waxdart Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 Just beautiful work! spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted December 12, 2023 Author Share Posted December 12, 2023 6 hours ago, LSP_Kevin said: Terrific update, Spyros! Kev Thank you Kev! 4 hours ago, mywifehatesmodels said: Excellent work on the engine and cowl. John Thanks John! The cowling has easily been the most frustrating part of the project so far... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted December 12, 2023 Author Share Posted December 12, 2023 2 hours ago, jep1210 said: I don't know how I missed this one, but so far it looks great. Thank you! To be fair, I haven't been posting regularly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted December 12, 2023 Author Share Posted December 12, 2023 2 hours ago, waxdart said: Just beautiful work! Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dpgsbody55 Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 Very nice work here. Cheers, Michael spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted December 12, 2023 Author Share Posted December 12, 2023 2 hours ago, Dpgsbody55 said: Very nice work here. Cheers, Michael Thank you Michael! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted January 9 Author Share Posted January 9 Hello everyone! Having finished the engine I brought up all the sub-assemblies together to complete the overall airframe. Fit has been generally pretty good with the exception of the misaligned engine cowling. I eventually decided the glue the whole thing to the main fuselage directly thus eliminating the step. We're now on the final stretch of the build and the model is getting prepped for painting. I had initially planed to depict Glenn Eagleston's winged skull and bones aircraft but after some further search I came across and fell in love with Neil Stanley's Daddy Rabbit with its cheeky artwork. So I promptly ordered EagleCal's decal set and getting ready to put on some paint! Furie, Johnny Cloud, zaxos345 and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Looks great so far, Spyros! Photos look good, too. Kev spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaxos345 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Great!!!!!!!!!!!! John spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted January 9 Author Share Posted January 9 3 hours ago, LSP_Kevin said: Looks great so far, Spyros! Photos look good, too. Kev Many thanks Kev! 3 hours ago, zaxos345 said: Great!!!!!!!!!!!! John Thank you John! zaxos345 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collin Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 What's your technique for your seam work? Your fuselage seam is practically gone. Beautiful work....everyone loves a big Jug!! Cheers Collin spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted January 9 Author Share Posted January 9 1 hour ago, Collin said: What's your technique for your seam work? Your fuselage seam is practically gone. Beautiful work....everyone loves a big Jug!! Cheers Collin Thank you Collin! Regarding the sims, I first apply a small amount of liquid cement on both surfaces that will be joined together. I then bring the surfaces together and apply more cement across the join. After a minute or so, I squeeze the parts together till the molten plastic oozes across the length of the join. Once it's dry I sand till smooth. If the fit is good, that's all you need. If more work is required (either more gaps or the dreaded ghost seam) I then switch to a mixture of talcum powder and superglue. It should only take a couple of minutes to cure after which I sand smooth. That usually fully takes care of the join. Hope that helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collin Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 1 hour ago, spyrosjzmichos said: Thank you Collin! Regarding the sims, I first apply a small amount of liquid cement on both surfaces that will be joined together. I then bring the surfaces together and apply more cement across the join. After a minute or so, I squeeze the parts together till the molten plastic oozes across the length of the join. Once it's dry I sand till smooth. If the fit is good, that's all you need. If more work is required (either more gaps or the dreaded ghost seam) I then switch to a mixture of talcum powder and superglue. It should only take a couple of minutes to cure after which I sand smooth. That usually fully takes care of the join. Hope that helps! I follow a similar process...but weeks/months later...ghost seams. I am slowing incorporating CA...but worried about long term integrity of a major joint coming undone. What's your preferred glue? Thanks for the response. Cheers Collin spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted January 9 Author Share Posted January 9 3 minutes ago, Collin said: I follow a similar process...but weeks/months later...ghost seams. I am slowing incorporating CA...but worried about long term integrity of a major joint coming undone. What's your preferred glue? Thanks for the response. Cheers Collin Indeed, the CA glue/talcum powder mix can be brittle and the join can come apart if you apply too much pressure during or after sanding. That's usually more of a problem on highly curved surfaces such as the kit's engine cowling (which was a real PITA due to the four part assembly). But I have found that by applying liquid cement first usually makes the join flexible enough to withstand moderate pressure should you apply the CA glue mixture on top. You could consider the sprue goo method but I've never used it so can't comment much on it. Unfortunately, ghost seams are annoying but have seen that even top modelers have to deal with these occasionally. Ah, yes. Forgot to mention my preferred glue is Tamiya extra thin cement. I have also used Mr Hobby's limonene cement, too, which works just as fine. But for reasons I'm unable to explain, I tend to prefer the Tamiya one. nmayhew 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted February 4 Author Share Posted February 4 Hello everyone! I managed to make some progress with painting. One thing I should mention is that this is my first ever attempt at a natural metal scheme. I always shied away from doing such schemes as I was generally intimidated by the associated challenges and difficulties. But I eventually decided it was time I bit the bullet and try my hand at an "unpainted" aircraft. One thing I always struggled with is figuring out a way to depict the patina that forms on used metal surfaces as evident on numerous period photos of P-47s and P-51s. I eventually came across an old video of doogsmodels that suggested a variation of the popular black basing technique. This involved priming the plastic surface with a metal colour, then applied irregular patches of dark grey and finally unifying the whole scheme with an overcoat of a different metallic colour. I found the technique quite interesting and so decided to try it out. After polishing and cleaning the whole model I first painted it with MRP Silver. Then using an Uschi van der Rosten splatter stencil I covered the silver with splotches of MRP dark gull grey. Next step was to apply several light layers of MRP white aluminium. I made sure to cover the dark gull grey pattern enough to show through the top layer from different angles. I have edited the pictures to make the effect look more dramatic as it was the only way it would appear clearly. But in reality it's much more subtle. And a few detail shots of the effect. Next step is to do some panel variation with dark aluminium and then apply the olive drab anti glare panel. Thanks for checking! Shoggz, fab, Troy Molitor and 15 others 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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