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perdu

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198 months

Tuesday 15th April 2014
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dr_gn said:
You can get on with painting those exhaust collector rings now...get yourself some Alclad jet exhaust and mix it with a bit of Alclad brass, they'll look spot on!
Hmm

Jet exhaust and brass you reckon?

I usually paint them matt pinkish brown and added rust and iron grey to replicate real exhaust pipes

I'll have to try your recipe

Next time I do a Brit engined machine


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dr_gn

16,140 posts

183 months

Tuesday 15th April 2014
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hehe

perdu

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4,884 posts

198 months

Wednesday 16th April 2014
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I hope Photobucket can do the trick, damned long winded way to go......

A few of the build, gun barrels from a shop in Lowestoft, very quick posting too. They sell two makes of .50 barrels, I cannot see any difference between them for a big price difference. I ordered both of course
two .30cals and two .50cals

Gunnery mounts for the .50s, .020" Evergreen rod

The .50s ready to mount.

Armour screens cut from a drinks can. Ihave been mainly using cans from the Royal Danish Court preferred lager

Probably


And mounted in the unfinished blister turret



The front turret moulded in three pieces, not counting the .30 cals


dr_gn

16,140 posts

183 months

Wednesday 16th April 2014
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That's great work.

If you look closely, two of the guns have many more jacket cooling holes than the other two. That's probably where you extra cash went.

perdu

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4,884 posts

198 months

Saturday 28th June 2014
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Thread resurrection time

A final look at wot I dun

Lots of interior stuff I wasted my time on frown

I can't see, so there's b all chance any one else will ;(

Bunks, Flight engineer station, Radio Shack with radios and sparkys seat and desk, Nav's table with chart drawer sextant case, bulkhead doors with characteristic pressed steel stiffeners built in.

Ribs across the floor, now invisible and walkways too.

At the back you can make out the gunnery positions at least and the ammo box and track central on the floor

At the front engine and prop controls in the roof, pilot and co-pilot's seats on their complicated framing and the control wheels on their pivoted yoke and instrument panel

The later style eyeball front turret with twin 30cal Brownings moulded in two pieces

As I mentioned earlier I used after market stuff on a model (for myself) for the first time, four of the gun barrels from Hannants (no doc both sets of 50cal barrels had the same number of holes, it's the thirtys that were diferent) thumbupsmile

I bought two Aeroclub P&W Twin Wasps off ebay from different sellers. Sadly one was just stuck in an envelope so some bright spark in the Post Office scraped at the envelope, possibly thinking he'd be pocketing a ring or brooch carelessly posted by an idiot.

He scraped off the bolt detail from one of them and wore away part of the moulding with a gnarly thumbnail (I suspect) I mentioned this to the seller who kindly refunded the money for the engine.

I couldn't find another Twin Wopse in time so in desperation I used a smidgeon of Milliput and filler to rebuild the front of the damaged one. I can hardly see it now, so does using it mean I owe the guy the money back, back?

I also used after market vac form mouldings for the rear gondolas after hacking Airfix's distorted turret mount away to suit.

Airfix made a horrid job of the complex undercarrriage, I made a horrid job too but have at least given her the proper twin wishbone suspension ISH

The nosewheel fork was made from soldered brass tube, just to see if I could and the nosewheel is made from four pieces. Just because...

As it is a "Black Cat" machine I have painted it as a typical version. The US National markings were toned down almost to invisibility, white parts of the stars and bars were greyed out and frequent repainting and touching up with Lamp Black and dope mix have resulted in a truly manky finish

A radar dome was fabricated from an old drop tank in my bits box and because it is horrendously tail heavy I have pinned the nosewheel to the stand and added chocks to the mainwheels


Hope you like it a bit, it's very dark...








Edited by perdu on Saturday 28th June 15:31

Eric Mc

121,777 posts

264 months

Saturday 28th June 2014
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Looks a complete mess - just like the real thing (as Airfix used to say in their ads).


perdu

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4,884 posts

198 months

Sunday 29th June 2014
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Thanks Eric

The mucky look came through then smile

dr_gn

16,140 posts

183 months

Sunday 6th July 2014
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Shame about the hidden details, but there you go - you never know how much will be visible through the glazing.

I know it looks excellent from some of your other pics on BM, but I must say you're not really doing justice to your models with those photos (and obviously I've seen your work first hand at shows). Why not take them outside on an overcast day on a neutral background?

perdu

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4,884 posts

198 months

Sunday 6th July 2014
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dr_gn said:
Shame about the hidden details, but there you go - you never know how much will be visible through the glazing.

I know it looks excellent from some of your other pics on BM, but I must say you're not really doing justice to your models with those photos (and obviously I've seen your work first hand at shows). Why not take them outside on an overcast day on a neutral background?
You wouldn't think I did a photography course a few weeks ago, just 'cos of this would you.

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That is a good idea, I just used sheets of pastel paper and brown paper to hide my 'pooter... and beer cans smile

I will be back, thanks doc.