A Group of Gals - Two Revell B-17Gs and a Hasey Friend

[Martian]

9 hours ago, Navy Bird said:

 

John Wayne's real first name was Marion. He never had a sex change. Just saying...    

 

Cheers,

Bill

I know that Bill, what concerns me is that Ced wrote it as in Maid Marian of Robin Hood fame. Can you imagine me as Robin Hood's girlfriend? On second thoughts, better not if you ever want another night's undisturbed sleep.😱

 

Friar Martian  🏹

[Navy Bird]

8 hours ago, Martian said:

On second thoughts, better not if you ever want another night's undisturbed sleep.😱

 

My sleep has been disturbed ever since I saw your green sparkly skin and antennae at Telford...thank God you were hiding your tentacles or I don't know what psychiatric care I might need.

 

Cheers,

Bill

[Modelholic]

Don't forget the black mats before closing up!

Never done a bare metal finish plane, and I'm thinking...maybe.

Tom

[CedB]

On 05/05/2021 at 14:00, Martian said:

Marian? I wasn't aware I had had a sex change. I'm sure I would have noticed if I had.

 

Observant of Mars 👽

Apologies Martian, bloomin' spell chequer (ha, fooled it!)  

Of course I won't discuss your sexual preferences - you identify whatever way you like my friend.

But are you sure you'd notice? That might be a tentacle… snurf.

 

19 hours ago, Navy Bird said:

John Wayne's real first name was Marion. He never had a sex change. Just saying...    

 

Cheers,

Bill

10 hours ago, Martian said:

I know that Bill, what concerns me is that Ced wrote it as in Maid Marian of Robin Hood fame. Can you imagine me as Robin Hood's girlfriend? On second thoughts, better not if you ever want another night's undisturbed sleep.😱

 

Friar Martian  🏹

1 hour ago, Navy Bird said:

My sleep has been disturbed ever since I saw your green sparkly skin and antennae at Telford...thank God you were hiding your tentacles or I don't know what psychiatric care I might need.

 

Cheers,

Bill

See, Bill's not sure either!

Hiding your tentacles indeed  

Robin Hood's girlfriend? Hmmm. Maybe not - you make a far better Tuck (or at least I think that's what they said…)

 

15 hours ago, The Spadgent said:

Wonderful bit of masking Mr B. She looks great closed up too. Going to be huge with the wings in place. 👏👏👏 

Thanks Johnny

Keep it in bits until the last minute - that's the (probable) answer.

 

1 hour ago, Modelholic said:

Don't forget the black mats before closing up!

Never done a bare metal finish plane, and I'm thinking...maybe.

Tom

Rats, sorry Tom, too late:

 

 

Notice that the ball turret support broke off, again, and now it's too late to fix it properly.

I shall have to glue the ball in (careful).

And the strut things broke off the top turret, again.

Glued, again.

Grrrr.

[Pete in Lincs]

2 hours ago, CedB said:

Glued, again.

The situation is starting to look sticky...

[Martian]

3 hours ago, CedB said:

Robin Hood's girlfriend? Hmmm. Maybe not - you make a far better Tuck (or at least I think that's what they said…

That's what all the girls say, well, very nearly what they say.

 

Mars' Answer to Casanova 👽

[CedB]

On 06/05/2021 at 18:41, Pete in Lincs said:

The situation is starting to look sticky...

Thanks Pete  

 

On 06/05/2021 at 19:20, Martian said:

That's what all the girls say, well, very nearly what they say.

 

Mars' Answer to Casanova 👽

 

 

Seam sanding this morning.

Groan.

Hopefully they'll soon be ready for primer.

What's that you're saying?

There are wings?

 

By way of a rest from the intricacy of these two I've started a build of a mobile for the Grandson.

Have a look.

Six or seven 1/144 kits.

I shall never moan about tiny parts again (snurf).

[CedB]

Primer!

 

White for the red bits and prop tips, grey for the rest:

 

 

Of course this is a disclosure coat.

Jim's is looking good but mine needs more work:

 

 

I had some white left in the airbrush so decided to do the wings too:

 

[giemme]

Great job on Jim's B-17 fuselage seam!

 

I'm not clear why yours isn't on par with that...

 

Ciao 

 

 

[CedB]

Thanks Giorgio  

Of course I didn't try as hard!

I've now blobbed some thin sprue gloop* on the gaps:

 

 

I'll sand that when it's set.

 

* I know now from hendie's thread that I should be calling it 'runner gloop' (he is our moulding expert after all) but it doesn't sound as 'cool'

Sad.

[Snafu35]

Good morning, Ced.

 

What consistence in the construction!, And you also start decorating a child's room! 👍

 

Regards,

Eric-Snafu35

[Paramedic]

The gals are starting to look might fine! Great job!

 

Was afraid I had hit some hentia forum my accident at first.. Thankfully there were no pictures..

 

[Terry1954]

The Gals are looking good Ced. Can't wait till they sprout some wings!

 

Terry

[CedB]

On 09/05/2021 at 17:40, Snafu35 said:

Good morning, Ced.

 

What consistence in the construction!, And you also start decorating a child's room! 👍

 

Regards,

Eric-Snafu35

Thanks Eric  

Both projects are 'progressing' together - see below!

 

On 09/05/2021 at 22:19, Paramedic said:

The gals are starting to look might fine! Great job!

 

Was afraid I had hit some hentia forum my accident at first.. Thankfully there were no pictures..

 

Thanks Para

Oooer… I didn't know what a 'hentia forum' was until I Googled it - yikes!

