Canadian GB -ALL SUBJECTS- (Sept 01 - to whenever finished)

Dave,  Looking better all the time .

Regards,  Rick

Dave Looks great, you did a super job considering you puttyed and sanded your fingers to the bone

Cheers

Bear

She looks...beautiful...      ssnnifff...

I just have to get the turret put together and a few little touch ups here and there and she's done!  I think Wednesday the boly will be revealed, after almost four months she'll be finished!  yeehaw!

Sounds great Jay! I'm really looking forward to the pics.

As for myself I managed to get all the masking off the Sunderland.  No bleeding !  I think it took longer to get all the tape off those little round windows than it did to put them on.  I'm half way done painting the engines and props.  I might just call it quits after that and screw the antenae and rigging (or leave them for another day).

The moment you have all been waiting for!

The Bolingbroke Mk. IVT is finally finished, well technically I actually still have to glue the clear turret clear piece on, dry-brush the rear guns, put a slight wash in the wheels and add the antenna wire.  Other wise she looks darned pretty!

Don't look too closely at the wheel wells, you won't find anything as I just added a little bit of extra detail to the landing gear you can see, I didn't feel like going through all the effort of creating wheel wells like I did for my Beaufighter.  Besides, I'm not going to have the model displayed upside down anyway.  enough ramblings, have a gander...

So what do you think for a crappy Airfix! I'm quite happy with it, you just don't see many in this scheme out there.

Very nice Jay, Excellent work .  Well worth the effort.

Regards,  Rick

She looks absolutely stunning Jay!!!

I know first hand how difficult it can be to get a decent build out of Airfix.

Well I'm back after a week on the west coast and so much catching up.

 JAY That's outstanding work on the Boly you did a super job on the paint scheme.

Anthony  That sucks, back to the old drawing board don't give up.

Cheers

Bear

Thanks for the comments Dave, Rick, Anthony and Marc.

Anthony that really bites, try to not get dicouraged and just fight through it.  You can make it!

Okay, I haven't posted updates for awhile and I had a pretty productive weekend (on modeling anyway) and I'm almost finished so here's a couple of quick shots.  Things were going so well I decided to go for it on the radar.  Sorry about the blurriness on the one but I took them late last night and didn't want to reshoot.  One more weekend should wrap it up. .

Look fabulous Dave.  Gotta love these airfix things we've been cranking out!   Ooops, did I say that out loud.?\

Have you figured out where it will go?

Dave That's outstanding work  It looks great  you realy made that airfix (Ooops I used that word) shine.

Cheers

Bear

Looking great Dave.  Nicely done .

Regards,  Rick

Thanks Anthony,  How's the Arrow coming along?

Well, 3 months late but here she is.  I still want to do some weathering and exhaust staining  but I am out of flat clear and as I use pastels that will have to wait until my order arrives.  For now I am calling it done!!!!!   Yippeeee!!!!   For those of you who have been following the build you know that this has been a long haul.  I think I said something at the beginning about not wanting to do the Hasegawa Lancaster for this build because I wanted to take my time and do it right...  I think that build would have taken a lot less time than this one.  Anyway, I finished adding the last of the radar antenae last night and shot some pics, still needs some clean up and like I said some dull coat to hid some glue marks (CA and I are not good friends yet) but here she is...  Finally!!!!

Dave that is one GREAT piece of work it looks super  great detail job  on the antenae's.   Your right the Lancaster

would have been easier.  I'm having fun with it, slow progress though waiting for my pe bits and research.

Cheers

Bear

Dave I know what you mean with all the GB's going and the temptation of joining others how do we find the time.  I should be getting my pe stuff hopefully today or early next week unless Canada post returned my package to the Squadron shop like my last order.  On another topic do you know what code letters was your uncles aircraft.  I know 420's code started with PT*_ .  After i've confirmed my research on my uncles A/C I'll have some red lettering left over if your interested I could send you the codes to match for your Lancaster, it would save you having to buy a whole letter set, just a thought.

Cheers

Bear

That really does suck Jay.   Darn those IT guys eh!!!!

Actually, I interviewed for a job with a local government and I'm worried that if I get the job I won't be able to access any of this stuff at work.  I would then be forced to upgrade my Mac to OSX at home. 

Bear, my Uncle's call letters were PT-O.  The kit decals have the P and the O but I will have to come up with the T.  I need to double check to see what style they were.  It think they had the yellow outline.  Anyway, if you have some to spare that would be great.  I'll get back to you on the style.

Dave sounds good let me know what style and I'll check what I've got.  Those with the yellow border are hard to come by However you may be in luck.

Cheers

Bear 

Dave WOW im impressed, great job on the sunderland buddy, she really came out nice, well done

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Thanks Anthony,  How's the Arrow coming along?