Derek B Posted July 28, 2014 Author Share Posted July 28, 2014 Damn, that's them out for the rest of the season then. lol (Too funny) Derek leoasman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmayhew Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Roy Sutherland is announcing a load of stuff for the kit later this week btw - some of it includes a wing upgrade, but he won't say anymore at present... Derek B and Bill Cross 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Now that's great news! Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Cross Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 All hail Roy!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted July 30, 2014 Author Share Posted July 30, 2014 Derek, Brilliant start .. Its like waiting for the next chapter to a thriller keeping us in suspense... Look forward to more... with your aviation background, knowledge AND gadding off to Bruntingthorpe to help with Lightning I think you will be up to the task very well. { how was Bruntigthorpe this weekend..hope it went well...missed it !} Now to homework.... Thanks Maru - The LPG 60th EE Lightning anniversary at Bruntingthorpe went very well with great weather, but a very long and exhausting day for both myself and the LPG staff (and an additional five hours of driving on top of that). I have taken some more photographs, with more to come, as well as digging out my Hasegawa Spitfire kit for additional comparison purposes, so I am still on it. I have archery practice tonight so I may not be able to do much now, but will try to post something before weekend if I can (off to Blackpool over the weekend to see the Mamma Mia! stage show). Cheers Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted August 1, 2014 Author Share Posted August 1, 2014 (edited) Just a quick update - still getting there guys. I dug my Hasegawa Spitfire kit out of the attic last night and I am using that along with the Tamiya Spitfire VIII as a reference datum kits to the new Revell kit (along with the George Cox drawing). I am taking dimensions, making comparisons and taking photographs at the moment. I have completed the fuselage and wing correction work and can report that it works well and makes a big difference to the appearance of the Revell kit in these areas - this will be fully covered when I start adding more posts. I am away over the week end and for half of next week, but I shall try and have something on here as soon as I can, as I know that you are all eager to see what I have done. Regards Derek Edited August 1, 2014 by Derek B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismcc Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Looking forward to this, the more info the better. Cheers Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Derek Looking forward to your next update. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmojen Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Looking forward to your updates Derek, not least because mine will be a 1a too. I can't shake the desire to do one with a black wing Jen. Cees Broere and Derek B 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Brooks Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Sorry, all, but I've figured out another anomaly, and it'll be a swine to fix. If you intend to build the kit with the canopy closed, you can stop reading here, since you're covered.If you want the canopy open, then "Houston, we have a problem."In common with several other manufacturers, Revell have engineered a little cut-out beside the top right corner of the door; with the canopy closed, the square is filled by the corner of the canopy. Open the canopy, and you need to cover the hole with the front corner of the canopy, or, at least, fill the hole; however, on the other side/cockpit wall, you really need to build it up, slightly, with a rendition of the tracking, along which the canopy slides. Together with said "hole," I fear that Revell have made the rear glass too short, to allow that to happen, since the rear of the canopy should cover it, when it is closed (later Marks introduced a draught excluder at the rear edge of the canopy, to seal off the gap.) The door should also have the canopy tracking in its top edge, so should also be built up, slightly (with the crowbar needing removal, it might be easier to scratchbuild a new one.) Edgar Bill Cross and Harold 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Cross Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Oh, Tamiya, wherefore art thou? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingerbob Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Jennings, you just keep believing in the power of positive thinking! Who knows, maybe it really will happen eventually. Meanwhile, didn't Roy (Barracuda) have a replacement door? I assume (ducking for cover) that it has the rail or at least is the right height (or depth, if it's hanging open). bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted August 7, 2014 Author Share Posted August 7, 2014 Sorry, all, but I've figured out another anomaly, and it'll be a swine to fix. If you intend to build the kit with the canopy closed, you can stop reading here, since you're covered. If you want the canopy open, then "Houston, we have a problem." In common with several other manufacturers, Revell have engineered a little cut-out beside the top right corner of the door; with the canopy closed, the square is filled by the corner of the canopy. Open the canopy, and you need to cover the hole with the front corner of the canopy, or, at least, fill the hole; however, on the other side/cockpit wall, you really need to build it up, slightly, with a rendition of the tracking, along which the canopy slides. Together with said "hole," I fear that Revell have made the rear glass too short, to allow that to happen, since the rear of the canopy should cover it, when it is closed (later Marks introduced a draught excluder at the rear edge of the canopy, to seal off the gap.) The door should also have the canopy tracking in its top edge, so should also be built up, slightly (with the crowbar needing removal, it might be easier to scratchbuild a new one.) Edgar As part of my research into the kit vs drawing vs other Spitfire kits, I have noted a few discrepencies in this area, one of which is the common fault of too shallow depth of the rear cockpit glazing, which would cause the problem that you have highlighted. Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kagemusha Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Jennings, you just keep believing in the power of positive thinking! Who knows, maybe it really will happen eventually. Meanwhile, didn't Roy (Barracuda) have a replacement door? I assume (ducking for cover) that it has the rail or at least is the right height (or depth, if it's hanging open). bob Barracuda have just released a new door sans crow bar, labelled as being applicable to the I-V, just looking through a book on Spitfires in Malta 1942, all V's and the crowbar is there, just sayin... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingerbob Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Applicable to early Mk.Vs, then, just not later ones. bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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