Azgaron

A little bit of progress! 
 
The propeller, spinner and bombs got a clear cote.
 

 
So, now they're ready for decals.
 
I started painting different metal shades.
 

 

 

 
I think I'll keep it there and start painting the nose next.
 
Håkan
 

Excellent work so far WIlliam!
 
Håkan
 

Excellent work so far Diego!
 
Håkan
 

Some decent progress tonight.
 
The cockpit 'innards' are complete.
 
 
 
 
 
I keep checking Hannants to see if a canopy masking set has become available for the 'early' Mk.I, but nothing has appeared yet.
 
At this rate, I'll be forced to mask it 'manually' .. 

Thanks Troy - it's a pleasure.
 
 
Thank you Håkan. Yes, they are quite tiny aren't they! My photo is magnified so much and I think it's a testament of how good they are that they still look realistic.
 
 
Cheers Paul. Yeah, I went with green as a 'balance of probability' thing.. and it made a change from painting a Spitfire seat 'bakelite red' !!
 
I'm probably in the minority, but I do prefer a good moulded on belt option. I can just never make PE belts look right and as for the fabric type ones - my modelling life is too short to fiddle with them!

I continued with metal parts, here is the engine, its very detailed out of the box, I just added spark plug wiring later, it doesn't appear in this picture.
 
 

 
for the metal parts I primed them with black base from AK Xtreme Metal colors. Later I airbrushed AK Xtreme Metal Aluminium and then used chipping fluid technique on the colors. I don't want to varnish this parts so the metal chips keep their shine in contrast with paint roughness
 

 
 

 

 

 
hope you like it
 
Diego

Continuing with the fokker, I made the MGs with the photoetched cover and finished the cockpit:
 


 
I tried to make a circular polished effect on the ammo case with AK true metal, not really convincing but it will be not much visible inside the cockpit.
 

 
Next was the cockpit weathering, I made some dust effects due to this aircraft flew from grass airfields.
 

 


 
Then I started assembling the engine, its really well detailed, I primed it with mr surfacer 1500 but later I airbrushed another coat of AK Xtreme metal Black base.
 

 
 

Welcome to LSP!
Love it so far!
Yes, as Kev mentioned your English is far superior to my Spanish.
 
Indeed, a very nice kit that has very few nigles, save the warped wings and delicate usually broken when you get the kit middle wing cockpit surround.
 
I completed mine a few years back as Vosses machine and had a fun time building it for sure.
I really liked the kit. I did however make my own masks for the cowl face.
 

 
Looking forward to seeing more!

Hello guys, after many time looking at your wip topics and much learning from them, I just decided to post my first 1/32 aircraft model. Its the Meng Fokker dr.I as its not a big aircraft and my space on the shelves is limited.
 

 
As far as I have seen, its a nice model with some issues such as the upwards curved wings that I could easily fix with hot water and some bending. Fit is really good so I will paint all wings and many other parts separately from the main fuselage. I decided to do the Goering Scheme from the kit instructions, as my last finished model was already too red (a Tamiya 1/12 Ducati 888)
 

 
I am usually a very slow modeller, mostly due to my job where I usually am away from home several days per week, so this time I'm trying to make a fast build and decided not to add any 3d printed detail. Usually I like to add self modelled 3d printed parts.
 
 
 

 
I tried painting some plywood effects on the cockpit sides and floor, in the end this is not really visible but I could practise a bit. The cockpit side planks were painted red so later I covered the painted plywood with transparent layers of brown-red.
 
After that I painted the seat, cushion and belts. Everything was done with acrilic paints and acrilic washes made by mixing sepia Ink, gloss barnish (similar to future) and water.
 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
Hope you like it and sorry for my english, I may be writing with some grammatical errors.

Have been very slow with this build, spending too much time out fishing due to an early spring, ice came off about a month early.
   Have the Jag finished and we will have the Mk II buttoned up ready for paint in a few days, and of course you know Kotare is re-releasing the Mk 1, you can pre-order now, shipping in May.     thanks fer looking.
 
 

You're right, fixed it ,  thanks.
 
 

Had some time to work on it, finally,   switching cockpit to Mk II  April 1941.   Big changes from the MkI,  not getting too over the top with it, just Spitfire-ish.
  1939 Jag 100S coming along.  Kotare Spitfire?  It is a lovely kit.      
 

Just seems to be a trend, hate to be left out, will be doing a simple quick conversion on this,
      1st Canadian Division, sky blue spinner and Fus. band 
 
 

I’ve sprayed some of the MRP neutral grey 43 here, just to check my work in this area (probably should have used primer instead, as I have a ton of that). Despite what I’d thought were my best efforts, the seam still shows! I’ll continue the work to get it as decent as I can.
 

Waiting for yet more putty to dry on the wings, I turned my attention to the tail area. There were some minor gaps under the tail planes, but Vallejo acrylic putty fixed them up quite nicely. I love that stuff. (Still needs to be rubbed out with alcohol or thinner.)
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Thanks

A little progress over the last week - a mix of Airfix kit, Airscale and Quinta.
 
Photos have flagged up a few things I need to improve - but bear in mind most of these images will be showing at larger than life-size.
 

 

 

 

 
And with the seat section dry-fitted.
 

 
Now working on the seat - and the next two formers (partially drilled out).
 

 
Blue skies...
 
Iain
 
 
 

Back on the bench - going to try and take a run at it over next few weeks...
 

 
Tally ho...
 
Iain
 
 

Have been busy working on classic cars, motorcycles and aeroplanes of late - but, with the nights drawing in here, I've been back to the bench.
 
