48 hour group build thread
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Amazing results, you are working at the speed of light. Are you drying the glue and paint with a hair dryer or so? One remark: I would prefer to have the Hurricane canopy a bit more horizontally aligned with the rails.
Edited by allegerita on Monday 17th December 21:20
Edited by allegerita on Monday 17th December 21:21
allegerita said:
Amazing results, you are working at the speed of light. Are you drying the glue and paint with a hair dryer or so? One remark: I would prefer to have the Hurricane canopy a bit more horizontally aligned with the rails.
Thanks. Edited by allegerita on Monday 17th December 21:20
Edited by allegerita on Monday 17th December 21:21
The canopy does look a bit off. Must have popped up a bit. I might revisit it.
That escalated quickly...
I managed to break the canopy removing it. I have used a massive blob of canopy glue (still drying) to fix the two halves to the fuselage as best I can. It isn’t perfect, but it’s as good as It’s going to get.
I also spent a bit of time touching up little bits a pieces and adding a few stains, chips and a little more weathering.
It’s now on the shelf and free from further tinkering.
I managed to break the canopy removing it. I have used a massive blob of canopy glue (still drying) to fix the two halves to the fuselage as best I can. It isn’t perfect, but it’s as good as It’s going to get.
I also spent a bit of time touching up little bits a pieces and adding a few stains, chips and a little more weathering.
It’s now on the shelf and free from further tinkering.
Edited by robemcdonald on Tuesday 18th December 07:24
Edited by robemcdonald on Tuesday 18th December 07:25
Looks fine now. I did notice the wonky canopy in the original pics but decided to say nothing 
Do Airfix provide a separate closed canopy? You could always replace the bodged one with the alternative.
Falcon do a set of 1/72 vacform RAF fighter canopies if you wanted a complete replacement - although that wouldn't be in the spirit of the "Out of the Box" nature of the project.
Do Airfix provide a separate closed canopy? You could always replace the bodged one with the alternative.
Falcon do a set of 1/72 vacform RAF fighter canopies if you wanted a complete replacement - although that wouldn't be in the spirit of the "Out of the Box" nature of the project.
dr_gn said:
It’s all there, and the plastic is just as odd as I remember it when I last built one in about 1983... 
When did Matchbox stop using the funky coloured plastic?My Frog Kittyhawk is progressing nicely, I'm now about four hours elapsed. I'll post some pics later on. The kit dates – I think – from 1958, and I've realised how crude it is. No wheel-wells in the lower wing for example, and although I thought about opening them out that seemed a step too far, although probably achievable in the time available.
Looking ahead, can anyone recommend a sheet of 1/72 RAF roundel decals? I'll use the rest of the kit decals (assuming the don't disintegrate) but the out-of-register roundels really irk me. Such a sheet must surely exist, but I find the Hannants website a PITA to use.
Edit to add that frogmodelaircraft.co.uk is an interesting little website, if you're looking to track down an old Frog kit.
Edited by Yertis on Wednesday 2nd January 12:33
Yertis said:
Looking ahead, can anyone recommend a sheet of 1/72 RAF roundel decals? I'll use the rest of the kit decals (assuming the don't disintegrate) but the out-of-register roundels really irk me. Such a sheet must surely exist, but I find the Hannants website a PITA to use.
Any help?https://www.hannants.co.uk/search/index.php?adv=1&...
The old Modeldecal roundel sheets were good too if you can find them. I still make use of mine from time to time.
Yertis said:
When did Matchbox stop using the funky coloured plastic?
My Frog Kittyhawk is progressing nicely, I'm now about four hours elapsed. I'll post some pics later on. The kit dates – I think – from 1958, and I've realised how crude it is. No wheel-wells in the lower wing for example, and although I thought about opening them out that seemed a step too far, although probably achievable in the time available.
Looking ahead, can anyone recommend a sheet of 1/72 RAF roundel decals? I'll use the rest of the kit decals (assuming the don't disintegrate) but the out-of-register roundels really irk me. Such a sheet must surely exist, but I find the Hannants website a PITA to use.
Edit to add that frogmodelaircraft.co.uk is an interesting little website, if you're looking to track down an old Frog kit.
What size do you need. I always keep my old decals. I'm sure I will have something the right diameter. My Frog Kittyhawk is progressing nicely, I'm now about four hours elapsed. I'll post some pics later on. The kit dates – I think – from 1958, and I've realised how crude it is. No wheel-wells in the lower wing for example, and although I thought about opening them out that seemed a step too far, although probably achievable in the time available.
Looking ahead, can anyone recommend a sheet of 1/72 RAF roundel decals? I'll use the rest of the kit decals (assuming the don't disintegrate) but the out-of-register roundels really irk me. Such a sheet must surely exist, but I find the Hannants website a PITA to use.
Edit to add that frogmodelaircraft.co.uk is an interesting little website, if you're looking to track down an old Frog kit.
Edited by Yertis on Wednesday 2nd January 12:33
Saw this straight after I visited eBay... 
Disaster struck! I used old Humbrol and Revell tins and the green did look suspicious already. Especially the green oily paint had thickened way too much and I should have either thoroughly thinned it first or simply buy a new tin. It looks extremely grainy now. Maybe I can disguise the irregulaties with plenty of gloss varnish. Under normal circumstances I would have simply removed all the paint and tried again with an airbrush, but 48 hours is 48 hours.
Trivial info: all 36 aircrafts as ordered by the Dutch government left the Fokker factory in 1939 completely covered in this undefined brown-reddish base paint, with sand and green camo added by the Royal Airforce upon receipt of the planes. Virtually all planes were destroyed during the May 1940 hostilities and no period color photo evidence exists to validate the correct colors. If you think debates on modellers forums on correct Spitfire colors are sometimes a bit overheated try discussing D21 colors!
For the guns I sacrified a needle from my wifes sewing kit, which I blued and blackened with a lighter. Excess paint on the guns to be removed yet.
Trivial info: all 36 aircrafts as ordered by the Dutch government left the Fokker factory in 1939 completely covered in this undefined brown-reddish base paint, with sand and green camo added by the Royal Airforce upon receipt of the planes. Virtually all planes were destroyed during the May 1940 hostilities and no period color photo evidence exists to validate the correct colors. If you think debates on modellers forums on correct Spitfire colors are sometimes a bit overheated try discussing D21 colors!
For the guns I sacrified a needle from my wifes sewing kit, which I blued and blackened with a lighter. Excess paint on the guns to be removed yet.
Edited by allegerita on Thursday 3rd January 10:20
I've cocked-up slightly. As you all know the P40 undercarriage retracts into cylindrical fairings. On this kit these are represented by crude blobs which fit into equally crude recesses in the lower wing. I assembled my wings entirely before fitting to the fuselage. Joys of joys discovered last nigh that one fairing is about 1mm ahead of the other. So a bit of filler and filing required tonight. 
Yertis said:
I've cocked-up slightly. As you all know the P40 undercarriage retracts into cylindrical fairings. On this kit these are represented by crude blobs which fit into equally crude recesses in the lower wing. I assembled my wings entirely before fitting to the fuselage. Joys of joys discovered last nigh that one fairing is about 1mm ahead of the other. So a bit of filler and filing required tonight.
That sounds like it might take longer than 48 hours... I suggest we turn a blind eye to such flagrant ignorance of the rules... providing you post some pictures.
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