GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
making some great progress!
**** DONE: 1/48 Spitfire Mk XII - OOB (Out of Box) unofficial GB-2015.
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Looks the biz Andy!
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Crimea_River
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Thanks guys. Might get a few decals on at lunch today.
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Crimea_River
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Lunch and after supper. Got lots of decals on today but not all. Full stenciling is being applied and here's how she looked when I shut it down tonight (the prop is only temporarily pressed in place).
The Airfix decals performed beautifully, thick enough to allow for plenty of manipulation but thin enough to settle into the panel lines with setting solution.
The large roundels needed a bit of coaxing to settle into the panel lines, these being quite deep on this kit. After this photo was taken, I ended up scoring the decal with a scalpel in the panel line and reapplying the setting solution, which worked fine. The real reason I took this picture was to give a heads up to anyone building this kit. The wing walk line decals are printed at fixed lengths, and quite accurately, to stop at the edges of the roundels. That means that if you place the roundels first without considering the length of the walk line decals, you're almost guaranteed to get it wrong. For this reason, I started with the outer wing walk decal and then placed the roundel at its edge.
Here's an overall shot of the model as it now looks....
....and a close-up of the prop and spinner. The scratch on the upper cowl was the result of a mishap with a file and will need to be repaired.
Thanks for looking in.
The Airfix decals performed beautifully, thick enough to allow for plenty of manipulation but thin enough to settle into the panel lines with setting solution.
The large roundels needed a bit of coaxing to settle into the panel lines, these being quite deep on this kit. After this photo was taken, I ended up scoring the decal with a scalpel in the panel line and reapplying the setting solution, which worked fine. The real reason I took this picture was to give a heads up to anyone building this kit. The wing walk line decals are printed at fixed lengths, and quite accurately, to stop at the edges of the roundels. That means that if you place the roundels first without considering the length of the walk line decals, you're almost guaranteed to get it wrong. For this reason, I started with the outer wing walk decal and then placed the roundel at its edge.
Here's an overall shot of the model as it now looks....
....and a close-up of the prop and spinner. The scratch on the upper cowl was the result of a mishap with a file and will need to be repaired.
Thanks for looking in.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
It's coming along really nice (file mishap excluded) and that stenciling looks excellent!
Sweet Andy...!
T Bolt
Colonel
Looks beautiful with all the stenciling on.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Heck, that looks nice - got to get me one of these!
And thanks for the pre-warning re the walk lines.
And thanks for the pre-warning re the walk lines.
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Crimea_River
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Thanks guys. Decals now complete and another gloss coat applied. Pics tomorrow hopefully.
look forward to 'em...
Great work so far Andy!
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Crimea_River
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Here's some more.
This evening started with removing the model from my drying stand, polishing a few spots, including the repaired scratch, applying a panel wash around the engine, adding an acrylic matte coat, and finally standing it up on it's legs fro the first time. Here are the pics.
Removal of the canopy masks has revealed that some dust has gone and plastered itself against the inside of the glazing so I think I will need to break the sliding section out and fix that. Other than that, I'm pretty happy with how this has turned out. On to the fiddley bits!
This evening started with removing the model from my drying stand, polishing a few spots, including the repaired scratch, applying a panel wash around the engine, adding an acrylic matte coat, and finally standing it up on it's legs fro the first time. Here are the pics.
Removal of the canopy masks has revealed that some dust has gone and plastered itself against the inside of the glazing so I think I will need to break the sliding section out and fix that. Other than that, I'm pretty happy with how this has turned out. On to the fiddley bits!
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Looks the bog's dollocks !
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Crimea_River
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Thanks guys.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Forgot to mention - that dust inside the canopy is a b*gg*r. When I removed the masking tape from the Danish F-104, the inside of the canopy had a slight cloudy, misty look !
At first I thought that some matt clear coat had found it's way inside, as a 'mist', which it could only have done via a tiny locating hole in the nose wheel bay. But it seems to be slowly clearing, thankfully, as there's no way I could remove the canopy, having blended-in all but the bottom of the opening section, on a one-piece canopy!
I can only presume it was maybe condensation or something, but there is a tiny, tiny white 'spot' inside, which has appeared from who know where, and is bl**dy irritating!
Hope you can get the opening section off, and cleaned, without damage to the surrounding areas Andy.
At first I thought that some matt clear coat had found it's way inside, as a 'mist', which it could only have done via a tiny locating hole in the nose wheel bay. But it seems to be slowly clearing, thankfully, as there's no way I could remove the canopy, having blended-in all but the bottom of the opening section, on a one-piece canopy!
I can only presume it was maybe condensation or something, but there is a tiny, tiny white 'spot' inside, which has appeared from who know where, and is bl**dy irritating!
Hope you can get the opening section off, and cleaned, without damage to the surrounding areas Andy.
Looks great so far Andy!
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Crimea_River
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Thanks Hugh.
Well Terry, I did have to attend to the issue as it was just not acceptable the way it was. The dust was not a misting from the airbrush but actual particles that came from God knows where. Anyway, here's how it looked:
The nice thing about Testors Clear Parts Cement is that it doesn't bond too tightly and it was a relatively simple matter to pop the center section of the canopy off. Fortunately, it didn't pull the other sections with it an it was then a simple matter of brushing the particles out and re-cementing the canopy back on. The below pics show the finished product with the mirror and antenna installed as well.
This one's just about done and I'm sure I'll be able to post the finished pics this weekend. Thanks for checking it out.
Well Terry, I did have to attend to the issue as it was just not acceptable the way it was. The dust was not a misting from the airbrush but actual particles that came from God knows where. Anyway, here's how it looked:
The nice thing about Testors Clear Parts Cement is that it doesn't bond too tightly and it was a relatively simple matter to pop the center section of the canopy off. Fortunately, it didn't pull the other sections with it an it was then a simple matter of brushing the particles out and re-cementing the canopy back on. The below pics show the finished product with the mirror and antenna installed as well.
This one's just about done and I'm sure I'll be able to post the finished pics this weekend. Thanks for checking it out.
