Old Collingwood

Just now, lmagna said:

I have used something similar made by Vallejo paints on my Huey deck. Seemed to work OK. What I liked about it was that I could put it on and then wipe off the excess with a cotton tip dipped in water. It filled very evenly with no excess mess and didn't need to be sanded afterward. YMMV  

Thanks lou,    this is what I need to fix   -  

OC.

1 minute ago, lmagna said:

There is where the skill shows itself. If it had been me I would have turned what is a really good looking model into total junk at about this point! 

Sound like my effort  (message to self  - Tamiya Lacquer spray paints do not brush on well  - dry to quick and form ridges)

OC.

Anyone used this putty -  I have just brought a tube from flee bay,  I hope to use it around the canopy to try to hide an un-even seam  that cant be sanded.

OC.

Not much to report  -  I  just did some tidy up work on the paintwork with fine wet and dry, then I masked up the right side of the fuselage  ready for  Black brush painting same as the left side.

OC.

57 minutes ago, Kevin said:

looking very nice indeed considering the limitations you have with the hobby, very well done OC

Thank you so much,    I'm trying my best.

OC.

I think the problem is  - turning a kit into a scale replica of the real thing requires several different skill sets  -  the build of the  item and  dexterity  requires one set, then understanding  what makes it more life like is another  then painting the thing  in a natural  way is  something different on top.

Getting them all together is the hard bit   and guess takes lots and lots of  goes to get it right.

Oh  and Luck.

OC.

6 minutes ago, mtaylor said:

Lou,

Part of the problem is that you have "modeler's vision".  We build, we inspect, we go "oh crap".   To everyone else, even up close and in person, they see the goodness that has been done.  Doesn't matter if it's wood, plastic models, we all have it.

Very true  - then we show pics with high resolution camera tech   and we think it looks crap   - we all experience it.

OC.

12 minutes ago, lmagna said:

I will definitely be getting something. The normal reading part of of my bifocals is something like 1.25 if I remember correctly So I would think I would need something a little stronger than that. I need to look into some kind of direct lighting system as well as I think my dining room lighting is more for ambiance at a meal than precision model painting! It can be bright enough if I turn the dimmer all the way up but it is all angles and shadows and has a strong yellow cast from all of the candle style lights. It is a 16 or 18 candle and crystal chandelier.

 

I have seen that picture of you and your bride before Craig and I still think you married up, WAY up.

 

It is also strange that it seems like so many of us here have hearing loss problems. Sorry to learn about your loss Javlin and OC. I have lost 100% of my hearing in my right ear. It is great for when my wife snores sometimes but a pain in the butt almost all other times. 

Its great for me for when its noisy outside when I want to sleep  - I just sleep on my good ear  - I love listening to music (my own creations and others)  thats a pain as I have to balance the sound by moving the balance over to my right.

OC.

2 minutes ago, Javlin said:

I must be lucky 1.0 for me but I have no hearing @59 yrs

Sorry to hear about your hearing  - did it  go over time or always had it?    I am 75% death in my right ear   same as my late farther.

OC.

I completely understand your reasons for wanting to strengthen the mast   - I know its a different subject matter  - but I did the same in my Pearl build.

OC.

Yep  hits us all  - I didn't know how bad my eyesight was going  till  writing on comp screens started going blurry  and out doors I struggled to make out details at distance so well, all other distances are ok though.

OC.

32 minutes ago, lmagna said:

I got to ride in a M-60 once. It was fun in a way but pretty much all I remember was how high off of the road you were when riding in the turret and how stinky they were with the diesel fumes.

One of these  -  I built the kit years ago  - very nice kit.

Pic of the net.

OC.

16 minutes ago, cog said:

Usually is with the plastic parts, until you get to the PE or painting it all seems to flow easily

I think  what it is  - when the model is un painted stage it can get quite a bit of rough treatment - filing this/sanding that  without worrying about marring the paint finish, I have to say the way I have had to put the paint on has caused most of the problems.

OC.

2 minutes ago, cog said:

Not doin' to bad old chap ... actually very nicely done mate

Thank you for the kind words Carl,    its an adventure  high's and lows  trying to get a clean paint finish down,   building her  was the easy bit.

OC.

7 hours ago, Canute said:

Did anyone 'splain to Lt Dumbjohn what he'd have to do? Or was it easier to let the lad flail.   Guess we took a long time to get aviators into combat, with the schooling we did.

