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any progress on the badge?
Nope, but I'm off tue, wed, thur this week, so I'll get something put together. Last week turned into a bit of a fiasco and I didn't get much of anything I'd planned done.
Progress has been slower than I would like but here is the Siskin so far, the silver paint really was giving me trouble for some reason. Normally I find the Games Workshop paints easy to work with.
Looks good. Is it a Biplane? Anything older than World War II and i'm not familiar with it.
Yes it is a biplane from the RAF's "silver wing" period.
Ok, I've got a badge done and have added it to the first post.
Badge looks good, I cant wait to add my first one! I got a lot of the 109 done up to the point of painting it. I will finish putting the canopy on before the weekend and I should have some of the paint done over the weekend, I will get pics before I start and painting.
One question. I've herd of using wet tissue paper to fill in/cover the wheel wells, whats the trick to doing this?
I haven't done it but I believe the idea is to block up the opening. You are supposed to wet the tissue paper to keep the paint from sticking. If you are going to try it I'd suggest putting a post in painting or aircraft to get some tipes form those who use that method.
I've added two more badges to offer some variety include civil and bomber aircraft (DC3 and Vickers Vimy).
Love the badge Aaron!!! One of my fave planes of the period, have the HobbyCraft 1/48 with Eduard PE set in the stash, and lots of others I want to put in. If .........only if.
ww2psycho One question. I've herd of using wet tissue paper to fill in/cover the wheel wells, whats the trick to doing this?
As mentioned, the idea is to protect from overspray. I put some tissue down, but also make a faux "canopy" over either the canopy or wheel wells, made of blue painter's (low tack) tape as an extra layer of protection. I am not very good with my AB, so need all the masking I can get lol
nice badge, cheers!
Ok, more work done on the Siskin
In a larger scale this could be fun to detail since the engine is very exposed. I painted the cylinders flat black with drybrushed gun metal and a wash of oily black.
One drawback to buying old kits is the occasional missing part. one of the landing gear struts was missing, so I had to make a replacement. The silver is from the kit, the white one on the left was made from some scrap sheet styrene of the correct thickness, I think it came out pretty well.
While I was waiting for the glue on the Siskin to cure, I broke out another kit I just got, the Matchbox Seafox. The Seafox was a light recon seaplane adopted in the mid 1930s as a gunnery spotter on cruisers. One of these planes directed fire for the British cruisers hunting the Graf Spee during the Battle of the River Platte. I'll be doing it in the early silver scheme.
Heres the 109 before paint starts flying. The prop and the engine cover, and prop isnt glued on yet. The paint scheme will be from north africa. I also never realized how small a 109 was till I put it next to my Tamiya Corair.
Aaron, good save on the replacement strut!!!! Coming along very nicely!! I have been trying to get a Seafox. Almost had one on ebay but got outbid. Siskin engine looks good!!
WW2, the 109 is lookin mighty fine!!
Yeah, I'd been after one for awhile and then I got this one in a lot along with several other bagged kits. The funny thing is I got the whole lot for less than some of the bids I'd made for a single Seafox kit. The box is trashed and the decals are marginal, but all the pieces are there. The markings are pretty basic so that shouldn't be hard to find replacements if it comes to that.
It would be nice if Revell brought this one back, it doesn't have the fame of the Swordfish or Walrus but it is a nice looking seaplane.
I started painting today, I got the blue and dessert yellowish color (its a mixed color so idk what to call it) on, i'm going to do touch ups then take pics, should have them tonight.
PICS!!! Well the touch ups arent done, you'll see where they are needed. I will get at that tonight or tmw.
Looks good, what caused the patches of missing paint?
I painted the top of the wings first so I had to cover them. The only tape I could think of that would work best was the blue painters tape, it was pealing less paint than the others I tried. I'm ok with how much it pealed off, I dont need to remask anything to fix it so its all good. Hoping to do touch ups tomorrow morning and depending on how much I feel like working on it I will get some of the green spots done.
I also tried the tissue paper method for masking the wheel wells. I have to say I like it, They werent great but werent the worst I've had with wheel wells, Just need to brush paint some of the surfaces near the bottom of the wing and it will be good. Practicing will help me get better with this.
