**** DONE: 1/48 F-80c "Lio-do-bee "- Your Favorite Aircraft of All Time GB

[meatloaf109]

Good thinking, I'll try it next time.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Tell me I'm not the only one that still "plays" with them.
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Just don't try to see if it can fly!

 

[Airframes]

Looking good. The lead shot can be fixed in place with 'Plasticine' or 'Blue Tac'.

 

[Catch22]

Looks great!

 

[meatloaf109]

I decided to try a new thing and use aluminium foil on the P-35, so where better to test than on a P-80?
Middle panel front starboard wing, center top of fuselage, and middle panel port wing.

 

[brucejscott]

Looks pretty good to me Paul.

 

[Wayne Little]

Nice touch on the foil!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Looks good, was it easy to do?

 

[meatloaf109]

Looks good, was it easy to do?

Yep, it's pretty much press a piece on, then cut out the lines. I have three scissors that I use, a normal one, a small straight one, and a small curved one. The foil has grain, and with the "flat side"/"shiny" side thing you can get four different effects. Then with a layer of thinned "Testors clear parts cement and window maker", (which is really just white glue thinned already) on the spot, place the panel on and work into place with fingers, shaped wooden dowel, Q-tip,...or whatever. You want an even coverage of the glue, naturally, and its better (and easy) to clean off excess glue than to have a piece with any air pockets. Aluminium foil is subject to the usual laws of physics, so it will do the "heat expand/cold contract" thing, making it ugly if there is anyway for it to move, so too it can be shaped into complex curves as found on the tip tanks, by "hammering" it out. I have a piece of "Sili-stone" counter top, glass flat but unscratchable, for the 'anvil' and two different hobby-knife handles (one flat, one rounded) for the "hammer".
That's pretty much everything I have found out about this process. I am extremely pleased with the results and I plan on just alternating the grain, "shiny" side only, on the P-35.

 

[ccheese]

That trick with the foil is a new one on me ! Good job !

Charles

 

[meatloaf109]

A little under 50% of the decals on, Micro-sol is a must!

 

[woody]

nice work Paul.

 

[Airframes]

Some nice foil work there Paul, it's looking great.

 

[Gnomey]

Coming along nicely!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Thanks for the foil heads up Paul, still sounds a bit complicated to me but maybe one day…………sure looks good……………….and a good camo against the bench top!!!!!!!!!!

 

[brucejscott]

Looks very nice Paul.

 

[meatloaf109]

Thanks for the foil heads up Paul, still sounds a bit complicated to me but maybe one day…………sure looks good……………….and a good camo against the bench top!!!!!!!!!!

Believe it or not, that is the very desk that i built my very first model at! (It was a Monogram F4B in 1/72nd scale.)
I have managed to keep it all these years, dragging it back and forth across the country.

 

[Crimea_River]

That's looking really sharp!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Nice job Paul! That looks sharp sir.

 

[Wayne Little]

Very nice....looks like my bench.