Fleet Air Arm Group Build

Roy,

PM signal inbound.

Frank...thanks for PM reply.....This evening (after side job work) Everything gets transferred downstairs to the new workstation! Been building a P-35 on my old drafting board....sitting on my bed. Sometimes kneeling at the bed (usually to pray)!

So my FAA Sea Glad gets unboxed tonight....(it's been crying..."build me, build me!")....and the adventure begins!

Please keep on my a** about finishing my 'getting feet wet' P-35 build. Don't want it falling by the wayside. So I need your help!

Nam 

Nam & Darren, PM read and replied

The Gannet looks sweet by the way.

Oh boy...............I just couldn't help it. I was compelled to do it. Now I've gone and done it......

I've started another FAA build!!!!

Yeaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Revell 1/32 Seafire Mk.Ib with Eduard P/E.  

So far, I've been building the Merlin engine and cutting the flash away from those old parts. I am going to get stuck into the office and airframe tomorrow if my other builds allow time.

More details as I put the kit together.

That's great news Cap'n!  How is that Revell kit?  I have considered building one of those.  Looking forward to your build report!

This calls for extra rum rations!

"What do we do with a drunker sailor...

What doo wee doo withe a drunkkun sayler...

Whaa doowee doo wis a druunkinn sayler?

Earlie inn the morninn."

Just (Now) got in from finishing side job...........CAG! beginning to question your sanity!

But I love it.

nam 

I'm just as sane as any other man here.

TANGO 1 wrote:

I'm just as sane as any other man here.

We're all in trouble now

TANGO 1 wrote:

I'm just as sane as any other man here.

Oh-oh...

Darren, I was counting on your sanity to serve as a beacon for us crazies.

My fellow crew members........fear not.

For I am still your beacon of sound judgement and leadership.

Now.....where did I leave that bottle?

*urp*....'ere it tis!

I been laying on it! (hiccup)

Before I gets Pie aye aye ayed.....are we folks still sanding off locator pins on fuze and wing halves? I used to have so much better luck doing that.....wondered if it was still in vogue.

Nam 

TANGO 1 wrote:

My fellow crew members........fear not. For I am still your beacon of sound judgement and leadership. Now.....where did I leave that bottle?

That's the spirit Cap'n!  Woohoo, cheers!

Nam- As for the locating pins, I have found that some joints fit together better with the pins, others w/o.  Guess it just depends on the fit with 'em before I cut them off.  On the Tamiya Corsair, I did remove the pins on the outer wing panels to help the fit.  HTH!

Thanks Frank!....Always figured to dry fit....but you guys are so far ahead on the curve, maybe some other technique had been established. Yes, of course you helped!

Nam 

Just make sure that you do do the dry-fitting before the drinking..................

No joy on the Seafire today.......other GB's got in the way. However! When I get stuck into this one its going to be interesting..............

Now where's that other bottle.................................

Ahhhhh..........the it be!

"To our mate Roger! Wherever he may be!" "CHEERS!!"

Huh? What?....Yessir CAG.....present and accounted for!.....uh, Sir! Glad you found your bottle Sir!

LT (jg) *urp* Namrednef upheld the hallowed foundations of this rum group, by installing heat in a mini-mart that was badly in need. Sacrificed parts of a few days Sir! (pardon my wobble) ...in order to accomplish this. They paid me money Sir!

I might add that comely lady of the Indian/Hindu persuasion (6'-2" and legs all the way to the AB)....pardon Sir!

No modeling today, Sir!.....I was rather.....er, admiring models....er....Nevermind Sir!

(Anything left in that bottle CAG?)                   *Burp* 

Lt.'Nam-

good show old chap! Sounds like you've had lots of fun with your latest model!

namrednef wrote:

Frank.........I just now, in a sober moment, noticed your goggle-eyed thing on your sig! Gosh that's funny! Where do you find this stuff?

LOL, thanks Nam!  I found it somewhere here on the forums, can't remember who used it though.

Haha....Frank.....no, I don't want any of your avatars.....but the goggle thing.....it's all you! Based on previous posts, that is.

Sorry there is no more football in the Big WI, but the Giants needed this one.....because we basically stink.

Keep an eye on CAG though......he's on some kind of mission 

The post shading has improved the EDS Grey quite a bit.  Here's the first layer of post shading.  I've just gloss coated everything so I can start decaling tomorrow and then begin weathering.

The flash is shifting the color to a bluer hue than it looks to the eye.  I think it's coming along fine.

Now, darnit! See Roy.....I can't get the oversized files for pics. I'm actually afraid to try.

But then again.....I be building now! At a bench! With real tools!....(Gotta get this PC down there so I can keep an eye on you scoundrels!)

Did a bit of sprue painting of small parts.....dry fitted some stuff.....the Sea Glad is no longer a virgin.

Man! That felt good!

Nam 

The Eduard set comes with four of the exhausts because they are a pain to bend.  I used a piece of styrene rod the same diameter as the kit exhausts and ignored the instructions which say to put them in after the fuselage is closed up.  I secured them in the proper location before the fuselage was closed and I think that's the best option.

I'm still going to hit them with some Metallizer colors to make them look burned.

I have a question about exhaust staining.  Does the TP in this bird cause the same heavy exhaust staining that you find on say a Skyraider?  I've only got museum bird for my photo references and they are clean as a whistle.  I can imaging quite a swirl along the rear fuselage from those exhausts but don't have photos yet to support my supposition.

Any of your FAA experts have any information?

Reference pics I've seen show definite evidence of exhaust staining ranging from fairly light to fairly heavy, but no where near what can be seen on Skyraiders.

Regards,  Rick

Donald my reference pics show only light exhaust staining on the Gannet.  I would go very easy replicating this staining on your model as a little will be a lot.

http://www.navy.gov.au/spc/history/images/gannet3.jpg

http://www.aeroplaneart.com.au/Images/JSJ_Fairey_Gannet_2.jpg

Cheers