TaffyMan Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Ohhh there she is Max. Just need to slap some paint on and she’s done Like the wing lets hope my re-scribe goes as well as yours has! Cheers - Taff Derek B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotsman Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Max , that is a beautiful build , really massively impressive , Meanwhile on the subject of canopies, I'm sure iain will come through , But I do have a spare single seater canopy sitting doing nothing , I know wrong shape ets , but is you want it , its yours, (I have a T5 planned and so It's going spare.. Good luck with th rest of the build! ColinR Derek B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 (edited) 34 minutes ago, TaffyMan said: Ohhh there she is Max. Just need to slap some paint on and she’s done Like the wing lets hope my re-scribe goes as well as yours has! Cheers - Taff Ha ha, just paint......as if Taff! I started the also rather tedious job yesterday of cutting out the vents, scoops, rabbit holes and God knows what else that litter the fuselage sides! Chain-drilling then needle file to the line, bit of a strain on the eyes! 16 minutes ago, Scotsman said: Max , that is a beautiful build , really massively impressive , Meanwhile on the subject of canopies, I'm sure iain will come through , But I do have a spare single seater canopy sitting doing nothing , I know wrong shape ets , but is you want it , its yours, (I have a T5 planned and so It's going spare.. Good luck with th rest of the build! ColinR Thank you Colin! I’ve no doubt whatsoever that once all this nonsense is over Iain will come up Trumps () with a new canopy so I’m not panicking, but I’d like to take you up on your offer of your spare canopy, presumably a Trumpeter one? I’ll PM* you my address details, many thanks. Love the job you’re doing on the Bucc by the way, what a massive undertaking that is! * Seems I’m not able to PM you Colin, what’s the best way of contact? Edited April 15, 2020 by mozart TaffyMan, Scotsman and Derek B 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotsman Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Ithink you inbox is full, I tried to Pm you , But at the risk of being spammed colinr058@hotmail.co.uk Will get there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 (edited) Superb work Max, thank you for sharing your progress. This is an aircraft which is very close to my heart (having served working on them, and still do today via the EE Lightning LPG), so it is a delight for me to see you working this most excellent Frank Brown kit - keep up the good work. Cheers Derek Edited April 15, 2020 by Derek B Rick Griewski, Lothar and mozart 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 Thank you Derek, I really must get up to Bruntingthorpe when all this brouhaha is done with, it was on my “to do” list this Spring along with Tangmere but of course that’s down the swanny for a while! Vicarious pleasures with this lovely kit and suitable jet-ty noises! Uncarina and Derek B 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted April 16, 2020 Author Share Posted April 16, 2020 Today's task, cut out the holes on the starboard fuselage half: I've been cross-checking my references and I think I've done all the orificies, 14 in all: Some of course will be covered by scoops etc and others will have a "back membrane" added, glad this part is over, now back to scribing! Oh, but these arrived this morning: I'm not, as I've said before on another build, a great fan of PJ Productions, and I don't know if I'll be using either of these. I quite fancy either a pilot in the cockpit or one climbing the ladder, though a little work to make it a more RAF-like pilot is needed. Fanes, Landrotten Highlander, BradG and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lothar Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 You simply don't stop to impress me with your work Max. As for the pilot, my preference would be one climbing in or out of the aircraft - this would add some life to the model allowing to show the complete cockpit and not hiding most of it. You'll make the right choice. Lothar Uncarina, mozart and Derek B 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted April 16, 2020 Author Share Posted April 16, 2020 2 minutes ago, Lothar said: As for the pilot, my preference would be one climbing in or out of the aircraft - this would add some life to the model allowing to show the complete cockpit and not hiding most of it. You'll make the right choice. Lothar I'm with you 100% there Lothar, but unfortunately the climbing pilot is the less impressive of the two figures, but I think with a bit of surgery and a lick of paint it'll be that one! Derek B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaffyMan Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Nice and holly Mike - feel the re-scribe pain. Like the pilot idea - perhaps one foot on the bottom rung. give a nice sense of scale but not hiding too much detail. I’m going to do 15 mins on the Harrier wings after a long day working!!!! Cheers - Taff mozart and Derek B 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, mozart said: I'm with you 100% there Lothar, but unfortunately the climbing pilot is the less impressive of the two figures, but I think with a bit of surgery and a lick of paint it'll be that one! Always like watching a master at work! Reedoak have some 1/32 pilot figures as well...just a thought keep up the great work, loving it! Edited April 16, 2020 by chrish Spelling error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted April 16, 2020 Author Share Posted April 16, 2020 18 minutes ago, chrish said: Always like watching a master at work! Redoak have some 1/32 pilot figures as well...just a thought keep up the great work, loving it! Not so sure about that Chris, I’m a definite novice with jets and to a certain extent with vacform, so I’m feeling my way very tentatively and consulting both Ted Taylor’s and John Wolstenholm’s builds as I go. I found having the fuselage taped together as a fairly rigid structure really helped with opening up the holes and I think the same may apply to re-scribing. Sadly Reedoak don’t do any pilot figures of the right country nor the right era so I don’t have too many other options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted April 17, 2020 Author Share Posted April 17, 2020 (edited) I "think" I've finished the colander: Could be more, and there are a couple there that the first owner cut out on the port side (the two rectangular ones above the wing) which I think shouldn't have been, but that'll do for the moment. Edited April 17, 2020 by mozart blackbetty, LSP_Kevin, Alain Gadbois and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alain Gadbois Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 There's a lot of aircraft to rescribe with the Lightning! A least they managed to design it with a lot of flat surfaces so that's a bit of help. Very good work Max! Alain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbetty Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 wow, stellar work, Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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