1/48th Mitchell II - Allied Advance and Defense of the Reich WWII.

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Thanks Wojtek.
I've done the initial painting of the 'padding', and the frames and bulkhead. Whilst the 'padding' is fine, I'm annoyed with the rest of it, as the paint is still tacky nearly four hours after painting. Once again, bl**dy Humbrol paint !
I used a brand new tin of 163 satin Dark Green, mixed with yellow to varying degrees for the two colours on the frames and fittings. The green is the one causing the problem, taking ages to even think about drying, and it's glossy, not satin !
Can't go any further now, until it eventually dries, and then it'll need a semi-matt clear coat to get rid of the high-gloss finish. But, as I'm now tired and hurting like Hell, I'm off to bed soon, and will check it in the morning.
 
Take a rest My Friend. As far as the Humbrol colours are concerned... yes satin paints like becoming gloss ones after some years. However if these are stired carefully these can get the semi-matt again. I usually add some of the matt varnish to them. The effect of getting gloss seems to be caused by the very small powder grains of the matt supplement that clumped within years.
 
Yes, it seems very 'hit and miss' with Humbrol paints these days. I stirred the paint for a good 7 to 8 minutes, ensuring it had the 'right' viscosity, but as soon as I mixed it, I knew it was wrong, as it 'gummed up' in the pallet.
This particular shade of green, and their satin black are very prone to this, when once they were perfect.
I'll re-paint using MM paints, but not looking forward to having to get inside the curves of the nose section again, to paint the vertical frames !!
 
Thanks Wojtek and Wayne.
Been working on the bomb sight computer and repeater instrument panel, and about to re-paint the frames etc in the nose compartment.
I've decided not to mould the computer for this one, to save a bit of time, and also because a lot of the detail would not be clearly seen, as the nose canopy is rather thick and distorts the view.
More pics soon.
 
Whilst waiting for paint to dry, I've done the modifications to the nose canopy.
The kit part has finely raised frames, but one frame on the port side continues in a straight line, where the escape hatch should be, so this was filed off, and the panel polished, before engraving the frame for the hatch.

PIC 1. The frame in the process of being removed.
PIC 2. The escape hatch frame and release handle have been engraved, and the rear, lower frame sanded off - a bit of a 'heart in mouth' situation - and just needs slight adjustment, and clean-up, of the lower frame. The canopy will then be washed, polished, and masked, and the interior colour painted both inside and out.
PIC 3. What the escape hatch and canopy should look like.

 
Well done Terry. I probably would have painted the escape hatch plate the interior colour and then glued a very thin piece of card on the outside of the canopy.
 
Thanks Andy. I'd actually considered doing something similar, but decided to engrave instead.
The inside of the escape hatch area can be reached with a paint brush, so I should be able to paint the interior colour, and the red latch, inside, as well as outside, to ensure it's totally opaque, then mask the outside.
By the time it's had a primer coat (overall) and the upper surface colour, it should blend nicely, and the engraved joints can be high-lighted with a sharpened pencil.
 
Thanks Wayne !

The nose section has been re-painted, and the empty ammunition rack has been added to the starboard side. Once the various instruments and switch panels have been made, they will be attached as shown in the pics, and the bulkhead and canopy fitted.
The nose compartment section can then be fitted to the fuselage, after first making new mounting points for the nose gear leg, and adding a shed load of weight into the void at the front of the fuselage.

PIC 1. The bulkhead painted, and awaiting a seat belt.
PIC 2. Starboard side of the nose, showing the empty ammo rack.
PIC 3. Port side, with location points for bomb sight computer (black arrow), repeater instrument console (yellow arrow), 'Intervalometer' (blue arrow), and the bomb selector / fusing panel (red arrow).
PIC 4. The floor has had some light paint scuffing added, and the bomb door control quadrant painted. The red arrow indicates the bare patch where the Mk.XIV bomb sight will eventually be fitted.

 
Sorry, no pics yet.
Made the bomb sight computer - dropped it, rolled chair back to find it and, you've guessed it - CRUNCH !!!
Ever so slightly p*ssed off, so having a break !!
 
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