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Posted by jinithith2 on Sunday, May 29, 2005 12:42 PM
very nice caine!
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Posted by Gilmund on Sunday, May 29, 2005 1:33 PM
caine - I´m sorry to bother you again, but can you describe how you did the tinting(thinning ratio, paint brand, paint on the inside or outside of the clear part).

Sorry that I didn't get it.

Thanks /Johan
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Posted by caine on Monday, May 30, 2005 3:26 PM
The kit canopy was already tinted, I did not do anything to it. The color was put in the parts when it was manufactured at the factory. At first I was a little disapointed that they pre-tinted the canopy, but I think it turned out to look really nice.
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Posted by Gilmund on Monday, May 30, 2005 6:30 PM
oops, I see now that you've already said that. Must be going dyslectic. Thanks caine, I think it looks great.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 20, 2005 9:39 PM
I guess I better pull this GB off the fourth page and back to the fore again!! Here are some in-progress shots of my 1/72 B-2.


Front port side, w/out cockpit or windscreen.



2 shots of the underside, showing the bomb and landing gear bays. Testors has no molded any detail into these, apparently because they are classified. I think some 'imaginative guessimation' is in order! Big Smile [:D]


Another shot of the underside.


Testors tells you to put 1 penny into the nose to hold it down....but I found that 4 20c pieces only do the trick! And they're heavier than a quarter!


The B-2's payload of 8 nuclear missiles.


Did I mention that it was big? This is the B-2 next to my 1/72 F/A-18 Hornet!

Please don't let the thread die out again! Spam it up!
Cheers,
John
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Posted by caine on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 9:09 AM
Very nice! How is that kit to build? I've considered adding it to my stealth collection. Hopefully I'll get my F-117 done in the next week or two. I'll try to keep things alive...
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 7:08 PM
It's not bad. Some of the larger moldings (wings, main fuselage) are a little tricky to put together, so patience is required for that. But all up, it's a lot of fun and builds up into a great model, very imposing!
Cheers,
John
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Posted by yardbird78 on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 9:47 PM
Nice work on the B-2. I am (was) a career SAC Weenie, so the big bombers are a favorite of mine.

Darwin, O.F. Alien [alien]

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The B-52 and me, we have grown old, gray and overweight together.

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Posted by blkhwkmatt on Monday, July 18, 2005 7:26 AM
your Spirit looks great so far, and it is a huge plane.

My Berkut has met with some FOD while waiting for the photo booth, I'll have to fix it today and then shoot the pics. Hopefully that will happen this week!!!!

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur!!! - Anything said in Latin sounds profound!

 

 

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Posted by overkillphil on Monday, July 18, 2005 10:48 AM
I don't think the lack of detail in the B-2 has anything to do with classification, I think Testor's was just sort of lazy. I really wish some other company would kit that bird out. Well, I thought this build was over. I finally ordered a replacement canopy for my X-32, so maybe I'll be able to finish this one after all since all it needs is paint and final assembly.
my favorite headache/current project: 1/48 Panda F-35 "I love the fact that dumb people don't know who they are. I hope I'm not one of them" -Scott Adams
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Posted by Gilmund on Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:13 PM
I`ve finally snaped some pictures of the 1/72 X-35 I´ve been building. It has been finished for several months, but for some reason I haven´t taken any pictures until now.

I´m not too pleased with my build, but not totally dissapointed eather. The Italeri kit was straightforward to build but has a lot of noticeable flaws; all of the gear doors are wrong, the canopy should be two pieces, the ejection seat is wrong and there are several details and markings missing, especially on the sides.

Concidering that this is the plane of the future, my guess is that there will be several more acurate kits in the years to come, so I decided to not attemt to correct some of these flaws.

The only thing I did was to open up the intakes and modify the exaust nozzle to upright position and close its doors (the kit comes with the option of nozzle down olny). I left out the national insignias because there are non on any pictures I´ve seen of the real thing. I also modified the nose gear so there is only attachment on one side.

Enough talk, it´s not much to see, but here it is...








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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 28, 2005 9:18 PM
Definitely the shape of the future! Thumbs Up [tup] Nice build, Johan! Even if it's really inaccurate, it still looks like an aircraft of some type! Tongue [:P]
Cheers,
John
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Posted by Gilmund on Friday, July 29, 2005 12:01 AM
Thanks for the kind words John!

