Revell 1/32 Grumman Martlet V

[yak face]

Masked up for the black stripes and got them sprayed on -then when moving a box it fell onto the model ,breaking off one of the lower sections of the undercarriage legs! Oh bother said I (or something like that:tongue-out3 So that needs fixing . On the plus side the stripes looked fine once i had taken off all the masking tape just a few tiny touch ups on the white needed. once thats done I'll be giving it a coat or two of Klear or suchlike ready for decals.[ATTACH]304018[/ATTACH][ATTACH]304024[/ATTACH][ATTACH]304027[/ATTACH][ATTACH]304029[/ATTACH]

[Steve Jones]

Thats come out really well. You must be pleased:thumb2: Shame about the damage. Hopefully all fixed now

[yak face]

Cheers steve , not fixed yet ,I'm having a night off , but hopefully it will glue back together ok.

[papa 695]

Looking good you clumsy oaf.

[stillp]

I'm glad it's not just me that drops things...

Pete

[Lee Drennen]

Nice detail work Tony

[flyjoe180]

That's looking great Tony. Nice pre-shade effect achieved. Must be the season for things falling on builds.

[yak face]

Been a while since i posted on this but things have been slowly progressing . Fixed the broken u/c leg and got the decals on . The decals were a bit thick and stiff but settled down nicely with a few treatments of decal softener ( gunze MR mark softer) and still show the raised rivets underneath nicely. The yellow sections however were quite see through (in fact the writing on the nose ‘that old thing’ was almost invisible) so i hand painted over them with yellow. Ive made a start on the undercarriage , thinning and replacing parts of the doors and fitting brake lines . Once the u/c is done i’ll be concentrating on the wing folds , quite a bit more to add to this area . Cheers tony[ATTACH]306783[/ATTACH][ATTACH]306784[/ATTACH][ATTACH]306785[/ATTACH][ATTACH]306786[/ATTACH]

[Tim Marlow]

Looking good now, really stripey ...... not long to go. Notice you use a hit list as well....I do that sometimes, especially if it’s a complex build...usually write it on the instruction sheet.
Tim

[yak face]

Looking good now, really stripey ...... not long to go. Notice you use a hit list as well....I do that sometimes, especially if it’s a complex build...usually write it on the instruction sheet.
Tim

me too , that yellowy piece of ancient looking paper is the back of the instruction sheet! Shows how old the kit is !! Cheers tony

[Steve Jones]

Some wonderful steady work Tony. She will certainly be worth it once done. Nice to see the hit list. I am always forgetting stuff so now I write down extensive to do lists as I go also. Good luck with the finishing work

[papa 695]

It is looking good Tony

[RM6239]

Tony
Looking good and very nice preshading.
cheers
Ross

[flyjoe180]

Looks A1 Tony, and nice work on that decal touch up

[yak face]

I managed to get a few hours in the shed tonight and enjoyed myself immensely ,farting about making the wing stays. When the wings were folded on the wildcat they were held back by two stays that hooked onto a pair of eyelets on the tailplane and wingtip. The eyelets were made from thin aluminium (actually some old 1” venetian blind slats that i saved when we threw the blind away, you never know when they might come in useful for modelling!) I drilled four small holes in the edge of the slat then cut 1 mm strips with the scissors . The strip with the hole in was then rounded and glued into small cuts i made in the wings and tailplanes. I made the stays from brass tube with fuse wire threaded through and bent over at each end into a hook . Obviously theyve got to be painted / touched up yet but the pic shows the idea . Next up is the wingfold area and little bits like the nav lights and canopy details, cheers tony[ATTACH]309364[/ATTACH][ATTACH]309365[/ATTACH][ATTACH]309367[/ATTACH][ATTACH]309370[/ATTACH][ATTACH]309371[/ATTACH][ATTACH]309372[/ATTACH][ATTACH]309373[/ATTACH]