Good work so far Andy!
GB-67 1/48 Mosquito P.R. Mk. XVI - Twin Engine in WWII (2 Viewers)
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Crimea_River
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Thanks gentlemen. Busy weekend with no work done on this project.
Appreciate the offer Terry and I may take you up on that if I don't come up with something myself. I did take look at a water bottle I had laying around and may give it a try for the side panels.
Sorry gents but there's no way this model will be done before the GB deadline but I will continue with this thread as I muddle on.
Appreciate the offer Terry and I may take you up on that if I don't come up with something myself. I did take look at a water bottle I had laying around and may give it a try for the side panels.
Sorry gents but there's no way this model will be done before the GB deadline but I will continue with this thread as I muddle on.
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OK Andy, just give me a shout if you need it. Might be better to let the Xmas post rush end before sending it.
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Crimea_River
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Canada Post never rushes.....
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Bit like Royal Mail then !
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Crimea_River
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Yup!
Small progress to show. The bomb bay doors were always planned by me to be closed for this build and I used, for the first time, the fully closed cast doors which, as it turned out, were not a great fit. There was some mismatch, either in the doors or in the fuselage or both that wouldn't be fixed through careful alignment so I did my best and had to resort to putty and sprue to fix the seams. The entry hatch got the sprue treatment and all of this will need to be sanded down, smoothed and rescribed.
This remains my least favourite aspect of modelling but it's necessary for coming up with a clean build. It's also the reason I'll not finish on time.
Thanks for continuing to follow along and for the comments. I'm looking forward to getting some paint on this bird and getting it done.
Small progress to show. The bomb bay doors were always planned by me to be closed for this build and I used, for the first time, the fully closed cast doors which, as it turned out, were not a great fit. There was some mismatch, either in the doors or in the fuselage or both that wouldn't be fixed through careful alignment so I did my best and had to resort to putty and sprue to fix the seams. The entry hatch got the sprue treatment and all of this will need to be sanded down, smoothed and rescribed.
This remains my least favourite aspect of modelling but it's necessary for coming up with a clean build. It's also the reason I'll not finish on time.
Thanks for continuing to follow along and for the comments. I'm looking forward to getting some paint on this bird and getting it done.
Donivanp
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Looking good Andy. Love this build.
Nicely done so far Andy!
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The canopy is still giving me trouble and is the main cause for me not making the deadline. There are two issues to be dealt with. The first one is the astrodome shown in Terry's Airfix part pic further above. I think I can make my own part for this by making a wooden mould and heat forming some clear plastic over it. The second one is the bulged side panels. Though I said I would live with the dorky ones that Tamiya provided, I decided to try to enhance the too-small bulges by applying layers of Testors Clear Parts Cement around the bulge. At first I tried to make my own using the separate flat panels and here's how that process looked as the glue, which is basically PVA, was applied and still wet:
It looks great at first but the big problem with this is that, although the glue dries crystal clear, it also shrinks significantly. After applying half a dozen layers to the Tamiya bulges panels, here's how they now look:
The wrinkles are quite noticeable and, quite frankly unacceptable. I'm now thinking that I will now also make the side panels from scratch, either by finding by shear fluke a section of a plastic bottle to fit or by heat forming new ones as planned with the astrodome.
None of this will happen soon and will take a certain frame of mind to achieve, something that I don't have right now.
Thanks for looking in.
It looks great at first but the big problem with this is that, although the glue dries crystal clear, it also shrinks significantly. After applying half a dozen layers to the Tamiya bulges panels, here's how they now look:
The wrinkles are quite noticeable and, quite frankly unacceptable. I'm now thinking that I will now also make the side panels from scratch, either by finding by shear fluke a section of a plastic bottle to fit or by heat forming new ones as planned with the astrodome.
None of this will happen soon and will take a certain frame of mind to achieve, something that I don't have right now.
Thanks for looking in.
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Those side panels are almost there, apart from the wrinkles, but bloody good effort.
I hope you can get the dome and panels moulded - it may take a few attempts, but I'm sure you can get it to work.
Of course, you could always do a cheeky cheat - contact Airfix and get the canopy parts. OK, the full canopy doesn't match the Tamiya kit, but the astrodome blister (or complete roof panel) could be cut away and used, and the side panels do fit, with a little adjustment and a bead of clear filler.
I hope you can get the dome and panels moulded - it may take a few attempts, but I'm sure you can get it to work.
Of course, you could always do a cheeky cheat - contact Airfix and get the canopy parts. OK, the full canopy doesn't match the Tamiya kit, but the astrodome blister (or complete roof panel) could be cut away and used, and the side panels do fit, with a little adjustment and a bead of clear filler.
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Thanks Terry. Cheeky, yes and something I'm not going to pursue without having bought the kit. I'll give the heat forming a try if/when I have the mindset to get to it.
Nice work so far Andy!
Hope you get the success your looking for Andy.
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Me too.
Just a small update. Often the most time is spent with little to show except to those with magnifying glasses. However, the underside of the fuselage has been smoothed and a first stab at rescribing the bomb doors was done. Clear parts near the nose have masks applied but before a primer coat goes on I had to address the rear camera part as there was a small step between the clear part and the fuselage plastic. I've since applied a bit of primer and sanded all this down and applied some Future to the clear part - unfortunately it was very brittle and got a small crack when I sawed it off the sprue. The next step will be to apply a circular mask to that clear part and spray on a primer coat to test the area for smoothness. I'll then need to add a small semicircular deflector near the front of the port as seen in the below detail:
I don't know for sure if my bird carried the additional rear cameras but the few reference pics I have don't show the oblique camera so I've elected to just go with the single rear one as supplied with the kit.
Just a small update. Often the most time is spent with little to show except to those with magnifying glasses. However, the underside of the fuselage has been smoothed and a first stab at rescribing the bomb doors was done. Clear parts near the nose have masks applied but before a primer coat goes on I had to address the rear camera part as there was a small step between the clear part and the fuselage plastic. I've since applied a bit of primer and sanded all this down and applied some Future to the clear part - unfortunately it was very brittle and got a small crack when I sawed it off the sprue. The next step will be to apply a circular mask to that clear part and spray on a primer coat to test the area for smoothness. I'll then need to add a small semicircular deflector near the front of the port as seen in the below detail:
I don't know for sure if my bird carried the additional rear cameras but the few reference pics I have don't show the oblique camera so I've elected to just go with the single rear one as supplied with the kit.
Looks good so far Andy!
