1:72 Airfix Bristol Bulldog

[dr_gn]

Drilling the recesses for the rigging; trying something different this time by drilling right through the lower wing. Should make things easier. There are plenty of decals under there to cover up the cut-off and filled rigging holes:

[dr_gn]

Temporarily taped the wings in position so I could glue the main strut pairs in place on the upper wing:



Guess that’s it for a couple of days...

[dr_gn]

Filled the wing strut slots:



And re-fitted the ailerons, slightly displaced; I’ll have to remember to pose the control column correctly:



Theres a danger it might see some silver paint this weekend...

[Eric Mc]

Getting there.

As I can't do any modelling at the moment due to work commitments, I have to rely on surrogate model building at the moment.

[wolfracesonic]

dr_gn said:

I’ll have to remember to pose the control column correctly:

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I was going to pick you up on that if you forgot;)

[dr_gn]

wolfracesonic said:

dr_gn said:

I’ll have to remember to pose the control column correctly:

.

I was going to pick you up on that if you forgot;)

I'd have really appreciated that

[eccles]

dr_gn said:

wolfracesonic said:

dr_gn said:

I’ll have to remember to pose the control column correctly:

.

I was going to pick you up on that if you forgot;)

I'd have really appreciated that

The tricky part will be getting the stick position correct. That's quite a deflection of the ailerons, so the stick should be nearly full over.....
Going by your previous builds I expect you already know the scale deflection and stick position!

[dr_gn]

eccles said:

dr_gn said:

wolfracesonic said:

dr_gn said:

I’ll have to remember to pose the control column correctly:

.

I was going to pick you up on that if you forgot;)

I'd have really appreciated that

The tricky part will be getting the stick position correct. That's quite a deflection of the ailerons, so the stick should be nearly full over.....
Going by your previous builds I expect you already know the scale deflection and stick position!

I have no idea! If the ailerons were deflected much less, it looked like a warp in the moulding...

Modeller’s license - my favourite phrase.

[eccles]

dr_gn said:

eccles said:

dr_gn said:

wolfracesonic said:

dr_gn said:

I’ll have to remember to pose the control column correctly:

.

I was going to pick you up on that if you forgot;)

I'd have really appreciated that

The tricky part will be getting the stick position correct. That's quite a deflection of the ailerons, so the stick should be nearly full over.....
Going by your previous builds I expect you already know the scale deflection and stick position!

I have no idea! If the ailerons were deflected much less, it looked like a warp in the moulding...

Modeller’s license - my favourite phrase.

Happy new year, I'm looking forward to the rest of this build and your future ones.

[dr_gn]

eccles said:

dr_gn said:

eccles said:

dr_gn said:

wolfracesonic said:

dr_gn said:

I’ll have to remember to pose the control column correctly:

.

I was going to pick you up on that if you forgot;)

I'd have really appreciated that

The tricky part will be getting the stick position correct. That's quite a deflection of the ailerons, so the stick should be nearly full over.....
Going by your previous builds I expect you already know the scale deflection and stick position!

I have no idea! If the ailerons were deflected much less, it looked like a warp in the moulding...

Modeller’s license - my favourite phrase.

Happy new year, I'm looking forward to the rest of this build and your future ones.

Happy new year to you too. I’m also looking forward to this one being completed - it’s a struggle. Same with the other models I’m building at the moment.

Anyway, new year, new technique to try - Bare Metal Foiled the polished forward fuselage:





Masked and painted the green upper surfaces:





And put the decals on:



Still needs a dark wash, which may or may not work on the foil.

Don’t normally have much problem with decals, but these aftermarket ones didn’t like Micro Sol, and the wrinkling didn’t disappear. So I suppose I’ll have to strip the wing. Again.

[allegerita]

How do you attach the bare metal foil? I tried with kitchen aluminium foil and several glues on one of my paint mules but none were thin enough to not to leave any traces.I am using Allclad now but I still want to apply the foil technique.

[dr_gn]

allegerita said:

How do you attach the bare metal foil? I tried with kitchen aluminium foil and several glues on one of my paint mules but none were thin enough to not to leave any traces.I am using Allclad now but I still want to apply the foil technique.

