Airfix Group Build 2011-2012

My first exhaust nozzle with PE. 1 down, 3 to go. A bit fiddly but worth the effort

Got the engine fitted inside and glued the fuselage together. Quite a nasty seam underside as you can see

Cheers

Bad thing Griffin, i'm actually buildind the new tooling zero and the canopy is one of best fit i never see

Casper good work to block the huge fuselage, which type of glue used, normal plastic cement?

RRB you get motivation to open flaps i like!

I finally got around to posting some more WIP pics.

I preshaded it with humbrol acrylic 33 and then gave it it's coat of NMF with tamiya AS-12.

I will be painting the Invasion stripes on next, so then I can get to work on the airbrakes, landing gear etc.

Some more work on the Harrier. Fusing the cockpit section onto the rest of the fuselage. This is being glued only on the starboard at the moment but it's necessary to temporarily tape and hold the port side so it makes a better match. There are many gaps in this kit already

Cheers

bsyamato

Griffi which mould is of spitfire, the new one?

I'm pretty sure it's the new one. I've got the canopy glued on now and tomorrow I'l finish filling the gap to level off some of the putty previously used.

bsyamato

On the harrier intake good work but the little auxiliar intakes are really a low detail for an huge kit.

Yes it's a weird kit. Some of it has good detail while important features are lacking. It's like someone decided to supersize a 1/48 kit into 1/24 or something without adding anything to compensate for the size doubling.

Cheers

Sorry for your loss Casper . Bad news are.

On the harrier intake good work but the little auxiliar intakes are really a low detail for an huge kit.

Griffi which mould is of spitfire, the new one?

Also sorry to hear about your loss, Casper.  We come to love them so much, that their passing leaves a real gap in our families. 

Griffin, that's a strange problem with the Spitfire.  I built one of these for the Spitfire GB, and the problem on mine was it was too tight to fit, and I had to sand off some of the back of the canopy to get it to sit right. 

That is a big damn gap!

What is it with Airfix and canopies????

Sorry to hear about your loss, Casper.

To prove I have actually been building:

As you can see, I have a gap between the canopy and the fuselage. I filled it with Games Workshop 2-part putty and I have the interior portion painted. This weekend, I'll get the canopy on and the putty smoothed out with Squadron Putty. Then I can mask the cockpit and get her ready for paint.

Haven't got much done this week. It has been a bit of a rough week here. One of our chihuahua's, Lychie, died this week. He was very old, 16 but much loved and will be truly missed.

Got some work done on the intake doors. This is tough work but the PE fits nicely and when painted should give a very realistic look to the plane.

Cheers

PS. My avatar will be changed to honor Lychie for the time being.

Thank you sir this little copter was a good challenge and good excuse to do more heatforming practice.

Here primed, need again more cleaning on the fogged clear parts (CA used but next time will use my new contacta clear from revell) and to add some more details on the engine and the rest of the wip will be ordinary finish work 

PS the wood piece in the rotor base is a toothpick.. could be show the dimension of this liitle copter, jut the new incoming 1/72 cayuse can beat him and the ka-18 as my litter kit of ever

the primer shows nome more sanding needed

Exquisite cockpit, Casper.

bsyamato:  it will be really fascinating to see how your copter comes out.  You've put a great deal of work into this. 

great progress Casper this is the pegasus!!

Time to get back with the scout and complete almost a kit here

Completed the clear pieces replacing! Now only the nose windows are the original ones. Also added the control stick .... i forget to do first..

clear parts glued with CA.

more pieces added and tomorrow ready to prime the little helo

that's all 

 nicely done, looks outstanding

That is some spectacular workmanship Casper.

You most certainly have reason to be chuffed with that cockpit!

Theuns

Cockpit almost done. I think it must be the most work I've done on an office so far. I'm pretty pleased with the results.

