Something completely different....an airliner.

[stona]

You love a challenge Steve. Vaughan

Well to be honest I do enjoy fixing these old kits but would rather not have to do it

Anyways I've got some card glued into the gaps which were far to big to fill with anything other than CA otherwise. The CA/powder filler is good but you have to be VERY careful in such a visible area. Card and liquid cement is much safer.

This needs a little more tidying up,followed by a swipe of filler and hopefully it will look okay.

At the back of my mind is the thought that I intend to have a metal finish on this one.

Cheers

Steve

[stona]

I've primed the model but this has revealed that I hadn't made as good a job of the wing roots as I had thought. They are a work in progress.

What I hadn't anticipated (I don't know why) is just how big the bloody thing is.

Here's the whole of the basic assembly,the underside,sparing a view of the wing root remedies!

HUUUUGE ! That is a 30cm ruler.

Cheers

Steve

[Vaughan]

Ummmm your going to need a big shelf for that one Steve. Airliners were never that small even at 1/48 scale.

Vaughan

[Dave W]

It's certainly a large model.Mine sits on a shelf (large!) next to a JU52.Thats another big one in 1/48.

[flyjoe180]

Nice progress Steve.

[Guest]

Nice work so far. Will be watching your progress with interest.

Cheers

[stona]

Highly polished finish will be going on this one so,as Messrs Jagger and Richards sang.

"I wanna see it painted black, painted black

Black as night, black as coal

I wanna see the sun, blotted out from the sky

I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black

Yeah"

In my case gloss black.

I've sprayed and masked the fabric control surfaces and de-iceing boots on the leading edges silver and matt black (actually very dark grey) respectively and started on the gloss black. So far I've got the top done and will wait and see how long this takes to dry before attempting the underside.

I never normally build two models at once but if this takes more than 12 hours to go off I might start

Cheers

Steve

[spanner570]

Now that is sparkling Steve, nice one.......Keep in mind me, my fingers and bacon butties!!!

Cheers,

Ron

[Guest]

looking gorgeous mate,love it,and good job on the gap fill

mobear

[stona]

Now that is sparkling Steve, nice one.......Keep in mind me, my fingers and bacon butties!!!Cheers,

Ron

Hi Ron,it's not my bacon butties or Marmite fingers that cause the trouble,it's dust! I went to great lengths to clean the model and de-static it but I live and spray in the real world.

The only way to make this really flawless would be to spray in one of those high tec clean rooms but that's a bit outside my budget,the extension on the back of the house will have to do!

I've seen some amazing glossy finishes done by vehicle modellers and I bow before their skill and determination.

I'm afraid I'm not THAT bothered,it's just a model aeroplane

Cheers

Steve

[stona]

The gloss black,which was good old Humbrol,has finally dried and I've applied the Polished Aluminium Alclad II to the underside.

This is going to be an expensive finish! There's the best part of a whole bottle just on the underside. I suspect that the entire model will need at least two bottles.

I'm off to the bank

Cheers

Steve

[stona]

I've now got a coat of Polished Aluminium over the entire model.

Smelly stuff Alclad II. I work in a well ventilated area with aspray booth/extractor and yet when I removed my mask (wearing which you can't smell anything) I was surprised my the strength of the "laquery" smell.

I have sprayed a total of about one and two thirds bottles which is a lot!

Cheers

Steve

[Ian M]

Shiny !

That looks great Steve. Two Bottles dude thats a lot. I hoped you remembered to cover every thing in the work area with something. Last time I sprayed a lot with Alclad, it was all over the place. lol

Thats one great finish though and the ground work has paid off big time.

Ian M

[stona]

Unmasked now.

I'm really glad that I spent hours painting the passenger cabin in my own custom scheme as now you can see precisely none of it

I'll be leaving this until tomorrow to cure as I will decal directly onto the Alclad,no Klear coat on this one.

Cheers

Steve

[Centurion3RTR]

Oooh shiny, looking nice Steve mate.

Have fun, John