All Subjects - Aussie Group Build 2005

Just our local annual show, nothing spectacular.
Have taken first place in air and land craft for the last 3 years, hopefully this year someone else will get first.
I like winning, but winning all the time gets boring after a while.

Aside from a little touch up work the paint job on the Buffalo is done at last. I will put the kit aside for 48 hours now and let the paint cure before I Future it and then the decals.
If I get the energy up I'll post a small pic tonight.
Phew, almost there.

Sean, so what are you entering in this year's show?

Cheers
Darren

The CAC Avon Sabre and a Hase A-7D Corsair II.

The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat

I was spraying the last little touchup on the underside of the Buffalo tonight and was finishing up and admiring my handiwork when I noticed the lovely overspray that is now all over the lower part of the starboard side of the fuselage

Well this leaves me with at least another nights worth of touchups till its done

Hey Sean good luck with the comp and are we two the only ones left in this build or what!!!

Cheers
Darren

Not quite Darren, I still have yet to finish the Mosquito. The canopy stil has yet to arrive and it is still waiting for the flat coat and the weathering.

Well it's no world beater, but the painting, shading and re-touching are done on the Buffalo. I'll let it cure for a couple of days now before I Future it, but the next thing will be to add undercarriage.

Good to see you're still there Dave.

Cheers
Darren

That looks really good Darren. Did you freehand that camo job or mask it? Great work.

BTW, How much time is left in this GB? I've got a P-40N that I'm going to do in 78sqn RAAF colours. I'm also entering it in the P-40 GB, but thought I might enter it in this one too if I could get it finished in time.

Well D-Day for the Bell.
Should have it finished tonight sometime.

If not, it will be the first time I've missed a completion date, but I really don't think Tom will send Kremps round for such a small violation........................I hope....

Glad to hear the Bell is almost done Sean, I'm looking forward to checking out some photos of all the work you've put in.

Daniel the build is supposed to finish at the end of June, but there is no way I'm going to meet the date. My goal is to finish and be free of this build by the end of next week, because I have a Midway Wildcat and a Nth African 109 to get moving on.
Oh and the camo on the Buffalo was done with blu tack but heavily touched up afterwards free hand.

Cheers
Darren

I don't think I'll be doing the P-40 for this GB then........

FINISHED!!!!!


Well, minus 2 fuel rails, they are taking a while to cure, Tamiya epoxy doesn't like curing in cold weather.
But other than that, she is done, and will put some pics together tomorrow

I can't express how glad I am that I didn't throw this thing against a wall!
My own fault for taking a bigger bite than my meager mouth can handle.

Till tomorrow

Well, I thought I had taken more progress pics, but guess I was wrong.

Here are some progress pics.
Sorry for the amount of pics

If you dont have round styrene, make your own!!

Bracing on the rear of the cockpit.

Filter can built from scratch.

Replacing the OEM drive shaft with metal.

Scratchbuilt I/P

Modified engine ass'y

And after all the effort, this is the end result.

The tail plane was entirely built from scratch, and control cables added and run to the c/p.
Basically all the main kit parts were either rebuilt, or adapted.
The 2 fuel tanks were entirely built from auto filler and styrene.






Cant wait for the next Aussie GB!!!!!!
Might scratchbuild a stick!!!!

WOW [:0] . That is an awesome build Sean, it may have been a lot of work but I can tell you the end result is worth it, it's just fantastic.

Darren

That looks awesome Sean. All that extra effort was worth it. Now you need to build one straight from the box so we can see where you added all that detail. Great work.

Thanks guys.
I have missed a few details, which I didn't discover until too late in the build stage, but these things happen.

Might try and find another one like pingy suggested.

Sean - good God man!!! that's fantastic!!! Kremps says thats your last one though... she said this time she means it. She noticed Doctor Thistlewaite had to up your meds 5 times during this one... She's pushing for electroshock therapy for you... And I noticed she was out warming up the truck this morning, something about making sure the battery was charged! [:0]

Seriously... AWESOME build! I am humbled by seeing workmanship like that. I was just gloating over my meager conversions on the Martlet in the N.Africa build and came here and saw THIS!!! You ought to enter this one!! BTW: love the decal, glad you finally found one!!!

Sadly I petered out on this build but next yr it will be a priority!

Thanks Tom.
Actually I found 3 sets of the RAN decals. Great set too, has 1/72, 1/32 & 1/48 Roo decals on each sheet.
Should cover me for a while!!!

And I had a chat to Kremps, we came to the mutual understanding that my recent build did me no favours, and electroshock was the best thing for me

It's ok though, she promised to be gentle!
Instead of several treatments like she usually gives us, I'll get one decent one.

