The Production line. All sixteen done

[corsaircorp]

On 8/3/2021 at 10:00 AM, Corsairfoxfouruncle said:

Can I just ask you a serious question good sir ? Have you gone mad … 16 ? Holy Crikey thats a lot of Messerschmitt’s ! 😉

Nope, He just got a CCite....

There are no cure...No remedy... And definitely no vaccine 

It just left one thing to do, Have a beer and buy another model....

Sooooo sorry !!

Well done my friend !! Now you deserve the title of Marklo, Earl of Regensburg....😇

Sincerely.

CC

[Marklo]

15 minutes ago, corsaircorp said:

Have a beer and buy another model....

Personally I favour a full bodied red wine. But I’m not against the odd Erdinger and of course anything Belgian usually tastes good too.

Edited August 4, 2021 by Marklo

[Marklo]

Not a lot of progress to report today as my ME has gotten the better of me after a hectic week.

The G2 now has its parasol brackets and trop filter and is ready for primer, as is the TL Jaeger, the Avia just needs some seatbelts and a canopy and it’s there too.

 

I’m working away on the decals for V1 and the Swiss G ( along with the RAF Typhoon)

 

The Buchon nearly had a new nose and in a serendipitously it turns out that the kit scheme for the G14 is the one I had planned to do before I bought the kit.

Might not make the target of all 15(16?) ready for primer by the weekend but I should have a hood few there and certainly all primer ready by the end of next week.

 

Edited August 4, 2021 by Marklo

[Marklo]

The KP decals much improved after a day or two in the sun but still unusable, just as well I’m not going for the Czech option on the Mezec.

[Marklo]

Four of the group are now ready for primer.

[Marklo]

Just realised I have three weeks from today, better get a move in  

[Marklo]

16 props assembled and ready for fettling and paint. I need to make one for the Buchon and V1 and of course the TL Kaeger doesn’t need one so one or two spares.

 

I’m going to try to finish the RAF typhoon this week but otherwise the emergency fighter program kicks in and I’m only going to work on the 109s   With the goal being to get everything primed by the end of the week and maybe started on the camo.

Edited August 8, 2021 by Marklo

[Marklo]

Five on the primer shelf 

 

Which means eleven still in the bench but all progressing and the three lower right are very nearly done.

Edited August 9, 2021 by Marklo

[Marklo]

The primer shelf gets a little more crowded. The other two Airfix Es and the three Revell G10s are also pretty close.

 

Fifteen propellors painted in German gray. Two spares as the TL Jaeger doesn’t need one and V1 and the Buchon will need custom props, two and four blades respectively.

 

Fifteen sets of wheel covers ( damn you carpet monster) ready for paint and hoping number sixteen will turn up before I need to scratch a set.

[Graham Boak]

47 minutes ago, Marklo said:

Fifteen propellors painted in German gray. 

 

I hope that you mean RLM 70 Black Green for the props and black for the spinners.

[Marklo]

34 minutes ago, Graham Boak said:

I hope that you mean RLM 70 Black Green for the props and black for the spinners.

Probably, but  but we shall see, as very few of them are Luftwaffe schemes they may ( or may not) be different colours. The German grey makes for a nice base coat.

Edited August 10, 2021 by Marklo

[Marklo]

After a marathon priming session twelve of the sixteen are primed. Not entirely happy with any of them. I see a lot of filler and fine grit sandpaper in my immediate future  

[Marklo]

After a bit more fettling, fiddling and furtling all sixteen primed and only one or two need a bit of remedial work. Bulges and bumps next followed by preshading. Should be painting soon.

[Marklo]

The Plan:

1. Bumps, bulges and fairings

2. Pre shade

3. All the undersides 65/76/78 and V1

4. White/Red/Yellow

5. first camo colour 02/71/74/79/81 dark earth and the SCW E

6. Mask for second camo colour 

7. Second camo colour 70/75/82 black dark green

8. Dark blue in the Buchon

9. undercarriages

10. Paint the props

11. paint the wheels

12. lots and lots of decals

13. mass balances, pitot tubes antennae

14. Rf wires

 

And done , simples ehhh….

[Marklo]

 

All sixteen preshaded phew. White next. Not entirely sticking to the planned task order.

Edited August 19, 2021 by Marklo

[Bertie McBoatface]

What on Earth or off it, is that Pink Thing in the background?

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

5 minutes ago, Bertie Psmith said:

What on Earth or off it, is that Pink Thing in the background?

Looks like a German WW1 Bomber ? 

[Bertie McBoatface]

4 minutes ago, Corsairfoxfouruncle said:

Looks like a German WW1 Bomber ? 

...that escaped from the set of Cabaret!

[Bertie McBoatface]

Seriously, this is something I always wanted to do with 8th AF P-47s or P-51s. All of the colour schemes on a fairly simple to build aircraft. I think it will be quite impressive when it's done provided that quality isn't sacrificed too much to quantity, which would have been my downfall.

[Marklo]

Yellow and

 

White my two least favourite colours. And I missed the Yugoslavian G10 and the desert G2 should be yellow not white sigh….

[Marklo]

15 hours ago, Bertie Psmith said:

What on Earth or off it, is that Pink Thing in the background?

It’s a Handley page Ho O/400 that was converted to an airliner. Almost finished I thought the pink scheme was so much nicer than PC10

Edited August 20, 2021 by Marklo

[Bertie McBoatface]

1 minute ago, Marklo said:

It’s a Handley page Ho O/400 that was converted to an airliner. Almost finished I thought the punk scheme was so much nicer than PC10

 

The old Airfix kit?

[Marklo]

12 hours ago, Bertie Psmith said:

The old Airfix kit?

Yes

 

With my WIP shelf do full it is beginning to encroach on my (small) shelf of doom amongst which the most prominent is the pink thing, which just needs rigging and done minor assembly to be finished. Probably fodder for the next KUTA GB if it happens.

[Marklo]

Lots of masking

 

And lots of RLM 76

[Marklo]

Dark earth on the F and battleship grey on V1