What's on The Workbench

[36feet10inches]

Cheers guys...
Evan, I appreciate the offer, but don't trouble yourself, really. I'm just going to slap the one piece canopy on and get he ****er finished. Believe me, the interior's no great shakes anyway. You're familiar with the Ventura kits, right? (Actually the cockpit assembly was cannibalised from another kit as was pretty much everything apart from the fuselag, wings and radiators.)
Also working on a Blackburn Firebrand from Valom. First foray into the world of Czech limited run kits... interesting. That there resin is brittle, innit?

 

[A4K]

Yep, those ventura cockpits...got the PR.XIX just about sanded rght down to scale thickness ready for some modified Mk.21 PE Jon sent me...

Working on an ICM Heinkel He 51B-2 for Ivett aswell.

 

[Trebor]

heh, I never posted my progress on the F-15. it looks a lot like this:

except it now has sanded off putty. lol
I'm quite proud of myself on the cockpit. I had a few ref photos which helped me out a lot. Thanks God for Airliners.net!

 

[Wurger]

Nicely done Rob.

 

[kgambit]

Good job Rob. Is that a revell 1:48 F-15?

 

[Trebor]

thanks, Wojtek!

and yes, Gambit. it certainly is a 1:48. I'd imagined it be a bit bigger, tho

 

[Wayne Little]

Some nice progress there Rob!

 

[36feet10inches]

Saefire starting to look reasonably pretty...

 

[Trebor]

Thanks, Wayne!

seafire's lookin great, conker!

 

[36feet10inches]

Cheers!
I was wondering if the Extra Dark Sea Grey was looking a little bit too... Extra Dark. Using Humbrol shade 123, which is supposed to be their EDSG.

 

[Wurger]

That's way you should have added some white to the paint to make it lighter for 1/72 scale. Anyway, looking quite good.

 

[Wayne Little]

does look a bit dark? but not bad at all.

 

[Trebor]

slapped on some gray primer last night. gonna fix xome mistakes in a couple places, then apply the gunship gray.

 

[dirkpitt289]

AAUGH!! I screwed the pooch today boys. Now I'm no modeling expert but when it comes to the airbrush I'm very conservative. Many light passes to avoid blotching and dripping. Well today that went out the window and everything went horribly wrong.

After two years with my air brush I've been fortunate to have never had a run. Today after applying the first coat of Medium Sea Gray to my El-Cheap-O Airfix Mossie it looks like the New York City marathon. Runners everywhere. AAUGH!

I know exactly what I did wrong. It started with a nice sunny day close to 60. After i got the twins down I thought I would take the Mossie outside to be sprayed. But by the time I got the compressor outside, set everything up. Mixed the paint incorrectly (Polly Scale uses Distilled water not thinner AAUGH!!), cleaned up and remixed the paint the light was fading. To make things worse I primed the Mossie with Tamiya gray surface primer. So it was difficult to see what was primer and what was Medium Sea Gray. AAUGH!

Well I guess its back to the sanding phase for this puppy. Well till this mess is ready to be handled again its time to get back the to Typhoon for the Group Build. I have some great ideas planned for the one.

Till next time. Have a great weekend gents.

 

[Airframes]

It's a sod spraying the same colour onto the same colour, especially a light grey tone. Hope you get it sorted.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Cripes, I feel for you on that one. Best of luck correcting it.

 

[Wurger]

Holy crap. But sh!t happens...

 

[Wayne Little]

Holy crap. But sh!t happens...

It most certainly does....especially when you are on a roll!

 

[Airframes]

Is that a toilet roll??!!

 

[Wurger]

It most certainly does....especially when you are on a roll!

Yep...