Fleet Air Arm Group Build

See?  Here I am at home wearing one I keep at the model bench (my girlfriend just took this 10 minutes ago!)  Funny, I'm wearing the same shirt as the other one...

Daywalker wrote:

Excellent work there Bob!  I am very excited to see that you carried through to the end on this build.  Roy- As to your pool, I DO I DO!  I wear it at work, I wear it at home, I wear it...

Soon, very soon

Roy

Nice work Bob.  I like the all black look

Roy, my eyes don't work too good anymore either at my age but I usually just have my reading glasses on and use my magnifying lamp for the fine detail.  One of these days I may give the optivisor a go.  

I'm almost done the interior detail on the Fulmar.  Had to scratch it all based on another build up I saw on line.  Didn't get much done this weekend though as I worked yesterday and spent most of today cleaning snow off the car then driving kids somewhere, repeat that about five times, then finish the day off shoveling the driveway (it's still snowing) and getting a couple of toboggan runs in with the kids in the park accross the street.  Man am I tired.

Excellent work there Bob!  I am very excited to see that you carried through to the end on this build. 

Roy-

As to your pool, I DO I DO!  I wear it at work, I wear it at home, I wear it...

Rick & Roy-thanks.

Roy-I would attach & paint because the Hellcat has a couple of tie-down hooks & the landing gear in the same color.  I painted the components on the spruce, but detaching them left a lot of cleanup.  I think it would have been easier to clean & assemble the subcomponents, attach & paint.  Maybe next time.

And I use some 'off the shelf' 2.75 power reading glasses for detail work.

Great news my friends, I checked the status of my optivisor and it should be in my hands Monday according to the USPS  

I have painted the base interior color of my Corsair just need the visor so I can do the details then I will post what I have done.

So, a impromptu poll:

How many of you use an optivisor to do cockpits and such?  (I can not see the small detail at my age )

Roy

Thanks guys, I'll need all the luck I can muster.

Bob, nice work on the Hellcat.  Glad to see you persevere & finish her.

Regards,  Rick

Bob I have to say that your Hellcat looks GREAT  I love the all black look very very cool!

You said you would attach the gear next time?  Is that because along with the wheel wells the gear was also the same color as the underside?

Roy

Frank-great job on the pilot.  Very nice.

Rick-We've seen your work..I've got all the confidence in the world that it will turn out great.

I'm finished....kinda-still need some touch-up decals, but this one is done.  The project started as a Pacific Theater FAA Hellcat, standard camo scheme.  However, the paint job was terrible.  Almost appeared like the Krylon primer 'crazed' some of the plastic.  And my skills (or lack of) didn't help any.  Time for Plan B-the solid gloss black Hellcat of S/Lt. C. Campbell on board the HMS Ruler.  He convinced somebody (probably for his share of the weekly rum ration...) to paint his standard issue camo scheme Hellcat gloss black.  Increased the speed & performance of the plane & made him instantly recognizable....at least that's what the AeroMaster decal sheet says...

The Hasegawa kit itself was a bit of a bear-a lot of seam issues.  And the next time I build a Pacific Theater kit, I'll attach the landing gear components before painting the underside.  And I'm looking forward to the Eduard Hellcat due this winter/spring.

Any, comments & suggestions for improvement are always welcome.

The last photo is for comparison between the Hellcat & the Zero.

Darren-Thanks for hosting.  It's been a blast watching a group of top quality guys build some top quality kits.

Cheers

Good Luck Rick

Roy

Well, I'm slowly making rapid progress on the Wyvern .  Have the fuselage buttoned up & the 5 wing sub-assemblies completed.  The wing assembly consists of 26 parts making it the most complex wing I've ever encountered in any kit .

Trumpeter designed the kit for the wings to be folded, including the folding wing tips which this version didn't have .  But dang nab it all, a Wyvern just doesn't look right with folded wings so I'm going to build it with them extended.  Dry fitting shows the fit of the center section to the fuselage is near perfect, but the outboard wing sections are going to take a lot of TLC to get a good fit without destroying the complex fold lines.  But it's got to be done & I've seen reviews where it was done by others so I'm going to give it the old college try.

