Avro Albany B Mk2 (Project Wrathchild) - finished pics page 9

[zenrat]

Thanks Brian.
Glued some bombs together today, attached the bomb racks, painted them and attached scoops and flame dampers to the engines which I really should have glued on BEFORE I painted.  Also glued the dorsal turret together.
Put the props together having already modified the mountings by fitting a tube inside the nacelles so I can make them a slide in fit to allow removal for transport.  Revell provide two sets of props.  Wide paddle blades and narrower ones.  I used the narrower ones.

[zenrat]

More paint on the bomb shackles and bomb bay doors and started painting the turret.

[DogfighterZen]

Somehow i was looking at this as a heavy fighter-bomber in the Mosquito/Beaufighter or even P-38 Lightining category... Imagine that with a single seat cockpit and bubble canopy...

[zenrat]

One of the ideas I had involved making it an anti shipping strike aircraft with a Really Big Gun mounted with the breach in the bomb bay.
I also contemplated a solid nose version with a heap of 303s in front and package guns on the sides.
Oh, and a torpedo bomber version. 

Painted the canopy frames today.  Revell have moulded them at what looks like accurate scale width.  This makes them exceedingly tricky to paint neatly.  So I didn't bother.  I painted then messily and when the (acrylic) paint is dry I will carefully scrape off the excess with a toothpick.

[DogfighterZen]

One of the ideas I had involved making it an anti shipping strike aircraft with a Really Big Gun mounted with the breach in the bomb bay.
I also contemplated a solid nose version with a heap of 303s in front and package guns on the sides.
Oh, and a torpedo bomber version. 

Painted the canopy frames today.  Revell have moulded them at what looks like accurate scale width.  This makes them exceedingly tricky to paint neatly.  So I didn't bother.  I painted then messily and when the (acrylic) paint is dry I will carefully scrape off the excess with a toothpick.

Great ideas there! And that toothpick method does work, i did that on a few canopies before and, here's a weird coincidence, just did that today on my Bf-109's canopy, which had a bit of paint from when i airbrushed a freehand camo scheme on it and it really did the trick, although it does nothing to disguise the scratches and CA damage it already had from the initial build... 

[NARSES2]

I to have used the sharpened toothpick trick to clean up canopy frames and for some reason find it works better if the toothpick point is wet/damp ?

[DogfighterZen]

I to have used the sharpened toothpick trick to clean up canopy frames and for some reason find it works better if the toothpick point is wet/damp ?

Yup, seems like it pulls out the paint better and smoother, but you do lose the pointy end after a bit and it gets harder to get to sharp corners... at least it happened to me when i did that.

[PR19_Kit]

I to have used the sharpened toothpick trick to clean up canopy frames and for some reason find it works better if the toothpick point is wet/damp ?

Yup, seems like it pulls out the paint better and smoother, but you do lose the pointy end after a bit and it gets harder to get to sharp corners... at least it happened to me when i did that.

That's why toothpicks come in packets of 100................. 

[DogfighterZen]

That's why toothpicks come in packets of 100................. 

You were saying...?

[zenrat]

Blunt toothpicks can easilly be resharpened on a piece of wet & dry.

[TheChronicOne]

All this obvious stuff about toothpicks that never occurred to me..   Well, wetting them down isn't -as- obvious, but sharpening them should have been...    numerous times I was putting aside a more blunt pick and trying to find sharper ones and still falling short. More good stuff to remember for "next time."

[DogfighterZen]

Toothpicks are good and versatile modelling tools and also, a very cool bmx trick that can perform rhinoplasty or give you a dental revision very quickly... 



Toothpick gring down a rail by rider Sean Morr.

[zenrat]

Way back when we had cable TV we had a channel called "Extreme" which consisted of nothing but BMX, skateboarding, freestyle motocross, snowboarding, that sort of stuff.
I used to watch the BMX shows and wonder if I could have done the same when I was young and stupid.
It's probably lucky that I was a few years too old to have got my hands on a BMX when I was a kid 'cause I think I would have come some serious croppers.

Toothpicks and clothes pegs are prolly my most used non-modelling modelling tools.

Scraped surplus paint off the canopies, blister and turret of this today.  Looks good (though I say so myself) with very very fine frames.  Far finer than I could have achieved any other way (except maybe very very painstaking masking).
Also painted the scoops and flame dampers I had forgotten to attach to the engines so its ready for satin clear tomorrow.

[DogfighterZen]

Well, judging by your modelling, i think you're seriously deranged...  And that's always a good attribute for this sport so, i think you'd probably have a good share of platinum inside your body after a few years, just like a lot of us BMXers... But i can assure you, you'd have a load of fun in between recovery periods...
Looking back on it, i guess i could've avoided some injuries but, they healed up good and give me no pain... for now, at least... i have more problems with the wrist i broke while driving an old, almost brakeless Massey-Ferguson 135 tractor at work...

[NARSES2]

but, they healed up good and give me no pain... for now, at least...

That was exactly the way I felt in my 20's when I ignored the "if you continue to play football with that knee problem" lecture from the Doctor. 40 years latter and boy does it let me know it's there. Do I regret not giving up playing ? Of course not