A stately aircraft if ever there was one Lee.

I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm thinking I'll use pigments to oxidize and weather this Mig. Then future over the pigments, decals, future again and then washes?

Could we please have the latest list on who is building what?

1. "Take a Chance (Vought that is.)" Build any aircraft designed and developed by Vought. Luciano, Littorio

2. "Sopwith you??" Build any Sopwith Aircraft. Sven, SHarjacek

3. "Just a Mirage" Build a Mirage. Lee, ljames0874

4. "Polish Planes and the Pilots who ply them." You must build an Polish designed/built aircraft in Polish Colours. Damian, AussieReg

5. "Stupendous Supermarines sans Spitfires" Build a supermarine aircraft BUT NO SPITFIRES! Jess, Jessie_C

6. "Trial of the Trimotors!" Build any flying machine with not one, not two, but THREE powerplants. Ben, McLeod

7. "South Asian Sensation!" Build any aircraft serving or served in the Indian Air Force, in Indian colours. Andrew, amegan

8. "Oh de Vichy!" Build a Vichy French aircraft in Vichy colours. Andy, Torchy

9. "Red Star Recon" Build a Warsaw Pact or PLAAF reconnaissance aircraft. G37

10. "Yellow Wings of the USN" Build a US Navy Aircraft in the interwar yellow winged livery. Simon, Simon_H

11. "Pushy Pushy" Build any aircraft with a Pusher Prop configuration. Jon, Fister30

12. "Luftwaffe Lookers and Luggers" Build any UNARMED Luftwaffe Aircraft. (No prototypes!) Stephen, Shuftie

13. "Supersonic Soviets!" Something Soviet that soars Supersonic. (in level flight) Richard, raypalmer

14. "Chalet Bums" Build any aircraft with Skis. Metodi, Emperor

15. "I SPAD in your general direction!" Build any SPAD in any colours. Stefan, Dangeroo

16. "Fleet Air Arm Flops and Failures" Build any FAA Aircraft that was rubbish. Richard, tinbanger

17. "Missed Opportunities" Build an aircraft that NEARLY made it. But didn't. Think Avro Arrow or TSR2. Shorty53

18. "CATOBAR!" Build a CATOBAR Aircraft. Veleho, Wizzard

19. "Floaters." Any aircraft that floats. dman57, Derek

20. "Neutral Colours" Build a period warplane belonging to a Second or First World War Neutral Power. Switzerland, Sweden, Portugal etc. Sean, windysean

21. "Iran Contra Affair" Build any aircraft with a Contra-Rotating Propeller, OR any Iranian Air Force Aircraft. JT, usethermite

22. "Need for Speed" Build any aircraft that (just cite your sources) has for any period of time held the all-out World Air Speed Record. Warren, warreni

23. "African Queen" Build any aircraft belonging to the air force of a sub-saharan African nation. SAAF Subjects are disallowed. Eirik, SuperSandaas

24. "Old Timers" Build any aircraft that has been, or was, in service over fifty years. Vance, vanize

25. "Go forth and be fruitful" Build any aircraft built in numbers greater than ten thousand.

26. "Tea and Donuts" Build any British Aircraft that served with the United States, in American Livery(Military or SAR) Adam, mykroft

27. "Cola and Crumpets" Build any American Aircraft that served with the United Kingdom, in British Livery (military or SAR) Csouthwood, Chris

28. "I Am Canadian" Build something RCAF! (Maple Lead Roundels only) Warren, warreni

29. "West Island Air Force" Build something RAAF! (Kangaroo Roundels only)

30. "First!" Build any racing plane (purpose designed or re-purposed) in its racing colours! Brent, North4003

31. "Czechmate!" Build any Czech aircraft. (Free Czech flying with the RAF are acceptable so long as the Czech insignia is present)

32. "Pearl Diving" Build any aircraft that participated in the attack on/defense of Pearl Harbour. Must be correct markings and scheme for Dec 7, 1941. Richard, Arrrgee

33. "Blame it on the Twin Boom" Build any twin boom aircraft OR aircraft capable of Mach 2 in level flight (no rockets.) Jesper, SGTJKJ

34. "Made in China" Build any Chinese manufactured Aircraft in Chinese livery. Sascha, IronOwlr

35. "Cripes, it's a Convair" Any aircraft you please, so long as it's a Convair. Richard, raypalmer45

36. "Gimme a break!" Any aircraft with folding wings, built with wings in the folded position. Heitor, HeitorJA

37. "Drafted" Build any civilian aircraft pressed into service.

