Interceptors GB 2018 - CLOSED

MC, that Dora really came out nice.  I like it a lot!

Looks great Steve!

I'm done with the Dora. Not much to say about the kit. It's a typical 1/72 Hasegawa. Nice detail with few gaps.

Great job evryone, some great builds hapenning here.

We had a blast visiting our grandkids, gosh they grow so fast!

So the Dora is ready for paint. I shot gloss black in a marbling fashion to give tonal value to the topcoat once it is sprayed. Floquil Old Silver was randombly shot in areas to be chipped.

I'm doing the salt weathering technique. Using some water with a couple of drops of Dawn the area is brushed with the mix and salt sprinkled on. Once dry, most of the salt is removed with a toothpick. I want to have light chipping specially on the foot travel areas on the wings.

The gear doors get some salt for chipping from stones kicked up by the wheels.

The prop was sprayed Floquil Old Silver and selected areas were salted for chipping.

The spinner got the same treatment

I will be probably be having the tank NMF so it was sprayed with AK Extreme Metal Polished Aluminum. As a matter of fact, I see it as a VERY close match to Floquil Old Silver.

I still have to fine tune the salt grains on some of the areas.

Hello all,

Just a really quick update on the Sea Gladiator. I have attached the lower wing and rear stabilisers and also where required drilled the anchor points for the rigging on all wings, when I get round to it at the end. Must admit im a bit apprehensive about doing that bit as I havent done rigging in years!

I have also filled the slight gap on the cowling and sanded down smooth. I have also trimmed off the resin prop and sprayed the cowling ring in Alclad brass with a gloss black base.

Well thats it for now, I wont be able to do much more until the weekend where I will hope to add the resin dinghy pack and arrestor hook, undercarriage legs and the canopy. I hope to get all the priming done as well.

Thanks for looking.

The Grumman Martlet fits the bill and I'll update the roster. 

Anyone else need me to update something I might have missed for the build roster?

Hey,

I'm fixing to build Airfix's 1/72 Grumman Martlet Mk. IV. If you consider this to be an interceptor, then I'll join in with it.

I finished the decals and going to let everthing dry for a while before moving on to the washes.

Steve

Glad we have a bunch of building going on but its making me jealous cause I have nothing to show.  Just been filling and sanding.

Finally got started on the F-22.  The cockpit is fairly sparse, but apparently it's classified and no photos of it exist online.  I'm basing the colors on what is visible from the ground and in in-flight refueling photos, and the F-18E cockpit as a fallback.  I work in simulation and we have an F-18 trainer at work so I'm very familiar with it, and it's roughly the same era.  I'm so tempted to add detail, but since it would be speculative, and I'm treating this model as a warm-up to get back into building, I left it OOB.

Ran into a strange problem with the canopy.  It came with what looks like a little fleck of black paint on it.  Trouble is, it appears to be molded into the canopy itself.  I even tried sanding and buffing on both sides, and it didn't make a difference.  I gave up.

Thank you APG.

I completed the stripes. Now on the the rest of the decals. Hopefully the small amount of silvering will go away after another coat of gloss. That is some serious optical illusion going on there.

Hello everyone,

Got a few hours in again today on the Gladiator. I have finally assembled the fuselage together and added the front cowling, which took a bit of persuasion as the IP was making the fit a little tight. There is a very slight gap line which will need a little filler but nothing too troublesome.

I also assembled the Bristol Mercury engine, which is a little delight to put together and I think is quite detailed. A mixture of Humbrol Gun Metal, copper and Alclad Aluminium.

The final work for the day was the masking on the Gladiator canopy,and you get a great choice of two varieties plus two more of the same if you want them open. Im going for a closed canopy for this kit. Photo is a bit blurred, the iphone 5 can only do so much!

Tomorrow after work, ill fill the seam line on the cowling and add the bottom (lower) wing and rear stabilisers.

Thanks for looking.

modelcrazy, I admire your patience with those Reich defence stripes sir, that is looking very impressive! 

Cool subject Mark. I was looking at that kit just the other day.

I started on the underside stripes. Since the decals come in three sections tying a few lines together with carrier film I cut them individually to cut down on silvering. The problem is getting them straight, evenly separated and fight the optical illusion at the same time, I hope I got it, at least this half.

They are still a little wrinkly due to the setting solution.

Hello everyone, well I have finally found some time to make a start on the Airfix Gloster Gladiator for this excellent GB. My intention, if I can, is to convert the kit into a Sea Gladiator that was on HMS Eagle with 813 Naval Air Squadron in the Med in 1940 on fleet defence.

