Hasegawa F6F-3 as voted for by you!

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Dunno what to do about that decal

Have I missed something? What happened to what decal????

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one of the oval prop manufacturers decals came off wheni masked for the chrome spinner (even under a coat of Klear) ... it's absence is present (or vice versa - its prescence is absent) in the last photo...

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Ahhh, see what you mean, although I didn't... if you catch my drift. Could you not do a bit of red and yellow paint to represent it? Or maybe it has writing on, I cannot tell from the pic.

EDIT Or, I have 4 of these and only need 3 so I could send you one if they look similar, they are a tad more yellow than they look in the pic but not as strong as yours look.





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The writing is miniscule - unreadable to me naked eyes... good plan about the paint, maybe under a layer of weathering I'd be able to pass it as a decal... I'll give it a go and see where I land,...

Finished masking the canopy. Gunsight and armour glass is fixed in position and glue is drying. Tomorrow after work, canopy will be glued and primer coat on hopefully.

Stuart

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That'd be great Graham - even if it's slightly different it's better than having no decal on one blade! Thanks a million :no1b:

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No probs, can you PM your address and I will get it sent up for you.

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PM inbound! Cheers Graham - true Gent!!

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No probs mate, will be in tomorrows post.

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Right, so the result of an evening's worth of swearing, wrestling, re-masking, gluing and trying not to break anything, is now something that resembles an F6 - canopy and tailplanes are on, tailplanes are drying now, so primer and - depending on the PSR requirements - maybe first coat of white underside due for this evening! Pics to follow

Stuart

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Ok then.... 1st primer coat and some filler. As you can see, there is no need for much - well done Hasegawa!

The main concentrations are the upper nose joint, lower rear fuselage joint and the wing leading edges. I think I may only need one round of PSR (famous last words!!)

Photos

Comments welcome

Stuart

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Decal has been posted today Stuart. Looking good mate. Detail on the Hasagawa look as good as the Eduard, this is going to be good. Have to say though, I don't envy you the three colour scheme. Blending the white into the light blue and then into the dark. Is it soft edged or hard? Looks fairly soft from the pictures I have seen. Err, what is PSR?

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Excellent cheers - so prop aint far away now It is soft....which is slightly annoying. I'm thinking white 1st, then for the blues, lots of thinner and not a lot of pressure around the edges, I have a dual action airbrush so hope that'll ease the pain slightly.

PSR = our old friend Putty Sand Repeat!

Right - I'm off to rub it down and get another blast of primer on it!!

Stuart

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Ok, so I hate painting things white >

I put a light coat on the underside just to get started and I've now got the wingroots filled and the pre-shading done on the sides and underneath

...And thanks to the generosity of a most kind Graham, I now have 3 decals on my 3 prop blades, the way it should be ( I lost one to the masking tape monster y'see)

Stuart

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Glad it got there safe Stuart, looks OK to me :-)

Builds coming on nicely. I have done nothing over the Bank Holiday weekend due to other commitments. Also been out to Woburn Safari Park today, great day out but nothing model worthy lol.

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I've not done a lot either tbh - too busy working, doin bank hol things with t'other 'alf, and trying to get a build for my bro close to finishing (KC-135 1/72 in 2 tone Grey scheme - masking nightmare), but I think another 1 coat of white on the 'Cat and that's the 1st of the 3 tone finished

Stuart