What's on The Workbench

[A4K]

Detailed bomb bay aswell? That's a nice touch. Looking forward to seeing this progress!

 

[badbear]

If this plane was any more detailed it would frickin fly.BB

 

[Wayne Little]

Keep the pics coming!

 

[Airframes]

Yep, keep the pics coming. And you're right about the seat adjuster, I had a look at some slides I took inside the now lost BAe Mossie - which brought back painful memories of skinning my knuckles, banging my head, and getting a stiff neck after twisting to get in and out of the bl**dy thing!!!
Despite my dig at Airfix for the huge pre-launch price increase, I'm serioulsy tempted to sell my best-mates' daughter into slavery and get this kit. The space needed is a major problem though.

 

[Catch22]

I've seen a couple of them bouncing around here, and am tempted! But I do not have the space for something that large.

 

[Airframes]

Now if Revell re-release the old 1/32nd scale Mosquito BIV, that's a more manageable size (just) and would be a nice, relatively straightforward conversion job.

 

[Trebor]

the paint has fully cured now. Hopefully after I get some other things done, today i can actually put on the red. I may need tp pick up some gloss red cos I don't think I have enough. but we'll see.

 

[dirkpitt289]

I tried something new last night. Smart modeling (Yeah right). What I mean by that is that I have so many different projects going on at once I decided to hit all the parts that used the same color at once instead of individually like I usually so. So I mixed up a little flat black and hit the tires on the Blenheim, Typhoon, B-24, 1/144 Tomcat and 1/144 Hornet. I also hit the propellers for the Blenheim and Typhoon.

For some reason I had decided to hand paint the props for the B-24 the night before. looking at the results I regret it it. you live and learn. It never fails broke one of the Blenheim props and one of the B-24 props. Of course that was time lost to repairing them.

Then I took some olive Drab and hit the rockets for the Typhoon and the anti-glare panel for the B-24.


You can tell I'm in a long term relationship because that is how I spent my Friday evening.

 

[Maglar]

Nice work Dirk. I too came to that conclusion with the black paint aspect. I just bought a black spray can from walmart and spray all the tires, props, and guns at the same time. Easy easy, no more hand painting on the bigger things.

 

[T Bolt]

Some times I would be working on 2 or 3 planes at the same time intentionally picking aircraft with similar paint schemes so I wouldn't have to change the color in my airbrush so often.

 

[Trebor]

great progress on those birds!

well, I just started masking the 737's engines with this brand new tape i bought called Frog Tape. I hope it reaacts well too the oil based enamel i have

 

[36feet10inches]

I tried the three-kits-at-a-time approach... bit nothing ever seemd to get finished. Now I'm just going to crank through ine at a a time. There's always something to be done.

 

[A4K]

Know the feeling Tony...even one at a time gets cut off by other things...

 

[Trebor]

I've completed masking the aircraft. this'll be fun once I get some red on it probably today.

 

[Trebor]

Frog Tape has gotta be one of the best investments I've ever made. I pulled the tape off, and had NO bleeding whatsoever! I highly recommend it to all of you!

 

[badbear]

well here,s a bit more of the mossie its taken me a week to get to this stage so far notice the decals on the flare cartridges ouch fiddly or what but they look the mutts nuts.BB

 

[Heinz]

Looks fantastic BB!

 

[A4K]

With Alex! Love the details in those (flare cartridges?)

 

[Lucky13]

I second that!

 

[badbear]

Thanks guys this is certainly proving to be an absorbing kit and i,m loving it more pics soon.BB