**** DONE: GB-51 1:48 Lockheed S-3B Viking - No Propellers

[Donivanp]

Good deals

 

[Crimea_River]

Bit of scrubbing in your future looks like.

 

[fubar57]

I'm happy I have some kinda future after the scan results. Soooooo....a lot of scrubbing and re-scribing later, I takes a break and tackle the engine cowl assembly. That's one of the issues with this kit. There are whacking great seams running from the front of the cowling to the front fans. The fans have to be installed before the cowling halves are joined together making seam clean-up extremely difficult. Steel Beach Accessories makes an FOD set for about $8.00US and 3 Brazzillion $ shipping. I thought I would try and make my own out of tissue

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Not too shabby. Some clean-up needed and straps to add. These things go from pretty elaborate, with squadron emblems and such to plain jane with squadron colours. Guess which road I'm taking

 

[Donivanp]

I like!

 

[Crimea_River]

Me too! And good to hear about he scans.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wayne Little]

With Andy, good stuff all round....

 

[Gnomey]

Nicely done so far George!

 

[fubar57]

Still working on some seams, nothing major. Painted the exhaust area using Vallejo Metallic Magnesium. Nothing can be seen once they are mounted to the wings so not to fussy about the ejector marks or seams. Home-made FOD painted up

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I'll still need to add parts 3A and 2A to the cowling halves to add rigidity and as a mount for the rear engine assembly

 

[Wurger]

 

[Airframes]

Looking good, and great news on the scan.

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far George!

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[fubar57]

Thanks all. Wings is on

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This is now too big for my booth and is also too big for a full sheet of 2' x 3' poster board. I had to use the Clone Tool in Paint.net to remove the clutter on the right side. You can see where I gave up by the wing-tip. I'll glue the tail appendages on after the Jays game

 

[Donivanp]

Looking the biz

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

So the gluing started after the 5th inning?

 

[fubar57]

So the gluing started after the 5th inning?

Yep. Thank God the Canucks are warming up to disappoint me for the rest of the year

 

[rochie]

nice work Geo

 

[fubar57]

Thanks Karl. Just need to work on some seams and glue on some lil bits and I can start painting. The fit of the fan cowlings to the pylons will require some filling. I'm going to take another stab at my Milliput and belabour it into place. GO JAYS!!!!!