Colin's English Electric Lightning 1/32 Trumpeter

[Steve Brodie]

lovin the seat

[Bigfoot57]

Finally got the fuselage together some serious gaps need filling and smoothing but once done should look ok

Regards

Colin

[Steve Brodie]

lookin good, love the green radome

[Bigfoot57]

Steve that radome is a mixture of if recall 3 greens 2 browns 1 red and 2 greys and was applied on each whilst wet to hopefully get brownish tinged green colour which I matched to numerous photo's on the net and my reference books

Regards

Colin

[colin m]

Wait till you get to detailing the cockpit numerous swear words and hunting for bits of pe that ping out of the tweezers which I flattend literally with the application of a enginners ball pein hammer in the troublesome area wouldn't reccomend it only for therapeutic reasons

Regards

Colin

If you really want to practice 'naughty' words, try 1:72 PE. I invented new 'naughty' word while working with this stuff.

[Bigfoot57]

Engine building time my god look at all the pe to go on the exterior of the model

Regards

Colin

[peterairfix]

Good luck with all that lot and I can hear the cursing already.

[Bigfoot57]

Engine parts now painted when dry assemble and add pe as required

Regards

Colin

[Bigfoot57]

Another lousy fit for the engine assembly held in place by force with tape whilst the glue sets more filler required I reckon after it has stuck
Yep I was correct huge gap around engine mount and fuselage so more filler should look ok when sanded smooth and repainted etc While I was at it I went over the entire fuselage join and filled in all gaps ready for priming and finishing with foil thats the plan

Regards

Colin

[Bigfoot57]

Latest update found I had to cut off the hinges to the airbrakes and then cement the airbrakes in closed position and then sand down the cut off hinges so they would fit back into the fuselage as the airbrakes were rarley if ever seen in the open position when the aircaft was at rest on the ground
Whilst I was at it I decided to paint the spine red as this kit will be foil covered no masking was deemed neccasry for this point
I also painted the engine exhaust and still have some pe to apply to finish them off

[flyjoe180]

Coming along nicely Colin. Boy is this an epic battle and you're winning!

[Bigfoot57]

Tonights simple task join the 2 tail pieces together really no this has to be the worst fitting pair of plastic mouldings in history as you can see from attached picture 6 clamps in attemp to seal the join which when it is set will have huge gaps in it requiring more filler I had actually painted these 2 items thinking a nice simple join and just a touch up now looks like a complete strip off and repaint I just hope the wings are better some hope!!!!
Fitted tailfin oh dear gap by the join to fuselage spine and all along bottom edge

[Bigfoot57]

More filling like I said absolutely apalling fit as can be seen from these pictures
Hours later filler sanded off and 2nd coat of red applied looking much better now any remaing gaps should disapear when the foiling is done

Regards

Colin

[Bigfoot57]

New seat arrived from France today look at the difference and thats before its painted the trumpeter eduard is utterly blown away by this moulding just hope my paint job does it justice

Regards

Colin

[Bigfoot57]

Moved onto next stage foiling only done a small bit to see how it would go its not difficult not to my way of thinking you just need patience and a methodical way of doing the same thing over and over
The effect is to me way better than what I could achive with paint and it requires no priming just a clean plastic surface so the glue sticks to the foil

Regards

Colin