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

To all our down under friends, happy ANZAC day! 

Still no progress on the Spitfire.

WOW! Nice work there big Term!  Maybe one day I can get one out that looks that good :)

I have made a bit of progress on my Yak, and will post some pics soon.  I have the pit finished and have attached the halves together.  Time for the wings and some filler :/

SIGH Well the postal service must have something against Jules and I exchainging mail my kit that he was sending me got returned to him for some reason goddang i hate the postal service sometimes

On to a brighter note GREAT job Termin8or I hope we get to see more from you

WHOOPIEEE!!! TTFN!!

Geez Chris I think the postal gods are out to get you on this one are you going to try again?

Progress wise for me things been pretty quite for a while as I have been recovering from illness.  You would think that a week off work would just be solid bench time but it's turned out I just haven't had the energy.  The one thing I did do yesterday was clear coat the cockpit in preparation for a wash.

Cheers.

Okay, some progress on the Spitfire, I got the side wall bits in the cp glued on, now I just have to finish painting them.  I also painted the red-brown colour of the bakelite(?) seat.  I'll have to add another coat to it but it was a custom mix!  Hopefully I can get more on the cp done soon.

All I am painting up my Tamiya 1/48 P-47 Bubbletop at the moment and I' struck a little snag, I seem to have somehow lost the pilot’s seat from the sprue.  So does anyone have a spare seat for a Tamiya P-47 that they no longer need that they'd be willing to send to me?  I'd be more than happy to pay for postage and would be extremely grateful, otherwise it looks like an order to Ultracast coming up.

Cheers

How do you lose a pilots seat?  .  I'm pretty sure I have a few in the spares stash.  Only problem will be finding them.  I'll look later on & let you know.

Regards,  Rick

rjkplasticmod wrote:

How do you lose a pilots seat?  .  I'm pretty sure I have a few in the spares stash.  Only problem will be finding them.  I'll look later on & let you know. Regards,  Rick

I have absolutely no idea Rick, I have no memory of actually taking it of the sprue at all and from the looks of the sprue itself it appears to have been torn or broken off rather than cut (all those episodes of CSI coming in handy ).  Anyway it's gone.

Geoff (gedenke) over on the P-47 GB has a spare seat that he has offered to send me but thanks very much for looking Rick.

Joe, my good lady wife air mailed off your reference CD last Monday so it shouldn't be too far away.

Cheers

Darren, I did find a few.  If you lose the one from Geoff, I'd be happy  to send you one.  Maybe 2 just to be sure .

Regards, Rick

This is the only GB that I have any progress to report.  I'm at the painting stage, actualy this weekend I'll be removing the mask's (with fingers crossed) and see if I screwed up or if it turns up ok (painting is the one skill I need to realy work on).  the weather here is going to be seriously yukky this weekend so  if all goes well with the removal of the mask  I'll paint the yellow leading edge and assemble the gears and work on the canopy.  Sorry no pics for a bit one of the boys borrowed our camera and I probably won't see it for a week or so (I hope).  I hope you all have a great modeling weekend.

GO OILERS GO

Cheers

Bear

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

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

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 

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!

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.

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

Thanks

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   

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

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.

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