Cheers

A lot of great building going on here, gang!  Thanks for the inspiration; especially like the Hurricane and the Harrier.....awesome work on the engine and pit!  Hope to get to work on my Stuka this week......we shall see.  (I'm avoiding my honey do list of laying down new flooring.......wish me luck guys!)  

Theuns

Wow that Pegasus is looking stunning!

The pilot of the Huri was Flt. Lt. Ian Gleed of # 87 Sqn / August 1940.

I only saw a few mistakes in the pix now (darn thaings go wrong when you get frustrated and rush a build :-(   )

I will have to adjust the flat spot on the port wheel and I seem to have forgot to clean off the wash under the stab for the rudder

As for the decals, they are allot better than the very thick (and incorrect colour red) of the otherwize exelent 1/72 new tool Spit 9, the only thing is that on the Huri the finflash decal was not the correct size as you might see it doesn't quite reach the hindge line ot the top of the fin. Therefore the un-neat touchup I made LOL!

Theuns

Stuff you don't notice until you post the pictures, and nobody else notices until you tell them to look for it!

Hey theuns. fantastic looking build.

You didnt enter that kit, all ive got is the 110 and the Cessna 337 (which apears to have been dropped from your photobucket account)

Wow that Pegasus is looking stunning!

The pilot of the Huri was Flt. Lt. Ian Gleed of # 87 Sqn / August 1940.

I only saw a few mistakes in the pix now (darn thaings go wrong when you get frustrated and rush a build :-(   )

I will have to adjust the flat spot on the port wheel and I seem to have forgot to clean off the wash under the stab for the rudder

As for the decals, they are allot better than the very thick (and incorrect colour red) of the otherwize exelent 1/72 new tool Spit 9, the only thing is that on the Huri the finflash decal was not the correct size as you might see it doesn't quite reach the hindge line ot the top of the fin. Therefore the un-neat touchup I made LOL!

Theuns

I've started to add some extra piping and wiring to the engine but at this scale it's going to need a lot more.

Cheers

The Tomahawk (P-40) looks like a pretty nice kit, RRB.  It’s going together well and looking good.

Great looking engine and cockpit, Casper.  The metal finish is especially effective.

Theuns, the Hurricane turned out very well.  The colors look fine on my monitor.  I’ve noticed sometimes that Airfix decals are superior to aftermarket offerings.  Is this craft representing a particular pilot?  I see some kind of personal marking below the canopy.  I have this in my stockpile, but haven't opened it yet.

Ya got a winner there Theuns.

Theuns

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Theuns

Nicely done Theuns!

RRB nice start here, the new airfix p-40 seems a good purchase

Theuns great Hurricane

Casper again awesome harrier

Stunning work on that Harrier mate! The cockpit looks tge Biz

I can't recall if I entered this little 1/72 Hurri, but here it is anyway...............finally!  I thought is was a nice new tool like the Spit 9, but allas.

Almost no cockpit detail, not to much of a hassle as the canopy closes up nicely. I rescribed the pannellined 4 times and under all the paint you can't see it anyway, so I did a little post shading LOL!

The decals in this kit is actually nice and thinner than in the Spit 9 kit.

The coulour in the pix do not reflect acurately as the sun is very bright and the camera gets "confused"

Theuns

So more on the Airfix puzzle. Flashing galore on this kit, also ejector pin marks on almost every piece! We get spoilt building Tamiya, Dragon, Eduard and Trumpeter kits a lot of the time!

I decided to finish the engine parts off in Alclad lacquers. The black undercoat helps with creating depth in the detail of the parts.

Some more work done on the cockpit. Far from finished, possibly the most detailed office I've ever worked on.

Front view;

Front view with coaming;

Rear view and starboard sidewall;

Nearly finished the ejection seat just waiting for the harnesses to dry.

Cheers

Time to get out the mini saw.

Need to remove the cockpit. I think this kit was originally a GR.3. The instructions ask to hack this front section off and replace it with the FRS.1 version.

The tape help remove a clean area

Not quite a clean fit for the new piece but putty will help that

Cheers