38. "Hellofacopter" Anything rotary wing. Van, vdejarnette tte

39. "NASA to meet you!" Build any aircraft used by NASA. Guido, Tailor

40. "Low Hanging Fruit" Build any aircraft with an anhedral wing. Yalym, JollyRoger

41. "Rotation Station" Build any aircraft with a rotary engine. Ian, ianclasper

42. "Danger Bay!" Build a Canadian Bush plane. Chris, c4willy

43. "Spit and tissue paper." Build any PRE-WWI aircraft (heavier than air). Phillipus

44. "Duck!" Build any aircraft with canards. Van, vdejarnette

45. "Beware the Contra-flow..." Build any aircraft or helicopter with contra-rotating propellers. Ian, Streetgang6

46. "They're grrrrrrrrreat!" Build any aircraft than attended a tiger meet. (Must have some kind of tiger art somewhere on the aircraft)

47. "Last of the gunfighters." Build any FIRST GENERATION jet fighter. Paul, wertywertheim

48. "Show offs." Build an aircraft from any aerobatic display team. Thundergrunt

49. "Fix it again Tony" Build an Italian designed and built aircraft. Sven, Sharjacek

50. "Hinomar-YOU!" Build any aircraft belonging to the Japanese Navy, Airforce or Army. Guido, Tailor

51. "Money Shot." Build any aircraft with its cowlings off or open to display its engine. Aircraft with normally exposed engines are disallowed.

52. "Emergency!" Build any firefighting or air ambulance aircraft. Andy, betheyn

53. You're in Le Rhone place. "Take a swing at the spinning french motor of yesteryear.

54."Mail oriented society." Build a mail plane! Andrew, amegan

55. "Big is beautiful" Build any aircraft that is longer or wider than a 747-400.

56. "Who's mowing the lawn?" Build a recreational aircraft. Single engine, no ultra or micro lights. Think Cessna or Piper Cub.

57. "More is more!" Build any aircraft with FIVE or MORE engines that isn't a B52.

58. "Oh Carp." Build any aircraft named for a fish, marine mammal or crustacean. Jan, WildSau

59. "Amazons and Andes" Build any aircraft belonging to a South American Airforce that isn't Brasil or Argentina. Frederick, cinzano

60. "Cuba es autentica." Cuban Air Force!! Ansel, anselneo

61. "Buzz." Build any aircraft named for an insect.

62. "UN Carte Blanche." Build any aircraft wearing United Nations colours.

63. "Tanks for the Kurtsy." Build any aircraft designed by Kurt Tank.

64. "Properly Fast." Anything you please, so long as it's got a Turboprop.

65. "Landing backwards." Any POST WWI aircraft with a stall speed below 40mph (64kph)(35kn).

66. "Flying Circus." Build a WWI aircraft that PROMINENTLY features a depiction of a factual or fictional beast.

67. "Pages of history." Build any aircraft belonging to a nation that no longer exists that is not Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or Imperial Germany.

68. "Torpedo!" Any torpedo bomber, with torpedo attached.

69. "Who's there?" Build any aircraft with stealth (radar defeating) capability.

70. "Boe with the Flow" Anything you please, so long as it's a Boeing.

Sounds good to me Richard, but then again I've never used Alclad, and tend to avoid natural metal finishes like the plague. I will be watching with interest to see how yours turns out, as I have the DH Vampire T.11 for The Great Build Off, and I don't want to have to avoid a natural finish there!

That sounds a bit odd to me. The decals should -IMHO- be applied before the pigments: Dirt goes all over, doesn't it? Just asking...

Normally I'd agree. But I feel like the painted areas wouldn't oxidize. The paint would protect the aluminium...

TRue

Hungry to show some progress. Did the ordnance this morning. (forgot how tedious doing the ordnance is. Just about ready to seal up fuse then its a short trio to joining the wings and tail feathers. After that the real fun begins.



Cheers,
Fred

Nice looking interior Fred.

Great work there Fred!

This week, I have mostly been masking!




I should get the night blue sprayed on tomorrow, then there'll be a lot of careful unmasking, followed by yet more masking - such fun!

Oh man, Lee. That one looks tricky. Hope you're good at working while holding your breath.

