Doras Galoras - Unofficial GB

[Crimea_River]

Lacquer thinner will work for the spraying but don't add it to the bottle. Sounds like you suffered from MM's sh!tty bottle caps. Might as well seal the bottle with a piece of gauze for all the good they do.

 

[Zaggy]

@Crimea - I do have some MM Lacquer thinner (which I have always used when shooting MM enamels), just wasnt sure if this would work with the primer; couldn't find anywhere on the net that confirmed or denied that this worked. As for the Thinner 'vanishing', yeah I suspect thats what happened - it is pretty volatile and has been sitting in the shed, which can experience big temperature variantions... Either way, will have more thinner tomorrow

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[Wayne Little]

Fw190D-9 Black 10 Update!

Well I squeezed in a bit of time to do something....the rear fuselage panel line was done which you will note is actually offset, added the cockpit etch rear upper decking and fitted the cockpit assembly in place, hopefully I will get this bird moving a little faster...

 

[A4K]

Good stuff Wayne!

Mine are all packed down for storage, will probably be a year atleast before I see them again.

 

[Wayne Little]

Cheers Evan....

let's hope you get back to them sooner rather than later....

 

[A4K]

Cheers Wayne!

 

[Zaggy]

Jesus Wayne - there are times that I totally hate your level of skill, Hahaha! How on gods-green-earth did you rescribe such a PERFECT looking panel line down the spine? Normally I'll rescribe something, tell myself I am FINALLY getting better at this, then take a Macro-photo it and it'll look like a blind-man with a chain-saw took to it!

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[Gnomey]

Looks good so far Wayne!

 

[Crimea_River]

Totally with Dan. That's the best scribed panel line I've ever seen.

 

[Zaggy]

Its just gut wrenching at times!

 

[Wayne Little]

I'll put a kink in it next time....

Thanks guys, i try to get it right first time, sometimes I stuff 'em up too...

 

[Zaggy]

I'll beleive it when I see it!

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[ratpit]

Progress seems slow, but I keep telling myself, a little at a time and it is moving forward!!
Having got the fuselage halves together I was keen to see how the HGW rivets went down. They recommend using Mr surfacer 1000 as a primer, which I managed to get hold of. However, this stuff dries before it even leaves the bottle!! Even with a good thinning with cellulose (laquer) thinner!! But eventually managed to get a thin covering on the fuselage. Next came the rivets, and a lot of inexperience!!! The Mr surfacer repels Microset (Mr Mark decal softener not available in the UK). HGW reckon you can rivet the whole model in three hours - LMFAO!!!!!! It wasn't until I'd finished the fuselage that I realised that I was doing it wrong!!!!!

Then the wings. I decided to spray them with Halfords grey primer. The Microset didn't shrink away and I thought I was on to a winner, until it was time to lift off the clear carrier film and most of the rivets came up with it!! AARRGGH!!! But not perturbed, I gave it a second go and really pressed the decal down on to the surface and let it dry. After a couple of hours I was pleased to see that the rivets had transferred on to the wing surfaces. There are a few gaps but you do get some free lines to patch these up. However, I may leave them as I think it adds to the over all weathering.

I've just added the rivet details to the flaps and front of the wings and added the access hatches to the underwings. So hopefully tomorrow I can look at attaching the wings and moving forward.

Adam

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Wait what??? HGW Rivets?? First I heard of those but boy they look nice!

Adam, you're making good progress - one of the few!!!!

 

[A4K]

Great work mate, and agree about the Mr. Surfacer. Wasn't impressed with it at all.

 

[Wayne Little]

Now that's something new to me too....looks pretty good.

 

[Zaggy]

I have the HGW Fw 190 Rivets and Control Surface Set, I primarily bought the Control Surfaces to use as Masters for Etching the control surface Frames (I want to do a blown D-9 at some stage) - and the Rivets because I was curious... Haven't been game to try them after a number of people reporting everything from AWESOME results to 'WTF?!?!'

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[ratpit]

wow - I'm surprised that the Guru's havent heard of these products. They're not entirely new. HGW produce full sets for the 109F; 109G; Fw190A; Fw190D; and the P-47. I know these are available in 1/48th but I'm sure I've seen them in 1/32 too. 1/48 sets cost about £15 GBP, not sure about the 1/32. They also do sets of free lines too, but the sets also include plenty of free lines. I got mine off eBay but you can order from HGW direct.
Thanks for comments
Adam

 

[Zaggy]

Yeah, the HGW sets are getting harder to find too, from what I am seeing... Im keen to see what you end up with too, BTW... I notice you have the silver ones too (they come in Black and Silver, I think?); they seem like they'd be good; just give the colour a light sand with 1200-2000grit, to let just a HINT of the silver colour show through... Not that I have tried it; mine are the Black ones...

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