Dave W's Phantom

[flyjoe180]

The scribing is looking very effective Dave.

[Dave W]

Thanks Joe.Im doing a lot more work than I intended on this kit.Perhaps it's the pressure of doing a SIG build.I want to make as good a job of it as I can.

[Guest]

Nice work Dave.

[Ian M]

Thanks Joe.Im doing a lot more work than I intended on this kit.Perhaps it's the pressure of doing a SIG build.I want to make as good a job of it as I can.

LOL.

That is kind of the idea behind the SIG builds. Give them all that you can and go the extra mile to get the most out of the subject as you can.

You are doing a great job.

Ian M

[papa 695]

Some nice work going into this one Dave I'm roughly at the same stage on mine

[Dave W]

I'm still not happy with the rear cockpit position.The seat still looks too low to me.Hopefully it will look better when the top piece is fitted to the seat

[Guest]

Nice scribing Dave, I am not brave enough yet to attempt what you have superbly accomplish.

[Dave W]

Thanks Jim.Tonight Ive finished doing all the scribing and separated the trailing edge flaps from the fuselage with a razor saw.Ive also glued the rear canopy and centre arch on with Micro crystal clear.That way I was able to paint the cockpit sills matt black first so no unpainted areas show through the canopies.The gap behind the rear canopy needs building up a bit more with filler.Will wait until the canopy is firmly glued on before I do that.

The auxiliary air doors are moulded on the underside.But there are none on the upper rear fuselage.Or maybe Ive sanded their raised detail off.Will have to live with that.

[flyjoe180]

Really impressive work on this Dave. It's funny you mentioned your rear cockpit seat appearing ot be too low inside the cockpit, my RIO looks like he is ducking for cover. I thought that was just an Airfix issue but maybe they did sit rather low in the rear?

[Dave W]

Got a bit more done this evening.Masked and fitted the rest of the canopy parts.Added a bit more filler to the fuselage behind the rear canopy.I will need to sand it very carefully to avoid damaging the transparency.After reading Ian M's build I realised I'd forgotten to scribe the fuel pump access panels along the spine of the fuselage.Will do it tomorrow evening when I get back from the Football league trophy final at Wembley.

[Ian M]

Canopy masking! The down side of aircraft building. There is always a catch. Aeroplanes, its the canopies, Tanks its the tracks, figures its painting the darn things!!!

Did you canopy have the almost invisible frame lines? I had to hole mine up to a light to try and find the blasted things when I had to cut the tape on the front screen!

Dave; any idea if the stencil data on a white underside would of been black, or some other colour, yellow perhaps? My kit came with RAF decals, and ALL the stencils are WHITE! Not much use on a white paint job...:-/

Ian M

[Dave W]

Canopy frames are well defined on this kit.So masking was easy.The windscreen would have been very difficult otherwise.i think the underside decals were white on RAF Phantoms. But that was on a medium sea grey not white underside.

[Dave W]

A little bit of progress. Tonight I scribed the access panels along the spine of the fuselage.I used a washer taped in position and a needle in a pin vice to scribe the circles.Dont think they are in exactly the right places as I sanded the raised detail off a couple of weeks ago.But it looks better than no detail at all.Will spray some primer on tomorrow.

[Guest]

Looking real good Dave..I am realising how much you guys put into it, and its all on the button.

Jim

[Guest]

they look mighty fine to me mate well played i say

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