Cheers,
Fred

Well, manage time with my new daughter is as difficult as I expected, but gradually the things move on. The cockpit is pretty much done. It is a part of the kit that usually do not devote much time because most of the time (except for certain aircraft) is virtually unnoticeable after the kit is done. And now with the reduced time... Then's there's what I call a basic cockpit, without worry about some imperfections ... Panel with the same kit decal, belts made from tape just to fool;) Not a Eduard PE, but do his job ...
But some details in the painting will still be corrected.

Wow! This has really gone wild here! Great campaign so far!

I SPAD in the general direction of my stash and out dropped the SPAD which I timidly started. Cockpit parts primed and ready for paint.


For those who don't remember: I'm building this kit

and it's probably my first WWI build ever...

Cheers!
Stefan

That looks pretty good to me Heitor, I wouldn't be disappointed if I came up with a cockpit like that.

Stefan I eagerly awaiting your build. Can't wait to see you tackle those stars and bars!

Here's where my fishbed is. I resanded it and applied fresh alclad where needed. The alclad just built up like sandpaper on the surface in places. Very frustrating...

I'm about 20% through the eight billion decals.


This is starting to feel like something I can clutch from the maw of failure.

The metal finish is looking good!




Yeah, neither can I... I was thinking about going mad and doing the stars with masking, as some of them are one big decal with blue background and others are just the stars to be added on painted blue background. No chance of getting the same tone of blue, and no chance of getting the decal so sit nicely I suppose...

Cockpit almost done painting, next will be assembly.

Hi everyone, had a few family and friend issues overthe last month so not been on here much. Ben building the Tempest at odd times but forgot to photo the cockpit, the carpet monster ate the control column, and had a huge fit issue between the cockpit and the wheel wells, the injection parts fit well but the resin is a nightmare. Pics so far:
btw my other category is mail planes. By luck I have one in the stash, was going to use it for KOTS3 DH89 Dragon Rapide, Airfix (Heller?) in 1940 Scottish Airways colours. KOTs will now be a Hawker Fury in 1/48 scale

Oh, and Lee, don't worry about a metal finish for the Vampire, the fuselage is wood built (like a Mossie) so the whole aircraft has a painted silver finish rather than NMF

A lot of good projects in the works, I need to clear the decks and get back to the Curtiss Racer.

Phew! That was a lot of masking and unmasking. Here is a quick look at the cockpit before I attach the canopy:



After the canopy is faired in, I have another batch of masking, before spraying the next colour - fun fun fun!

Some real beauties here, and then there's mine.


One of my first biplane models, and due to the struts and between-wing areas, I guess I'm about ready to paint.
More as it develops!
-Sean H.

So I was merrily decalling away and I destroyed the serial number decal. It folded over and that was my goose cooked. These new fangled decals that are two electrons thick offer zero margin for error.

So now I'm missing the single most prominent marking on the aircraft for one side. Which is making me angry. The kit's new enough that not many people are going to have it laying around for me to get spares. I'm at trumpeter's mercy...

|:(


Andrew: that temp is looking mean. Looking forward to seeing it shiny.

Lee: you're a masking master. That's all there is to it.

Sean: sesquiplane... that's the classic Airframes kit right? How's it going together?

it's the Italeri Fiat CR42 Falco biplane-- no top wing yet. I just wrote an "in-box" review for it. I'm taking notes to make a build review afterward. So far it's got fine detail but there isn't as much positive part location as I would like.

I liked that Italieri CR42, for lack of positive location try my Tempest, although the injection stuff fits ok there are no locating aids and all the resin has to be cut to fit, sometimes drastically. Still, your CR42 is looking good. Richard I did the same with upper wing cockades on a. Roden 1 1/2 strutter so I robbed an Eduard Bristol Fighter, now I can't find replacements to build that

Just thought I'd make an update on my progress so far ..... none! The donor kit for my pontoons for the Beech went awol in the post! I've sourced another kit for it, while disappointing it's only the third kit to go MIA of all the many kits I've bought off of Evilbay! Just frustrating as I wanted to have it about halfway done by now .... ah well best laid plans of men and mice yadda yadda .... LOL

Some progress on the MIG-29. Got the base coats on for the underside and topside. Now for some freehand camo on the topside. Indeed the cuba airforce has some unique color schemes.


Untitled by anselneo, on Flickr