All,

I picked this up at the LHS for £10. At that price I couldnt leave it there. I am currently building the Trumpeter 262 but progress is slow. My little boy is nagging me to get this done as he fell in love i with the Liberator at Duxford after a recent vist. I thought I would post a couple of pictures to show progress so far.






Sorry the photos are a bit blurry, my camera is quite old.

I am nearly ready to close the fuselage up, this is the first time I have ever tried to use a wash, it was a bit of trial and error but I think it came out ok.

All comments welcome, good and bad (especially bad, this is only my second kit in the best part of 20 years and want to learn).

thanks for looking

Steve

Steve,

Looks pretty good so far. I have not built that kit before, so it will be fun watching you. Keep posting pics!

-Derek

I hope that you are letting your son participate in the build? Looks great so far.

Looks good although the cockpit is a bit difficult to comment on.

It will be interesting to follow a massive bird like the liberator in this scale. Keep posting pictures, but do not get too close so they get fussy.

Thanks for sharing

Looks really nice. There's actually a full size one of these being (slowly) restored near where i live. I need to go there someday and see what it's up to.

I too have a camera that's not great for close up stuff. But there are a few cheats that can help a bit. It's better to take the pic further back like your first one. Focus is the first priority. Then crop down to the area/size you want- most simple photo programs, even the free ones do that easily enough. Then after compressing to JPEG it's helpful to sharpen using the tool supplied with many photo programs. Hopefully i'll get a camera with macro focus soon!

Thanks for the comments guys, i need all the help I can get.

Yes my son is helping, mainly with verbal 'encouragement' &:

Andrew, thanks for the photography tips, I will give it a go tomorrow and see if I get any better pics.

Jesper, I will post again if the above works out ok.

Progress for today, got the turrents built and painted, also all the bombs and bomb racks and some other little bits and bobs but ran out of time to photograph, will try to tomorrow.

Again, thanks for your help..

Steve

Great! I bought one of these at a local show for about £10 too. I plan to build it as an RAF Coastal Command plane. Pics are few and far between though and I'll probably have to make my own decals.

I love big 1/48 bombers. Please post more pics.

Ive made this kit 2 times now, and is my favorite of the large 1/48 scale bombers. I have on aluminum and one OD color

Seems like we've had the same idea... tho I stuck to 1/72 scale. Can I suggest the decal set produced by Aviaeology (the product reference is AOD48001). Its available in 1/48 scale too, and if it's anything like the smaller set then you'll have plenty of choice and some helpful references.

Great stuff!!

Thanks very much Greg!!

Well, Update time. I have spent the last few days just sorting interior details including ordnance, guns etc.



I have now closed the fuselage, and fixed the tail unit.



The joins between the fuselage halves is quite good, only a very slight seam that should not require much sanding.



Wing fit was a bit more difficult as they slot into each other through the fuselage and required a bit of trimming to get them to line up ok.



Tail unit fit is not quite so good, will need a bit of putty to blend to fuselage.

Time now to finish details, undercarrige, props etc.

Apologies forthe lack of detail in the photos but close ups are hard as it is such a big ole beast!

Another update.

Finished with main build, now time to get some paint on.

As the underside is being painted a light grey, I primed the surfaces with Halfords white plastic primer. Once this was done I did some preshading with Tamiya Flat Black. As this is the first time I attempted to pre shade, I practised loads on papaer and got my lines pretty straight. As you can see, when I sprayed on plastic they are all over the place!





Once this had dired overnight I added the grey main colour.





It actually looks better than the photos show as the lighting seems to have washed the colour out a bit.

Lesson learned here, practise on an old model, not paper.

As always comments welcome, especially constructive critic.

Steve

Bravo. Keep 'em coming

Looking good so far Steve.

Good progress so far, Steve. Looks good - the preshading turned out nice.

Looking forward to see more