Derek B Posted October 29, 2023 Author Share Posted October 29, 2023 1 hour ago, Out2gtcha said: If you do decide to use kitchen foil, I would highly recommend diluting some MS foil glue with a bit of water and spray it on with an airbrush, onto cleaned and grained (with some high grit sand paper) heavy duty kitchen foil. It sounds bass-akwards, but the Renalds Wrap heavy duty, and WR extra strength are both great candidates for foiling. The thicker and stronger the foil, the easier you can burnish it around complex/compound curves. It also sands really well to take some of the odd larger wrinkles out. There are a lot of amazing models out there made with BMF, but I have yet to ever make it ever work on most any level. I personally find the adhesive very lack-luster, especially the smaller the bit of foil, the less the adhesive works, for me at least. I also find the thicker foil much easier to work around things around wing roots and cowls. YMMV Sage advice indeed Brian, thank you. Back in 2004, I experimented applying kitchen foil on a couple of 1/72 models, just to see how difficult it was. My first attempt was on a totally scrapped Matchbox P-51D, followed by a Revell P-47D built straight OOB. My reasoning was that if I could successfully foil a P-47 Thunderbolt, then I could probably foil anything! Derek Isar 30/07, Landrotten Highlander, geedubelyer and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor K2 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Hi Derek, I have used greenstuffworld chrome metal to good results (pitot probes and oleos etc). Product number 2545. cost around £4 to £5 ish. Can be applied with brush or airbrush. HTH. Bob P.S. close to retirement myself, April next year,not sure I can afford to on a Babcock pension, approx £60 a month after 21 years service. Plus my R.A.F. pension only covers 9 years service. Oh well, just have to carry on working. Great work on the Frightning so far P.P.S. Hawk is 50 next year Derek B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted October 30, 2023 Author Share Posted October 30, 2023 28 minutes ago, Victor K2 said: Hi Derek, I have used greenstuffworld chrome metal to good results (pitot probes and oleos etc). Product number 2545. cost around £4 to £5 ish. Can be applied with brush or airbrush. HTH. Bob P.S. close to retirement myself, April next year,not sure I can afford to on a Babcock pension, approx £60 a month after 21 years service. Plus my R.A.F. pension only covers 9 years service. Oh well, just have to carry on working. Great work on the Frightning so far P.P.S. Hawk is 50 next year Thanks for the tip Bob - good luck with your impending retirement! Yes, big anniversary for the Hawk next year; it is a little scary to think that I have been personally involved with that aircraft for 41 of those 50 years, and will be again soon! Derek Greg W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted December 26, 2023 Author Share Posted December 26, 2023 After waiting over a month for good weather to spray, and much touching up of the paintwork, the gloss varnish is now on. Also, the gloss black base for the intake ring and hot enf airframe structure silver areas is down, along with the fibre glass brown areas on the spine and ventral fins. Derek Tony T, Stevepd, LSP_Kevin and 16 others 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in NZ Posted December 27, 2023 Share Posted December 27, 2023 Absolutely loving this build Derek! The transformation and attention to detail is second to none....Love it! Mr.T, Derek B and Martinnfb 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.T Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Great work! Any updates? And news on the conversion sets? Martinnfb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted February 25 Author Share Posted February 25 2 hours ago, Mr.T said: Great work! Any updates? And news on the conversion sets? Hi Mr.T, Thanks for asking. I am not yet ready to post any updates until I have something more substantial to show as progress. The main issues for me have been terrible weather for the past few month preventing me from carrying out any meaningful spraying and on-going attempts to get a good nose ring silver. I have also had to fix and re-spray wing leading edge seam splits after repair and am trying to clean up the paint work after painting airframe detail parts. So, things are progressing slowly and I hope to show some more progress pictures soon. Cheers Derek mozart, Martinnfb, Mr.T and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted March 19 Author Share Posted March 19 After a winter of bad weather, work has started again on the Lightning. Multiple paint corrections are in the process of being carried out. One problem that occurred after stripping the pitot probe of paint was that it broke in half through fatigue cracking - Trumpeter plastic seems to react in strange ways to glued and thinners. The upshot was that it was unrepairable due to its thin cross-section (I tried, and it failed again). I had no option but to make a new one. This I did by cutting a length of 1.6 mm diameter aluminum rod and filing and sanding it to shape (The length of the pilot probe in 1/32 scale is 70.3 mm). Derek Greg W, monthebiff, scvrobeson and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbetty Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 there is an aftermarket pitot, you know that? Derek B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted March 19 Author Share Posted March 19 31 minutes ago, blackbetty said: there is an aftermarket pitot, you know that? No, I didn't know that Karl, but I wonder what it is out of curiosity? (If it is brass, it would still need painting!). I suppose that there are two reasons to making my own. The first is that one of the aims of this build is not to use - where possible - AM parts. The second is that it only took a couple of evenings to make the new probe and being aluminium, it can easily be polished to look like chrome silver. Cheers Derek BLACK MAMBA and Landrotten Highlander 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbetty Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 i got it from hobbydecal.com. i used the mid sized lenght for the buccaneer. i thought i have a long one somewhere, but cant find it.... Iain 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Looking good Derek! Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbetty Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 http://www.hobbydecal.com/detail.cgi?number=mt32008v1 Derek B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted March 20 Author Share Posted March 20 4 hours ago, blackbetty said: http://www.hobbydecal.com/detail.cgi?number=mt32008v1 Thanks Karl - it looks very nice! (I notice that it is exactly 3 mm longer than mine!). Cheers Derek blackbetty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crobinsonh Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 I might be missing something but isn't Master covering this as well? https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/MR32-057?result-token=vwEMg Derek B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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