Yes Ian, nice work on the Lanc!

Ben have you considered painting the both ip pieces black then scratching the dial through the holes? I hope that makes sense.

I was not happy with my freehand camo, maybe I should save that for larger scales, So I am now re-masking everything I can save most of what's done with some touch ups.

Cheers Rob.

Rob, I tried Lee's masking technique for my F-5. Wow, it was a lot of work, but I think the results were worth it:

Looking good there Mark! I demasked the Javelin yesterday, and I'm pretty happy with it, just one or two touch ups needed. Later on, I'm going to mask and spray the nose cone black.

getting there, undercarridge and decals next!



paul

Hi,Mark. The F-5 is really starting to look good. Just a note on the tack/camo technique. You might try it without the pencil lines. Instead, have a profile in front of you to reference as your laying down the tack snakes. Just makes for less clean-up.

Everyone else is doing fabulous work as well. It's going to be a great gallery display.



I thought about that, Rob. The small dial holes are 0.6mm in diameter and my fat fingers are considerably larger and clumsy. It just seems more accurate to me to scratch new ones, using a technique I'm familiar with. There was no rear panel included, so the rear seat position has to be built anyway.

Ben

Wow , you guy's are coming along really well on your builds !


Mark , nice job on the camo I will be giving this a try as well on future builds . Yes , it's a bit more work involved , but the results are must impressive .




Terri

Paul----That Vulcan really looks good. Nicely done.

Rob and Mark----Great work on your respective camo schemes. Nicely done as well.


Best wishes,


Ian

Hi Rob

I'm convinced some mould-makers have a (not so) secret vendetta against pattern-makers and us mere mortal modellers!

All the best

Rowan

Just a quick update on the Javelin, here she is, and as the decals do not include the walkway markings, I painted and "negative masked" them before doing the camouflage.



Well done everyone, there are some great builds happening. I'm keeping a special eye on the Vulcan, as I recently acquired the same kit, courtesy of Russell, via Fred.

hi, i never knew he had this kit, but i'm so glad i chose this now.

great little kit, i've not used any filler and the fit is fantastic, the decals are on now, just the top coat to sort

paul

Wow so much going on in here! Im a bit ashamed that my progress is so slow in comparison to all of You. Even thou I stopped all my other projects, I can hardly get some bench time lately, so here are just a few progress pictures of the Junkers. The fit of the cockpit and fuselage halves is good. The fuselage is also divide into the forward and after section for later version of the kit I guess. This requires more attention then a two piece fuselage would.

Slow and nice, or nice and slow is ok, too, Naseby. Your JU-88 is coming along just fine!!

Homing in on it now. How does one apply the enormous star-on-bar over that huge vent in the fuselage??

I should think you get ahold of Mr Mayfield, and beg, pillage, or plunder for one nice mask in this scale.!

If you look at this picture you'll see that it was applied in several parts over the various doors. When the doors are closed, the insignia looks like it's one piece.

got some more work done on russell's 219, because of the fact this kit is now REALLY heavy, due to the lead i've filled it with, i decided i would beef up the main landing gear to help take the weight.

the first thing i did was to put a peice of load bearing plastic across the top of the wheel well. also visible is the piece of sprue bracing the bay ceiling.

this is because, as built from the instructions the main gear legs have little tabs sticking out at the front that fit in the sockets seen above, but this is without reaching the bay ceiling so these tabs would be the only thing supporting the weight of the model.


as for those tabs, i cut them off, and replaced them with structural cut down pins


and here it all is being test fitted.


and all that lead has done its job!


i've also started working on scratching up the missing main gear doors. i may well cut the kit one in half as in the instructions, but put the halves on both nacelles outer sides, and use my scratched ones on the inner side.

Very interesting to see your solution to the landing gear Al. Good stuff.

Stars and bars branding has begun. These decals are a mite leathery.

Heres My entry for this Build A German Marine Tornado

Sascha(Ironowl)

Nice progress on everybody's projects. Slight update on the Lanc.....fuselage and wings are together. Fit was good although I had to sand down the edges of the bomb bay and flight deck to get the fuselage to close.

Best wishes,

Ian

Got started a little late, but here is my entry for Russel. A 1/72 scale Sopwith Camel. It is now packaged as a Squadron Encore kit, but is an older Roden kit.

Weapons bay details & fuel tanks,



Also gave a light coat of Aircraft Grey near the wheels bay.

I got all the masking for the final color done, made more work for myself freehanding it to start. I shot the final color and there is a small touch up left for the tan.

Cheers Rob.