E.E. Lightning F6 - 1/48 Airfix

[Guest]

Hi All, some photos of the Flight Path white metal wheels and PE Hubs, before and after assembly.

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Also a last couple of shots of the cockpit before I close it up.

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More problems with the Flight Path PE, they supply a very nice air intake trim, unfortunately whoever developed the unrolled plate shape got it wrong, it does not fit. - back to the drawing board.

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Cheers Derek

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[Ian M]

You are really fighting this one Derek. I don't know If I'm upto the challenge I have set myself in the SIG build. Still A week or two on the Tonka and I will still have 5 and a half months to sort the lightning out.

That collar around the intake, is it the right way round. If it is, some one messed up when they designed it!!!

Chin up, looks like you are in sight of the fun part: Paint!!

Ian M

[Guest]

Hi Ian, the collar is the right way round, I just hung it loosely on the nose to show how nice it could have been. As I have nothing to loose, I am thinking if making some cuts adjacent to the longitudinal rivet lines and cutting a fine wedge out of the solid other half of the cut to try to reduce the radius of the developed plate, this would need to be done in several locations. My only fear is the force needed might irreparably deform the PE. Will let you know how I get on. Yes I am really looking forward to the NMF painting NOT, my plan at the moment is an undercoat of my usual Tamiya Gray Fine Surface Primer, and I am the thinking of pre-shading the panel lines and some of the panels which are different shades of aluminium. Then I plan to paint it with Tamiya Titanium Silver X-32, them after possibly a gloss coat try the Rub-n-Buff Silver Leaf - as you say FUN FUN. Cheers Derek

p.s. How's the Tornado coming along, there is a lot of work in that kit

[Guest]

Derek thats looking great ,nice detail on the wheels and the office is superb!

[Guest]

Hi Trey, thanks for your kind comments, my experiment with the PE mentioned above was not a success, so I have ordered up an Hasegawa Rivet Maker, I am trying to get the effect on the air intake tip trim as you can see hopefully on the attached photo I took. Cheers Derek

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Here's an enlargement of the Trim

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[Ian M]

Derek, have you tried heating the collar to soften it? sounds like you have nothing to loose. If you can make a former to bend it around after its nice and soft you might get it to play by your rules!

Not started the tonka yet, the SIG don't start until Tuesday. Being the Mod for the group builds it would not bode well if I cheated and started before the start date....

Ian M

[Guest]

Hi Ian, thanks for your comment, unfortunately the bending is not the problem. The shape of the nose of the Lightning comprises of a near semi-circular arc top and bottom which are joined with two other large radius tangential arcs. So the plate development is similar to, but not the same as you would do for the Frustum of a Cone. Anyway it should have been a simple matter for Flight Path to wrap a piece of card around one of the Airfix models, marked it up and cut out the shape. As it is, the developed shape they came up with has too large a minor axis radius, so it can never fit.

Much of the documentation provided by Flight Path refers to a Model F3 Lighting in Resin they were developing when they abandoned their project when the Airfix came on the market, so I suspect they are really selling the goodies from their F3 under the guise of it fitting the Airfix F2A/F6, and it does not.

Cheers Derek

[Guest]

Hi All, Construction is pretty well finished and ready to paint. I have used the Airfix Refuelling Probe as the Flightpath one would not fit without some surgery and to be honest the Airfix one is every bit as good. I will use the Flightpath white metal pitot tube as it can be polished, will fit this after painting. Cheers Derek

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[Guest]

. follow from the beginning and can not be satisfied with seeing the cabin. Detailing is top.

Lijep pozdrav, Ivica

[Guest]

A few shots of the painting so far. Primed with Tamiya Surface Primer - Gray, followed by Humbrol Matt Black Enamel in the Cockpit and Tail Fin tip area, and finally pre-shading the model with Tamiya XF-1 Matt Black to try to capture some of the random shading you see on the Lightning Bare Metal finish. Next stage is to apply the Tamiya X-32 Titanium Silver all over followed by Silver Leaf Rub-N-Buff.

Cheers Derek

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[Guest]

A few shots of the Lightning painted with Tamiya X-32 Titanium Silver, will leave it for 48 Hrs before applying the Rub-N-Buff Silver Leaf. Cheers Derek

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[Guest]

Really starting to move forward now, its looking good! The lightning is an awesome machine, used to walk by one every day when I was working for BAE down in Warton, was hard not to just stop and have a stare all the time!

[Guest]

Amazing effect! Bare metal scheme has been fantastic.

[Guest]

Thanks Ewan and Ivica, A couple of shots with the Rub-N-Buff added, going to apply a wash to highlight the Panel lines and Rivets and dirty it up a bit more. It doesn't show up too well on these photos but the Rub-N-Buff gives a lustre finish more like real polished Aluminium than normal paints can achieve. Cheers Derek

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[spanner570]

That looks great Derek. It has come out really well.

I like the 'Hit and Miss' effect you have achieved with the buffing, so much better than an all over samey look. This to me is how the buffing would be in real life on this aircraft. Could be wrong though!

Well done.

Ron