Rick's 1/48 Hasegawa Phantom FGR2, 1435 Flt Stanley Airport

[flyjoe180]

Nice progress Rick, look slike the small issues with the smaller scales are amplified with this larger kit.

[colin m]

Battling with a few problems, but kicking them into touch. Good work.

[rickoshea52]

Battling with a few problems, but kicking them into touch. Good work.

My biggest problem at the moment is being away from home, I was expecting to be away for five days but now it's looking like 14 at least. Boooo!

[Robert1968]

Looking good Rick, I had simular issues this week as I was on Jury service all week. But now I intend to get some work done on the projects this weekend.
I had small issues with my intakes to the fuselage but eventually got them sorted. A wee bit of CA sorted a gap then filled sanded smoothed but then had to go down the line of rescind ( hare this part )
Getting there though
Looks good

Regards

Robert

[Ian M]

Looking good.
Regarding the colour inside panels and flaps, to the best of my knowledge they all have the dull red colour Dave mentioned.

[Dave W]

My biggest problem at the moment is being away from home, I was expecting to be away for five days but now it's looking like 14 at least. Boooo!

The joys of contracting Rick.I finished at Glasgow 4 weeks ago because I need recency on the other types on my license. I'm now at Lasham and haven't got anywhere to do models in my digs.So my Phantoms on hold at the moment.

[rickoshea52]

The joys of contracting Rick.I finished at Glasgow 4 weeks ago because I need recency on the other types on my license. I'm now at Lasham and haven't got anywhere to do models in my digs.So my Phantoms on hold at the moment.

I'm not a contractor but a field rep, so I travel a lot but sometimes I find myself staying away longer than planned - waiting for spares this time in Iceland. Get yourself to IPMS in Farnborough this Monday if you can, its our monthly club night.

[Ian M]

waiting for spares this time in Iceland.

Enjoying the snow then?

[rickoshea52]

Enjoying the snow then?

When I arrived at 2330 there was three inches of snow on my rental car and the road from Keflavik was pretty hairy. The next morning over 50cms of snow had been dumped on Reykjavik and I couldn't dig the car out despite having a go. The next day I had another attempt and in the time it took for me to go back into the hotel and fetch the key a plough cleared the footpath and blocked me in again.
The roads are clear now and the snow is melting but there are huge piles of it around.
This was my car last Sunday;
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[rickoshea52]

One of the finishing touches for this build, some QMT intake blanks.

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[rickoshea52]

It's been a while since I got some bench time in and all I have managed is to mask the canopy and fit the two fixed sections to the fuselage. I was going to mask these with Tamiya tape but the canopy edges are difficult to see to cut accurately. I pinched the masking set from my Eduard Phantom but these don't fit the Hasegawa kit so I had to order a specific set from Hannants which has added to the delay in progress. Next I can mask the cockpit apertures then get some primer and paint on this beast. And then there is the idea to add some wiring to the area behind the jockey's seat.

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[rickoshea52]

Cockpit and canopies masked then painted black before the primer and light grey goes on.
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After primer I applied the pre-shading around targeted areas on the back end. I'm not a great fan of this technique and previous attempts haven't worked for me but I thought I would have another go here because I have seen photos of these looking a bit shabby in this area.

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[rickoshea52]

Good choice Rick. The colour of the 74sqd bird is a buggier to get right... I think they were painted in the US prior to delivery and they botched the colour as best they could to the RAF spec.

I'm a bit stumped with the colour of the upper wing. The instructions call out a darker shade for the inner wing, medium sea grey, but all of the photos I can find seem to show the upper wing surface the same colour as the fuselage. Does anyone have any good advice?

[Dave W]

The Hasegawa painting instructions specified a darker grey for the inner wing sections when i built this kit. But i didnt notice this when i worked on them in the nineties. Doesnt mean its wrong though!.

[rickoshea52]

This is a photo of the area in question on the RAF Hendon Phantom, looks the same colour to me.

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