With the holiday season upon us, I think it is time to properly start this build. Revell molds their 767 fuselage halves with open windows with the idea that you will either keep these open in the finished model (rather chilly at 35K feet?)or fill them in with white glue. I prefer using window decals for my 1/144 airliners so my first step is to fill in the open spaces. With no clear parts supplied in the kit for windows, I first glued a plastic strip inside the fuselage to serve as a backdrop or dam for the putty.I found from experience that it will be easy to push the putty into the glued fuselage if you don't add the backing! I then mixed up a batch of Apoxie putty (like Milliput) and applied it from the outside. You can see the interior backing strip and the applied putty in this photo:



Once the putty is fully cured, it will be sanded smooth. I can work on other subassemblies while waiting.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to my fellow modelers!
Mike

Ive managed to do some more work on the Spitfire this morning. Got the cockpit painted, weathered and sandwiched into the fuselage. The wings are attached to the fuselage and the cowlings are all on but will need some filling. I think they were designed to be left off. The gaps are not too bad just awkward.

Will get the pics up later once I find the phone cable

One of the few problems with the Revell 767 (at least to clumsy ole me) is that Revell designed the kit to add the front landing gear as you join the two fuselage halves together. I can gaurentee that I'l break the fragile gear off before I even get the model it's first coat of paint! I checked with the Airline Modelers Group (AMD) for a solution and the best one I received was a short article from the UK IPMS publication. However, my landing gear bay did not look like the one in the article BUT it did give me an idea for a solution on how to add the gear late in the build.

I cut a small piece of Plastruct "u" shaped channel and glued it to the front of the wheel well, This will serve as a rest for one of the bottom of the gear. The other will rest on the floor (roof?) of the bay. I then added two small pieces of brass wire as additional support and followed it up with some 5 minute epoxy for additional strength. A few photos are more easier to understand!





I then cut of the small pins on the landing gear and this can be added at any time later in the build.

Have fun modeling!
Mike

Here we go photographic evidence that I actually managed to get the work on the Spitfire done. Actually Ive had a productive day all round for once

Some work has continued of Galland's 109











There is a plane somewhere between the clamps

I am almost ready to close things up on my B767. First, I needed to add some noseweight to keep the 767 from sitting on its tail. I added a lead fishing weight on top of the front landing gear bay and used 5 minute epoxy to seal everything nice and tight.



Hope everyone has started the New Year off well!
Mike

Greetings team
Well done Sam ,that spits flying together whos the little dude in your last pic,he looks cool
Mike ,where are the crew going to sit?,some loonies dumped a great big lead ball up the front
Allen, Have you got shares in the ACME clamp company

All looking great chums
Andy

Was flying together but noe trying to build up the enthusiasm to start filling the wings where the clear part pannels located and some of the other pannels fit didn't look or feel too bad just plastic but far more obvious now primmed

Hopefully will start filling this weekend but someone came off her horse yesterday in a spectacular way (I have not fallen off in almost a year) and struggling to sit at the moment done my back and left side/ hip again so once I can sit will be back at the bench.

The little guy in the background is one of the minions from the film 'Despicable Me'. He is a kit by retrokit and Allen got him for me for Christmas the model is entitled 'Bananaaaaa'. I think most the Bulldogs picked the kit up at Telford but by the time I went to buy one late Saturday afternoon as we arrived Saturday lunch time they had all been sold



meet the minions

banana

Hi ! I am back again with a short update on my 767 build. I now have the fuselage together and am working slowly to fill in the seems and flaws around the fusleage. The two parts of the fuselage are quite long and I have several sections that were slightly warped on the top & bottom. This is one of the sloooow times of building an airliner so I wil be stuck at this stage for a bit. Unfortunately, a long, white fuselage without wings is pretty boring so I did not take a photo of it.