She said it was to speed things up a bit, so I guess it's safe
After all, she IS a trained professional right........................right??

Wonderful result Sean - that's some test of patience. How did you build the Inst. Panel? I'm still stuck w. the B-25 on the IP, I've done the wings, tailplanes, engines etc but can't close it up. I can't imagine doing the dials on the IP by hand. Thought of buying a 2nd kit as they (should) come w. two alternate IP decals (a front & behind option) but I'm loathe to give those pricks more of my money after they've continually ignored my emails asking for the missing part.

I'm proposing a one-month extension to the close date as there seem to be a few of us lagging behind you boy scouts.

The instrument panel is actually made up of several sections of styrene, painted matt black.
The detail on these is mostly the clear film from unused a/m kits, and some PE bits thrown in for good measure.

The clear film was painted black on one side.
After drying I scratched dial detail into them, and backed it with white or interior green colours, then glued it to the styrene sections.

Easier to do than explain.

Looks fantastic Sean, Bloody good jobdefinatly worth the effort but i'll bet that your looking forward to that nice fitting Hasegawa 129.........

Darren[b] your Buffalo is looking sweet mate Should be a real winner when it's all done...........

[b]As For Me I'm still unfinished but i'm getting pretty close and i know the end date has come and gone but i'm gonna finish her anyway before i start on the next project

Carl I totally agree with you about the one month extension as hopefully by then the canopy for the mosquito should have arrived from England.

Sean , would you beleive that I visited the museum on base here in Bandiana and took a heap of detailed shots of the Sioux that they have here? Over 50 photos of a Sioux in very good condition.

Sean excellent results on your bell.

For those who wish a one month extension for the GB you have it.

Thanks South another month will be heaps of time to finish

Hey....I can enter my P-40 for this GB after all. I'm at the stage of filling and sanding the join lines left by all the inserts on the Hasegawa kit. It's a very nice kit, but they are trying to squeeze too many variants into one set of molds for my liking. I'll be doing it as "Black magic" from 78sqn RAAF.

Sounds good Daniel, I'll be looking forward to seeing Black magic all finished, speaking of P-40's i recieved my decals for Waddy's machine the other day so mine is ready to go I'll scan the colour guide to show you fellas soon but it's very similar to black magic.....

QUOTE: Originally posted by pingtang Hey....I can enter my P-40 for this GB after all. I'm at the stage of filling and sanding the join lines left by all the inserts on the Hasegawa kit. It's a very nice kit, but they are trying to squeeze too many variants into one set of molds for my liking. I'll be doing it as "Black magic" from 78sqn RAAF.

Daniel don't forget to post pictures of your P-40 when its completed.

J.S. that goes for you to.

Hey Guys,
I didn't enter this GB because I didn't htink I could get the job done in time. With a one month extension, I could really push and probably just fall short, oops, I mean make it. I've been working on a 1/48 Spitfire IX to be finished in the markins of 453 Sqn, FU-N, with full invasion stripes. This continues a 453 theme I've had going for a while and is the 3rd last Spitfire I need to finish the job off. I'm using the Ocidental (accidental ?) kit, with a Ron's Resin resin nose to correct the shape. Construction has basically been a pig and I'm still trying to get it right. Some focus to finish it in a month would really help.
I've also got a 1/200 Qantas 767-338 that is in the decalling phase, as athe wrap around red tail has given me all sorts of problems. After failing to decal it 3 times (kin of expensive really), I've masked and sprayed the wrap around Qantas red. Have you ever mased a model that already has decals on it ? Anyway, to cut a very long story very short, the decals are almost done, then I can fix the wings to the fuselage, do the engine pods, undercarriage, windscreen, and park it at Tullamarine Airport.
Can I join, it might help me get these ones done.
Cheers

Well I seem to have suffered a setback on the Buffalo tonight, well two actually. I have found out that when you don't let Future cure properly it reacts badly with Micro Set, this caused the Future under the decal to "fog" or appear faded. This is exactly the same problem I had with my BoB Spitfire only I didn't know what cause it at the time. Anyway, once I realised what cause the fogging I tried to move the decal (bad move ). Aussie decals are very thin and this only led to disaster.

So after nearly throwing the whole project in the bin (I'm not kidding) I have removed what's left of the left hand side fuselage decals and I'm going to try again later with whatever spare decals I can find . I am so bummed out over this I can't believe it.

I´m working on a Tamiya´s scout car Daimler MK II, i can finish in 15 days just need to know if i can join to the group to finish at the new deathline.
just let me know as taxtp if can join to the group.

thanks