RAF 100th Anniversay GB

I use Pinterest to organise the reference photos that  I find on the web, I find it's fantastic for that, but  I haven't used it as an image hosting site.

Toshi, I'm loving your Mossie, nice work.

I've built that Tamiya Mustang III kit. It's possible the best fitting aircraft kit that I've built.

At the other end of the scale is my ICM Spitfire VII, which is progressing, despite generally very poor fit. Here it is with the fuselage halves joined and the seams all tidied up, and some photos of the kit cockpit, which is quite nicely detailed. All I've added are some Extratech etched harnesses that  I had in the stash. My plan is to close up the canopy, so I know that most of this detail won't be seen anyway.

Cheers

Tony

I think Armor_Aficionado linked the web pages instead of the actual photos he had over at Pinterest?   Image files should have an extension to them indicating they are photos, such as jpg.

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regards,

Jack

Armor_Aficionado

Hmm, I did those steps exactly as you mentioned, except my photos were uploaded to Pinterest.  Does Pinterest not count as an image-hosting site?  Because I loaded them into a shared album,and I can see lots of other folks' images shared on Pinterest, so I don't understand...

 

Hmm, I did those steps exactly as you mentioned, except my photos were uploaded to Pinterest.  Does Pinterest not count as an image-hosting site?  Because I loaded them into a shared album,and I can see lots of other folks' images shared on Pinterest, so I don't understand...

Greg

Scott, and you are underway. Looking forward to watching this as I've never built a biplane or seen one being built.

Toshi, looking good and glad everything is fitting. I was at Hobby Lobby, thought of you and had one of those Tamiya building stand things in my hands. I'm in a very cheap frame of mind right now so maybe next time. But I keep seeing how much use you get from yours.

When it's time to mask the canopy and such, please show your techique. This is something that continues to drive me batty.

CMK, nice horiz stabilizer. movable elevator, cool!

 

And do not worry about the masking of the canopy.  It would be my pleasure to walk you through the masking.  

Toshi

That's a big boy Toshi.

I finished the chipping and received my AB back from Badger last night. They replaced the needle bearing, no charge. It's so nice to have it back. I sprayed the hinomarus and rudder with it...so nice.

Next are the decals I believe.

Attaching the horizontal stabilizers.

A ruler was added for scale.

Assembly #18 &19

I'be built Tamiya's 1/32 Corasair, Mustang, Spitfire, and Zero.  They all had moveable elevators with metal pins allowing it to move, in which the modeler wanted to pose it in. 

With the Mosquito build, that option is devoid.  Although they are poseable, they do not move.  You must choose one or the other. 

Toshi

bobbaily

It's also going to be my first build using Vallejo Model Air.

Ohhh, that'll be fun. Welcome to the GB.

Great builds all-I've been lurking, admiring and looking forward to more.

Bish-if it's not too late to join up, I'd like to dive in-1/48 Tamiya RAF Mustang III, No. 112 Squadron-There's just something about the shark mouth on a Mustang.....hopefully the Tamiya decals will cooperate.

It's also going to be my first build using Vallejo Model Air....and my first build in quite a while

Thanks

Scott, and you are underway. Looking forward to watching this as I've never built a biplane or seen one being built.

Toshi, looking good and glad everything is fitting. I was at Hobby Lobby, thought of you and had one of those Tamiya building stand things in my hands. I'm in a very cheap frame of mind right now so maybe next time. But I keep seeing how much use you get from yours.

When it's time to mask the canopy and such, please show your techique. This is something that continues to drive me batty.

CMK, nice horiz stabilizer. movable elevator, cool!

Alright, let's see if this photo posting works:

The Frog Tapes have removed and I cleaned up the seams with 1200 grit sandpaper.  Everything looks good so far.

Assembly #17 Horizontal Stabilizers.

checkmateking02

Definitely getting hard to keep up with all the progress going on!

MC--looking good; will be interested to see how the chipping goes

Bish--thanks for the link; I've kind of wanted to do something like that for B-17's and crew.  This should be helpful

Toshi--it just keeps on and on looking good

scottrc--lot of parts there; I'm always befuddled and often defeated by the struts and biplane wing alignments; I hope to learn a good technique from watching your build.

And some small progress on the Hampden

rear fuselage assembled:

And--the elevator goes up

and the elevator goes down

 

Toshi

Thanks, Bish.

Test-fitting shows already that the ailerons won't be moving. They leave a huge gap between the wing and the aileron itself--so I'll just be gluing them in place.

But more about that when I get that far.

No problem check. And i am amazed you got that tail together and the elevator still moves. I don't think i achieved that on any of my old Airfix kits.

Definitely getting hard to keep up with all the progress going on!

MC--looking good; will be interested to see how the chipping goes

Bish--thanks for the link; I've kind of wanted to do something like that for B-17's and crew.  This should be helpful

Toshi--it just keeps on and on looking good

scottrc--lot of parts there; I'm always befuddled and often defeated by the struts and biplane wing alignments; I hope to learn a good technique from watching your build.

And some small progress on the Hampden

rear fuselage assembled:

And--the elevator goes up

and the elevator goes down

scottrc

Toshi, still with all those subassemblies interacting together, its amazing how well everything fits up.  

I got some more painting to simulate the wood interior last night. 

 

Your start looks great, I'm looking forward to the rest of the build.

Toshi

Off to a good start Scott.