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Progress has been slowly made. The dark grey steel decks and the pale grey superstructures have been painted. At this point the wooden decks have been added. The fit was perfect and they seem to have stuck down nicely. The PE is slowly being added . The usual thin PE material that has little spring and folds well but is very unforgiving if you need to bend a second time. And todays work in tiny world - building the Sea Fox. Looking at the photos the wing bracing could be better so I may try to adjust that tomorrow. The upper wong has a dihedral and the lower wing doesn't and the PE bracing doesn't allow for that. I realised at the weekend that I had somehow overlooked priming and painting the sprues of small parts, binnacles, searchlights, bollards etc. so this has now been done and I can start populating the various subassemblies. Thanks for looking in and the likes and comments Alan

Thanks Mike. It is a super kit to work on after the Amodel number. Parts fit, have no flash and wonderful detail. There is enough detail that I don't feel anything needs to be added apart from the wooden decks. Probably going to be slow as I work my way back into the sequences needed to build it. Alan

Lovely, nice neat paint work Andy. Are these the Vallejo Model Air range. I use the Model Color range for my figures and like them a lot but haven’t tried them in an air brush. Tamiya acrylics work well for me with the airbrush as do MiG Ammo ones. AK real color doesn’t and I have mixed success with Life Color. I spent yesterday afternoon unclogging the airbrush after ten minutes trying to spray heavily diluted Life Color 507A. I bought a couple of MiG Ammo Atom paints to see if they are any good but haven’t tried them yet. Alan

You guys who work in card have great skills alan

Welcome Ken. I think the Flyhawk kits are level above others. The plastic parts are so crisp and delicate you hardly need PE. They do challenge me a bit with the tiny parts and delicate PE. Bright lights and magnifiers are essential. They have some interesting subjects but I would be very happy if they did a 1970s Ark Royal with Buccs and Phantoms. 1980s HMS Hermes with Harriers? alan

Welcome OC, I do like the Flyhawk kits. Everything fits together perfectly. For better or worse I have primered all the decks with MiG One Shot, painted the appropriate light and dark grey bits and just added the wooden decks. So far they seem to be sitting down nicely. For some reason I seem to have forgotten the order I do stuff in on these kits so progress may be a bit erratic alan

Welcome Andrew The Flyhawk models are well thought out and the parts are very precise. The plastic parts are often better than PE except for railings and girders etc. a lot of detail and sometimes a bit taxing because of the tiny parts. I like them a lot. i just started reading your Sparkler log. It looks a great kit and almost tempts me to try a wooden ship although rigging sounds daunting. alan

Beautiful and neat work alan

I’ve still got mine Alan

Slow progress as I relearn the 1/700 methods and Flyhawks way of doing things. Partly its deciding on the order of build and paint. I had thought of building up all the basic structures and painting them, assembling the modules and then add the details but this has to be modified because of the wooden decks which have to be installed before additional decks are added above. So I think I am going to have to add the wooden decks and then mask them. The Flyhawk wooden deck set suggests that there are masks in the kit but I don't see them so I'll used tape as necessary. The instructions need careful study being the usual information dense sheets. Thankfully this kit incorporates the PE into the basic instructions so you don't have to juggle a parallel set of instructions and work out what has to be removed and replaced. The kit contains PE and resin parts. The kit parts are just as good but I think the resin bits cover the changes from the basic Arethusa kit. As usual the box is stuffed with parts and there is no way its all going back in once its been disturbed. After the Amodel kit the Flyhawk parts are lovely. Very crisp detail, no mold lines or flash and the parts fit so well. These parts just click together The eight inch guns were so nice that I would have considered not using the brass barrels but unfortunately the plastic parts had been deformed (posibly the full box thing) so the brass barrels were added The PE is nice to work with although tiny.. I've built up as far as I think I can go so these bits will now get black primer, the dark grey deck paint and the light grey hull colour. Thanks for looking in and the likes and comments Alan

Thank you very much Rob. It’s such a 1950s space vibe I had to build it. I really want to try the Mallow flying boat but I need to forget some of the aspects of this one first alan

Thank you very much Jav, The kit was a bit of a fight and the NMF finish was a new adventure for me but I learnt a lot and I like the result Alan

many thanks EG. That’s most informative and reassuring. I will still wear a N95 mask though when spreading margarine or Marmite alan

Thank you very much Jav. The sculptor gave him quite a characterful face. alan

The 3D print upgrades are excellent and will really upgrade the model. Super work alan

Super neat work alan

Apologies to Gregg but many thanks Ken, I’ve been nervous about resin kits because of the stories about the risks of lung damage caused by even small amounts of dust. I have a few resin figures that I stare at in fear because of the need to trim them. alan

Thank you Phil. Another enjoyable painting exercise alan

Thank you very much Ken. Repair work is lingering on down here too. The storms are hot news and then the focus moves on but people are still trying to put the pieces together and get back to normal life again. Google seems to suggest he is really Oddone Frangipani so the “of” might be a confusion by Pegaso although he does look like he might have overindulged in Bakewell tarts which is the British use of the mix. Possibly that’s what the lions are fighting about on his shield. Alan

Thank you very much OC. Pegaso definitely go on the list for another try. alan

I'm still drifting a bit although the house is fully repaired again just in time for the electric cooker to turn its toes up. The joys of home ownership. Anyhoo, I'm adding a little paint to Oddone most days and added the missing arm, the shield and the polished helmet (battle beanie?). The figures on the shield were an exercise in breath control but they are raised details so they could be picked out with some light brush strokes. the clear orange didn't stand out as much as I hoped but I still like it better than gold paint for this application. I think its now probably as finished as I can make it. I'm pleased with the way the armour came out, a bit less so with the shield. Maybe it would have been better to mask the stripes rather than freehand them. I still like the Art Girona figures for their characters but the Pegaso figure went together better and a better painting guide was provided. Thanks for looking in, the likes and comments. Hopefully I will turn my attention to the Galatea in a more focussed way but I did do a bit of exploring on Etsy and picked up a couple of resin figures than would have to be described as whimsy - but we are approaching the holiday season so................... Alan

A beautiful model and complimented by the figure which is super and the tidy base. alan

The weathering really makes the model a spectacular work. The sand blasted window is great and very subtle. alan

A great idea and beautifully executed alan

Thank you very much Henry. That is very useful information. I couldn’t decide on a plan to shade the colors of the diagonal stripes on the shield and had decided that they would be solid red and gold. I’m not sure whether the box art is really the model or an image based on the model. There are a few minor differences between the box art and the model (and the painting notes). I honestly can’t see how one would paint the embroidery on tunic and cloak either. so far I have only found two other completed Oddones. One on Etsy and one in Kazakhstan. Both for sale at about $60. Neither attempted the squirrel fur, shaded shield or embroidered tunic and cloak. The lions are apparently ripping a piece of bread apart. Alan