Tonys revell 1/72 air ambulance

[Mini Me]

Sorry Tony.........late as usual. Looks like you're kicking Butt on this little yellow bird. keep it coming Sir. :thumb2:

[Mickc1440]

Nice work Tony, it doesn't matter how big a desk we work on the actual space available does always seem to be A4 :hungry:

[Geoffers]

Looking good Tony :thumb2:


It’s very bright though, are you needing to wear sunglasses when working on it ? :tears-of-joy:

Geoff.

[yak face]

The chopper has now had a misting of white primer ( vallejo polyurethane acrylic - rubbish really , extremely transparent , would have needed about 10 coats to cover the yellow !) . Next up is blasting it with some Hycote acrylic aerosol , FIAT broom yellow.

[yak face]

Blasted ! And now drying in front of the fire .

[stillp]

Careful! I've only force-dried a model once, with a fan heater on its lowest setting - warped the undercarriage on an Eduard La-7!
Pete

[yak face]

Careful! I've only force-dried a model once, with a fan heater on its lowest setting - warped the undercarriage on an Eduard La-7!
Pete

Yes ive made that mistake before too pete , with the Eduard mig21 - melted the nose ring trying to dry a touch up before taking pics . Needless to say I had to repair it ( after attempting to kick my self in the backside!)

[Andy the Sheep]

I usually dry painted models in front of a fan heater during winter, but always at more than 1.5 meters away. The main airflow hits the ground 1 meter in front of the fan, thus the model is not directly affected by the hot air flow.

[flyjoe180]

Bit chilly there Tony? Humidity has been my paint enemy lately.

[yak face]

Hardened off nicely now and masking removed . The window openings need a clean up then its time to get all the transparencies fitted.

[Guest]

Wow, that’s bright

[Mini Me]

Kinda like a flying "Banana" High Visibility is the rule of the day on emergency vehicles so put your shades down Tony and model on...Looking forward to the next update. :thumb2:

[flyjoe180]

It’s certainly going to stand out on the shelf

[yak face]

Transparencies now all fitted . After removing from the sprue and cleaning up I decided to paint all the edges of the clear parts with black to reduce the silvering /distortion effect once glued . Theyve now all been fitted and dont look too bad at all. A little bit of clean up might be required once the glue has set but I’m quite pleased with how they went. Next up is painting the windscreen divider and fitting the seperate windscreen wipers .BTW , looking at the sprues its apparent that this is a matchbox tooling ( square section sprues and a PK number ) from about 1988 I believe , so its not a bad fit for a 35 year old tooling !

[Guest]

That does look a lot like a Matchbox sprue, yes. And indeed, from 1988.