aircommando130 Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Awesome work so far! She'll be ready for the water soon! Cheers...Ron Grunticus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Great work! Sad about the gloss.......was it humid when you shot it? Sometimes high humidity can cause "blooming" in clears like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grunticus Posted December 28, 2020 Author Share Posted December 28, 2020 16 hours ago, Out2gtcha said: Great work! Sad about the gloss.......was it humid when you shot it? Sometimes high humidity can cause "blooming" in clears like that No, not at all. I did thin the paint with MRP’s own thinner for the first time, to achieve an even smoother coat than straight from the bottle. I did not repeat on the repaint I did. We will see how it reacts to MRP’s Sloan coat this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grunticus Posted December 29, 2020 Author Share Posted December 29, 2020 FAA Kingfishers didn’t have the sight mounted on the nose, and the associated hole I the windscreen. Until now I wanted to accept this inaccuracy because cutting a perfectly clear canopy seemed too daunting to me. I also thought about a method for filling the hole in de windscreen but still it seemed too risky to tackle. Now, on second thought, I realized I will never gain experience in this field if I don’t try. So let’s just do it. The least daunting to me was removing the windscreen. Drilling all round and then cutting and sanding. The plastic is of course very brittle, so I took care. This worked out well even when the lower front frame broke in the middle. Easy fix. Lower in the photo you can see the replacement screen, cut out from acetate sheet that came from a blister pack of something. I dipped it in future to enhance clarity. I carefully sanded the windscreen a little at a time, constantly test-fitting until I achieved an acceptable fit. To permanently attach it I will use this product from VMS. I use their various superglues to satisfaction and ordered it on a whim after seeing their YouTube plug about it. Fingers s crossed..... GMK, LSP_Kevin, Sakai and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Looks great, the fit on the windscreen for looks right on. Sakai 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeroen_R90S Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Very cool, and quite daring on such a fragile and visible part! I usually fix clear parts with either Revell Aqua clear gloss (thick, slightly less clear) or Tamiya X-22 gloss. Unless you pull really, really hard (damaging the part anyway) they are really stuck. I also use that for armoured glass, PE/Acetate WWI windscreens, etc. Grunticus and Sakai 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grunticus Posted January 3, 2021 Author Share Posted January 3, 2021 She is in the paintshop. The scheme is mostly speculative, but following AD.1160 (Admiralty Directive??), also seen on Fireflies , Skua, Barracude, and others. No clear images of Kingfishers showing more detail of the Temperate Sea Scheme are know to exist (to me). Sakai, Whitey, LSP_Kevin and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aircommando130 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 That's coming along really nice! Getting closer to the finish line! Cheers...Ron Sakai and Grunticus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grunticus Posted January 4, 2021 Author Share Posted January 4, 2021 (edited) The base coat and airbrushed main markings are on. Had a blast masking, removing, and remasking to get things done, especially the type C1 fuselage roundels, but they sure are nice this way. Colors used were MRP marking yellow, red, and blue. I think they are a very good match, much more so than the kit decals but that is not surprising. Edited January 4, 2021 by Grunticus Spelling LSP_Kevin, Martinnfb, Landrotten Highlander and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 Beautiful!! That scheme us super attractive on the OS2U. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grunticus Posted January 9, 2021 Author Share Posted January 9, 2021 (edited) Just a little while longer for the RFI thread... Edit: RFI thread added. Edited January 10, 2021 by Grunticus RFI link added. Landrotten Highlander, chukw, spartacus2000 and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakai Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Outstanding. Grunticus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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