 

22 hours ago, Terry1954 said:

The Gals are looking good Ced. Can't wait till they sprout some wings!

 

Terry

Thanks Terry - getting closer  

 

 

After sanding the seams on my fuselage (again) I think I'm ready to spray some paint.

The scheme is quite complex so I'm trying to work out a route to minimum masking.

Start with Red I think.

So that I can do the wingtips at the same time I've dry fitted and taped the wing halves.

Here's a shot with the 1/144 FW-190:

 

 

Silly.

[giemme]

16 minutes ago, CedB said:

Here's a shot with the 1/144 FW-190:

The FW is tiny, but those wings are HUGE! Looking forward to the painting stage

 

Ciao

[CedB]

Thanks Giorgio - wait no longer:

 

 

Of course I'm planning to brush on the AK True Metal paste for the NMF areas so all I need to do (arf arf) is paint the other areas and then mask them:

 

 

So:

- mask the red

- grey underside (including elevators) next, mask then

- Olive Yellow top of waist and elevators, mask then

- Olive drab port wing panel and anti-glare on nacelles, nose and tail, mask then

- Bronze green weird patches on sides of fuselage

- NMF - hooray!

Simples 🙄

 

I think I'll start assembling the wings next.

[RichieW]

Ooh, a splash of colour going on, exciting times!

[CedB]

Thanks Richie  

 

Letting that dry for a bit.

Jim has supplied the external PE for his model so I'd better start that:

 

 

 

[giemme]

1 hour ago, CedB said:

Jim has supplied the external PE for his model so I'd better start that:

Wow, that's a lot of PE!

 

Ciao

[Tcoat]

5 hours ago, CedB said:

Thanks Giorgio - wait no longer:

 

Of course I'm planning to brush on the AK True Metal paste for the NMF areas so all I need to do (arf arf) is paint the other areas and then mask them:

 

So:

- mask the red

- grey underside (including elevators) next, mask then

- Olive Yellow top of waist and elevators, mask then

- Olive drab port wing panel and anti-glare on nacelles, nose and tail, mask then

- Bronze green weird patches on sides of fuselage

- NMF - hooray!

Simples 🙄

 

I think I'll start assembling the wings next.

Something a rarely see on here is the use of Bare Metal Foil for larger areas. Is it hard to get or really costly or something there?

I don't even bother trying to paint bare metal anymore since nothing looks like unpainted aluminum metal as much as unpainted aluminum. 

No masking, perfect straight dividing lines, just place, rub down with a toothpick and buff. Even comes in several different shades and sheens. 

Am I cheating?

 

 

[AliGauld]

All the best with all those fiddly brass bits.

I don't envy you one bit.

 

Cheers,

Alistair

[tomprobert]

Ah - nothing beats the smell of fresh insignia red in the morning!

 

Looking good, Ced.

[Navy Bird]

33 minutes ago, tomprobert said:

Ah - nothing beats the smell of fresh insignia red in the morning!

Looking good, Ced.

 

They are looking good! But I couldn't help notice the bottle of Gunze H414 in the photo - that's RLM23. Did the B-17 crew find a stash of German paint?  

 

Cheers,

Bill

 

PS. I know, red is red. Run what you brung.

[CedB]

3 hours ago, giemme said:

Wow, that's a lot of PE!

 

Ciao

It is, it is. Softly softly catchee monkey PE  

 

2 hours ago, Tcoat said:

Something a rarely see on here is the use of Bare Metal Foil for larger areas. Is it hard to get or really costly or something there?

I don't even bother trying to paint bare metal anymore since nothing looks like unpainted aluminum metal as much as unpainted aluminum. 

No masking, perfect straight dividing lines, just place, rub down with a toothpick and buff. Even comes in several different shades and sheens. 

Am I cheating?

 

 

Bare Metal Foil is easy to get but at £6-7 for a 6x11 sheet it adds quite a cost to models, especially ones of this size!

You're certainly making great use of it though Tony  

 

51 minutes ago, AliGauld said:

All the best with all those fiddly brass bits.

I don't envy you one bit.

 

Cheers,

Alistair

Thanks Ali, me neither. I'm doing a bit, taking a rest, repeat  

 

40 minutes ago, tomprobert said:

Ah - nothing beats the smell of fresh insignia red in the morning!

 

Looking good, Ced.

Thanks Tom  

Did I get away with it?

Ah, that's a no then…

 

7 minutes ago, Navy Bird said:

 

They are looking good! But I couldn't help notice the bottle of Gunze H414 in the photo - that's RLM23. Did the B-17 crew find a stash of German paint?  

 

Cheers,

Bill

 

PS. I know, red is red. Run what you brung.

Busted!

I ain't brung no 'Carmen Red' or whatever the FS colour is so iModelKit told me that was the closest I had.

I shall, of course, call it 'variation and weathering  

 

 

PE? Especially tiny little bits - hate it.

Two tiny bracket thingies, floor (roof?) and one little box on each part, one more box to go:

 

[CedB]

Well I got the other boxes done:

 

 

Seems a shame to paint them  

 

I've also applied this to these:

 

 

Of course I then fretted that the PE might get knocked off as I handled the part trees so decided to cut them off the gates and store them somewhere safer.

Guess what.

Two got knocked off.

Just how long does it take GG Thin to dry and then cure - do we know?

Now don't panic, but I thought it best to get answers from the horse's mouth and it seems that Gator's Grip is no longer made

I shall take care what I use my bottles for now…

 

I'm certainly not looking forward to this:

 

 

What's that guys?

Find something 'on the bench' the right size to roll it around?

OK.

I may be gone some time…