meatloaf109
1st Lieutenant
Gratifying to hear that I am not the only one that does that. I have found more parts that way than any other. It's weird how you can overlook them with two eyes, and then get down and spot it almost imediately.
**** DONE: 1/48 Arado Ar234B-2 - Jet/Recon/Transport GB
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Crimea_River
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Thanks for the support guys. I've used that technique many a time and it works well. Usually find more stuff than I knew I lost.
Well, after about a total of over an hour of searching, I finally found the bugger, and it was in a spot I already looked once, but not thoroughly enough obviously. It ended up on the darkest corner of my paint rack behind on old tin of Humbrol clear gloss. All the while I was looking for it, it was dreading the possibility that it flew into the full garbage can but luckily I found it before resorting to sifting through that mess. If anything good came of this, it was that I thoroughly cleaned up my work bench!
Tomorrow, I'll post some progress pics. Thanks for your interest guys.
Well, after about a total of over an hour of searching, I finally found the bugger, and it was in a spot I already looked once, but not thoroughly enough obviously. It ended up on the darkest corner of my paint rack behind on old tin of Humbrol clear gloss. All the while I was looking for it, it was dreading the possibility that it flew into the full garbage can but luckily I found it before resorting to sifting through that mess. If anything good came of this, it was that I thoroughly cleaned up my work bench!
Tomorrow, I'll post some progress pics. Thanks for your interest guys.
Good result! ....and time well spent tidying up too....
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Glad you found it Andy. But with a tidy bench, you could now have problems ....
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Ah the waste basket (garbage can), many's the time I've turned that out looking for lost bits.
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Crimea_River
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Work bench is messy again - didn't take long!
As soon as I found the AWOL part, I glued it in place so it wouldn't bust out again. Here are two pics of the right fuselage half with a bunch of detail work done. The part I had lost is the one with the two oxygen gauges on it and the yellow wires coming out (my add) just in front of the breaker panel. Above the Oxygen panel is the blue regulator (kit-supplied) to which I added a home made hose made of solder wrapped in a strand of speaker wire. Close to where the hose ends you can see a flare pistol which I fashioned out of plastic card.
The breaker panel came with the kit and I simply painted the labels white and scratched some inscriptions in. There will need to be another electrical panel added behind and above the breaker panel a more yellow spaghetti puking out the back end but I'll need to figure out a sequence of how to do this since much of it wraps around the bulkhead behind the pilot which needs to be installed on the fuselage.
I also spent a bit more time on the wings today. The areas exposed by the flaps had to be attended to since the gaps between the upper and lower wing halves were visible. With reference to photos, I made some ribs with lightening holes which looked much better:
The area where the wing and fuselage meet had the upper wing plastic thinned to more realistically resemble the thin sheet metal at this point, and there's another gap that needs to be dealt with:
Here, I added a scrap of thick card that will be sanded smooth and trimmed to match the profile of the wing sheet metal.
That's it for today, and another weekend has gone by far too quickly. Thanks for checking in.
As soon as I found the AWOL part, I glued it in place so it wouldn't bust out again. Here are two pics of the right fuselage half with a bunch of detail work done. The part I had lost is the one with the two oxygen gauges on it and the yellow wires coming out (my add) just in front of the breaker panel. Above the Oxygen panel is the blue regulator (kit-supplied) to which I added a home made hose made of solder wrapped in a strand of speaker wire. Close to where the hose ends you can see a flare pistol which I fashioned out of plastic card.
The breaker panel came with the kit and I simply painted the labels white and scratched some inscriptions in. There will need to be another electrical panel added behind and above the breaker panel a more yellow spaghetti puking out the back end but I'll need to figure out a sequence of how to do this since much of it wraps around the bulkhead behind the pilot which needs to be installed on the fuselage.
I also spent a bit more time on the wings today. The areas exposed by the flaps had to be attended to since the gaps between the upper and lower wing halves were visible. With reference to photos, I made some ribs with lightening holes which looked much better:
The area where the wing and fuselage meet had the upper wing plastic thinned to more realistically resemble the thin sheet metal at this point, and there's another gap that needs to be dealt with:
Here, I added a scrap of thick card that will be sanded smooth and trimmed to match the profile of the wing sheet metal.
That's it for today, and another weekend has gone by far too quickly. Thanks for checking in.
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vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Bloody Hell! That's fricken beautiful!!
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Crimea_River
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Thanks David.
dneid
Staff Sergeant
Damn, Andy....... (bowing and muttering "I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy"). GREAT work, mate.
Dale
Dale
that does looks very good Andy
good work Andy!
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Crimea_River
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Appreciate the comments guys.
ccheese
Member In Perpetuity
Airframes
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Nicely done Andy - going to be a comp winner methinks.
Looks great so far Andy!
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Crimea_River
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Thanks guys. Plenty of time to screw up yet Terry! First show of the two I usually enter is in June.
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Some nice detail Andy, it's come out looking great.
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Crimea_River
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Cheers Vic.
Still trying to figure out if this rig would have been 70/71/65 or 81/82/76. If anyone in the know has an opinion, would love to hear it. WNr is 140147 so will try to get production date if possible and see if this was an early or late build.
Still trying to figure out if this rig would have been 70/71/65 or 81/82/76. If anyone in the know has an opinion, would love to hear it. WNr is 140147 so will try to get production date if possible and see if this was an early or late build.
My 2 cents...this ones 81/82, there are clearly 2 distinct light and dark contrasting shades of green if it was 70/71 they would be much closer in tone and less obvious.
meatloaf109
1st Lieutenant
81/82 is more likely at that stage.
