Narses2's Blog - or what I'm slowly making progress on

jcf · February 08, 2019, 09:39:13 AM

Ba-dum-tss

He's here all week, try the veal.

Dingg · February 14, 2019, 11:42:09 AM

~PZL.42
No one is perfect, IBG too.
1.The position lights in Pzl 37 have colored covers, the bulbs are transparent. Although the IBG claims and shows otherwise.
2.The upper part of the pilot cover is light green(against the sun)

Hence the chessboard is only one: red white (main fields) at the top, white red at the bottom.

Look 1'21":
https://youtu.be/5rxkRJ2SLXk

such a painting method is a rarity

NARSES2 · February 15, 2019, 06:09:13 AM

Right I'll look once I get home

NARSES2 · February 19, 2019, 07:06:43 AM

Quote from: Dingg on February 14, 2019, 11:42:09 AM

Look 1'21":
https://youtu.be/5rxkRJ2SLXk

such a painting method is a rarity

Having looked at this plus some other things I think I will over paint the markings on the inside of the tail fins.

NARSES2 · February 21, 2019, 07:00:03 AM

Normally when I've been away it can take me an age to return to the fray so to speak. However this time I got back to it within a couple of days so progress has been made on the Hurricane

TheChronicOne · February 21, 2019, 10:25:51 AM

Excellent.

NARSES2 · February 24, 2019, 05:26:01 AM

Current state of play is that the Hurricane is ready for her transfers. As they are coming from a Sky sheet I'd better get the micro scissors out

.

The B&V has had her undersides painted, so I can now start on her uppers once I finalise my thoughts on what these will be.

I've also being trying to find some old photos which are somewhere in the flat and during this so far fruitless search I found a couple of models stashed away which I had no idea I had, let alone started.

First one is a Dragon "Val" on which I've made a start on cutting parts from the sprues and cleaning up.

The other is an AZ Models Breda 65 A-80. This has had a fair bit of work done on the interior and given the standard of painting must of been started before my eye problem occurred. So that's a minimum of 5 years or so. This has been put on the "in progress" pile and will be finished as per one of the box options or perhaps as Hungarian.

NARSES2 · February 25, 2019, 07:29:09 AM

Did a little work on the AZ Breda yesterday evening. Typical example of their work at the time. Lots of well cast, but delicate resin and a fair bit of etch. Nowadays they'd do most of this in injection moulded plastic. The cockpit is a combination of very fiddly plastic, resin and an etch "cage". Likewise the engine and cowling is resin and etch. Anyway I'm fitting the etch that I think will be seen once she's finished, including those weird Italian S&M seatbelts, and going by some test fitting of the main parts once these are done the rest of the build should be a breeze....famous last words

I've also discovered I have another boxing of this kit in the stash.

NARSES2 · March 04, 2019, 05:59:48 AM

Got over my birthday events so done a little bit of work on the current in progress. Hurricane now has its national markings and I was still taken by surprise by the size of the fuselage roundels. They always look to big to me at this stage of the War.

NARSES2 · March 10, 2019, 07:09:20 AM

Struggling to get much done, a few real world things on my mind at the moment $:-\$ Still been there before and will undoubted be there again, so onwards and upwards

Hurricane just need her canopy sorting out, but I've an Eduard masking set for that......somewhere

PZL 42 is getting its canopy framework done and then it will just need its exhausts sorting. Found a note I made when I started her which suggested doing it as a torpedo bomber ? Just need to find a torpedo

B&V has started to get her upper colours. She will be a basic 74/75 splinter.

Working on the Breda's interior.

The Whitley has started to have her upper colours painted.

Dingg · March 11, 2019, 01:19:26 AM

~Pzl 42
Maybe something similar?

http://pwm.org.pl/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=7042

NARSES2 · March 11, 2019, 07:02:45 AM

Thanks for that

NARSES2 · March 15, 2019, 07:03:50 AM

Made a little progress on all the current projects bar the Hurricane as I still can't find the canopy mask. Still I'll park it for now and have another trawl next week.

The B&V has had her paintwork done so I can look at the markings. Going to be fairly minimal so won't take long. I've also found a drop tank from I think an Me 110 which is rather on the large size and will do as a pod to house the necessary cameras for her P.R. role.

The Breda's interior is done and it's basically a tubular structure as per the real thing. It's a tad fragile so I think I will construct the fuselage and then insert it from underneath. Test fit shows it should go in fine, but then how many times do test fits work splendidly and then you commit to glue and .....

Meanwhile been doing the canopy framing for both the PZL and the B&V and there's a fair bit on both. Now this is the aspect of the process I dislike the most and also the one I am even more useless then normal at. It's been made even worse by my eye problem and I've really been struggling with these two kits. However they are now done and the B&V isn't that bad, the PZL isn't quite at that level. I've reverted to my thin strips of painted masking tape method for both of these and made a slight change to the way I do it for the B&V and that seems to have worked. However if and when I find the Eduard Hurricane mask, and if and when that works then Eduard masks, where they exist, could become my fall back position. We shall see.

TheChronicOne · March 15, 2019, 02:58:43 PM

I've started searching out masks whenever I can. I bought my first set just a couple days ago, in fact. I'm from now on going to throw money at my canopy and window framing anxiety.

I look at it as an actual cost saving thing... so I pend $10 for a set of masks but save 2 hours of time... so I in essence bought myself 2 hours at $5 a piece. Time is money, and that is a bargain.

I'll close by saying..... "better you than me" on that framing!!! I don't like doing it either!!!!

Rick Lowe · March 15, 2019, 03:14:09 PM

A friend of mine masks in two stages; she masks and paints the vertical bars first, then removes the masking and masks and paints the horizontal (or vice versa would work, too).
I don't know how much existing paint is removed when removing the masking in the second stage, but if it's only a little touching up, that's better than freehanding the whole thing.

Just a thought, FWIW.