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[geegad]

well it time to bite the bullet this is my first plane and already i hit a snag the colour of the inside of the cockpit..then ive got to figure out how to paint the inside when there is a load of pre painted photo etch going in aaarrrr...

 

[Ian M]

Pop corn ready.

Begin.

Ian M

 

[spanner570]

Nice choice John, but be warned, the canopy is a pig to do...On the one I posted on here, posed open, the thing slides in on itself and is a s** to get lined up correctly.....I won't even mention painting the framework!

Good luck,

Ron

 

[geegad]

oh S**T that does'nt sound good for my first plane ron

 

[colin m]

I never built a 'Great wall' model, what's the detail like ?

 

[spanner570]

oh S**T that does'nt sound good for my first plane ron

Oops, sorry, false alarm!! The aircraft I did on here was a Dauntless. If you take a look you will see there is a big difference in the canopies. On the Dauntless, if shown open, there are three parts of the canopy that have to slot one on top of the other, so yours looks a bit easier. Still lots of frame work to paint mind!

Sorry if I gave you unneccessary sleepless nights John!

Ron

 

[geegad]

I never built a 'Great wall' model, what's the detail like ?

from my inexperience with airplane kits it looks very good mind you i will get some pics up tom...mind you i ain't got that far into the kit yet

 

[geegad]

Oops, sorry, false alarm!! The aircraft I did on here was a Dauntless. If you take a look you will see there is a big difference in the canopies. On the Dauntless, if shown open, there are three parts of the canopy that have to slot one on top of the other, so yours looks a bit easier. Still lots of frame work to paint mind!Sorry if I gave you unneccessary sleepless nights John!

Ron

no problems mucker i took some pills and i slept fine:smile:

 

[geegad]

well here goes the first post on my first build and straight away ive never worked at this small scale TO DAM SMALE...so if you lads who build planes can see anything thats not right please do tell me because i haven't got a clue if its all right

thanks for looking in

 

[Ian M]

Looks good to me, but how are you painting the cock pit when its built. It looks to me that you are painting your self into a corner. Well building your self into one...

That IP looks very good indeed!!!

SMALL? Its 1/48 scale! LOL.

It looks like you are doing great so far.

Ian M

 

[geegad]

well ian that got me thinking i will mask all the parts that dont want paint on them hopefully that will work we will see...wish me luck,,and a corner i see a coming

 

[Ian M]

Hope you didn't mind my comment. Its just that painting and masking and painting is a whole new ball game on winged things.

I still have to think it through a few times, (even on a Spitfire, and I have built a few of them!!!)

One thing I am really good at is masking camouflage, I have a habit of masking off the wrong sections. So I end up covering the areas I am supposed to paint! I just did the very same thing on the Seafire.

A tip here; Buy plenty of masking tape if you are getting into aircraft!

Ian M

 

[BarryW]

1/48 Small scale, indeed it is John!!!!! That's why I build 32 scale :cheeseygrin::cheeseygrin::cheeseygrin:!

Nice build by the way, looking very good to me.

 

[Dave W]

Some nice detail in that cockpit.Looks a really nice kit.

 

[colin m]

1:48 - luxury !!!!

 

[flyjoe180]

Nice job so far John, keep up the good work.

 

[geegad]

well finally got my camera back so here's where i'm at just about to start the weathering the best bit...made a truck load of school boy errors in this as you will see

and here's the big error in the decal we have hair/dust/cotton bud/

 

[Ian M]

Woa! Thats a great paint job there! Looking very nice.

Ian M

 

[michaelm]

John, that looks fantastic!!

 

[geegad]

cheers lads for your kind words