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  1. Steve-the-Duck

    Carrier conversions 28mm

    So, the Light Dragon Mk.III is pretty much finished. I will probably do a tilt cover one painted, with the sides up The commander figure will be fixed in once everything else is painted. I've used the Milicast 1/76 casting as reference for the rear as still the only phot of the back has an...
  2. Steve-the-Duck

    StDs 1/72 AModel Hawker Hector

    So, we're kind of back on track. After leaving the remaining Alclad to dry for five days, here's round 2! I tried dust-coating this time round, as advised by my brother-in-law, and we may have a winner! Still needs a second go-over though, in a few more days time... As a comparison, I did...
  3. Steve-the-Duck

    Welcome to Papa695's Bi plane GB. Chat thread

    Well, as Richard (rtfoe) is doing an, excellent, build of the Matchbox Siskin IIIA, thought I'd put in a quick compare and contrast job. Kora recently put out a single and trainer twin-seat job, so I had to have the DC, as I already had the Matchbox and a spare with a replacement fuselage to do...
  4. Steve-the-Duck

    Chris's 1/72 Revell SE5A.

    Okay, so, the Hector is stalled for a while, much air-brush practice to ensue, so this was going to be next afterwards but I may just make a start now-ish I WILL be putting in cockpit detail, thanks to Wingnut references. Intention is a post-war RAE display aircraft in silver, which I can...
  5. Steve-the-Duck

    Carrier conversions 28mm

    So, also where I'm at with the Dragon Mk.III Still got the seat back-rests, the armoured headlights and the elaborate tow-hook to put on (the latter of which is identical to the one on my Matadors, but I don't have a spare!) What does get me though, is there seems to be no provision for...
  6. Steve-the-Duck

    Carrier conversions 28mm

    So, here's a couple of the crew figures just placed for size. As can be seen, to get three in the space will require some work I think I'll be making the mudguards out of some aluminium tube I've got lying about, as I've nothing else curvy enough, and I'm not about to warm upsome plasticard...
  7. Steve-the-Duck

    Carrier conversions 28mm

    And so, indeed, on to the Cavalry Carrier That's the main bodywork done. Next to add all the gubbins to the top of the engine compartment Also: Theses are part of a rather excellent 28mm 3D printed set of seated British soldiers and drivers found on eBay. To fit six in the back will...
  8. Steve-the-Duck

    StDs 1/72 AModel Hawker Hector

    And now the not-quite disaster. I decided to finally use the Alclad chrome I've had knocking about for a while for the shiny SHINY cowling Copious masking just in case, and on with the black base coat. So far no trouble First coat looked a little blotchy. It looked worse on the other side...
  9. Steve-the-Duck

    StDs 1/72 AModel Hawker Hector

    Okay, so here's where things are starting to go astray... I used the kit markings to start with for the registration number, and the last two digits out of a set of Ventura letters and numbers And the heights don't match. So, I've subsequently replaced the '8 1' with more Ventura numbers As...
  10. Steve-the-Duck

    Carrier conversions 28mm

    Right, so after all this time with slow progress, I've had a burst of activity while waiting for paint to dry on the Hawker Hector in the biplane GB (and the mis-steps that ensued there!) So, the Scout Carrier is built I was thinking of painting at this stage and adding the rest of the crew...
  11. Steve-the-Duck

    StDs 1/72 AModel Hawker Hector

    Top wing painted and decaled. Radio aerial bases out of 0,.5 brass rod Aileron cables out of 0.2 rod, my go to for rigging It's not really pink, just the way my camera apparently corrects the YELLOW spotlight! A Model decals are very nicely thin, but they can break up, as you can see if you...
  12. Steve-the-Duck

    StDs 1/72 AModel Hawker Hector

    Cough wibble wheeze ' The truth is a three-edged sword' Much progress, and mis-steps, have been made This is the Firewall at the back of the engine, out of 20 thou plasticard And here it is in place. At this stage I didn't realise it would be all but invisible anyway, but there you go. At...
  13. Steve-the-Duck

    StDs 1/72 AModel Hawker Hector

    A LOT of small holes for rigging mounting have been drilled The two tiny plastistrip squares under the tail surfaces are cable run brackets I've also had to drill out all the strip mounting points as they're barely indentations
  14. Steve-the-Duck

    StDs 1/72 AModel Hawker Hector

    Right, so the main cockpit parts are detailed and painted The kit suggests a grey interior, but I've3 gone with the red bled-through dope effect The control panel is just as is, with a couple of coloured dials. I thought about some white details, but decided just to go for gloss over black...
  15. Steve-the-Duck

    StDs 1/72 AModel Hawker Hector

    So, the balance weights added to the rear fuselage do have a tiny point for placement, which needs drilling out to fit one of the few locating pins on the kit And here we see the instructions are just edging the right side of 'vague.' Just
  16. Steve-the-Duck

    StDs 1/72 AModel Hawker Hector

    As Ambassador Kosh said, 'And so it begins' I'll be doing this beast as K8143 of 4 Squadron (Army Co-op). None of the photos I've found, which are very small, definitively show whether the 'plane had the Co-op six-pointed star with squadron badge on the fin, so I might not do that. It will be...
  17. Steve-the-Duck

    Best model you ever made?

    Okay, so here's a thing. Best BUILD or best KIT you've built? This is my 1/72 OLD Airfix Bristol Fighter; the most work I've ever put into one kit, and I'm most pleased / proud of From an engineering point of view, the Airfix Starter set Spit 1A I built, in three days, for a sales promo...
  18. Steve-the-Duck

    StDs 1/72 AModel Hawker Hector

    Not too early to post this am I? Not starting 'til Montag but I'll get the preview in While A Model kits are nicely detailed, their major flaw is a lack of locating pins. The 1/144 'Canberraski' I did recently had six fuselage halves, with no steps or pins to align them properly So, I...
  19. Steve-the-Duck

    Welcome to Papa695's Bi plane GB. Chat thread

    Well, when I asked, this was the only one to get a response, so this will be mine Or, at least, the FIRST one...
  20. Steve-the-Duck

    Italian torpedo plane wwll

    These any good for you? This is from the Squadron Signal book S.79 bombers rather than torpedo, but maybe the right angle? This is the possible propaganda picture The S.84 was the dedicated aerosilurante (torpedo bomber) variant of the S.79

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