Airfix Group Build 2011-2012

The fit of the glazing parts on my Puma is not the best and will need loads of attention to get it right! You can see what I am talking about at the top of the cockpit.

Woo, go airfix lol. They seem unable to make canopys that fit. Or at least use to.

Maybe it is the age of the kit I don't know.

Atlease their new tool spitfires have nice fitting glass :-)

Theuns

Scorpiomikey

Woo, go airfix lol. They seem unable to make canopys that fit. Or at least use to.

LOL 

don't fear new tooling canopy fits great

It seems like canopies--for fit and color--are a problem in helicopters, but y'all are coping very well.

Last updates before final pictures (OMG a year to finish a little kit like this  )

Another layer of gloss coat 

and final matt coat

put on handles on doors, right now i put last matt coat on it

That's all

Only a few more steps...cant wait.

Here's the progress shots on mine as the year-end approaches. Some of the shots look similar (flash/no-flash), I didn't know which was better (and the quality sucks) but here they are. Please bear in mind this is the model I've built in about 30 years and my first AB experience.

Bottom, you can see where I got some glue on her and have to do some touch-up work:

Sides:

Top:

Fiddly Bits (in progress):

I just have to finish the details and then attempt weathering and she'll be complete. I think I'm just going to try post-shading with oil paints and call her done.

Griffin!! Somebody is finding a little bench time despite their summer activities. Looking good buddy.

That's looking good Griffin, especially considering it's your first AB job. I can't see the glue mark, but who cares, as long as you touch it up.  Your arrangement of alligator clips on bamboo skewers is similar to one that I use sometimes. One question, what is the jar labelled 'Windex Metallic' for ?

Cheers

Tony

taxtp

That's looking good Griffin, especially considering it's your first AB job. I can't see the glue mark, but who cares, as long as you touch it up.  Your arrangement of alligator clips on bamboo skewers is similar to one that I use sometimes. One question, what is the jar labelled 'Windex Metallic' for ?

Cheers

Tony

Thanks guys!

Tony - I use separate water tubs and windex for cleaning my metallic and non-metallic paints in an attempt to minimize transfer of metallic particles into my non-metallic paints. I think I read about it somewhere or I thought it couldn't hurt to try anyway.

When I clean my brushes I do a quick rinse with water (or I only use water when cleaning the brush while continuing with the same colour), then I do a more thorough cleaning with the windex and then I do a final clean at the end of the session with a little dish-soap and water.

Griffin

taxtp

That's looking good Griffin, especially considering it's your first AB job. I can't see the glue mark, but who cares, as long as you touch it up.  Your arrangement of alligator clips on bamboo skewers is similar to one that I use sometimes. One question, what is the jar labelled 'Windex Metallic' for ?

Cheers

Tony

Thanks guys!

Tony - I use separate water tubs and windex for cleaning my metallic and non-metallic paints in an attempt to minimize transfer of metallic particles into my non-metallic paints. I think I read about it somewhere or I thought it couldn't hurt to try anyway.

When I clean my brushes I do a quick rinse with water (or I only use water when cleaning the brush while continuing with the same colour), then I do a more thorough cleaning with the windex and then I do a final clean at the end of the session with a little dish-soap and water.

  another case for this muddler (me)  to learn a simple truth, how to easly and effectively clean my brushes.  Thanks Griffin, you make great models

VanceCrozier

Griffin!! Somebody is finding a little bench time despite their summer activities. Looking good buddy.

also we need better pictures Griffin !!

 soon i will receive too a new tooling airfix spitfire!!

Founded the time to finally remove the scout from workbench, final pictures:

here complete gallery

http://s405.photobucket.com/albums/pp139/bsyamato/modellismo/scout%20airfix%2072/Finished/

Really hard and fun work at the end ,for only 3€ kit and almost a year of discontinued work LOL 

anyone build the 48scale Mk.I / II spit? i got a stupid large wing root gap. anyone run into this problem?

Fantastic job bsyamato. Its a shame you couldnt get those windows crystal clear.

Randy, is it the wings? or is it the fuselage isnt spreading right?

Im updating the front page now.

Thanx Scorpion but the real problem are inside the clear parts, i needed to use the CA glue to fix it 

Nice looking little helicopter bsyamato.  I like especially the outdoor photos.  Looks very realistic.  Congratulations.

primed the seafire 17

nasty wing root gap i was talking about, same on both sides.

Ouch, the wings have the right camber? Fuselage isnt bowed at that point?

Many thanx  Checkmateking 

Randy, best way i found to fill similar canyons are to put  plastic strips inside and melt with tamiya glue,  instead of lots of putty . Also the strips help for a correct wings angle

bsyamato

Many thanx  Checkmateking 

Randy, best way i found to fill similar canyons are to put  plastic strips inside and melt with tamiya glue,  instead of lots of putty . Also the strips help for a correct wings angle

BIG glup!  are you sure those wings belong to that fuselage??  maybe you were sleep walking er building, and opened another model box and pulled the wings out of it??

Seriously: nice work to recover that mess.  Good Luck with the rest

Scorpiomikey

Ouch, the wings have the right camber? Fuselage isnt bowed at that point?

fuselage is on point. camber is actually correct. may be a little off. i got the same gap problem on ICM's Mk.XVI spit. 

I'm sure Steve  the plane is finished by at east two months and already keep away the dust from the shelf he's parked

Was the Amodel ki-32, similar gaps are usual on these kits but not on new airfix kits  the panel line was engraved after the melt process

I hope the spitfire PR XIX i'm waiting have not this wings gap problem... otherwise i have lots of plastic sheet 

im not worried though, i got a tamiya Mk.I

lucky bugger Ive been wanting to add a spit to my collection. but for some reason i just cant get excited about spitfires.

Not even the one flown by Al Deere!!??

Any spitfire. For some reason i just find most RAF aircraft kinda boring. I think its because theyre all painted exactly the same.

i thought the same thing about USN birds during WWII. sea blue overall. still like em though. 

Yeah, but you can line up a bunch of USN WW2 birds and they all look subtly different. So if you stuff the camo up a tad, no-ones gonna notice. But RAF. Its so precise im surprised no-ones come out with downloadable spray templates.

paint on.

tamiya XF-54

MM enamel sky