Old Collingwood
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That is looking really nice Alan - so much detail on these kits - the biggest hurdle (to me anyway) is cleaning delicate things up off the sprues. OC. -
Evening all, somemore progress this evening - I have glued the sub assemblies down onto the deck, the main conning tower was a bit of a tight fit and needs a bit of a touch up where a few bits of paint was scrubbed away. Oh I painted one of the decks in corticene. Still some more detail painting to do OC.
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Yep put a bit of Blue Tack on top make it flat and push the item on it (gently) make an easy handling tool. OC.
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Fantastic build, so love these early planes and seeing them at Airshows so brings home how delicate they were. OC.
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Yep I can relate to that - if its good enough its goes on general display - otherwise in the man cave cupboard. OC.
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Evening all, hope everyones holidays are going well, I had to pull my fingure out and clear the table ready for my spraying booth, first was to lay some primer down on all the sub assemblies, these were attached to blue tack lids on my bottles and tap on the end of lolly sticks, I then got everything set up and put a coat down, after drying with the dryer, I mixed up my AP507A and put down a few light coats. These parts are put a side waiting to fully dry before they get some detail painting like the corticene on a couple of sub assembly decks. OC.
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I would have said some kind of covers perhaps over the top of somekind of pipework. OC.
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Im here Kevin, this is going to be a very interesting build - my hats off to you already for what you are building. Happy New Year to you and yours. OC
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Splendid work Bill - really coming on. Happy New Year to you and yours. OC.
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Thank you kindly Kevin, yep its a challenge working at that scale - you kind of need to step into a minature world at high magnification and close working. Happy New year to you and yours mate. OC.
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I will indeed - it says in the description that it leave no residue, can be applied using a brush - the brushes can be cleaned using water and its strong. OC.
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Craig just incase I came across confusing - in the kit there are Two large sheets of PE Sheet 1 contains the correct size rails for the Weather Deck and superstructure, apart from a few peices I fitted earlier to the superstructer, this is the sheet that I have managed ot damage the rails on, there is another sheet - sheet2 this contains the main deck forward and aft rail aswel as a few others that I can not find thier intended use as it does not list them on the PE instructions. I was seriously put off with how difficult and delicate these are, but after finding a better gluing option and ordering it, its kind of given me a second wind - so I will re check my other PE sheet to find out what is spare to do the 12 (6 each side) sections of railing on the weather deck. OC.
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Thanks mike, there is a secondary PE Sheet that also has the main deck railings and some other lengths - I need to sit down and properly review where they are all designed to go or if any are spares. OC.
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Thank you for offering to give it a go - I thought it would be a close call thing as the PE pieces at 1/700 are so small. OC.
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Ken I have brought some special Acrylic glue from Mig Ammo designed to do just that, I posted a link to it futher up the page, just need to wait for it to arrive in the new year. OC.
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Thank you sincerly for that offer - I have managed to get a pic of part of the PE sheets showing the rails that are broken on my sheet, to give an idea of the size of the rails the sheet length from end to end is 13.5cm hope you can work out the rest from that. OC.
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Tiger 1 by Javlin - RFM - 1/35 - Early Version
Old Collingwood replied to Javlin's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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Just brought a jar of this Acrylic Glue for PE, it will be here next week, thought I could give it a try as Gaitor's Glue is no longer made as the owner had given up. OC. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/384319228136?epid=21039733709&hash=item597b3608e8:g:sCIAAOSwhz9hECKJ
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Thanks Alan, I found myself getting frustrated and annoyed as I was finding it hard to pick the railing sections up without my tweezers crushing them, and to get the right hold of them I had to try to transfer the rail onto my finger but they kept falling away, I was really getting frustrated with it and I marred some of the paintwork a bit where the rail slipped down the side of the superstructure and got some CA glue on it, I had to wait till it was dry then carefully sand it - kind of like getting a good paint job done then wrecking it trying to add the railings. Give me my figures anyday. OC.
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Thank you kindly mate, if i'm honest I was avoiding getting the airbrush out as I have to clear my table and get the spray booth box down from upstairs and try not to get acrylic paint fumes flying about in the living room - thats why I thought it would be easier to just brush paint the primer onto the PE Fret - but it turned out a big mistake. I tried Two methods for attaching the PE I tried was first using my Gorilla Super glue - but its too thick even dipping the bottom edge into it gently while holding the rail with the tip of my tweezers, or even trying using Gorilla PVA by using some thin wire to lay a narrow line of PVA and placing the rail into it - both just didn't want to play ball, mind you keeping my hand steady was a problem as the PE is so fine and even the slightest of movement and the rail in knocked off before it can set. OC.
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