A little side-track from working on the interior: I wanted to see how the fitting of the wing spars/gear bays and initial ribs would go, as the instructions are very clear about not gluing anything until you have all of this loosely fitted.
 
The instructions then have you carefully bonding everything in place on the lower wing moulding in one go - being careful not to impart any warp in the lower wing.
 

 
The 'wheel' sections of the undercarriage bays were assembled and bonded to their adjacent rib, before laying everything in place (including main spar) on the lower wing and checking fit.
 
All good, so I bonded everything in place with 'Quick Drying' Tamiya Extra Thin solvent - working out from the wing centreline on each side.
 

 
Whilst everything drying I wanted to check everything was correctly aligned, so removed the upper-wing sections from their sprue and dry-fitted in situ.
 
Fit against the lower wing/wing internals was very good, so happy that the internal structure was straight.
 

 
And I couldn't resist a quick dry fit with the fuselage - just to see something a little 'Spitfire' shaped...
 

 

 
Back soon...
 
Iain

Hi all,
 
In further sidetracking news I've been asked to build in a scale I haven't played with since I was a child - 1:24th.
 
And from a manufacturer who's kits I built in my youth - but that was a loooong time ago.
 
The gentleman I've built the Two-seater Spit IX from the Tamiya kit in 1:32 for has asked me to build one of the new Airfix kits for him - with minimal changes this time - and, well, why not!
 
Only planned changes at this stage are the Airscale Cockpit Interior and Sutton Harness with, perhaps, some aftermarket decals - we'll see!
 
Opening salvo has been some work on the cockpit - nicely rendered by Airfix in my humble opinion.
 
Still early days - and still at almost blank canvas stage, but I'll try and post some semi-regular updates here.
 

 

 
I'm not worrying about the ejector-pin marks - I really don't think they'll be seen!
 

 
And dry fitted in place:
 

 

 
More when there's more I guess...
 
Tally Ho!
 
Iain
 
 
 

Hi @geedubelyer I had to put it away since I was very frustrated removing all the rivets and rescratching all the panel lines. What a p*** in the a** 
 
Currently I am continuing my Mirage III S. But I am sure, I will continue with the Vampi. I just need to find am easier way the remove the reverts, since the Swiss Vampi has almost all reverts cleaned.
 
Stay tuned.
 
Cheers
Carsten

Thank you @Alain Gadbois It was bothering me a lot, so I already started to adjust the nose. hahahaha....
 
First I roughly drew in the panel lines so that I know where I have to "set" the nose. I also needed them to adjust the gun holes.
 

 
Next, I taped off the front part of the nose with Dymo tape and roughly sanded off the unnecessary part with files and sandpaper. Luckily I have enough material to sand. As soon as there is no more material, it becomes difficult to make adjustments. hahaha...
 



 
Here you can still see the transition well. It was a bit difficult with the windscreen.
 

 
Then I sanded down the nose so far that there is still a fine transition to be seen. Finally, I polished it clean and here is the result. I can't get any closer to perfection with my equipment. The next step would be 3D printing.
 
Side view with the "slimmed down" belly:
 

 
Top view:
 

 
Bottom view with the reduced wheel well:
 

 
And here is another view from the top rear, where you can see the transition very minimally:
 

 
Once the panel lines are rescribed and the primer is on, you will see the border more clearly. In addition, I will help a little with pre- and post-shadding.
 
The NOSE IS DONE!  Let's see how many imperfectioins the primer will reveal. Thank you again @Alain Gadbois, @Derek B, @scvrobeson, @Landrotten Highlander and @MikeA for all your support and helpful feedbacks. And a special thanks to @thierry laurent to encourage me to do the conversion and the super tip with the epoxy putt as well as the frame construction. 

Thank you @Hans, but I am not realy happy with it. So, I have reworked the shape again. The upper part is more straight, which leads to a more pointed nose. Here is the result:
 

 
The shape from above is also rather straight. Here is the result from above:
 

 
From the front, you can now see the egg-shaped shilouette better:
 

 
And the nose gear fits in perfectly too.
 

 
Now I am satisfied. It looks pretty good. Now I'm only annoyed by the machine gun holes. The rear one is too far forward and has to be moved back. No problem with epoxy putty.  I know how to do it now.

Today my workplace looked like the Sahara. It was sanding time! First I took off the masking tapes to see how well my borders turned out. I would say not bad at all. 
 

 
And then came sanding, sanding and sanding again.
 
After a good 2 hours of sanding, starting with 140 grit and finishing with 8000 grit, the result is quite respectable.
 
Side view:

 
Front view:

 
Top view:

 
Bottom view:

 
What do you think? 
 
Now that I look at the result on the computer, I still don't like the nose 100%. It needs to be a bit more pointed. If you look at it with the profile view below, I'll probably have to do some touching up.
 

Next step: mask off the transition where the Pinocchio nose should begin or end. To get a clean transition, I moved the whole thing back a bit. Not at the original panel line, as I originally wanted. Here are two photos of it. I also masked the cockpit windscreen, as I want to fill the gap between the clear part and the aircraft fuselage as well.
 

 
I drew the demarcation at the panel line of the gun bay and filled the front gear bay with foam to prevent epoxy putty from running in.
 

 
And now comes the exciting part: modelling the nose. After 90 minutes of modelling and adjusting, I am very happy with the result.
 




 
The shape is 90% right. The rest will be brought into the right shape tomorrow with sanding. I think this was a huge step and I am more than happy with the result. Tomorrow: sanding!