Fredthefoot`s Models

 

 

DasBeav

Well, here is where I am at. After a weeks break of fun and sun, I went back to the Smer Supermarine Walrus. While I can say the scratch-building of the interior was fun, assembling this sad excuse of a model has been testing my patience. You could build another model with all of the styrene I have cut, filed, and sanded off this mound of fecal matter. Has a model ever fallen off a bench and been accidently stepped on 3 or 4 times? LOL After breaking and bending a few spars and PSR a ton of gaps and such, it was off to primer...it fell off the stand and broke off the tail wheel. NO MORE PRIMING TONIGHT!

P.S. I do like the Stnylrez.

Pray for me...

Doug

 

 

 

 

     looking good despite your problems mate , but dreading opening the box as  i got this kit in my tiny stash so i will be building it lol

 

 

At least now you know what your in for.

DasBeav

Well, here is where I am at. After a weeks break of fun and sun, I went back to the Smer Supermarine Walrus. While I can say the scratch-building of the interior was fun, assembling this sad excuse of a model has been testing my patience. You could build another model with all of the styrene I have cut, filed, and sanded off this mound of fecal matter. Has a model ever fallen off a bench and been accidently stepped on 3 or 4 times? LOL After breaking and bending a few spars and PSR a ton of gaps and such, it was off to primer...it fell off the stand and broke off the tail wheel. NO MORE PRIMING TONIGHT!

P.S. I do like the Stnylrez.

Pray for me...

Doug

 

Doug, i do like how you worded that most, gave me a big smile, just what i ned to start my day.

My thoughts are with you, but it is looking good. I do hope it doesn't mean a nasty accident.

damouav

Wise you are master Bish, wise You are.

 

Better keep that to yourself

Some kits just seem to be born under a bad moon, Doug.  But it's still looking good from this angle.

Well, here is where I am at. After a weeks break of fun and sun, I went back to the Smer Supermarine Walrus. While I can say the scratch-building of the interior was fun, assembling this sad excuse of a model has been testing my patience. You could build another model with all of the styrene I have cut, filed, and sanded off this mound of fecal matter. Has a model ever fallen off a bench and been accidently stepped on 3 or 4 times? LOL After breaking and bending a few spars and PSR a ton of gaps and such, it was off to primer...it fell off the stand and broke off the tail wheel. NO MORE PRIMING TONIGHT!

P.S. I do like the Stnylrez.

Pray for me...

Doug

Thanks CM, I very much appreciate yours and others continued encouragement.

Thank You.

damouav:  one great looking Mosquito, despite the decal problems.  Good work!

WOW!  That mock up was amazing!  Now that would be a cool dio to do!  LOL!

Eagle90

 

Bish

 

 

plasticjunkie

Great looking trio Bobby specially like the air refueling scene. Wasn't a Vulcan in one of the James Bond films from the mid 60's?

 

 

 

 

Ye, Thunderball. They used 2 real Vulcans in the movie as wel as a full sized mock up.

 

 

 

 

Thunderball!  That was it!  2 real ones?!  Wow!  I bet that cost a pretty penny to do.

 

 

They were still in active service at the time. One was used in ground shots the other in flight. There is some info here along with a pic of the mock up they used for the under water scenes.

http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Avro_Vulcan

Gamera

Bobby: WOW, the in-flight refueling display looks awesome!!! And love the Vulcan!

Fred: Nice work there! Best thing I can say is if you can't find reference photos probably no one else can either to tell you that you're wrong! 

Damouav: Ack, that sucks about the decals peeling up! Still looks like you have the matter in hand, she's looking good. 

 

Thank you sir!  The refueling turned out better then I had hoped it would.  Looks really cool!  The Vulcan...wow, like I said, the most difficult camo scheme I have done yet.  Might have just been because of its size, but it took a while to get that one done.

Bobby

Bish

 

 

plasticjunkie

Great looking trio Bobby specially like the air refueling scene. Wasn't a Vulcan in one of the James Bond films from the mid 60's?

 

 

 

 

Ye, Thunderball. They used 2 real Vulcans in the movie as wel as a full sized mock up.

 

Thunderball!  That was it!  2 real ones?!  Wow!  I bet that cost a pretty penny to do.

plasticjunkie

Great looking trio Bobby specially like the air refueling scene. Wasn't a Vulcan in one of the James Bond films from the mid 60's?

 

Hey PJ!  Thank you sir!  And I was thinking the same thing!  I remember that movie.  They landed in the water, it sank and they grabbed the nukes off of them.  Ahhh, the memories.  LOL!

Bobby

Rigidrider

Bobby... I agree, Vulcan is a BEAUTIFUL aircraft, well done! 

Bish, I was at the LHS for my IPMS club meeting today, and the Mgr showed me the Airfix (he said) New Tooled Vulcan. It lookes AWESOME!, 1/72nd scale and its a big kit!. Think I'll have to break down and get one soon as the funds become available. 

Take care...

