Tamiya Beaufighter 1F, R2101, 604 Squadron, 1940-41

[Keeff]

This is superb work with such attention to detail ...

 

I'm liking all the improvised 'gadgets' your using .... every problem has a solution! 

 

 

Keith  

[Stephen Allen]

 

Thanks Keith

 

I enjoy the problem solving and homemade bits of a build best of all!

 

[Max Headroom]

All those little lumps and bumps are really adding character.

 

I’ll make notes for when mine gets back to the workbench.

 

Trevor

[davidl]

Mate

Your photo server isn;t allowing your pictures to load

David in Brisbane

[dogsbody]

I've been waiting for about 7 minutes for the photos to appear! All I see are grey rectangles. I tried to open one on another tab, but it won't show there, either.

So, it's either because my Internet, up here on The Back Side Of Beyond has gone crappy, something in the UK has gone south or your image hosting site sucks cat bums!

All other topics on this site have worked properly so far this morning.

 

It's now be 9 minutes and no images!

 

 

 

Chris

[hopkp]

Nothing but grey rectangles for me too.....and pictures show up in any other build logs/RFIs that I've looked at.

Edited Saturday at 17:09 by hopkp

[stevehnz]

Fine on this side of the Tasman.   

This is looking really good Stephen, its going to be a beaut.  

Steve.

[Stephen Allen]

Yep, I am having trouble getting the photos to load too. I am using Hobbyphoto and will see what I can do to get the problem fixed.

 

thanks

 

Steve

[Stephen Allen]

And it’s clearly an intermittent problem as I can see all of the photos now. I have raised a ticket with Hobbyphoto and will see what they suggest.

 

cheers

 

Steve

[Stephen Allen]

Chaps

 

Steve from Hobbyphotohost has checked the photo issue from his end, and reports that there is nothing he can identify, the images are not oversized for loading, no errors at the host end and, generally, they are visible to users. There may be an issue somewhere in the pathway between the host and Britmodeller, but it doesn’t appear to be affecting other HobbyPhotohost users - and the photos I put up in Ready for Inspection of my Spitfires are working fine. I can but hope that the issue goes away for those having trouble.

 

Steve

[dogsbody]

Still SFA up here, on The Back Side of Beyond.

 

 

 

Chris

[Stephen Allen]

Chris

 

try reloading the page or dumping your cache - my problems stopped when I did this. Beyond that, its in the laps of the gods of the Internet.

 

Steve

[Stephen Allen]

Masked up and painting begins. No magic to the masking, just lots and lots of small pieces of tape. After the masking was on I did some gentle dry sanding of the seam line between the front of the canopy and the fuselage, and it now looks good under a coat of paint. It came out much better than my first Beau, but being me, the next one I do will be worse.

 

I have enjoyed my first use of the SMS lacquer paints. They cover tremendously well, spray at nice low pressures and dry almost instantly. I found the interior grey green a little dark and a bit green when compared to the colour chip in British Aviation Colours, but I toned it down a bit with white. It claims to match a FS colour (yeah, I know)  on the label but it gets close enough to the MAP colour with a little tweaking, and as has been endlessly discussed, interior grey green seems to vary a lot anyway. It won’t wrinkle under the Tamiya lacquer primer anyway.

 

Hopefully primer on tomorrow, rectification of things I have messed up, then a base coat of Colourcoats Night. Then, there might be a delay. I have montex masks for the markings, but I’m not thrilled with vinyl masks. Not convinced either by their rendition of the code letters.  I have some Kabuki tape masks on order from a UK firm, the Crafting Well and will probably hang on until they are in hand. I plan to do the first coat of ordinary Night, apply the markings, then do the top coats of Special Night, so I can keep the contrasts in sheen between the markings and the different paints. At least that’s the plan. Waiting a bit will at least let all the substrates settle down properly before I start attaching sticky tape things to the paint.

[dogsbody]

Today's photos showed up instantly and I didn't do anything! The past ones are still grey rectangles.

 

Could you please remind me on how to dump my cashe? I seem to have forgotten how to do this.

 

 

 

 

Chris

[Stephen Allen]

Chris

 

Well that’s something anyway! Clearing your cache will depend on what browser you are using. But generally you go to settings for your browser and there should be a ‘ clear history and website data’ option or similar. This does mean that any shortcuts you have had cached, passwords etc, get wiped and, when you visit a site with a password, have to be entered again, so only do it if you are happy you can re-enter this stuff when prompted - I would hate to be responsible for you losing stuff you need, and if you can see the photos from this point forward you haven’t missed much.

 

Some would say my models look better without pictures anyway.

 

cheers

 

Steve
 

 

[Stephen Allen]

Primer coat on, Tamiya grey lacquer from the square bottle. Pleased to say that it all looked pretty good. Very happy to see the major seams lines don’t show ghosts, so all is good. I managed to embed a few tiny dust specks in a couple of places, but the usual method of picking them off with tamiya tape worked. One or two tiny pinholes in putty filled seams, but a blob of Mr Surfacer wiped off with a finger took care of those.
 

Ready for the next stage.