Well, I signed up on this GB with an F-177, but since I´m still waiting for my PE-set to arrive, I starded on an X-32 and YF-23 (both Italeri 1:72). I hope this is OK with you guys...

The X-32 is coming along just fine, basicly no modifications at all. So far I have:
Painted and installed the cocpit, assembeled and painted the exhaust, painted the wheels, gear struts, gear doors and gear bays. I´ve installed lead nose weight. The intake is tricky, but I´ve sanded and primed it. It needs only a little smoothing and paint and then I can close the fuselage.

The YF-23 is coming along nice aswell, and since I´m parallell building with the X-32 I´m finished with the cocpit, gears, doors and bays.

After I painted the insides and lips of the intakes I realised that they had to be modified. You can see in the pic where I´ve cut the plastic. the intakes has been smoothed and repainted.

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Posted by Gilmund on Friday, July 29, 2005 12:46 AM
Continued...

I´ve cut of all moving parts from the YF-23 and will position them slightly dropped.

The exhaust was a bit of a challange. The YF-23 has what I guess is some sort of heat absorbing and/or resistant plates on the walls of the exhaust. The plates varies slightly in color and it looks kind of like the bottom of the space shuttle (check out theese pix).





I thought it would look cool to do something like that, so I decided to give it a shot.
First of all, the walls of the exhaust are not very deep, and they don´t touch the floor either. I had to extend them with sheet styrene both inwards and down.



This progress required constant dry fitting. When all four walls was extendend and smooth, I painted it with Moded Master Metalizer exhaust. This would be the first of four different shades in the pattern.

With the first shade painted and dry, I mesured the size of the exhaust "triangle" and looked at several reference photos and drew a scale drawing of the pattern. I then numbered the squares from 1-4 at random. I did the drawing on a large post-it, so the glue strip covers the entire triangle



I then placed a second glue strip under the one with the drawing and then cut out the #2 squares. I then got a template of all the #2 squares



This was repeated for the other numbers and them mirrored for the right side walls. I ended up with 6 different templates.

With the teplate I could paint the first shade. To make it appear more random without cutting more templates, I used different numbered templates for different walls but the same shade (Metalizer gun metal was used with template #2 on wall #1 but with template #3 on wall #2 and so on)



Here´s the second shade painted



And here´s the finihed result. It´s a bit shiny, but I think it will look better after a coat of clear flat. This took many hours to do, and the result isn´t exactly what I hoped for. But it looks somewhat interesting atleast...





Thanks for reading this long story /Johan
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Posted by adrake2 on Saturday, August 20, 2005 7:00 AM
Johan,
I disagree, it looks beautiful. I applaud your attention to detail and it's the interesting tid-bits that make models shine. Thanks for the pics and best of luck in continuing with the work.
-Aaron
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, August 20, 2005 11:52 AM
Caine - Excellent 117 looks great.
John - That B-2 is great. The sheer size is a definite crowd pleaser at shows or in your house. Do you have room for it? hehe. Now that Iv'e seen yours that is now on my todo list.
Johan - Most excellent work on your X-35 and YF-23. Thanks for explaining your "checker" procedure.

Here is some progress on my 1/72 Horten 229A. The kit came only with a seat and that was it. The rest of the pit is plastic and brass scraps, probably not accurate but looks ok I guess. The landing gear is on and the belly is painted. I added some ribs to the gear bay doors. 4 things left todo: (1) paint the wells, (2) put the gear bay doors on, (3) canopy, (4) brown and green leopard camo. I'll post more when finished.

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Posted by Gilmund on Saturday, September 3, 2005 7:24 PM
Thanks guys, I've made some progress and I'll give you an update soon.

Darwin - I don't know if you read this thread anymore but if you do I forgot to tell you that I really liked your SR-71C. What exactly is the "Hangar Queen Dress"?

Best /Johan
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Posted by Gilmund on Friday, September 9, 2005 5:05 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by johnforster
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Please don't let the thread die out again! Spam it up!
Cheers,
John


I'm trying not to... Guys, where are you, show me what you gotBig Smile [:D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, October 29, 2005 11:45 AM
Bump

Ok Im pretty much done with my Horten 229. Didn't turn out exactly as planned but that's ok. Camo was done with liquid mask. I lost the decals so they were done with stencils. I lost the antannae too, doh!!! Still needs some work done on the intakes.


EDIT: here is a pic of the belly. Nothing special. Some ribbing added to the gear doors. Had to sand the right tire to get it to sit level.
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