There are a few firsts with this model for me. I've never done a multi paint scheme on a plane (the corsair in a previous post was my first airplane I completed), and it was my first time trying the tissue paper to mask the wheel wells. I'm learning a lot and hoping to get better at them in future builds.
I use the blue painters tape all the time and have no problems with it peeling up paint. Did you wait at least 24 hrs before putting the tape on?
B17Pilot I use the blue painters tape all the time and have no problems with it peeling up paint. Did you wait at least 24 hrs before putting the tape on?
HAHA NO! yea I know I should have waited and I knew that was my problem, I probably waited a few hours. I'm ok with it though, I'll have to learn to wait in the future.
Time to bring this thread back to life! I tried the green dots tonight, first time trying something that small with and airbrush. I dont think they turned out too bad. You'll notice in the last picture that two of the spots are pretty big, I will fix that in the morning. Next thing to do is the guns and prop, shouldnt take too much more to finish this 109.
I don't know much about Luftwaffe camo, I'm guessing that is the desert camo used in North Africa?
Glad to see you're still plugging away, I got some decals on the Siskin and should be getting some pics up. I might have to send out a search party for some of these guys though.
Yea its desert camo, it looked the easiest to do of the choices it gave, yet was still apealing to me. I dont know why you'd have green spots on an aircraft in the desert, but i'm not the expert.
Most of my work gets done on the weekends. Im thinking i'll get to the 85% complete stage tmw if I work on it. The prop might get done, idk if I have white paint. The front landing gear is painted and ready to be put on, the back wheel needs some painting, and the 20mm cannons for the wings need painting. other than that the basic painting/assembly is complete. I will be trying some weathering with this one also.
WW2 she's looking good mate!!!! Well done on the desert camo.
Bob,
So this is the wee yellow winged one that you told me about. That is a neat looking bird! I need to get off my duff and get the J.1 going here
Cheers
Dave
With enough thrust, pigs fly just fine.
WWII,
I like the camo you have gotten on the 109. Some areas of desert have some low growing scrub brush. It does a good job of breaking up the outline of the AC. There is an color pic of a 109 flying over a desert with that camo scheme and it certainly does blend in nicely.
Here is my entry into my first ever group build. It is Wingnut Wings 1/32 scale Junkers J.1. In late 1916 design specs were issued and out of them came the J.1. Confusingly, this aircraft was designated J.1 along with Junkers steel monoplane that flew in 1915. This aircraft was constructed entirely of dural tubes and almost completely covered in corrugated dural sheet. The front fuselage was constructed from 5mm armored steel to protect the crew from ground fire, since the aircraft was designed to attack enemy ground targets.
This build actually got started in the Aircraft Forum but, then I stumbled across this GB and thought I would give it a go.
I will be finishing this up as the one depicted on the front of the instruction booklet
I got the engine bulkheads and the instrument panel bulkhead painted today using Tamiya XF-67 NATO green.
The detail work I have yet to start on the instrument panel. It will get some burnt umber oil to represent wood grain
The upper wing is made up of three panels. All together they span just a bit over 18".
The fitting together of the panels is very stout as evidenced by the beefy tab & slot assembly. The lower wing is built up the same way. The inside of the wing panels have reinforcement ribs. These babies are NOT going to droop.
Hughes you are off to a great start. Looking good!!!! That thing looks like it is going to be built like a brick proverbial!!!!!!!
I've got you added to the roster. Those Wingnut kits look nice and this is no exception, I just wish they would scale some of their kits down to 1/72.
I'm not familiar with that particular aircraft but it looks like it is corrigated metal like the Junkers Monoplane?
Simpilot34,
Thank you for the compliment. I like the "brick proverbial" comment. It had the take off run of one. In the instruction booklet, there is a picture of one that had a ground accident. The entire top wing is turned at an angle to the fuselage. Both parts appear relatively intact. You can view these pics at Wingnuts website.
Aaronw,
Thank you for getting me on the roster. This is my first 1/32 aircraft and I'm not sure where I'll put it when I'm done. It'll be interesting if they will come out with other scales down the road. So far everything is 1/32, including the as yet to be released Gotha bomber.
I didn't even know this aircraft existed until I came across it on Wingnuts website. The corrugation was Junkers trademark so to speak. It was skinned just like their Monoplane the J.1. The J.1 that I am building was originally designated J.4 by Junkers but was changed by the bureaucracy responsible for aircraft.
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