What's on The Workbench (5 Viewers)

[Wurger]

Cheers guys!

Unfortunately there are small mistakes of course, but overall she looks the part I think. (Practice, practice, practice...)
Masking the cheatlines was difficult due to all the curves, and most had to be touched up with the paint brush.

I probably won't be rigging her Wojtek, as Ivett wants her 'clean' - no weathering, rigging, radar or armament.

The rigging on the Stringbag was quite complex, but I think a 'simplified' version could be achieved by first checking the dihedral of the struts in relation to attachment points on lower wing (to save nasty surprises later), drilling small holes at the rigging points on lower surface of upper wing, and gluing seperate lengths of rigging in place.
When dry, these could be stretched taut and glued to the lower end of the struts, trimming when dry, and whole upper wing assembly fitted in place.
(Small slots would have to be made at the strut attachment points of lower wing first to allow for the angle of the rigging wires)

If gluing the struts to the lower wing first (as kit instructions suggest), same method could be applied in reverse.

Fueslage to wing rigging I would probably do by drilling holes at fueslage and wing points, threading rigging wire from the inside of the fueslage (loose ends coming out via engine mount hole), gluing in place at wing rigging points when wing in place, and when dry, pulling rigging wires taut from nose, cementing inside the lip, and trimming when dry. With the engine fitted you won't see a thing.

Will try this method shortly on the next practice kit...

OK. I see. THX for the answer.

 

[A4K]

Cheers Wayne!

Any tips or criticisms gratefully received - I need to learn! (Will be reading up your PDF shortly too Wayne)

 

[Airframes]

Looking good Evan.

 

[A4K]

Cheers Terry and Wojtek! (sorry Wojtku, didn't see your post earlier!)

Plan to spray the gloss coat with Model Master Glosscote (1561). How much should I thin it d'yas reckon? 50/50 mix?

 

[Wurger]

It depends on how thick the gloss layer you want to get, I think the 50/50 mix should be good for all airbrushes.

 

[Wayne Little]

depends on the Gloss, and the airbrush....and how you apply it....I've never thinned my gloss i'm just careful in how i apply it. As it is new to you Evan definately try the 50/50even 75/25 as well, won't hurt to try it neat as well...ALL on something other than your model at first to check the results and how it flows...

 

[A4K]

Great, thanks guys!
The laquer is as mentioned, the airbrush an Alder AD-370.
Would a couple of thin solid coats be enough for decaling, and how do you mean by trying it 'neat' Wayne?

 

[Wayne Little]

'neat'.....straight out of the bottle with no thinner...."couple of solid thin coats" yep, long as you have a glossy surface it should do the job.

 

[A4K]

Beauty, cheers mate! Hope to try it out tomorrow, on a spare kit first as you suggested.

 

[javlin]

Evan nice Stringbag what scale?and I have the Pride of Baltimore in the stash.My neighbor down the street does only wood ships and is to be a joint venture.

 

[A4K]

She's 1:72 Kevin, the Revell boxing of the Matchbox kit.
Apparently Airfix have done a new-tool kit now in 1:72, if I ever want to do an 'accurate' Stringbag, that'll be the basis I reckon.

Good luck with the 'Baltimore!

 

[Airframes]

Just seen some advertising pics of the new Airfix Swordfish Evan. Looks very good, and has a folded wing option.

 

[destrozas]

i working now one spitfire ix matchbox 1/72 conversion in spitfire LF IXe of VVS, bf-109e-4 in the north of africa in libia 1941 matchbox 1/72 and vengeance 1/72 of mpm
next jobs I'm considering starting the me110-g4 eduard 1/48 profile-pack or 8 and one additional pe captured Japanese gorse or rather a ki-100 but my wife fell in love with the A-20 of the pto

 

[A4K]

Good stuff Sergio!

Cheers Terry! Like the idea of the folding wings option!

 

[TimEwers]

When my compressor gets here this is what I will try out my airbrush on.

 

[Wayne Little]

When my compressor gets here this is what I will try out my airbrush on.

But it's already painted Tim....

 

[TimEwers]

Well here is what's going to be next after the skyray

 

[TimEwers]

Well I guess I wont be doing these two kits I hate Pay Pal and from now on If I can help it I wont use them.

 

[Wayne Little]

What happened Tim?

 

[Trebor]

hey fellas, I'm not dead. I got upgraded to fulltime so I work 12-8 PM MON-FRI. so I've not been getting much modeling done, recently. but I nailed down some painting last weekend. accidentally got up early this morning, so I decided to tackle how I'm gonna mask this plane. I cut out the masking templates, put them together and stuck them on the fuselage like so. this is just one side that I've done. and I'm going to use a pencil to draw the line on the fuselage so I can mask, sometime this week before putting on the gloss black, and then the polished aluminum

and if you're concerned about that red airbrush on the table...don't be...it died, that's why I didn't clean it. so I got a new one (the blue one next to it) same exact one, just blue