Wish me luck boys, I'm going in... 

Regards,  Rick

Nice work on the pilot Frank.  Colors look close enough.

Regards,  Rick

razordws wrote:

DesertRat wrote:  Daywalker wrote:  DesertRat wrote: But it's a bitter 53 degrees out here and i'm friggin freezin!!!!! Am I supposed to feel sorry for you? How do you say WUSSSY in American?  Come visit us in Canada Sometime or pray you don't get posted to ALaska!

The great white north, do you know of Bob & Doug Mackenzie?  When ever I think of Canada I think of the movie Strange Brew  My wife loves eastern Canada reminds here of Europe. 

As for the snow Frank will tell you that I do miss the snow since moving down here to the sunshine state.

Frank, the plot looks great my friend.  I will try to post some pics of what I have done so far.

Roy

razordws wrote:

DesertRat wrote:  Daywalker wrote:  DesertRat wrote: But it's a bitter 53 degrees out here and i'm friggin freezin!!!!! Am I supposed to feel sorry for you? How do you say WUSSSY in American?  Come visit us in Canada Sometime or pray you don't get posted to ALaska!

ahaaaa! Touche' from the frosty kanuck! Care to have a few jalapenos out in the Mojave this next summer?

DesertRat wrote:

Daywalker wrote:  DesertRat wrote: But it's a bitter 53 degrees out here and i'm friggin freezin!!!!! Am I supposed to feel sorry for you?

How do you say WUSSSY in American?  Come visit us in Canada Sometime or pray you don't get posted to ALaska!

Daywalker wrote:

DesertRat wrote: But it's a bitter 53 degrees out here and i'm friggin freezin!!!!! Am I supposed to feel sorry for you?

In between rounds with the snowblower, I managed to finish painting my Spitfire pilot.  I don't know if the colors are completely accurate, but seeing as how I don't usually paint figures, I used the colors I had on hand.

DesertRat wrote:

But it's a bitter 53 degrees out here and i'm friggin freezin!!!!!

Am I supposed to feel sorry for you?

Yep, that's alotta snow! Haven't seen that much since Europe... As for the weather here, i know yesterday we had been getting alotta rain. So as a result there has been some mudslides out here what with the fire damage and all......

   But it's a bitter 53 degrees out here and i'm friggin freezin!!!!!

Daywalker wrote:

OK, just so the sender can see that the package is intact, here is a photo of it with some of the detail blacked out:

...Is....is that one of Mannstein's models.....it has that sinister look to it!   Like some kinda stealth package!

 I'd shake it a few times....throw it in the snow and duck! 

....I wasn't here..... 

wyoroy wrote:

Only if you offer me some of that great coffee I hear of.

Fair enough Roy!  If you shovel my driveway, I'll make you a GREAT cup of coffee!

DesertRat wrote:

Well one things for sure, it's definately not another snowblower!!!!

Well, I suppose it could be a scale model of a snowblower.

Sonds like this storm we have is gonna be a dandy... after about 4-6 inches of snow, it started freezing rain around 2pm.  Has been blowing over 30mph and raining all afternoon.  VERY nasty out there... time to go run the snowblower again!  I'm never gonna get any modelling done if I have to keep going outside!

wyoroy wrote:

So have you measured & weighed the box to get an idea of what if could be Roy

Well one things for sure, it's definately not another snowblower!!!!

Here's an idea, you could move down here and we could be neighbors

Roy

Daywalker wrote:

I dunno Roy, maybe soon!  Remember when you were saying how much you're gonna miss snow?  Well, anytime the urge to remove it from a driveway gets the better of you, feel free to stop by and I'll LET you shovel my driveway!

Only if you offer me some of that great coffee I hear of.

Almost for got cheese too

Roy

OK, just so the sender can see that the package is intact, here is a photo of it with some of the detail blacked out:

Very cool Frank  I wonder when my gift will arrive 

Frank maybe your package contains one of these:

Now that is way cool Nothing like raw power.

Roy