Bomber GB ' 18 - '19

Going to try to make the lead floors & bulkheads as inconspicuous as possible. Plus I'm adding some cockpit sidewall detail & the compartment for the turret.

Quick bump up while Theuns is away.

Exactly 1 month after my decals were posted in Cape Town, it is now at the capetown central post office !

Theuns

What are they doing, crawling there by themselves. Well, at least the GB has plenty of time to run.

I have been making progress, but mostly it is just filling, sanding, and waiting for the japanese postal sevice. I could post some pics, but I think that it would be quite boring.

The post office was on strike as usual and now the backlog needs to be sorted out. I am not surprized that they will now claim overtime because they need to work harder and go on strike because they can not get paid overtime and performance bonusses.

That is unfortionately what happens in a country where the gov needs the unions as it will be elections next year.

Theuns

One of the guys in our model club is from S Africa and he happened to mention the postal system. He posted something in the middle of May and a couple of days later he tracked it leaving the UK. All he knows now is that its some where in Joburg.

Well, i hope you get your decals at some point, hopefully soon.

My build moe joe took a real knock last night.

My panther was basically ready to paint, all primed and sanded. I was clumsy and knocked over the bottle of tamiya thin cement onto the table, no big deal the model was not close to it.

Apon closer look I saw a nice big blotch on the windshield where a single drop must have landed melting a fat ugly spot into the "glass" section next to the framing....not sure it can be rectified :-(

Theuns

Ouch, that don't sound good.

Hi Folks,

My job pulled me out of town for 6 weeks so had not made much progress on the Stuka. I have made some since I have been home though. I can say that this kit is one of the more frustrating as far as fit issues. It is coming together but I know I have less hair as a result!

George

Your making a good job of it George despite the issues.

PA24 - the Stuka looks great despite the delay.

Theuns, that doesn't sound great and is very unlucky. If I had a spare canopy, I'd send it.

Cheers

Tony

Thanx Tnoy, I have removed the "offending" canopy, sanded it and then pollished it.

A dip in future made it less "bad" and it is now glued back. I am just going to carry on with the build so I can start concentrating on my model of the year kits for December :-)

Theuns

I painted the LE alslad, the gloss blue is much darker than in the pix

IMG_20180731_140147 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

IMG_20180731_140111 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Theuns

Thanks guys for the kind words. I am getting into painting now and will get some photos up soon. Sorry for not responding earlier, for some reason I am not getting the updates to this thread lately.

George

Ok, so I have the belly and preshading done. I have done some alclad on the wings that I am hoping to do some chipping on so will see how that goes. I am going to leave the topside where it is for now because I am heading to Phoenix tomorrow for the IPMS National show for a few days. I have never been and hope to see some neat stuff

Nice pre shading showing through the bottom paint :-)

It is the Trumpeter 1/48 F-9F I am doing now.

Theuns

Stuka is coming on nicely PA.

Looks good Theuns.

Nice work on the F-9F! Looking forward to seeing it come together!

I got the worst of the canopy marks sanded and pollished out to an acceptable limit. Yesterday I started to decal, went on OK....untill I noticed that the nose undercart has broken off and is missing  AARRG! the model seems cursed LOL

I will have to scratchbuild something to look like a nose strut.

Theuns

Here it is before I put a satin clearcoat on.

IMG_20180803_112752 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Theuns

I have put my build on hold for a week while I finish a build to enter in the IPMS show, after that I will resume progress.

After almost 3 months waiting for my decals for the F-1 I still have no joy getting them, ordering new will result in the same thing as the strike has created such a backlog that nothing is happening.

The F-9f was going well untill I broke off and lost the nose wheel strut. In the meantime I have started gluing bits together to look like a strut LOL

Theuns

Hi Theuns or Bish,

I have been an observer of this forum for quite some time now and thought I would finally try and jump onboard a group build.

Would it be possible to enter in with a 1/72 Hasegawa He111 H-6? I am really excited to get started and learn from the vast experience available from this forum.

Regards