Great work Andrew on the alterations to the cockpit
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So further thoughts on posing the plane I wanted something dynamic so taking one of the large Airfix 1:24 scale stands, I did a dry fit to work out the angle that I could achieve and cut a hole in the side under one of the wings... this give a nice pose...
To support it, I added a plastic strip inside the body that the stand can latch onto and built up one side of the top of the stand to support the angled fuselage
This was also the time to work out the balance of the model and add ballast if required. It looks like its pretty evenly balanced and there is still stuff to go into the nose and cockpit so I'm pretty happy with that pose.
The nose with resin cockpit inside is now assembled. I printed some tiny decals on the colour laser at work today for the screens which are barely visible with their dark colours but at least I will know they are there if nobody else does lol! Did some drybrushing inside the cockpit which brought out all the wonderful details in the resin and I'm really very pleased with how it looks. I've left the seat out of the cockpit for now - I'm waiting for the pilot figure to arrive from PJ Productions but god know when it will arrive - hopefully before the end of next week so I can sort it out over the weekend! If the pilot doesn't arrive - it will have a ghost pilot so I'll paint up the seat and seatbelts properly, but if the pilot arrives I'll have to sand all that lovely detail off
I'm pleased that things are progressing at a decent speed since the clock is ticking!Comment
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Very nice build!
One of my clients own a 2 and sngle seater Hunter and I must say that the single seater's cockpit has a strange "view" to it. WHen I sit in it the canopy frame is very colse to my head ,ot like one might expect it to be with vast acres of clear glass LOL!
That will be a very interesting paint sceeme, good luck !
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I am totally enjoying this build,and the way you have adjusted the office is really great,hoping to be able to scratch stuff this good one day,thnx for the show
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I'm joining in with this one, missed it when you first posted it but I really want to see how this turns out.
Looking good so far, hope your flyboy turns up soon!Comment
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DO you need detail pix of anythig? I'mm working on the Swiss T68 Hunter this week and can take a few.
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Building proceeds apace!
Went together reasonably well. Some filler needed on the engine as you can see, some on the joint between for fuselage and rear. The wings neede some careful fitting as they had to fit over the engine intakes and into slots which took some to get them to align well and some sanding to thin the edges of the wings to fit in the slots. Once fitted, there were a few gaps which were filled with Mr Dissolved Putty.
having a bit of a problem with the gun pack. The model OOB has very pathetic trenches for the guns, so these have had to be opened up a bit as MD has some very visible "guns" as you can see here:
I went into Reading Modelzone yesterday to get some narrow plastic tube for the guns, but they didn't have the 2mm tube I believed I needed so I got he closes which was 2.4 mm but thats too large. I think I'm going to have to go down to the 1.6mm rod and drill a hole in the end. Will just have to make sure I don't spend another £50 in there like yesterday... that Academy sale just puts too much temptation in front of me!
Anyway, the canopy is masked up and the inside has been painted with Nato Black. In addition, notice the "blob" just in front of the cockpit... that is the Garmin aerial which I've built up using a very small plastic card plate to get the right shape (or as close as I could get) and a blob of Mr Dissolved Putty on top to form the curved edges. That stuff is so bloody versatile, I wonder how I ever got by without it before!!
I'm really pleased with this progress, at this rate I'll be ready to start painting tomorrow and that gives me a whole week to make a total mess of the paint scheme lol!Comment
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I've been thinking about how I'm going to paint this and first things first, need to be able to rotate it smoothly, so I got the turntable and did this:
Its supported on its tail by foam and masking tape and will rotate nicely. With a bit of tape holding the base to the table its quite stable. Next it to start with the masking, following the instructions from Robin Carpenter from Cammett with Tamiay masking tape, a plastic bag from sinsburys and some normal masking tape.
I've moved the compressor etc into the spare room as it has good sunlight in the late afternoon and better ventilation that this room, so here goes...Comment
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This is going to look amazing andrew , cant wait to see the paint start going on! 5 stars already for having the cojones to tackle this scheme in the first place !!!! cheers tonyComment
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Thanks Tony - just takign a breather from the painting so here is the first stage... white plus two shades of yellow so far, 100% yellow and 10/50 white yellow. Thought I'd messed it up when I accidentally brushed against het yellow while turning it and wiped some off - agghh! It seems to have recovered now...
Orange mix next...Comment
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if you can continue the gradient as good as that for the rest i think you'll have cracked it Andrew.
Not the easiest paintjob to reproduce eh ?
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looking good so far.Comment
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Brilliant start andrew , this is going to look wicked! cheers tonyComment
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Orange...
Had to stop part way through and do a strip-down clean of the airbrush as I was getting spluttering and blobs. Once it was fully cleaned all went well.
Red next...Comment
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NOW it's starting to look amazing! Keep going.......
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