Airliner Group Build 2014-2015

Fly-n-hi

Yeah, great booth Mike.  I'll be interested to know how it works out, too.  I need to do something like that.

I will definitely fill you guys in!    It looks like we will find out tomorrow evening

Could I join up?  Nitto 1/144 747.  Livery undecided.  I may convert it to a 747SP.

lewbud

Could I join up?  Nitto 1/144 747.  Livery undecided.  I may convert it to a 747SP.

Nitto is a Japanese company.  Don't know if they are still around.  I'll post the box art soon.  I'm running the Weekend Madness GB at the moment, and have some previous commitments before I can start this.

Okay, gents!           

        Tonight I laid the final coat a white on my MD-87. I sprayed Testers flat white so to gloss it up I will clear with Future. 

        Tonight I ALSO got to try out my new spray booth!     I must say that I am IMPRESSED!    For a $13 fan unit, it did the job -- and quite well at that!   If you have the money, it would not hurt to buy a more powerful fan; however, for the casual sprayer, this fan seems to do the trick    Tonight I set up my paint ship on the kitchen tabled covered with an old sheet (venting the booth out of a window with an insert I made out of foam board).  I sprayed a whole cup of enamel white.  When I was ifnished spraying, there was NO odor in the kitchen at all. No smog cloud lingering over me.       Tomorrow I will roll up a piece of paper , light it on fire, and blow it out. I will video the smoke so you can see how it will suck the smoke right down the fan. 

   NOTE:   I did remove the fan cover as suggested by another member to help improve the air flow (if needed).  Since my fan it on the lower end of the fan spectrum I removed it.   I also caulked around the fan unit to aid in efficiency. 

SubarooMike

Okay, gents!           

        Tonight I laid the final coat a white on my MD-87. I sprayed Testers flat white so to gloss it up I will clear with Future. 

        Tonight I ALSO got to try out my new spray booth!     I must say that I am IMPRESSED!    For a $13 fan unit, it did the job -- and quite well at that!   If you have the money, it would not hurt to buy a more powerful fan; however, for the casual sprayer, this fan seems to do the trick    Tonight I set up my paint ship on the kitchen tabled covered with an old sheet (venting the booth out of a window with an insert I made out of foam board).  I sprayed a whole cup of enamel white.  When I was ifnished spraying, there was NO odor in the kitchen at all. No smog cloud lingering over me.       Tomorrow I will roll up a piece of paper , light it on fire, and blow it out. I will video the smoke so you can see how it will suck the smoke right down the fan. 

   NOTE:   I did remove the fan cover as suggested by another member to help improve the air flow (if needed).  Since my fan it on the lower end of the fan spectrum I removed it.   I also caulked around the fan unit to aid in efficiency. 

Here's a little update with the DC-10.  Since its a -10 it doesn't use the center main landing gear.  So  I installed the part that covers the opening and filled in the panel lines:

This ends up working out really well because one of the wheels came out of the mold with some major distortion and wasn't useable.

I've assembled the engines.  The molded vortex generators looked terrible so I cut them off and made my own replacements out of thin styrene.  Below you can see that I've sanded off the vortex generators from one engine:

Then I attached the scratch built generators:

I've also painted the compressor fan steel and masked it off so that I can paint the inside of the intake and the spinner:

The next step will be to attach the engines to the wings and use Mr Surfacer to fill in the seams where they join the wing.

Finally got some work done on the 787.  In the photos, I've dry-fit the horizontal stabilizers and the engines.  The United tail logo is just a photo copy that I have scaled to fit and taped in place to see how it would look.  I've got a little more sanding and priming to do on the nose and engines.  Below are a couple more shots.

So how did the 787 go together?  Was the fit pretty good?

Happy Thanksgiving gents!     All of the builds are coming along great!  Sorry I am late posting the video of my spray-booth -- I have been very busy    Eat up! 

Happy Thanksgiving to you, too!

Fly-n-hi

So how did the 787 go together?  Was the fit pretty good?

787 is looking pretty good ! I may just have to get one myself.

