The In My Stash GB : Redux

Azgaron  To my knowlege the seat cushions were red and the odd ones leather color.  Hope this helps.

Cheers

Bear

Hi guys, just thought I would metion that twobobs are having a bit of a sale right now. About 40 decal sheets are about 70% off. I ordered a couple of sheets for my stash. There might be something there you like.

I am not associated with twobobs in any way...other than as a customer.

Paul 

I go away for work for a few days and look at all I have missed. Some of you guy's are moving quite fast. I have managed to open the box and wash all the parts down so I can get ready to prime some parts. I am finishing a build right now and hopefully get some work done on the Stormovik this weekend.

Good work guy's.

Steve

Mist, yes, that would have been nice

Thanks Andrew and Marc! I'll see which I go for red or leather.

Azgaron

Well, since you all are so darn FAST, I figured I'd
better get some work done to keep up! 

I spent another hour looking at 3-view profiles for the B-58.  It seems
to be a crap-shoot guessing which one is the most accurate.  They all
differ greatly in the shape of the forward fuselage (nose & windscreen)
so ultimately I just took my best guess at which one is closest and I'll
shoot for a close match (the same 3-view shown before).  One thing
they all had in common: tail on this kit is hugely oversized, so off it went!


(Important safety note: cut first, drink budweiser after)

I'm painting the interior all black: i doubt that any detail will be visible
when it's assembled.  There are some pilot figures that I will roughly
detail though, because they might be slightly visible through the windows. 
I will be mounting the aircraft 'in-flight' much like I did with the Mig31,
so I cut some balsa to fit snug in the fuselage and super-glued it in place.
This will give me something to drill into to anchor the support mast.

The good news is that the plastic seems to be very soft.  The
sanding and re-profiling that I have planned might go considerably
faster than I thought.  We'll see...

Cheers fellas.

Ya nice start.

Might need a little help with a colour question on my Stormovik. Does anyone have a good idea what the interior colour should be. For all interior callouts it only refers to grey-green. There are FS colours for the fuselage but the interior has no FS. I have never built a Russian plane before and I know the colours were a little odd. Any help would be appreciated. Cant do interior till I know.

Steve

Try these links for your IL2.  They are cockpit images from the IL2 flight sim:
http://www.partizanska-eskadrila.com/reference/il2single.htm
http://www.partizanska-eskadrila.com/reference/il2double.htm

Master link for all planes:
http://www.partizanska-eskadrila.com/reference/cockpit.htm

Generally, the cockpits are very accurate in this sim.

 Hello guys, great progress from you heres mine. I just got finished airbrushing it. Still got to do a little touch up. That seem up there was a pain to fill it was1/8 inch thick. I used primer to fill it up and it worked ok. That just created hours of sanding. Well thanks for looking, hope your progress go's well.

Looks pretty good   That seam pretty well disappeared, although your pictures are a little pixelated and hard to focus on. 

Keep up the quick progress!

Thanks for the info HK and IL2. I have been surfing around the net also trying to get any refrences. From what I have seen it does look quite a lot like the Brit interior green. Went to the LHS who have a full range of MM enamels but no interior for Russian birds. I did pick up the green and brown and underside blue so I am set there. I am going to try to do a winter white finish that is fading a lot.

Thanks for the help

Steve

arki30 wrote:

Looks pretty good   That seam pretty well disappeared, although your pictures are a little pixelated and hard to focus on.  Keep up the quick progress!

 I know there hard to focus on my bad I forgot to put it on up close mode.

OK, who's da guyz who voted fo da Airfix  Big beautiful doll?

I want all of your home addresses sos I con send yous parts to clean flash off and fill sink holes.

This kit will look like a cheap toy if I don't spend the first four months of the build cleaning and fitting and filling and filing. And it's big. The big part is ok when it comes to making minor corrections and drilling holes where there are none. The engine detail is good and has an option to display it with the cowls off.

will post pics when I have enough parts cleaned to put some together.

Tony

Well, got to bench this w/e, but no pics yet.  Just got the engine compartment together and all the wings, front and rear.  Got the Fuse glued, but after sanding and sanding AND SANDING, i wasn't in the mood to start assembly.  Now i have detail painting to do before the main colors.

Suck it up Tony.  After you're done it WILL be a big beautiful doll!! 

glad to see ims2 is kicking off very wel

sorry to here about the doll tg but i know you will produce an excellent model

mist cant wait to see some pics

Thanks for the encouragement guys.

What is....is  I will try my very bestest. After all, this kit was a gift and I have no room to complain after seeing what you guys do to every kit.

That goes double for you Kenny; using paint by the gallon and spending more time masking than anything else. I just had to vent because I thought this would be a shake and bake because of the size.

Tony

Hi, did a bit more this weekend. I'm still juggling with tiny tiny pieces of photoetch. I am waiting for resin wheels to arrive, but I think I can get the fuselage together without them. I have to get the main undercarriage bay together, without the wheels, before the 2 halves can go together. Hoping there's not too much work required to fit resin wheels to the u/c legs. So far so good. I'll post some more pics when I have all the various parts ready to go together.

Paul 

Well TG, I am one of the guilty as charged voters. That one just stood out in the stash and as I have built two of them I thought you should have some fun with it also. It does take a little extra work from the normal kit but I am confident you will do it justice. Go slow and be patient.

Steve

Steve since you have had experience with this kit do you think the color callouts are correct? I have been looking on various sites and can't get a real feel for the engine color. On some sites it looks either steel or aluminum and on others it is a satin black or very dark gray. Any help would be a plus.

Thanks, Tony

Hey Tony,

The callouts are pretty good when checked with photos but artistic licence can be taken in places. The cockpit callouts are good. With the engine on both of mine I did them in Gunmetal. It was the closest that I could match to so photo refrences that I have. it will have some steel or aluminum details. It does look a blackish colour but gunmetal I think looks best. Hope that helps.

Steve

Thanks, Steve.

Gunmetal was my first choice but I kept hedging. Gunmetal it is!

Tony

Well, TG, I guess I'm one of the guilty too It's a lovely bird and I wish you good luck with it.

Talking about engine colors, does anyone have a good suggestion on the Napier Sabre engine? I've seen black, green and grey on the exhibition pics I've found so far.

Azgaron

Azgaron the Napier Sabre's I've see are gray.  My old Squadron 438 RCAF was given a Napier Saber that was dug up in Belgium and belonged to one of it's aircrafts downed in 1945.  We cleaned it up and put it on a pedistal.  One of our unit veterans was a consultant and told us they were gray.  Sorry for being long winded.

Cheers

Bear

Raptor  Great progress, 

Mist looking forward to some pics

Tony I'm also guilty of the Doll  sorry to hear it's such a dog

Keep up the great work guys.  Progress is slow right now, ordered my bits so I'm on hold.  I have started painting the seats thats about it.

Cheers

Bear

Thanks for the info Marc!

Then I'll go for gray. Forgot to ask, are the radiator and air duct supposed to be painted in some metal color like aluminium? or perhaps steel? The instructions says silver.

Azgaron

Azgaron  I'd go with a gun metal to give the metal a heated/worn look unless you want it looking new then silver is fine.

Cheers

Bear