Airfix 1/48 Supermarine Walrus MkI - Silver Wings COMPLETED (finally)

Frank,

The PE is giving me dizzy spells (just frustrating LOL) but I'll soldier on.

Very cool.  I dig sea planes.  I bet the PE will dress it up nicely.  At 1/48 should be a big model no?  Like a PBY

Like the look of these seaplanes, received recently a Sunderland Mklll. Look forward to seeing future instalments. Good luck with the build. 

Mike, I admire you for tackling PE for this build. I don't have the patience or the skill to attempt bending all of those timy pieces then attach them to whatever model I'm working on. Good luck and press on. I'll be following your W.I.P.

OK, Here we go.

I wish I'd not attempted the PE.Two of the three pieces of PE visible in these images are screwed up badly but I'll let them sit since they'll not be seen when the fuselage is closed up.

I'm going to be extremely selective if and when I choose to include any more PE. I'll just do the parts I feel I can handle at my modeling skills pay grade if, indeed, there are any more at all.

There are nice instructions for the kit itself but, alas, the instructions for the PE always have me scratching my head as to which ones to do first since, as far as I can tell, the Eduard instructions don't necessarity take into account the trouble I might get into if I don't think both of the sets of instructions through thoroughly before gluing and painting. I might be wrong here ... Eduard's PE seems nice enough.. but I wish they'd cross reference their steps with those of the manufacturer in more detail. Then, for those of you who naturally think in logical progression, it probably is not a big deal.

I'm not sure yet whether or not I'll use the Mission Models paints I bought or Tamiya's paints. Maybe a bit of both. I like the MM paint that I've used so far on a test piece of plastic but since Tamiya cleans up so well from the A/B with just distilled H2O and 91% alcohol, and you can't use alcohol with MM paints, I may just go with Tamiya. When I cleaned my A/B after having used MM paints I had to use quite a bit of their thinner/airbrush cleaner to get my brush clean. We'll see. I'm at a painting stage right now so while it's raining outside (which it is supposed to do all day today) I'll make a decision.

Here are a couple of pictures of the three peices of PE I've put on that are visible. They're a disaster but, as I said, they'll not be seen when I've closed it up. One piece not visible is an IP and it's behind some tape until I spray the interior green.

Jay Jay,

I think the interior detail is just fine! I just don't like having to clean up all the sink marks but, hey, that's part of this hobby.

Guys I've ordered a set of mini chisels from Jeff Bazos -man are we all making that guy rich - so my work on this puppy will begin tomorrow but only to sort out some parts for the interior green paint session inside the fuselage. I noticed over 50 sink marks on the interior walls so that's why the chisel set. I'll chisel down what is proud and fill in with thin CA glue. When that project is done I'll begin some interior construction and painting.

Looking forward to following this WIP. I built the Smer 5$ from Ebay version. It turned out ok. I agree with you that its a nice looking and interesting plane.

Im in on this one.

Rambo

The best thing about a WIP or GB is if you run into a problem you have someone here who can give you advice to continue.

 

That's right!

Jimmy and Greg,

Thanks for the "push". I'm not too embarrassed at my work anymore unless I fail to take the time to read and understand the instructions and the order in which I need to build, paint, attach PE, etc.

I've put the Meng 1/35 French FT-17 tank on hold (waiting for a sprue from Meng - yes, I screwed up the engine!) and started what I thought would be a quick build just to get my confidence back (Revell's 1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109G-10) but managed to order a set of masks in the wrong scale - 1/32 instead of 1/48 - duh! So it's on hold as well . Now that was embarrassing!

So, within the next week I'll be posting some pictures of my preliminary steps on the Walrus - I hope.

WIP threads are good for this place. That is a neat looking aircraft and I'll look forward to following your progress.

As Timmy said, just have fun. And good for you for doing it.

1943Mike

I've been really, really hesitant to post a WIP on this or any modeling site simply for two reasons: A) I'm not a top notch modeler and, B) The last WIP I posted turned into a disaster and I trashed it.

No need to be "Hesitaint" . We ALL have a few that didn't come out right.....

It's hard to tell , from this photo, but my "Airbrushing skill's  are just plain Rotten ! I got those wavy line's sooooooo thick,.... ( How thick are they ?.. ) that I lost some of the  detail under the cockpit. It's so thick, that it look's like the pilot has a step to get in !

If I can stand other's seeing this mess,  you have nothing to fear !

( You can alway's say "Little Timmy was in the room, and he MUST have done something to it, when I wasn't looking."   ... I won't mind ...)

P.S. : You may notice, that the Picture of the plane in Primer, has a propeller on the nose...... It doesn't have one in the final paint ......

I don't want to talk about it .............