Fleet Air Arm Group Build

"Now hear this!"

In recognition of his dedicated service to the FAWGB , we herby bestow on our mate Bondoman the rank of Lt.Cmr. 

Well done!

Buddy,

I am not so clever on FS colours- have you got a picture of the colour scheme? I could probably match it to my Humbrol colours, then cross ref it to my conversion chart. A tad long winded, but  I'll  do my best to help you out.

Can any of our Amercian mates help us out on this one?   

Am begining to procure paint for the A-7 and have a question.  One of the colors is FS33711, the closest match I've found so far is FS3722.  My question is how big of a difference is there between the two shades?

Buddy 

Cor, yer Holinesses! I'm agrinned and aginned and agrained! Nuthin pleases me more than to serve your Eminences as the whip what keeps the men in a line in'a mornin. I'm ready to take the position, an' if it means kickin' Marines in their bunks at 2 bells, it's a life for me, your Providencinesses.

Rub me chin w' a cutlass, pick me teeth w' a dirk, rinse me teeth w' rum. It'll be a good deck I run, I swear, and swear I will and often, your Manlinesses.

Aye, where does a man get a real drink around here, and where's Roger?

Hawkins that useless cabin boy, his arse ain't worth a farthin' till he shows up for report.

Darn your eyes, and the last man to fall in goes over the side an' out wit' the tide till we have some of yer Worshipnesses discipline enforced 'round here.

All hands on deck! kneecaps don't count and vomit in the cat rails is punishable by running engine FOD removal detail!!

namrednef wrote:

XO Daywalker! Thank you for the endorsement! I shall prove worthy! Now....to business! I humbly submit that the scurvy denizen of the foc'sle Bondoman be given a shove up! With all the new conscripts coming aboard.....there should be a savvy Master-At-Arms type to keep a wary eye upon them! I believe he is our man! At risk of my own good fortune......I .....(ahem!) endorse him! Sirs!

Aye, ye earned it!  As for your endorsement of Bondoman as MAster-At-Arms, I second that!

Cheers!

TANGO 1 wrote:

Well done Lt.'Nam! You have passed your flight observer test !! Take one step forward and promote yourself to Lt.Cdr. Now, get back to work or ye be feelin' the cat 'o nine tails!!

Aye CAG!.....I suppose I shall have to clean up me.....er my, language! Consider it done Sir! I shall redouble my efforts to add to the gaggle on the flight deck!

XO Daywalker! Thank you for the endorsement! I shall prove worthy!

....at the same time I find meself profoundly overwhelmed and proud! Sirs! I wish to return the tots!

Now....to business! I humbly submit that the scurvy denizen of the foc'sle Bondoman be given a shove up! With all the new conscripts coming aboard.....there should be a savvy Master-At-Arms type to keep a wary eye upon them! I believe he is our man! At risk of my own good fortune......I .....(ahem!) endorse him! Sirs!

I remain..........your greatful servant,

Lt.Cdr Namrednef

(now I be back to the bilge.....tis good building seas!)

TANGO 1 wrote:

I need more planes on my flightdeck!!

YESSIR!!!

I'm on it CAG! 

Cheers everyone!

CONGRATS NAM!!!

This calls for another round by thunder!!!

Well done Lt.'Nam!

You have passed your flight observer test !! Take one step forward and promote yourself to Lt.Cdr.

Now, get back to work or ye be feelin' the cat 'o nine tails!!

TANGO 1 wrote:

haveb

'haveb?'......no hangovers allowed? Come clean! Where Ye been Cag?

We be doin' our work.....who wouldn't be under the guidance of such a benevolent Dictato--------er, CAG!?

By Thunder! We haveb just hit 220 pages!!

More Rum!!

There will be no hangovers on our flightdeck gentlemen........

Now, go forth my rum enfused glue glogging gladiators of plastic perfection and build! build! build!

I need more planes on my flightdeck!!

Bloody Oath, where's me clean shirt? It's thirty minutes to Mai Tai, by the look'o the sun!

Be thankin' ye sir and I feel a hangover a'comin on. I was spendin' the last o'two days spewing inta ma (photo) bucket, but I'll be sparin' the young'uns the details!

I bee needin' a tot CAG! Thank Ye!

Toasts to one and all!

Gentlemen,

it is Friday evening..........I invite you all to the Officers mess for a toast!

To us and those like us....................CHEERS!

Now, lets party!!

Have a good one lads!  

"Darn it!-I'll catch that rum swilling British   if its the last thing I do!" 

"Sir,  you're not gonna like this........."

"What is it SGT.?"

"Its Tango 1 Sir............he said to tell you thanks for the loan of your truck, it was very handy for moving all that booze from the PX to the carrier......

"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Buddy!

I just checked out your A-7-nice progress there matey! I definately want to work on the ones I have in my stash after seeing yours!

Red13Bar wrote:

Hello all, Red 13 reporting to wheelhouse as ordered! The new FM-2's just rolled off the production line at GM.  Ours just landed on the forward flight deck.  Tell the captain and XO to have a look, mates! -Red P.S.  Anuther' fine rum lass for yah; on the nose...

Nice work Red! I especially like your colour scheme and markings-nice!!

simpilot34 wrote:

Here's the Stringbag on her feet finally! Got them on over the weekend along with the tailplane struts. The next steps will be reattaching the rear gun and start adding the PE bits. The PE bits are going to be another WIP as I still haven't gotten the other PE set yet. Will see if I can source the same one from somewhere else me thinks. Here she is, enjoy! Cheers, Richie

Very nice work Richie! I must admit to being quite envious!  Beautiful painting!

