fubar57
General
Nice mods
GB-63 1/72 Hawker Hurricane Mk I - Stormy Weather.
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Good work so far!
looks good...!
Crimea_River
Marshal
Dec 8 end date Graham. High gear man.
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Bustedwing
Tech Sergeant
Dicey, I may not get it done in time. Not too worried about it. At least I got my Lightning done in time.
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Bustedwing
Tech Sergeant
Hurricaneing along. Ok boo bad joke, I cut some slots in the lower wing for the shell chutes and I also drilled out the machine gun holes in the wing. I figure it will look a lot better than a red decal with four black spots on it. Bottom is painted. Let to do. Make a vacu-form canopy. I sanded down the kit canopy as thin as I could and will use that as a plug, The remains the upper camouflage, decals, matte coat, weathering and radio wires.
fubar57
General
Nice 
Crimea_River
Marshal
Good stuff Greaham.
Looks good so far!
Lookin' good.
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Bustedwing
Tech Sergeant
Canopy vacu-forming work. 1st go at it. Not too bad but I'm not happy with how I masked it so I'm going for a 2nd attempt. I'm hoping to get it completed by the due date. An extension won't help as I am being benched for most of the following week. See how it goes.
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Hope your second attempt works for you. 
Crimea_River
Marshal
Would love to see your Vac Forming rig some day Graham.
fubar57
General
Me as well. I need a new clear part so I can finish my Helldiver
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
That's pretty cool. Vacuforming your own pieces.
Nicely done so far!
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Bustedwing
Tech Sergeant
My set up is kind of stupid simple. I used a flashlight casing. Where the lens goes I replace with some expanded steel mesh. Then I cut a hole in the side for a nozzle for a shop vac and glued it in with hot glue. The piece of wood is screwed to the bottom and gets clamped in a vice to hold it.Then out of wood and a paint stir stick I mad a holder for the plastic. Cut a square piece and screw it down between the two circular pieces. It's just a simple matter of heating up the plastic until it starts to sag and then plop it down over the plug with the shop vac hooked up to it. I used to use an old toaster oven to heat the plastic but I've since found my hot air gun works a lot better. And yes, I know, my bench looks like it's from the "Oscar Madison" collection. It is !
