1/48 Sea Gladiator

[Dave W]

Extra Dark Sea Grey sprayed on this evening and masking removed.Going to spray light grey on the fuselage next.

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[flyjoe180]

The Gladiator is looking good Dave.

[Guest]

This is coming along well mate. Starting to look the goods.

[Dave W]

More masking.This time for spraying first coat if light grey on the fuselage and engine cowling.

[Guest]

IP and office are looking great ,especially like those belts Dave .

[yak face]

Looking good dave , those exhaust stubs look very fiddly , i bet they were a bugger to clean up! cheers tony

[Dave W]

Thanks Trey and Tony.Exhausts were not too bad.i managed to clean them up without any pinging out of the tweezers across my shed as well!.Need to get some thick fishing line for the rigging now.Was going to use plastic strip.But I think any movement of the wing would pull the strip off.So I'm going to drill part way into the upper wing and attach fishing line with CA.Then I will drill all the way through the lower wing,pull the line through and secure with CA.To finish I will trim the line flush with the underside,fill and touch up the paint.Thats the plan anyway.

[colin m]

There's always something nice about getting a bit of paint down. Looking good Dave.

[papa 695]

Some stirling work Dave looking good

[Guest]

Looking good Dave rather you than me doing the rigging.

[Dave W]

Tonight I've done some more masking and sprayed dark slate grey on the upper fuselage.Managed to break one of the wing struts off.So I've had to drill and pin it back together.Should have left them off until the end of painting.

[Ian M]

Coming along nicely Dave.

the fishing line through the wing works well, just a bugger at times to 'touch up'---

Ian M

[flyjoe180]

Nice work Dave, this is coming along very nicely and the paint work looks good.

[Dave W]

Last night I did the upper fuselage camo.Just noticed Ive got the colours the wrong way round on the port tailplane so will have to do that again.I bought some 40lb fishing line on the way home from work.Hopefully it will look ok as rigging.Now I'm going to mask the model again and do the black areas on the underside

[Dave W]

Just done the underside with Revell anthracite.Tried Vallejo black first but it was too black.