Really taking shape now, great looking aircraft.
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Looking good Steve.Comment
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coming along nicely Steve. I presume you are using superglue to hold it together?Comment
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Hi Vaughan, yes, 90% superglue and a lot of the gel type at that. I've used a little epoxy (on the large internal nose structure for example) where I needed a little wiggle time and GS Hypo cement on any clear parts. As one who always uses thin cement on polystyrene I've had to really adjust my technique! I find the very thin superglues very difficult to control and only use them when there is no option. With them I tend to stick all sorts of things, including myself, to other things unintentionally
To adjust the fit I've used a few plastic card shims and a fair bit of superglue/talcum powder filler and the odd skim of Mr.White Putty. Having said that, the fit is as good as you can expect for resin and I've only had a couple of parts that needed fixing due to casting errors. One propeller blade did need a bit of work.
I got some primer on last night and this hasn't revealed any major problems (there is a little fix to do on the underside).
I'm looking forward to my favourite part, the painting. I'm currently struggling to establish the wheel well colour. I'm tempted to go with an interior grey-green wheel well, as seen on post war Spitfires and the Attacker (same wing), and aluminium doors. If anyone has any solid information on this I'd love to hear it!
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SteveComment
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That's a lot of hard work Steve, but I can see it's worth it. Do you still use your Halfords primer?Comment
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This is looking very nice Steve
All the hard work is paying off
Regards
RobertComment
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I've used Halfords plastic primer.Originally posted by \
I have read of people struggling to get paint to stick to resin and it is important to clean the parts. I've cleaned all the parts with water and I've wiped the entire model with alcohol, mainly to remove any residue from my grubby fingerprints. A lot of the model has had at least a light sanding during construction. The primer seems to have adhered well enough, though I'll know for sure when I rub it down at some time in the next couple of days.
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I tried Halfords primer after hearing it's supposed to be good ( I primed the 1/72 Vickerd Valient but think I may have ovwrsprayed and too much run was lest in panel lines.
I have also used pound land grey plastic spray and found this to be finer ( maybe I was too heavy handed with the Halfords.
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It's easily done! I keep the can moving and spray in quick bursts.Originally posted by \
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SteveComment
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I've spent the available time over the last couple of days spraying the colour and markings on the underside, the roundel blue is still wet!.
I will mask this up tomorrow and then repeat the process for the upper surfaces.
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SteveComment
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I don't think I would have the patience to do that, markings look great Steve.Comment
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Nice paint steve , did you mask and spray the serial too? TonyComment
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Yep, no chance of that silveringOriginally posted by \
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SteveComment
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Looking good Steve, your not hanging around with this one.Comment
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I've got the Extra Dark Sea Grey (EDSG) on today. Unfortunately this is not the most exciting schemes and EDSG is just grey
I was going to use the EDSG from Xtracolor which I used on a large Spitfire floatplane a while ago and liked, however, when I opened the tinlet it had dried out somewhat with a nice 'custard skin'. This despite the tinlet being cleaned and well sealed after its previous use. This has happened to me with a couple of Xtracolor paints and is bl**dy annoying. I can keep old Humbrol paints for twenty plus years but Xtracolors last less than two!
Anyway, a quick scrabble in the generic paint draw turned up some Humbrol 123 which is supposed to be a good match for EDSG and is a good match for the now useless Xtracolor, so that's what I used.
Markings to be sprayed over the next few days.
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SteveComment
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