Doug

 

 

Thank you sir!  She is looking great hanging up there.  Had to have her banking a bit to be able to see the very cool camo scheme she had on her.  It was a lot of work on a model...I can't imagine how much work it took to do in real life!

Bobby

Bish

Blimey Bobby, so really nice work there and great in flight shots. I like the one of the Vulcan from underneath. Been fortunate enough to see that a few times with the doors open, thats an impressive site. And the in flight re-fueling shot is excellently done buddy.

Thanks buddy, i really do hope Airfix will present us with new tooled Vulcan and Vicor tankers soon, got to get me those.

 

Thank you sir!  You are hosting one of the best GB's this year and it was a pleasure and honor to be part of it.  The kits had to have a bit of work done to them (and the year of bad decals continues), but they are such beautiful airplanes, that they just look so dang cool hanging up there.  Thank you again!

Bobby

checkmateking02

Outstanding work, Bobby.  They look great in flying mode!

Gun bays are coming along very nicely, Fred.

 

Thank you sir!  They turned out better then I'd hoped!

Bobby

tempestjohnny

Bobby that is cool looking.

 

 

Fred great looking gun bays

 

Thank you sir!  It was a great GB and a blast to builf them.

Bobby

jgeratic

Hi Bobby, a super great job on that trio.

I really like the animated feel of the inflight refuelling, and those guitar strings worked out perfect.

regards,

Jack

 

Thank you sir!  Yeah, I wasn't sure how the hanging of the builds would be, but I think they came out pretty cool.  The guitar strings really helped with the look of teh hoses.

Bobby

Fredthefoot`s Models

they look great booby well done mate :)

 

Thank you sir!  They were great kits to build!

Bobby

Happy Father's Day to all of you who are Dads . . . 

Although they may not know it - I have my kids to thank for getting me back into the hobby of modeling.  It started by helping my son when he was given a Star Wars Pod Racer model for his birthday (way back before the turn of the millenium).  That reminded me of how much I enjoyed modeling, and it's been an enjoyable pass-time ever since.

Thanks Kids !

Chrisdad

Thanks Gamera. I didnt like the AM decals anyway, but she is looking more and more like a mossie.

Bobby: WOW, the in-flight refueling display looks awesome!!! And love the Vulcan!

Fred: Nice work there! Best thing I can say is if you can't find reference photos probably no one else can either to tell you that you're wrong! 

Damouav: Ack, that sucks about the decals peeling up! Still looks like you have the matter in hand, she's looking good. 

Wise you are master Bish, wise You are.

damouav

Bish - Thanks, probably shouldn't be as harsh as I am, seeing this in my 2nd build in a long time.

Fred - Thanks for your feedback, Really like your Hurricane too, well done.

 

Don't worry, i think most of us are over crtical of our own work and i think that in part is what pushes us to improve.

Bish - Thanks, probably shouldn't be as harsh as I am, seeing this is only my 2nd build in a long time.

Fred - Thanks for your feedback, Really like your Hurricane too, well done.

Rigidrider

Bobby... I agree, Vulcan is a BEAUTIFUL aircraft, well done! 

Bish, I was at the LHS for my IPMS club meeting today, and the Mgr showed me the Airfix (he said) New Tooled Vulcan. It lookes AWESOME!, 1/72nd scale and its a big kit!. Think I'll have to break down and get one soon as the funds become available. 

Take care...

Doug

 

 

MMM, interesting. Not heard anything about that. Airfix are the only company to have released a 72nd Vulcan. Going to have to look into that. Nothing on the Airfix site.

Not dull at all Damian. Looking realy nice.

plasticjunkie

Great looking trio Bobby specially like the air refueling scene. Wasn't a Vulcan in one of the James Bond films from the mid 60's?

 

Ye, Thunderball. They used 2 real Vulcans in the movie as wel as a full sized mock up.

With all this great work going, my update is rather dull in comparison.

So, I have completed the decaling, added almost all of the small parts and carried out touch ups. I removed the PE uder carridge door hinges as they kept falling off and was closed to using a hammer on the build... I removed the filler from the early holes in the gear doors and used some .64mm round styrene tube and glued them in, job done. Sometimes adding the extra detail is not worth it, this for me was one of them.

I taped over the wing roundals, as I needed to mask the wing tips for painting after installing the antennans. On removing the tape, parts of the wing roundal decals lifted off even after a seal coat of gloss varnish. As I was not at all happy with the poor quality of the original DK Decals, I decided to remove both and used the kit versions, which are slighly darker than used on the fuselage, but the went down without a problem.

I used Tamiya Black panel line enamel with satisfactory results and AB coated the entire model with MRP Matt Varnish. This has hidden about 80% of the dust and other stuff captured in the gloss coat, which I'm happy with. The MRP Matt Varnish went down first time without a single issue and was dry within minutes to a silky smooth finish, take that Alclag Aqua Gloss!

I'm just about done, I decided some time back to make a diorama bases for some of my builds. So i have started, just waiting on some materials to finish it. I need to add the main cockpit door, remove the window masks and add the ladder and we are done.