Weekend GB 2017-Closed for the season

8.30 pm Sunday:

Loaded up the nose with weight.

9.00 am Monday.

Assemble completed. Ready for paint.

Looking good G! Can't wait to see it in paint.

Griffin, 

Round Three then?

Tony, 

Will do.

Sorry I couldn't get in the mix this time around. I had 4 days off and the wife figured this was a "GREAT" time to get me to do her "TO DO " list.

( I did get to stare at my shop for a moment or two.)

I'll try again this weekend.

Wow!  Look at all the fine work I missed while I was out of town all week!  I just spent the last hour getting caught up on all the completed and in progress builds!

Congrats to Mr. Stecks, Sailing_Dutchman, Shamoo, Griffin25, modelcrazy, Scottrc, SteveCP, taxtp and Eagle90 on their excellent completed builds! 

I just got back home yesterday so I'll be in Round 2 this weekend.  I'll probably post a couple of pre-build pics later this week....sort of to get me into the mood!

10.00 pm Monday:

I sprayed the white primer, but then because of rain and other commitments ran out of daylight. So she's being painted by hand on the bench.

I had forgotten how much I enjoy a quiet session with a good brush.

11 hours to go. Decals next.

11.30 pm. Decals on except for the tail. I only just noticed that the rudder is white on the one I'm doing. Seemed to be worth repainting.

Finish up tomorrow before 9.00 am.

And we are done!

That clear canopy glue should be dry shortly.

Thanks, Buddy. This was a fun one.

Looks great G!  What time did you finish and which pic would like for the front page?

I finished around 8.45 this morning, just shy of 48 hours.

I guess starboard side, from the front.

Got it G.  Thank you for joining in.

I think that's all of the builders that started Round One. Round Two starts Thursday.

Very nice!

lewbud

Got it G.  Thank you for joining in.

I think that's all of the builders that started Round One. Round Two starts Thursday.

 

 

I'm checking my stash and my schedule when I get home tonight, I may have to do a rematch and beat this challenge.  

Nice finish GM! 

Great work GM

And fantastic collective effort by all so far, too many to name...

But I have just started the clock at 9:41am AEST, proof of life:

Okay eight minutes down only 2872 to go!

GMorrison

And we are done!

That clear canopy glue should be dry shortly.

Thanks, Buddy. This was a fun one.

 

That's sweet! Great job 

So nearly four hours of cutting out and cleaning up, not because there are a lot of pieces, but because the sprue gates are poorly placed. could do a bit of early gluing.

Then first visit to the paint shop

And we're up to nearly six hours

Looking good Lostagain!  Keep it up!

Thanks Tony and Lewbud

Okay, got up to 15 hours and needing a sleep...

The cockpit was completed with a bit of artistic licence. I departed from the kit's painting instructions after looking at photos.

Then the fuselage closed up. A lot of work filling the seams, checked a few times with the silver Gundam marker but there always seemed to be a bit more to do. The nose cone had it's genuine hand tooled aluminium decals installed, still trying to get them to conform with Mr Mark Softer

The wing is in two halves with a big seam on the underside trailing edge and through the flaps, got it filled with the third application of putty.

The wing is installed and setting in overnight. Hopefully some good metallic painting tomorrow. I am using Vallejo's "acrylic" Metal Colours, using a bit of thinner as it is over 30 degrees here.

Good night see you tomorrow...

And here we go

lostagain

Thanks Tony and Lewbud

Okay, got up to 15 hours and needing a sleep...

The cockpit was completed with a bit of artistic licence. I departed from the kit's painting instructions after looking at photos.

Then the fuselage closed up. A lot of work filling the seams, checked a few times with the silver Gundam marker but there always seemed to be a bit more to do. The nose cone had it's genuine hand tooled aluminium decals installed, still trying to get them to conform with Mr Mark Softer

The wing is in two halves with a big seam on the underside trailing edge and through the flaps, got it filled with the third application of putty.

The wing is installed and setting in overnight. Hopefully some good metallic painting tomorrow. I am using Vallejo's "acrylic" Metal Colours, using a bit of thinner as it is over 30 degrees here.

Good night see you tomorrow...

 

Lol!  I use artistic license in all my painting. Nice work so far

B_one fixer

And here we go

 

Good luck!

B_one fixer

And here we go

 

The paint scheme should be simple enough...

You go B1!

27 hours in I have changed my mind, I am going to do Lindbergh's lesser known night fighter...

Used Vallejo's black primer, covered pretty well. So fingers crossed, all we need now is the dull aluminium to complete the painting, then there is some decalling to do.

The nose is complete and ready to pop on the front of the fuselage when it comes out of the paint shop.

SO it is coming together slowly but surely, should be done in time...

Bonefixer,

Looking forward to the Sparkvark!

lostagain,

The nose looks fantastic.  Can't wait to see the rest.

Thanks Lew,

The paint is on, chose dull aluminium to replicate the doped fabric

Then let the paint dry for four hours before going for the decals, including my largest ever decal which took some time to place then massage the bubbles out of. These decals are a bit thick and don't conform too well. I have used multiple setting solution applications for each decal, especially the ones on the nose

and then the wing supports were put into place

Nine and a half hours to go, but I need my ugly sleep...

Got the majority of the construction done. Just some minor seam work and hopefully the paint  go down today.