Heres the kit

I made a little progress today, in starting as usual with the cockpit, though I dont think much will be able to be seen. The cockpit tub was put together and primed with Alclad Grey primer and microfiller and British Interior green added. A light wash of Flory Models Black clay wash was used to add depth. Small details were handpainted with Humbrol matt black and Silver. Panel frames were marked with silver pencil.

Ive also made a start on the Bristol Mercury engine, and added a Yahu IP under the front cowling to show some detail. I will add a Pavla Models resin seat as it is a bit better than the kit one.

Thats it for now will try to get some time in tomorrow to work on the engine and assemble the fuselage.

Thanks for looking.

Thats some really nice progress on the 190!

I've stalled on the 6s and heading into the city in a little bit.  Going to the Intrepid with the Scouts for an overnight.  Should be interesting in more ways than one with 20 kids.

Great looking so far PJ.

Slowly working the Dora, very slowly. I got the underside painted and now it's time for the decals....mabe next month LOL.

More riveting

This red tape from HL is perfect for irregular surfaces specially on the hood.

The hood looks better now

The red tape was also used around the cowl ring

I wiped on some washable blue paint to make most of the details easier to see. I made sure not to go too deep to keep it subtle.

Thank you Tony and 68.

Looking good everyone.

I added the dark green to the camo and will start on the red.

Made some progress on the F-22, sort of.  Testing a technique I read about here to give the canopy a gold pearlescent tint.  I dipped my "canopy" in PFM with Jacquard Interference Gold Pearl EX pigment.

I’d like to jump into the GB with the HobbyBoss FW-190D. It’s been a pretty straight forward build to this point as can be seen in the following pics. Since this is a straight OOB build, I’m not adding anything extra. Since it doesn’t come with a pilot, I’m kind of dismayed there isn’t any seatbelts included. I also don’t see any advantage to the use of PE on the tiny parts of the cockpit. This was brush painted with MM acrylics. This was brush painted with MM acrylics. Appreciate any thoughts and tips for improvement.

Mike

Hey great job all around gents, lots of work going on.

I decided not to go plum loco with rivet counting on this one and will be adding just the basics to add a little more detail to the surface. It's a fine model but Hasegawa should have included at least some of the riveting.

Heck if Jerry Crandall built several of these and didn't do the riveting (at least on some) so that's good enough for me.

The Dora has a ton of riveting and I do mean a TON. I have an old Kookaburra Technical Publications  for the FW 190 and Ta 152 which has some really nice detailed aircraft diagrams showing all the riveting. It's easier to do this task prior to assembling the model so the next one will get ALL of the darn rivets.

I used my Verlinden scribing set for this one, taping down the soft metal ruler to use as a guide. Click on the image for a closeup.

The effect is subbtle and effective. The Micro Mark riveting set does a fine job using slight pressure as the wheel is rolled. I then hit the area with a 4,000 grit pad to knock down the raised plastic.

The flaps are set almost vertical and they just don't look right as is.

Using the UMM saw, I carefully made light cuts on the attachment points and bent them so the flaps would have a lighter angle.

I used some Plast I Weld on the bend points to weld shut the cuts and let them dry overnight. Now the angle is lesser and looks better.

The prop spinner was also missing the riveting

I carefully rolled the riveting tool on the spinner.

Now to do the rest of the wings and some riveting on the fuselage, again just the basics.

Looking forward to seeing the 190 completed.  I have a set of EagleCals in 1/48 scale with the same paint scheme I want to get to.

I added the RLM 76 light blue and 82 light green today, just need to apply the RLM 83 dark green tomorrow then I can work on the red underside.

68, I reallyneed to build a 106 one of these days,

I'm quite far behind with my Dora. I masked the canopy which is by far my least favorite thing to do and laid down a black base coat. Now I can get on with more fun things.

Here are my 3 Monogram F-106s after getting the fusalages together.  I notice the plastic on the newer kits reacted a little different than the older one while glueing the seams.  Things moved along quicker on the older kit.

PJ - Nice work on the Dora!

Hammer - Good to here of your progress and I know all about those seams.

Jet Jaguar - Welcome back to the modeling world and welcom aboard!

MC - Looking forward to seeing some paint on the 190.

Was getting ready to start painting the Dora when I realized I forgot to add the missing rivets which is substantial. There are some flush rivets that need the jeweler's beading tool to make them but my small set is no where to be found so I ordered a better set on ebay. This will set me back some so to be continued soon. While looking for my missing beading set I found my Batman picture autographed by Adam West that I have been looking for months!

Welcome back to the fold.  15 years, not much more than a little surface rust there.  I was away for 40, and I still find rust flakes everywhere I look on the bench, and more falling everytime I touch anything.