Papa

She is finished.  Bad lighting on the decals.  Perhaps a spray of matt finish will fix that

I just noticed the date of the Dam Buster operation. May 17, 1943.  I was 25 days old!

On 6/30/2022 at 4:32 PM, rudybob said:

Beautiful job on a great plane.

Thanks!   Once the canopy masks arrive i can finish her.

On 6/30/2022 at 4:32 PM, rudybob said:

Beautiful job on a great plane.

Thanks 

She looks real mean sitting on her landing gear.  I am not looking forward to painting the canopies 😬. I am going to see if some commercial masks are available.  

On 6/18/2022 at 5:10 PM, John Ruy said:

She is looking really good, Ron. 👍

Thanks.  

Seems that only iPhone pics upload inverted. 

Top mast shrouds are in place and the backstays. Now i have to tie  another bazillion ratlines

6 hours ago, Javlin said:

The camo looks very good for your first attempt have fun with the glass.

😁

Damn. Upside down again🤬

Current status on my Morgan.  Finished the top mast shrouds. Almost done with topmast back stays.  I am going to have to hire a new rigging crew.  The current crew is a bit lazy.  They install 2 or 3 shrouds and then quit for the day.  You just can’t  get good help these days.

6 minutes ago, Egilman said:

You know what? so do I... {chuckle}

 

Keep going brother, seems to me you have a good understanding of the process, the finer points will come with practice... Straight up, that is how they did it on the real aircraft... flat pattern mats laid over the aircraft and sprayed off the edges.... Couldn't get more authentic than that....

 

Well done...

Thanks

My first attempt at camouflage of this sort.  It needs a bit of touch up around the windows but other than that i think it came out pretty good.  Masking tape and rattle cans.  

A turtle, made fro separate rocks.

Installed the landing gear struts.  Very finicky. 

Fantastic job on the coach. I am impressed with the intensity of the yellow.  I have found that every brand of yellow paint I have used, including house paint, will not cover without a nearly infinite number of coats!  What is you trick for getting that great yellow?

Photo of the wing problem i was trying to explain. I had to remove the round thing, cut off the part that would be exposed and glue in place after attaching the wing.

S

On 4/26/2022 at 11:13 AM, Canute said:

Was the Lancaster a new run or a re-pop in a new box? I remember fighting with the older kits to get nacelles and other parts to fit smoothly. Filler putty was my friend. 😉

Scalemates does not show this exact box, but nearly identical was retooled in 2012

16 hours ago, shipman said:

Rule number one with plastic kits........doing a dry fit with EVERYTHING is essential.

 

Stay calm and carry on.

That works a step at a time, and i do it.   But dry fitting multiple steps isn’t practical.  That many pieces will not stay together. I have the sense that the kits have zero tolerance.  If a few pieces are just a tiny bit off, like the thickness of a glue joint or paint something further down the line isn’t going to fit.  I’ve been building plastic kits for over 70 years and I think most of them have gone together fairly well. But every once in a while one hits a real devil of a kit.  A few years back i had a Lockheed Electra kit i was building as Amelia Earhart’s version.  That was a nightmare every step of the way.

20 hours ago, Canute said:

Was the Lancaster a new run or a re-pop in a new box? I remember fighting with the older kits to get nacelles and other parts to fit smoothly. Filler putty was my friend. 😉

I have no idea?  How does one determine this?

The desire to trash this kit and give up resurfaced yesterday when i tried to assemble the wings. Lower pieces went on easily but the upper halves were not going to fit. There was not enough clearance to allow a part that forms the rear of the engine nacelle to fit in the opening provided. Once i determined that was the issue, i removed it and the wing then went on smoothly.  I then removed the lower part of this whatever it is, and glued the upper part where it belongs.  I should have taken some pictures. The next step was assembling the elevator halves.  The instructions here had the part numbers wrong. They said glue B6 and B7 for one side and then An and Am (don’t have instructions in front of me) for the other side. Wrong. The B parts just had alignment holes. While the A parts both had pins.  One needed to match a B and an A. Fortunately I discovered the problem before the glue had set on the joined B parts.  I thought it was strange the there were no pins for the holes.  I should have looked at the next step right away.  One wonders if someone actually tried to build this kit from the instructions before release. 

On 4/19/2022 at 7:28 PM, Louie da fly said:

Surprising. I often find that naughty words magically fix the problem. Or perhaps it's the threat to throw the rotten thing against the nearest wall . . .?

 

Steven

I was certainly tempted to toss the whole box in the trash. But sanity prevailed 

I had a heck of a time putting the fuselage halves together.  Just could not get the seam to close tightly. I am going to need plenty of filler😬. During my test fitting the windows started popping out and the map table came apart.  Re-glued all that and filed and fussed and fumed and used several naughty words 👿 .  It didn’t help the fit. And a newly purchased  bottle of Tamiya flat black paint dries glossy!  😝 fortunately i still had some older flat black. So here we are today. Now i am going to tie some more battens on the C W Morgan. I am almost finished with that step; on the mizzen

The kit has some nice interior detail that, unfortunately, won’t be visible once the fuselage is together.

Better angle to see hands free