on the top

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slight work needed underneath

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sitting next to Airfix F3

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Leave it to dry overnight then some MORE clean up to do.

 

Darren

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Another small update.

Decided to give the muzzle flash deflectors a go, drilled 0.3 holes around the edges then use 0.3 brass wire shape to what I need.

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from the front

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under a coat of primer, not perfect but will do me,

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Final coat of primer

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Leave to dry and harden, then the fun begins.......painting😀

I'm leaning toward a 11Sqn patchy/beaten Camo machine with a touch of low viz greys parts🤔

 

Cheers

Darren

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Tidy work on those blast deflectors B) Like the sound of your paintwork plans as well.

Is that a Spitfire PR.1 I see in the background?

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On 2/6/2021 at 2:17 PM, Col. said:

Tidy work on those blast deflectors B) Like the sound of your paintwork plans as well.

Is that a Spitfire PR.1 I see in the background?

 

 Corgi metal Spitfire, Yeah got it from a boy at work just sits on my desk.

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Small update

A coat of Tamiya Flat Aluminium underneath, followed but adding different browns and black heavily thinned coats on different panels, Barley grey belly and missile pack panels also painted.

Not too bad leave as is just now, decals and later on washes/pastels and varnish will tone it down. Next move onto the upper camo.

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Darren

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Major bench time today.

Got stuck into doing the upper camo that I forgot to take photos, but here it is unmasked.

 

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Whilst I'm happy with the green the grey is AWFUL, it was darker!! but when I lifted the masking tape, it's lifted some paint and is matt and really patchy. And looks brush painted?.

I used Xtracylics RAF Dark Green and RAF Dark Sea Grey. So perhaps my grey has gone off?

Going to have to figure how to darken it up, be it wash or overspray? not sure going to leave overnight and think about it. 

 

Cheers

Darren

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Call it weathering!  Some people go to great lengths to make their models look patchy and worn.

 

Seriously, it doesn’t look that bad to me from those photos.

 

AW

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22 hours ago, Andwil said:

Call it weathering!  Some people go to great lengths to make their models look patchy and worn.

 

Seriously, it doesn’t look that bad to me from those photos.

 

AW

Yeah picture hides it, but trust me it looks worse.

 

Wasn't sure what to do with it, so last night I brushed a thin coat of clear on the grey and left it.

Haven't been able to get to the bench today (the wife had me decorate the living room instead😟), so much for my time off🤔

Anyway I've just been and checked it, it's got its colour back, I guess the coat of clear worked.

hopefully you can see the difference between the pictures from before.

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A few more panels to mask and paint, unmask then a coat of gloss ready for decals.

 

Darren

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Your Lightning looks splendid and certainly ready for its decals now Darren. The snow, on the other hand, looks a lot like the same view I'm getting; nothing but white for as far as the eye can see and with overnight temperatures of -17 C not likely to go anywhere in a hurry :cold:

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Small update

Weathered......Waded through lots of pictures and my books for reference, it might be a bit too much? What do you guys think. I can tone down/touch up a few areas. Its had a coat of matt, still have a few panels to paint underneath, I want these to look like new replacements.

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Darren

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Canopy time.

masked around the canopy, then airbrushed yellow around the edges.

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then using 1mm masking tape I masked around the edge, then whole canopy airbrushed black.

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then I unmasked to see my efforts, the good side. Note I've unmasked the white metal nose ring.

 

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the bad side😟 I don't know what it is but I was left with some marks on this side and the masking tape has lifted a decal.

 

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After trying everything in my arsenal to get rid of it, I finally got most of it using 80% ethanol but required to do some touch ups as it removed some paint from the fuselage . Also I used a silver pencil to simulate worn away paint around the top of the front screen edges.

 

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The yellow line is a bit thick for my liking but that's what I get for trying to be smart a###, should have stuck with the decals.

 

Cheers

Darren

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10 hours ago, exdraken said:

looks great!

don' worry too much about the decal! it looks a bit worn, as does the weathering!

Werner has articulated my own thoughts perfectly. It looks great Darren :thumbsup:

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Wow times getting short.

To be fair I got offered some overtime so I worked 14 days straight, a mix of in work/work from home.

Off today so had a wee bit of time to get some done.

Finished painting and decaling gun panels, different colours to stand out a bit, a bit of pastels around the gun troughs, refuelling probe added

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Finished painting and decaling the over wing tanks, glued in place.

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Have to pull the old finger out, still quite a bit to do.

 

Darren 

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That looks amazing, great job! I've just started a WIP for mine and I'll be happy if it turns out half as good. A good save on the grey paint, the coat of clear really brought it back to life. I don't think the weathering is too much at all, I think it's spot on.  

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