Stevepd

Morning Max/all. Thanks very much indeed.

I think that's when he's doing his rendition of Peter Kays "Show me the way to Amarillo" song?.

Well I thought I'd update the good folk here. I've stopped on this one as I've had a nightmare at the painting stage. The paint has gone on well, but once I removed masking, blue came off the kit sticking to the Tamiya tape. Even though I'd made it less tacky it took paint off. So I resprayed the affected areas which worked well. For some reason I had a terrible problem with my H&S EVO airbrush, spitting, not spraying Etc. It wouldn't even spray water and I could hardly feel any air coming out of it. So I changed it to my low level Badger and it worked. So that proved the compressor was good. So I took the Evo apart and put it in my sonic bath and blitzed it. I hadn't had the opportunity to try it as I'd progressed with the badger. But there were more calamities along with this. The kit fell off its stand and broke the blue paint on the airbrake strake. Quite a large flake came away. Now, this has been the most I've ever dived into a kit, with all the scratchbuilding, and it's been a baptism of fire for my humble skills. I've now chosen to give up the hobby, which I was thinking I'd reached the end of the road. I really wanted to stop after my Desert Storm Tornado build back in Nov. So I'm clearing the bench at the moment, and there will be a few kits for sale in the near future. It's just not in me anymore. If anyone would like the Hawk to finish it off, please drop me a line. I know part built models are not desirable, but you never know...... Thanks for following along though. Steve.

I used to work on the British Army ones a good few years ago now. Those rivets on the upper and chin windows are way overscale. From memory, I don't recall them being visible. Also, on top of the nose is a panel that sits proud and visually is quite prominent. Underneath is access to the battery and other Avionics components.

Or are they?. Shots perhaps

Are you sure he's left, still trying to get out?

Where do you do the assembly, on the chair arm?

If you're going to add detail to make it look real, then you should continue to add the accessories that would be on the real aircraft. Look how popular FOD guards & RBF Tags etc are these days. These look fabulous and I know of one person that has glued them to the wheel (not me). Bloomin marvellous.

And heavy.

Crickey Guy that's absolutely phenomenal. A wonderful rendition of the aircraft and the photography is to die for. It's been a pleasure to follow along and your skills are still very much present when you were wondering........ Steve.

I must admit I've never really considered the Typhoon, but having recently seen a few clips of footage on some WW2 programmes on National Geographic lately and your build. I'm warming to it.

I've just seen this trailer for the up coming documentary, following on from the Blue Angels one last year.

I very much doubt it, but the offer is there. Secondly there are no trips with my wife's work on the horizon this year, which is unusual. So that closes that avenue.

I'd offer my address, but as some it may actually cost more after I've despatched it to you from the UK. Have a think though the offer is there.......

Try saying that quickly

The capilary action would have worked, but it would have run along and not in and along. As J has said above its got to get in there and the join not be "water tight" as such.

Kits-World strikes again as another modeller discovers the images are a million miles away from the quality you want. I

What a very rare subject and the model looks brilliant. That paint finish is flawless and the whole presentation is phenomenal.

If you click on the link above (if you haven't) there are some pictures and blurb. But I know what you all mean, some sprue shots and/or decals, weapons or stores would be nice to see. Tis a chunk of cash though. Makes my JETMADS SAAB Viggen seem cheap.........

Yep I have. Very good quality and packed really well. You must plan ahead how to lift the chute off the ground. I wirelocked mine to a rod that went the length of the kit and is kept off the base by a clear support. Apart from that Steve.

Following on from earlier. There's a modeller who posts on forums and they're fantastic every time. But I believe he does them all out of the box. The paint jobs are phenomenal and it really carries the kit. It just shows good modelling may equal a AM laden build. As always with these things- choice.

Happy birthday old bean. Cake & booze or boozy cake!. What did you get.............

I tend to look at cockpit AM for me, but AM nonetheless. I would scratch where I thought it would benefit the model. The Hawk I'm doing at the moment has been a love/hate relationship. I purchased AM years ago to do this project and it's been shockingly bad in its fit. However the scratching that I've done (and knew I would be doing) I've loved it, because there's nothing out there it makes all the more rewarding. But if we're honest, somebody on a PC could produce something much more accurate and slick. I don't do competitions or shows (bar Telford) for that matter and have no desire to do so, but take my hat off to those that do. Years ago I did the model circuit whilst being a club member, but I just got bored of it which turned into me leaving and being in my club of one.

Im back at my bench in the garage now winter/wet season has passed. The rivets were covered with a third coat of white and I then flattened the white off with various grades finishing at 6000 grade from a Micromesh kit. Then the red area was masked up for applying the red, which I've just put the fourth fine coat on. It's drying quite quickly in the heat we're getting in the UK at the mo. Blue next and thanks for looking.

I've just done exactly the same, although voted for a late E.