Thanks Theuns. Thats looking very nice, love the wood effect.

Oh I see now.  I've never worked with a resin kit before. I just can't muster the courage!

I have worked with pl;enty of resin AM parts and built 2 resin engines. You just have to take thing slower and check everything. I have some 72nd resin aircraft kits, i will get to one of those soon.

Oh wow guys! Those look great!

Theuns: Great job with the paint, I too love the wood effect.

Bish: Nice work, love the crew's kit and the dust on the seats.

Cheers mate.

Martin, that looks like a repurposed bread truck!  Nice work.

The camel looks real good too.  I can see the extra effort going in to it.

Bish your Landy build is impressive, great job!

Theuns, I love the wood on your Camel, another great job!

All the builds so far are amazing, everyone should be proud of their builds.

I have been adding details to the cockpit and created a compass, more to follow.

Ouch Ziggy, looking at those it gives me a headache... Great job! 

Cheers guys.

John, its been called much worse

Ziggy, thats some very nice dtailing there. You have to tell us how you made that compass.

I got the modt of the rigging completed and hve glosscoated the whole thing, now waiting for that to cure so I can do the decals and final bit of rigging.

IMG_20200203_143421 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Theuns

Oh wow Theuns that rigging looks amazing!!! 

Bish, thanks for the complement!  I have to make three gauges for the cockpit, I will show the details when I get to them.

Theuns, how did you do such a great job rigging?  Do you use wire, thread or something else?

Enjoying this build and taking any opportunity in the cold evenings to make advances. This kit comes with a large piece of PE which needs to be used in the construction, it all fits together very well but is time consuming but worth taking the time.  " alt="" />

Theuns, now thats very nice.

Thats a nice start Est, looking forward to seeing more of that.

Hi Bish, The FSM page is playing up on me again so I am posting this one quickly before I lose connectivity. Need to put the Staghound on hold, parts missing and are being replaced. Am I good to go with this one:



Would be my first attempt at figure painting in 45 years :) With regards Svenne

Est 1961: Very nice start there! 

Svenne: Ohh, looks cool! 

Yes,
it is a cool little kit.

Sadly my copy is badly warped...

If it would have been the lower tub I could have glued a rod in place but how do I fix this issue?
Will try hot water and a hairdryer any other ideas or suggestions are appreciated!

Maybe I should not be surprised, the box has travelled with me for 8 years.

With regards

Svenne

Svenne, that is a good bit of warpage there.  I would correct it after it is fixed solid to the hull,with some gentle finger pressure pushing it past it's proper alignment.  I'd be hesitant of trying this with the problem piece on it's own in hot water or via hairdryer,  as it could create new bends elsewhere - but if someone has already tried this option successfully, it would be good to hear.

regards,

Jack

I'm going to leave it to Jack, since I'm not that knowlegable about how to deal with this. I'll just say good luck!!! 

Yep, that entry is fine Svenne. That is a bad bit of warpage. I think i would go with Joe's suggestion.

Started coming up with a plan for the magazine holders on the outsides of the cockpit.  This pic shows a 1/32 scale cockpit with the holders. The kit only has a holder on one side and no detail showing magazines. I will remove the kit holder and scratch build one for each side.

Here it is, not the best build but the kit it to limited to spen loads of effort on, just wanted to see what it looks like.

IMG_20200209_122206 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

IMG_20200209_122255 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

IMG_20200209_122513 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

IMG_20200209_122846 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

IMG_20200209_122917 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Bish thanx for hosting, it was fun

Theuns

That looks very nice Theuns, i really like that. Thanks for taking part, will up date the front page.

Got the snatch painted up. Took a few goes until i was happy with the colour. After painted, it got a couple of coats of Alclad aqua gloss.

And then the decals. These went on well, first time i have used AA decals. These were followed by some more Aqua gloss to protect the decals.

Next up some weathering and detail painting.

Ta 

Theuns

Theuns, a fine example of the Camel - very well done!

If I followed the chart history correctly over at Scalemates, the kit you used has it origins back to Aurora, a 1956 tooling - so that makes your results that much more impressive.

regards,

Jack

Great Job Theuns!

Bish, looking good!  I do not understand decals, but you are not yet finished and maybe I missed something on an earlier post.

Thank Ziggy. Decals, the markings that get put on the kit. What do you call those?

Excellent Theuns!