 

Heck, the time I got to drive an M-60, in Schweinfurt, Germany, I got a 3 minute briefing on steering (like a bicycle), gear selection(one forward, I think) and speed(the long wide one on the right). Just don't get too close to the HAWK battery and no, you can't turn the turret to put the barrel forward. I drove one tank across a good sized ditch and went into their parade ground? We took 3 tanks into this huge field and immediately got into a wheel of the 3 tanks chasing each other's tail.  The Army captain wasn't too amused until he saw our AF Colonel driving one of the tanks in this rat race.

I was nearly flattened by a British Challenger 2 tank  while driving in a rush up a country lane where the Army had their ranges.

OC.

Quite a bit more work today  - six hours at the table  correcting the  paint finish - this consisted  off  wet soapy  sanding with fine wet and dry  thats had its bite taken off by rubbing on slightly coarser  wet and dry,  than I worked on the  the left side front area  - first I masked off a small area just forward of where the wing joins the fuselage, then with my widest  brush  I applied a  few thin coats  force drying and light sanding between coats, then I moved a section at a time towards the tail  - masking where needed.

When I reached the tail I masked a new curve and continued my Black paintwork  six hours later I gave the paintwork a light  buff with a cloth  and  finished for the day.

Here's the pics  - including a dry fit with the one wing that still needs a bit of touch up.

OC.

39 minutes ago, mtaylor said:

The gloss coat might work better then for cleaning up the remaining scratches.

I'll  give it a go  "nothing ventured - nothing gained"

OC.

20 minutes ago, mtaylor said:

An old trick might help... use a bit tooth paste on your finger and try rubbing it out.  Use the abrasive type of tooth pastes.   I had to do that on my -53 and worked out fine.   A little touch up after the rubbing out and all was fine.

Im a bit worried about pressing to hard in case the windows push inside the  fuselage  as they were not very  well glued in.

But I have some gloss clear top coat  - could brush that in to give them some  shine.

OC.

3 minutes ago, mtaylor said:

An old trick might help... use a bit tooth paste on your finger and try rubbing it out.  Use the abrasive type of tooth pastes.   I had to do that on my -53 and worked out fine.   A little touch up after the rubbing out and all was fine.

Thanks Mark.

OC.

Looking swell Lou  - keep going mate.

OC.

So,    what I need to do  tomorrow  - is  to  work on that front area of Black under the cockpit (just a bit of light sanding)  then a  few more  thin coats of semi gloss Black,    after this has set  I will work tidy-ing  up the  canopy frame where it meets the fuselage and also some of the glazing framework.

Then a bit of a tidy up of the  front nose cone glazing, and then I may consider Blacking out the two  front nose side windows  - as I have seen this done (will cover up where the plastic has hazed.

OC.

10 minutes ago, CDW said:

Hey, that looks great from here. Nice job.

Thanks  Craig,     its  still looks worse close up  (but dont all our builds under close inspection).

OC.

Thank you for the help all  - really appreciate it   your intervention stopped me from binning it,    I  decided to attack the black first  - I  thought I had brought the eqv  tin acrylic as the Tamiya rattle can,  so I used my softest/widest brush  watered the paint very sightly  with  distilled  water  (just a few brush drops into the tin)   then proceeded  to apply some thin layers all over the black  - wide brush  with thin layers dried between each  seems to have helped a bit.

On the side where the scratches was  under the cockpit  that still needs a little light sanding  - I will attempt that  tomorrow when the paint has fully hardened.

Here is a pic showing the better of the two sides after the touch up.

OC.

Thanks Craig,     here are the pics   - not sure about the best option for touching up the paintwork  as I dont want to have to re mask  the areas so I can spray the affected areas,   I could  de cant some paint  out of the  sprays into a small  glass  by spraying a liitle  - then brush over  the areas  but as thin as possible (not sure if the difference will show between spraying and  hand brushing)   I have some 800 wet and dry  - some well used pieces that I could try  but have nothing finer.

Here's  the pics  -

OC.

Right  - I got the chance to  lay another coat of Green  over the wing and fuselage,  then  let them dry aided by the hairdryer  - I then put them aside to harden,   I also  put a coat of primer on the other wing and stabs.

Then this afternoon I decided it was time to remove the tape and reveal  my paint work   -  Not good  I am not happy,    contribution of factors  lack of man shed or building area,  wrong  tape   (I should have invested correctly by getting Tamiya Tape)    Also  using  Tamiya  rattle cans  out doors in between  rain showers  and wind and bugs  - is not ideal  as I had to very quickly throw the paint  down to beat the elements.

The finish has left a couple of areas of miss match paint  - some scratches   and a hard ridge where the black/camo  demarcation line is.

Seriously  dont want to have to paint my other kits this way  as its just not  the way to go.😞

OC.