♠ Allied Aces GB (WW1 -WW2) April 2006 Start - Sept 2006 Finish

Well my invasion stripes are painted.  Now for the touch up with the brush.  No matter how dilligent I am in the application of masks there is always bleed through.  This time is black onto white. !

I should have some photos up within the next week or so...

Karl, Very nice work on the interior.

Chris, Hang in there guy, should be lots of choices at the LHS.

Regards,  Rick

YAHOO !!!

Way to go Jay!!! 

to Master Matthew Nicholas

I hope the Mrs. is well...did you get her roses?  Remember those points we talked about in earlier posts?

  to the wonderful world of parenting!  No joking, it is the greatest thing ever...period!

It's a...BOY!

As some may have noticed, I haven't been around lately because on May 22 my wife went into labour and at 1:15am on May 23, little Matthew Nicholas Boutin was born.  So here's a little picture of him a few days after we got home.  The last week has been really crazy so to all the people I am in GB's with, all bets or off as to whether or not I'll finish them in time.  If you want to see more pics, you can go to: http://s70.photobucket.com/albums/i107/mattapriljay/

Glamorous Glen II is starting to come along.  Now in the "pick and shovel" phase of masking the invasion stripes.

The Tamiya kit is wonderful.  The detail of the panel linel and surface detail is great!  After working on Airfix kits for the OOTB Build and a vac form a shake and bake is nice!

Thanks Karl,  My wife is doing much better the Doc's had a look at this week and were happy enough to take of the cast or maybe it was her threat to beat them with it I also have some old builds that I practice on it's just a question of more practice I'm not consistant in my paint application.

Dave  I'll keep that in mind next time I use silly putty thanks for your all coments are appreciated.

Cheers

Bear

superbear wrote:

I'm having control problems  with paint flow and painting in general, when the silly putty was removed there were quite a few ridges.

Hi Dave,  I'm using a Badger 350 with MM enamel paint and it works fine the problem is more with me  before I started I went through the paint an AB section for hint & tips.  The end result being I need way more practice on my follow through I'm getting to much paint on the build in one shot.   Practice makes perfect I guess I'll have to pick up a few extra kits to practice on

Cheers

Bear

Hi All well I'm on a roll here are the progress pics promised in my last post (yes I know it's been a while).

Since those pics were taken I've assembled the fuselage and wing assy,  filled the gaps (love those Airfill kits) and started my least favorite part of the build painting.  The underside and tail band went well, then I started the upper surface.  The gray went on well then I used silly putty to mask and started to apply the DK green and this is were things start falling appart.  I'm having control problems  with paint flow and painting in general, when the silly putty was removed there were quite a few ridges. So now it's sanding & paint touch ups I'm hoping I have'nt wrecked it.  Anyway that's my sad tale thanks for listening, more later.

Cheers

Bear   

Jay-yes, that (James) is the one I'm doing.

Thanks

Joe, in the past I've used a light grey as primer and it seemed to turn out alright.  For my Canso in the BofA GB I plan on doing that as the plastic styrene is black!. 

Now that I have the Canso fuselage glued and sanded, I'm going to try really hard to get the cp of my Spitfire together and installed so I can glue the fuselage together and make it look like I've done something on this one.

progress report:

I chickened out on the resin fuselage for the P51D-5, I cut and filled the Tamiya kit.  The wings are on the fuselage closed and stabilizers on.  Now to paint the invasion stripes.  Any one out there have any tips for dealing with white, I hate painting white!

Well I have a little progress to report on finally.  The replacement seat for the one I lost from my P-47 arrived today from the US thanks to Geoff (gedenke) over at the P-47 GB.    I painted it up this evening so now I should be able to get back to work on this bad boy and finish the front office so the rest of the kit can get moving.

Cheers 

Bob, glad I'm not the only indecisive one around here!

Jay, thanks for updating the front page.

I broke the cellophane on the Eduard Nieuport 11 last night, just to take a looksie, but ended up assembling some of the cockpit.

Detail is great, and neither the 11 nor the 17 should take long to complete, especially as I'm going for single colour camo schemes. I want a break after the Greif!

Karl

bump...and while I'm here...Jay-do you mind if I change my build (I haven't started yet-up to my eyeballs elesewhere) to John J. England's P-51A (CBI theater).  It will be the Accurate Miniature 1/48th P-51A.

Thanks