B_one, the 787 is a good kit.  Decent detail for a small scale; unfortunately, the detail in the wheel wells is completely lacking.  The small parts can be VERY fragile and difficult to remove from the tree without some minor damage.  I was able to repair any of the damage and the few sink marks with Tamyia putty and Vallejo acrylic plastic putty.  As good as the fit was on the majority of the parts, I would definitely build another Zvezda kit.

Hello gents!   I have no forgot about the short video of my spray booth!   The only time I had to work the last couple of days I used to airbrush the grey on my MD-87 today.   Tomorrow I have surgery to have my wisdom teeth removed and have a cyst filled on my upper pallet. I'm scared to death LOL  But I should be able to model the next day -- just not eat    But -- modeling is more important    

    It took me able 1.5 hours to mask her for the grey on her belly and tail.     I just finished spraying so I will post pictures tomorrow ( I should be fine to unmask it -- surgery is in the morning)  of her unmasked. 

SubarooMike, she's looking good.  Here's to wishing the best for you in your recovery.  Hope all goes well!

Since I had to sand the two wing halves quite a bit to eliminate the seam I ended up destroying alot of the raised panel lines.  So I just sanded all of them off.  I bought these corroguard (spelling?) decals instead of messing with the masking and painting.  If I had preserved the lines, or if the corroguard lines were all straight, I would paint them but this is easier in the long run:

I don't know if these are any good or not but I guess we'll find out.

Here's a small update on my DC-10,  got the lead in the nose and the fuselage glued together as well as the the wing halves.  only some minor filing to on the fuselage seam.

Nice Falcon!  I'm just a few steps ahead of you.

I noticed that the leading edge slats are incorrect on the DC-10.  On the outer part of the wing, outside of the engine, the slats should have six panels.  The kit's molded detail makes it look like on big panel.  So I busted out the Dymo tape and my UMM scriber and scribed in the 6 slat panels:

I measured the distance between each panel.  You can see the black tick marks on the tape.

I've also scribed in all of the spoiler panels, as well.  They are a bit harder to see:

I'd like to join the GB please. I have an Airfix 1/144 VC-10 I've been wanting to start using some sweet British Caladonian decals I have. May add another build or two or three before the deadline though.

Chris

Welcome aboard, Chris!  I've added you to the roster.  Post a pic of the box art and I'll add it as well!

I'm using the VC-10 tanker kit with decals by TwoSix. I'm trying to post a pic but my iPad is acting up. I'll add some later.

Just thought I'd drop in real quick to see how everyone's builds are coming along.  I've finally received the decals from 26decals and they look as good as I thought they would.  Now that I have them, I can get to masking the fuslage for paint.  I couldnt find any Canadian Voodoo Grey or Boeing grey without spending $$, so I am going to use a light gull grey from MM and a pure white from MM.  The grey might be a tad too dark, but we'll give it a shot to see how it looks.  I hope to have some paint laid down by Saturday.

I'm also working on another project for a 48 hour build at the same time, so while stuff is drying for that, I can concentrate on the fine details on the 787.

Cool!  I'm looking forward to seeing the 787 finished!  Still thinking about getting one myself.

Here's the DC-10 with some primer on:

Good evening gentlemen!   With the approaching holidays I have been very busy.  I have found time to model, but I have not taken many pictures.

The MD-87:   She is almost finished!  Paint and decal work is finished.  All I have left to to apply the Bare Metal Foil to the underside of the wings and glue the landing gear on  

Better pictures will be here soon

Vega:  The floats are almost ready for paint.  After hours of fighting with the wing fitment, they were finally attached.  The empennage and wing took a lot of filler.  Perfect Plastic Putty saved the day!   I heavily pre-shaded ( I like to start off with too much and work my way back)  the airframe. I'm going for a grungy, semi-flat, flown hard and put away wet look. I applied quite a few coats of MM enamel Insignia Red.  The paint went of beautifully.   That's where I am at so far!

Subaroo, its looking good.  I know all about being busy around the holidays!  I was able to knock out a build for the 48 hour GB and it didnt turn out too bad.  Now back to finishing up the 787 and the other projects I've got waiting in the wings (pun intended)

Fly: That DC-10 is looking great ! I cant wait to see it with some paint on it.

Subaroo: The MD and Vega are looking sweet !