Red13Bar wrote:

Hello all, Red here. Might I join?  I was thinking about doing an F-14 or something.  -later Red

Hi Red,

Of course you may join us! I hope you have read our rules and regs on page 1.

I will add your name to our roll of honour.

"DETAIL!"

"HAND SALUTE!"

Welcome to our merry boat Red!

Red MHO it does sound like the putty was the problem. If you brushed the future on you shouldn't have a pebbly finish. That would occur if you were to far away with the airbrush as it would be drying before it hit the plane. Better luck next time mate. Practice makes perfect, and its a bloody good excuse to build another model!

Buddy, I know all to well about the fingerprints with liquid cement. I work in aviation so the stuff is readily available. Now where did I put those empty bottles..... Great tips, Thanks!!

Cheers, Richie

Hmmm...Now that you mention it, I didn't prime it at all...  I've had pretty good times in the past with the combo I use now: flat paint from MM and tamiya, with coat of future on top.  No primer.  Like I said, I did use a lot of putty in that area, and some of it wouldn't come off.  That could've casued the pebbly look I think.  Thanks for the tip.  I'll try the tamiya primer on my next one...

As for the future problem, I recall the future going on with some difficulty, like it was thicker almost...That may be the problem.  The rest of the plane looks fine with a very smooth surface.  I did mix a little water with the future in those areas.  Just to clarify, I brush on my future.

Thanks for the tips, guys.

-Red

Richie,

I decant the MEK into a 3/4 oz jar then go from there.  The bottle has a nice layer of Squadron White sediment at the bottom so I can use straight MEK from the top if I just need to glue/melt something together, or I can load the brush up with the gunk from the bottom and glue and fill at the same time.  I was working on a set of 251 tracks with a buddy of mine and he taught me the trick of using the MEK and Testors tube glue.  While not as fast as accelerator and superglue, you do have to work quickly and it's easier to control.  In the case of the tracks it was put two links together, dip brush in MEK then Testors, put small drop on the pad base, put pad on then repeat.  A small puddle of tube glue was good for 2-3 pads, but when I was done I had a nice set of workable links.  In the case of the Corsair, I applied the tube glue first, put the fuselage pieces together, then worked my way around with the MEK.  The MEK also smoothes out the glue that may ooze out when the halves are squeezed together.  Just remember, like any liquid cement you can leave fingerprints if you're not careful.

Buddy 

Buddy, it's definately going to have a fish on it. I wasn't going to hang it until I had that other PE set as it has props and fins for the fish on it. That's the only reason its not there yet. I was not about to hang a tree trunk with fat fins underneath her. Soon it will look proper. Useful tips for MEK there. Didn't know you could accelerate tube glue with it or thin Squadron putty. Thanks!

Cheers, Richie

Richie,

Congrats on finding the PE set.  The old string bag looks good, are you gonna hang a fish on it or leave it unarmed?  Regarding the MEK, when you think about it, pretty much everything on our work tables is pretty nasty stuff.  However, it fairly useful stuff, you can glue stuff together, thin putty with it (squadron's at least), and use it as an accelerator for tube glue. 

Red,

In answer to your question, I've never heard of Squadron Putty and acrylic paint not getting along, but anything's possible.  I did think of something else that may have caused the pebble finish on your 'cat.  It's possible that the Future didn't go on wet enough and caused the pebbly finish.  One of the guys on the space modeler's board at Yahoo groups had the same thing to a Saturn V he was building.  One of the guy's over there wrote that he had to do 4 apps of Future before he got a suitable finish.

Buddy

Greg,

Thanks for the help.  Will try to remember the next time I post pics.

Richie and Frank,

Thanks for the kind words.

Red,

The FM-2 looks good, but now you know why you don't see many built.  What did you use to prime it with before you painted?  I only use Tamiya's primer with the exception being the rare occasion when I build WW2 German armor.  It goes on thin and won't cover up fine detail.  Since it's a cool lacquer, you can shoot pretty much anything on it, the only paint I've heard that it has problems with is automotive lacquer used on full size cars.  Get the big can you can get 2-3 models out of a can if you're careful.

Buddy 

Yeah, sorry about the lighting.  I don't have a good place to take photos; I'm livin' in the brig, mates!

I checked on the paint.  There was a substantial amount of putty used in the nose.  No matter who builds this kit, there is a 1/16th inch gap in the fuselage.  All that pebbly crud is putty that I couldn't scrub off; and I don't think the paint has much to do with it.  I use exclusively flat paints, BTW, with a coat of future over the top.  Then again, has anyone had bad experiences with acrylics and Squadron WP used together?  Could that cause it? Call the ship's chemist!

The decals for this kit are wonderful.  I would buy it again for the decals, if anything...

-Red

Red, she looks good mate!

Buddy the SLUF lives! Love the pit! Just a word of caution mate, be careful with that MEK. Nasty stuff!

That other PE kit I have been talking about for the Stringbag has been sourced from another place(ebay of all places) and should be in my hands in 7-14 days YAYYYYYYY!!!!!! Found it by googling the ACE part#. Live and learn I guess.

Cheers, Richie

Okay Red13Bar! Love the paint scheme....a little orange-peel going on......nice decals!

Turn some more light on the subject though!

Hello all, Red 13 reporting to wheelhouse as ordered!

The new FM-2's just rolled off the production line at GM.  Ours just landed on the forward flight deck.  Tell the captain and XO to have a look, mates!

-Red

P.S.  Anuther' fine rum lass for yah; on the nose...