chrish Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Greetings once again, pushing on with the stash reduction task, next up on the sacrificial block is Italeri's 1/32 Tornado lots of ejector pin marks to clean up, before and after Still cleaning up potholes Thanks for looking scvrobeson, Starfighter, LSP_Kevin and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockie Yarwood Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Cool! Following along! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treehugger Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 (edited) I can recommend Vallejo's acrylic putty for filling in holes. To avoid the putty shrinking visibly, one just add putty into the cavity and then top the hole, as if making a soft-ice cream with the ice/putty sticking up. Then, when a little dry, one can slice the top off, and then after it dries some more, you can sand it flush. Quick and easy. For holes that you think you might want to drill or cut into, then I like using sprue goo, turning it all into plastic. Drilling into putty isn't a good idea when the drill bit has to go through a mix of putty and plastic, or at least that is what it is like using a softer Vallejo putty. I also like keeping some Tamiya sanding sponges around, cut into smaller pieces to get to sand smaller areas. Also, I would like to champion the use of the tool Trumpeter chisel tools. In addition to being able to cut off stubs and scrape flush plastic from above in tight spaces, you can also grind into plastic by scraping the plastic, which is very useful for quickly thinning plastic. Example: https://www.scalemates.com/albums/img/1/5/2/1227152-28845-67-1440.jpg Edited May 25, 2022 by Treehugger wunwinglow and mc65 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O.W Posted May 26, 2022 Share Posted May 26, 2022 On 5/25/2022 at 4:52 AM, chrish said: Greetings once again, pushing on with the stash reduction task, next up on the sacrificial block is Italeri's 1/32 Tornado lots of ejector pin marks to clean up, before and after Still cleaning up potholes Thanks for looking Hi Chris, I enjoyed building mine very mutch. I'll be following your progres because I have another one in my stash Cheers Otto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted May 27, 2022 Author Share Posted May 27, 2022 Thanks for the support. I've taken a small detour, removed all the big airoplane parts from the trees, taped them together to check the fit. All is great but one small issue. The lower front section to the lower rear section has interlocking crenelations but the receivers in the rear part are too shallow, or the front extrusions are too long. During the test fit I found a gap nearly 2mm (around .040") Here's an image of the front half with arrows pointing at where (the extrusions were) removed. the front to rear join with those offending crenelations removed, it would be stronger gluing them but then I'd have a gap to fill another view; This may only be my kit (I doubt it) but I'd be interested to see if other builders had a gap here or how they dealt with the fit. Thanks for looking LSP_Kevin, Stevepd, scvrobeson and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted May 29, 2022 Author Share Posted May 29, 2022 I took some time to build up the weapons stations and weapons. Not wanting to add the air to air missiles, I built the station and added spare P.E. left over from an previous build EA 18 G which didn't need the details. I simply glued the P.E. to the pylons to eliminate the flat smooth pylon mounting area. (I forgot to get pictures) and then began painting and gluing things together. painted the engine "business end" with Alclad lacquers then went for a rusty look with Tamiya browns Stainless steel and dark aluminum for the front The office, in progress, more paint and some weathering will be added and some of the finished assemblies. Once major assembly re-starts this should (could?) build up fairly quickly Thank you for looking patricksparks, Stevepd, Landrotten Highlander and 26 others 29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokey Pete Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 Looking pretty darned good there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted June 2, 2022 Author Share Posted June 2, 2022 Still chugging away on the Tornado. So far, although with a bit of flash here and there, fit has been perfect. My resin seats from Sprue Brothers showed up yesterday saving me monkeying around with the brass P.E. seat details in the kit. The assembly manual (I don't read instructions) calls for a hefty nose weight, I super glued two 14 gram weights into a large nut then glued that to the rear of the station the mounts the radar major assembly begins; I forgot to get pictures of the gear bays under construction, they go together perfectly though. Thanks for looking Fanes, Starfighter, F`s are my favs and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 The kit comes with a clever system of rods and gears to align the weapons stations with the direction of flight. I thought the pivot points were fairly loose, I decided to make some aluminum bushings to make the fit a little more snug. While the bushings I made will work great at tightening up the pivot points...and while I was patting myself on the back for my genius (Wiley Coyote) I found I'd lost both pivot point for the right wing. I searched for hours, cleaned out the garbage and looked everywhere I could imagine I may have put them. Nope, I had to knuckle down and make a couple of new ones from sheet and rod plastic, here's the result of all that. here's the kit parts with the aluminum bushings ready for the left wing; Aaannd my home made parts (made necessary because lose things and am an idiot) Viewers may notice I also cut the slot for the pylon key on one of them on the wrong side first time around but am still using to part. Thanks for looking Greg W, Rockie Yarwood, MikeC and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevepd Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 You do know, now you’ve made those pivots you’ll find the originals. chrish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted June 8, 2022 Author Share Posted June 8, 2022 No luck with finding the lost parts,I was sure they'd turn up as soon as I'd glued the wings together. I've joined the front to rear fuselage halves and have the base coat of light gray on and a bit of dirt on the belly, not sure if this actual aircraft was this dirty as images show some airframes shiny clean and some filthy...so I went with a bit of filth. Thanks for looking scvrobeson, Uncarina, Landrotten Highlander and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted June 10, 2022 Author Share Posted June 10, 2022 added the thrust reversers, a bit of Eduard P.E. to the speed brakes left over from the Revell kit I built back in the 90's and the "fin". With a vertical stabilizer this big one could believe the thing could have been made by De Havilland Canada... Thanks for looking Alex, MikeMaben, LSP_Kevin and 18 others 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncarina Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 Go Chrish go! She’s looking fantastic. Cheers, Tom GreyGhost 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted June 15, 2022 Author Share Posted June 15, 2022 Moving along, splashing paint on and adding dirt here and there... work, such as it is, continues. Thanks for looking John1, alain11, patricksparks and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Coming along nicely, Chris! Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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