Nice work on the canopy Peter, and like you asked good luck mate. :smiling4:
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May the force be with you
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Well, I needn't have bothered with sanding and polishing the windscreen - the glue (Contacta Clear) seems to have relaxed a bit, and the corners of the 'screen are sticking out again.
I've just wacked a bit of filler around the edges and painted over it. At least it's all the same colour now. I just want to get it finished and move on to something less frustrating.
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Hi Peter
Just had a good read through from the start. This has fought you all the way so hardly surprising that you just want it done with. Having said that you have done a fine job. Real shame about the screen as up until then you have overcome the other issues. Must be an old kit judging by the flash - the moulds have clearly seen better days. I look forward to the final reveal.
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Peter,
Just sat and had a read through with a cuppa. Looks like it didn’t have the best fit of parts but as Jim says, regardless of that you’ve made a good job of it.
Hope there are no more surprises and you get it finished .
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Thanks chaps. It's a real shame about the fit issues, as there's some lovely detail on the mouldings. I can understand a bit of warping over time, but some parts being the wrong size by 2 - 3 mm does make you wonder about their quality control.
Still, I only paid £20 for this and a 1/35 Academy Pave Hawk.
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Well, the paint hasn't turned out too bad.
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Needs some touching up where the undercarriage has been brush-painted black, some of which ran under the masking.
The windows will be OK after a bit of work with a cocktail stick. You can see some of the mess caused by the problems with the windscreen in the pic below. I'm not going to try to clean that up, it looks OK from a few yards away, if you squint a bit.
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There are lots of small detail parts to be added, including those two aerials(?) you can see in the pic above, but I think I need to add the decals first, or I'll be knocking off the details when decalling.
The instructions still have me guessing how some parts are supposed to fit - I'm thinking that the person who wrote them hadn't seen the kit! For example, there are two identical flat triangular that fit on the lower legs of the undercarriage. The instructions show these as parts 81(LH side) and 96 (RH). However the two are identical, both numbered 81 on the sprue. Just below the pic showing you to fit parts 81 and 96, there's a pic showing how to fit the tail rotor... which is part 96!
Oh well, onwards and upwards!
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Coming along nicely Pete. Once you remove that excess paint with the cocktail stick no one will notice the other issue.Comment
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Hi Joe, thanks, I was thinking no-one was watching!
I probably should have left the masking on, the top and bottom need to be painted blue. I've been working on some of the little bits that need adding onto the outside, but they're not going to be added until the painting's finished and the decals are on, or they'll keep getting broken off. The instructions continue to confuse...
I'll do an update later.
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Hi Peter looking good.Comment
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You’re a better man than me Pete!
I’ve just caught up with this, and I would have abandoned it long ago.
Looking good from all the hard work.
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Well, I haven't been able to do much today, real life is getting in the way again. I've been preparing and painting some of the external details:
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This little fella looks like he belongs in Star Wars:
[ATTACH]301752[/ATTACH]but I think he's actually an IR camera. The instructions would have it fitted to a rail on the right-hand side of the undercarriage, but there's nowhere for it to fit! I'll have to scratch something. Meanwhile, there's a part (actually an assembly of 11 parts) that looks like a searchlight, but Revell call it an IR pod:
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There is a mounting point for that one:
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Hopefully I'll get a chance to do some more tomorrow but my wife has to go for a bone density scan in the morning.
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Oh bother! (Slightly stronger language was actually used)
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Dropped while removing the masking, and snapped the undercarriage off on one side. That'll need pinning.
Some overspray and paint creep too, but that's relatively easy to sort.
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Woops! Had a similar event yesterday with three builds at once, I feel your pain on this one.Comment
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