Airfix 1:72 Tiger Moth

[dr_gn]

Nice work. 1:48 presumably?

[dr_gn]

So, rigging.

Fill the pre-drilled holes with medium viscosity cyano, dip the end of the elastic in accelerator, and dunk into the hole:



You pretty much get one chance per line...

[dr_gn]

I figured that if I rigged the cabane first, without the upper wing fitted, it would simplify things (a bit). I also fully rigged the interplanes, with a bit of extra tension, before fitting the outer struts. I’ve had to separate the struts because the x braces clash with the plastic temporary jigs. Anyway, the individual struts snap into place quite nicely. I managed to unstick a cabane brace, and with no way of re-attaching it, I’ll have to replace with stretched sprue:



Old and new:

[allegerita]

Yes, scale is 1:48.

I wasn't satisfied with the brush paintwork quality of the rudder so I decided to sand the humbrol stuff down and airbrush the colors on again.

I used acrylic paint, which turns out to give a very nasty effect of partially sticking only. Maybe I will have to primer first.

Don't worry, the photo is only after half-time sanding. I also took the scratches and everything out.

BTW: apologies hijacking your thread.

Edited by allegerita on Friday 6th April 22:57

[dr_gn]

allegerita said:

Yes, scale is 1:48.

I wasn't satisfied with the brush paintwork quality of the rudder so I decided to sand the humbrol stuff down and airbrush the colors on again.

I used acrylic paint, which turns out to give a very nasty effect of partially sticking only. Maybe I will have to primer first.

Don't worry, the photo is only after half-time sanding. I also took the scratches and everything out.

BTW: apologies hijacking your thread.

Edited by allegerita on Friday 6th April 22:57

Bit of Tamiya white primer might do the trick - would save on white paint too...

[dr_gn]

Got a bit delayed with this one, but back on track now. Rigging done, and all the little additional details fitted. All that remains is to thin the kit windscreens down a bit, polish and paint their frames and add to the fuselage:

[tvrtuscans]

How do you thin the windscreen down? Fab work BTW!

[dr_gn]

tvrtuscans said:

How do you thin the windscreen down? Fab work BTW!

Small file, scraping with a scalpel blade, then polish back clear with Tamiya compounds. I used this method on my Polikarpov build an it worked quite well:

[AlexC1981]

I just pulled out my half built 1:72 De Havilland Vampire from the cupboard and I had forgotten just how small 1:72 scale aeroplanes are. Amazing attention to detail

[dr_gn]

AlexC1981 said:

I just pulled out my half built 1:72 De Havilland Vampire from the cupboard and I had forgotten just how small 1:72 scale aeroplanes are. Amazing attention to detail

Sometimes all the extra detail adds up to something impressive, sometimes it just doesn’t hang together. This one looks ok, but not my best; yellow can be a tricky colour to get looking right, and often doesn’t cover well. With this one, some detail was filled by the paint, and the dark wash was a little harsh. It’s “ok”

[anonymous-user]

dr_gn said:

With this one, some detail was filled by the paint, and the dark wash was a little harsh. It’s “ok”

Looks great to me,

[dr_gn]

El stovey said:

Looks great to me,

Thanks!

I guess sometimes you can spend so much time on a model that the end result will always not quite meet expectations.

[dr_gn]

Windscreens masked - this thing is tiny.



One more session should see it completed.

[Narcisus]

dr What do you do with your completed kits ? Do you have a dr_gn Boneyard somewhere ?

[dr_gn]

Narcisus said:

dr What do you do with your completed kits ? Do you have a dr_gn Boneyard somewhere ?

I've got a couple of perspex cases that I can fit several larger ones in, and after I ran out of room I get individual ones like this:



They're all dotted around my office.

[dr_gn]

Here are the finished pics.

1:72 Airfix Tiger Moth N-9181, No.10 Elementary Reserve & Flying Training School, RAF Yatesbury, 1940.

Modifications / additions were:

Corrected nose angle
Nose vents drilled out
Photo-etch / scratchbuilt cockpit details
Cockpit rear bulkheads scratch built with plasticard and lead wire piping
Photo-etch cockpit doors
Engine front pushrod added
Ez-Line & stretched sprue rigging (standard) & control lines (fine)
Lead wire fuel pipe
Scratchbuilt fuel level indicator and vent.
Photo-etch aileron linkages
Scratch-built fuselage aileron and rudder mechanisms
Photo-etch rudder & elevator horns
Photo-etch undercarriage stays
Photo-etch pitot tubes
Resin cast fuselage venturis
Thinned windscreens
Flatted tyres
Scratch built lower fuselage panels/stiffeners
Fin flash decals

It turned out OK, but it was very tricky to build.

Edited by dr_gn on Saturday 21st April 13:32

[robemcdonald]

Wow! that’s fantastic.

Great colour scheme too. The weathering on the yellow sections is very well done.

You have to be pleased with it.

[tight5]

Lovely.
The rigging makes it for me.

Makes me wonder about the colour scheme, though.
Cammo and yellow ?
Do we wanna hide or be high vis ?

[Dr Jekyll]

tight5 said:

Lovely.
The rigging makes it for me.

Makes me wonder about the colour scheme, though.
Cammo and yellow ?
Do we wanna hide or be high vis ?

I think the camo may have been to hide the airfields rather than the aircraft. If the field had no concrete runways and no aeroplane shaped yellow things dotted about it would be hard to spot from the air.

[Narcisus]

Another superb job. I could just climb in and fly it away !