It's very easy:

https://www.bare-metal.com/how-to-use-bare-metal-f...

It's self-adhesive, but in a weird way; it's sticks, but you can peel it off again. High-tack masking tape will lift it.

I applied it using some paper tortillons for large areas,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortillon

and a cocktail stick to work it into panel lines. Cut oversize, and trim to size when in place with a new #11 blade.

I've tried all sorts of metal paints over the years, but none looked anything like real polished aluminium.

[Gary29]

dr_gn said:

The printed 20lb bombs turned out OK for a first attempt, but I think a bit more optimisation of the settings is needed. I painted them just to get a benchmark. Way better than the originals even as they are:

How do you go about painting such fine lines on an item like that? I'm talking about the red and green stripes? I could never achieve that.

[allegerita]

dr_gn said:

It's very easy:

https://www.bare-metal.com/how-to-use-bare-metal-f...

It's self-adhesive, but in a weird way; it's sticks, but you can peel it off again. High-tack masking tape will lift it.

I applied it using some paper tortillons for large areas,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortillon

and a cocktail stick to work it into panel lines. Cut oversize, and trim to size when in place with a new #11 blade.

I've tried all sorts of metal paints over the years, but none looked anything like real polished aluminium.

Perfect, thanks. I found the stuff for sale in the Netherlands so I'll order some sheets.

[dr_gn]

Gary29 said:

dr_gn said:

The printed 20lb bombs turned out OK for a first attempt, but I think a bit more optimisation of the settings is needed. I painted them just to get a benchmark. Way better than the originals even as they are:

How do you go about painting such fine lines on an item like that? I'm talking about the red and green stripes? I could never achieve that.

Normally Id put them in the lathe (or a drill), spin them up and touch the brush on the surface, you then get perfect lines. These were too fragile to hold in a Chuck, so I stuck a cocktail stick in the fin cylinder and did it freehand while rolling the stick. Took several attempts going back and forth between colours.

They’re scrap anyway because I’ve got some better resolution ones now. That’s if I can ever get the wings looking right.

[dr_gn]

allegerita said:

dr_gn said:

It's very easy:

https://www.bare-metal.com/how-to-use-bare-metal-f...

It's self-adhesive, but in a weird way; it's sticks, but you can peel it off again. High-tack masking tape will lift it.

I applied it using some paper tortillons for large areas,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortillon

and a cocktail stick to work it into panel lines. Cut oversize, and trim to size when in place with a new #11 blade.

I've tried all sorts of metal paints over the years, but none looked anything like real polished aluminium.

Perfect, thanks. I found the stuff for sale in the Netherlands so I'll order some sheets.

I got mine from Amazon.

[dr_gn]

Benn working on the propeller - the real thing was partially painted wood, with protective metal on the edges, and a polished aluminium and blue painted spinner. I’d already drilled the original out and made a started dog from brass tube. Then the wood - Tamiya white primer streaked with burnt umber oil paint. The black blades and edging was a simple masking job. Not so the aluminium spinner. It had to match the forward fuselage, so Bare Metal Foil again. Found an online calculator for the developed shape:



Once I’d got the critical large circle diameter I freestyled the rest:





Despite reservations it went on fine:



Couldn’t resist assembling it to the engine:





Next up for BMF is the engine fairing, which isn’t going to be easy...

[dr_gn]

Fairing done - also added a bead sight to the uppermost (green painted) cone:

[AshVX220]

I was hoping to find a "dropped jaw" smiley but these will have to do....


and

[dr_gn]

AshVX220 said:

I was hoping to find a "dropped jaw" smiley but these will have to do....


and

Thanks very much. Very pleased with how the completed bits look, but a major screw-up is the wing.

With heavy heart, I stripped it back with caustic soda/brake fluid. This removed the top coats, but not the Tamiya primer. It also partially melted the struts, so I set-to and drilled/chiselled the slots clear:





Since the quest for the perfect model filler continues, I thought I’d try Tamiya putty on this particular screw-up:



So we’ll see how that goes.