WHO NEEDS ENGINES ? THE 2017 GLIDER GROUP BUILD

GB Badge... I like No1 then No2...

progress...

I like 1 the best as well, Jon.  The Grunau is looking fine.

Wirraway?  Wiiirrrrawaaayyyy?  Did Australia slide down beneath the South Pole?

Post East Mids Model Show Update

Still got to atach the windscreen & tidy up the paintwork on the Slingsby T7/Grunau Baby...

But a 'preview' of my next project below...

Progress is lookin great, y'all. 

sorry for being absent for bit, I had to get some other projects out of the way first.

This kit is rather poor, I am having to rescribe all of the pannel lines because they are almost non existant. I did the fus. now I'll have to do the wing too.

speaking of the wing, the fit to the fus. was pretty bad, and I had to shim it with some Evergreen strip.

Also the resin gun pods don't fit well either. you will see in the pics that I am going to have to putty of Mr Surfacer the joints to make them look better.

But here are a few pics for now...

Good to see some progress.  Get some Perfect Plastic Putty for this one!

jeaton01

Good to see some progress.  Get some Perfect Plastic Putty for this one!

 

Thanks John,

Here are some more pics.

I want to fair in the pods then scribe a seperation line around them once the putty dries tonight.

Well, after scribing in all the almost non-existant panel lines, furring in all the resin blobs that didn't fit and countless hours of body and fender work.

Here it is..... DONE!

I am never building another Czeck Model kit again.

Enjoy!

It may have been a bit of work but it's a fine model.  Great photos as well, Panzerjaeger.  Not all Czechmodel kits are this much work, luckily!

Anybody know what happened to Wirraway?

He hasn't been on this thread since March 13th...

jeaton01

It may have been a bit of work but it's a fine model.  Great photos as well, Panzerjaeger.  Not all Czechmodel kits are this much work, luckily!

 

Thanks jeaton01,

What Czech Model kits can you recommend?

PANZERJAGER

Thanks jeaton01,

What Czech Model kits can you recommend?

 

jeaton01

 

 

PANZERJAGER

Thanks jeaton01,

What Czech Model kits can you recommend?

 

 

 

 

All of them have some spots to work through, but the 1/32 F-80 looks nice in the box.  I know the intakes take some effort to get a good fit.  I like the subjects they do and am willing to put in the extra effort.  I have an XP-56 in process and its moldings are much better than what you had to work with on the Bv-40.

 

Do you know anything about the 1/48 4806 Czech Model Curtiss XP-55 Ascender kit?

This one is in my stash too......

I have that as well, but I built the Collect-Aire resin kit instead.  I can't recall why, as the resin kit was not without its issues, as usual.  The moldings don't look too bad, and Tom Cleaver liked it:

http://modelingmadness.com/review/allies/us/cleaverxp55.htm

No apologies necessary Wirraway, i have been away far too long myself. I usually over commit myself and things(life) just unravels all those plans and then you get a bit of depression because you know durn well you can't do it all. Just one GB and model at a time to get things going again I say.