I did record some work I am doing on the wing at the same time. I wanted to add a little visual interest to the wing so I decided to cut out the two position lights on each wing and substitute some clear colored plastic. Here is the wing with the red light when adding a lump of clear pastic.



Here is the same wing tip after sanding and polishing the light.



I'll protect the light with some masking fluid as I clean up the wing and paint it. The other side is in green plastic of course.

Have fun modeling!
Mike

It's been a while but I've made some progress. Recieved the True Details resin cockpit kit and started work on that. Assembled the horizontal stabilizers and the drop tank. These are some more photos of the crate.






Cheers

Let me add these...


We've seen these before, I wanted to show these to be new in package. Thank you.
Once again cheers

Here is my Brewster Buffalo "Felix" from the USS Saratoga that I'll be building for this Looney Toons Campaign. It like many in my collection is an old 1964 print date, kit. The decals may be a challenge. I may need to find some aftermarket decals some place. Any help in this regard would be appreciated.

Hi Brent,
Starfighter Decals has what you're looking for.

Jessie_C,
Thank you, I just stumbled onto the site and have the order out for the Buffalo as well as a Marine Tigercat (Monogram) an Devastator (Airfix).
Brent

Hi Toonies
Its been a while since I posted but what with work and PC problems plus I've lost loads of pics its time for an update.
Its brilliant to see so many builds up and running and starting to take shape.
Heres the Demon after my most disliked part of building the masking,the main painting is done

One of my favorite jobs,decals,this is where it comes to life a splash of colour,thats why I love USN aircraft in the grey over white


Washes next,black on the upper and grey on the lower


Then HEY PRESTO job done






I've really enjoyed this kit ,my 1st Demon and my 1st Hobbyboss,no major problems and only a minimal amount of filler on the spine joint,the decals were perfect and went on lovely with Tamiya "Mark Fit".
I will build another one one day just because of the beautiful shape of it ooohhhh those wings
Hope you like
Andy

I like. Cool! Painting the final colors on mine now.

FirstSergeant

Got some more paint on Gallands's 109 only the second time that I've done mottling so I'm reasonably happy with the result.





Next will be some more masking ready for the yellow tail and nose.

Andy, that Demon is beautiful. I love VF-31 and that build is really awesome.


Best wishes, Ian

Andy

Fantastic job on the Demon!VF-31 is probably my favorite Navy squadron and you really did this model justice.

Have fun modeling!
Mike

Thanks for the comments guys
Allen,I like the mottle mate,what yellow are you going to use as I found the Revell Aqua Color 36310 Lufthansa yellow to be a very good match ,just about right for that orange/yellow and those Revell aquas airbrush lovely

Andy

Nice job on the Demon, Andy. It looks great with subtle weathering and cool markings.

Thanks Andy, the yellow i've used is Gunze H413 RLM04 Gelb. I'm really liking the Gunze range of paints and they airbrush wonderfully.



Unfortunately there has been a slight mishap while un-masking the kit which has caused the engine to come away from the kit snaping the already fragile engine bearers.



So now i've decided to do this all buttoned up. The difficult bit will be to glue the panels on correctly without damaging too much of the paint work

A bit of an update from me. The Spitfire and I have parted company it has been relegated to a very high shelf until I can get the enthusiasm to start attacking it again. So at the moment I don't know if it will come down again in time to be finished for this campaign or not.

Allen,I feel your pain mate I've done that before ,not tryed the Gunze paints yet,I really like these Revell Aqua's at the moment,superb value for money as they are really thick out the pot and need to be thined at about 1/1,Revell =18ml Tamiya=10ml do the maths!!!!
Sam,get that Spitfire of that there top shelf or it's a chinese burn next time I see you
Andy

Have you ever used clear resin? You can buy crude resin for small castings at art supply stores. You can apply Scotch tape (thoroughly burnished) on the outside and just glaze the interior with resin until the windows are filled. Once it's hard sand it then polish it with pumice and you've got windows! Then it's time to put LED's in....