I Love Kit 1/48 Gloster Gladiator Mk.II Progress

[Of Models & Monsters]

The Gladiator's cockpit is fully assembled, just waiting for the fuselage halves to embrace.

[bigbadbadge]

The cockpit details look good, does the PE come with this kit?

Chris

[Of Models & Monsters]

6 hours ago, bigbadbadge said:

The cockpit details look good, does the PE come with this kit?

Chris

No, I had to buy an eduard set.  The kit itself really lacks in cockpit detail.

[Of Models & Monsters]

I may have skipped ahead a little with the progress photos, the fuselage, wings and rigging wires (yes, I glued one side of the rigging wires prior to painting) and after my first attempt at painted roundels with my Aichi D3A, I ramped up the difficulty and tried painting RAF roundels as well as ID lettering.

[bigbadbadge]

The painted roundels look great , I like the paint it is looking very weathered.

Chris

[thommo]

Damn that looks good!

 

How did you do the masking for the letters & roundels?

 

I'd be cutting masks using my Cricut Maker machine for those.....though I soon have to do some tiny lettering in 1/72 using the machine which will be interesting.

[Of Models & Monsters]

5 hours ago, thommo said:

Damn that looks good!

 

How did you do the masking for the letters & roundels?

 

I'd be cutting masks using my Cricut Maker machine for those.....though I soon have to do some tiny lettering in 1/72 using the machine which will be interesting.

I don't mean to brag but I actually cut them by hand.  I have an olfa compass cutter but I can't for the life of me cut a complete circle with it, so I just grabbed my hobby knife with a spinnable blade and did it myself.