Mount the doors on a cocktail stick or them swirly sticks from Wetherspoons with blue tack. Prime one side, wait and do t'other.  Same with your actual paint. 

Quote from: NARSES2 on April 15, 2024, 05:53:35 AM

Quote from: Gondor on April 14, 2024, 10:40:11 AMMy 0.4mm drill bit broke. So that's a pack of ten replacements ordered as spares.

So far so good 

Gondor

Where do you order your drill bits from Alastair ?

This was the original drill set that I ordered

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01N7B9IPJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Hope that helps.

Gondor

Quote from: The Wooksta! on April 15, 2024, 07:13:02 AMMount the doors on a cocktail stick or them swirly sticks from Wetherspoons with blue tack. Prime one side, wait and do t'other.  Same with your actual paint. 

That didn't work for me with the doors Lee which is partly why I have glued the doors in place, they are also not going to get in the way, apart from the weapon bay so that's not glued in place.

I have used something similar to your suggestion for the canards though



Only one coat of paint so far but where I have applied several more the surface is looking good.

Gondor

Quote from: Gondor on April 15, 2024, 09:15:49 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on April 15, 2024, 05:53:35 AM

Quote from: Gondor on April 14, 2024, 10:40:11 AMMy 0.4mm drill bit broke. So that's a pack of ten replacements ordered as spares.

So far so good 

Gondor

Where do you order your drill bits from Alastair ?

This was the original drill set that I ordered

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01N7B9IPJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Hope that helps.

Gondor

It does indeed, thankyou 

So a little update

Eyes Left!



Eyes Right!



Eyes Front!



Eyes Rear! Hang on, that's not right. About Turn!



And a couple of size comparison shots. First a TSR.2



And with a late WWII fighter



The paint I am using is HATAKA Blue for the hairy stick. The colours are Dk Green B143, DK Sea Grey B144 and Lt Aircraft Grey B217 although the Dk Sea Grey has yet to be applied and only one coat of the Green has been added. That was mainly just to flesh out where the paint was to go with my interpretation of the camouflage given in the instructions. Still loads to do, I hope to get the seats almost finished today so hopefully they will be going into the tub tomorrow. That has just reminded me that I better do some work on the canopy 

Gondor

This is great! 

Looking good!

Quote from: Accidental Loggie on April 20, 2024, 01:01:37 PMLooking good!

Definitely!

Whew, she's a Big Girl, isn't she?
3X longer than a Tempest, but with the same wingspan...

Looking good so far.

Quote from: Rick Lowe on April 20, 2024, 01:24:51 PMWhew, she's a Big Girl, isn't she?
3X longer than a Tempest, but with the same wingspan...

Possibly narrower 

Looking good Alistair 

I'm about to get tyred



I had a thought originally about painting one side of each tyre and then the other when that was dry. But how to hold each when I was painting them? So I came up with what you see above. Unfortunately, I only had the one piece of tubing that could hold a main wheel, the second one will have to wait until tomorrow. All the surfaces other than the pliers have Gator Grip applied to their surfaces to hold the tyres in place.

I'm hoping this does the trick 

Gondor

Dipping in and out of here today. Been doing lots of little bits of painting on the seats. The only problem is that I only have two decent 10/0 paint brushes at the moment and they are taking longer to dry than the paint! 
At least there is not much more to do paint-wise to the seats, buckles and stripes, then a go with the Scottish Paint, otherwise known as the Black Wash!* 

Talking about dipping, the canopy had a dunk in some Kleer



That's it sitting drying on some kitchen paper on the kitchen windowsill. I am thinking that I should get a replacement for my bottle of Kleer as it's getting rather long in the tooth and I am getting dubious about its abilities. Suggestions are most welcome.

Gondor

* Black Wash joke was stolen from a thread on Britmodeller

I use a Pledge product, but don't recall which.

A few more pictures today.

First up is the Navigators seat







And the Pilots seat





I am calling them done as time is a bit tight to do anything else really.

Both the side handle and the crotch handle were solid so I have had fun and games keeping them mostly intact while opening them up, and I deliberately took some of the pictures so you could see the background through the side handles.

Quite chuffed with them though they could have been better if I had more time. I have Alistairs 1/72 Buccaneer seats for another build so I look forward to what I can do with them.

And here is another comparison shot for people



Gondor

'Black Wash' - that's not bad, I must remember it.

Seats came out well.

Could you not slide the main tyre down the tube a bit and put the other one on as well?
If the tube is too large, what about a bit of rolled paper? That would be able to squeeze into the tyre hole and expand to keep it in place.