Martin Monterey MR1

[kitnut617]

Bril !!!!!!!!

[Gondor]

Glad the tape was exactly what you were after Kit

Gondor

[PR19_Kit]

Actually I got that round my neck, sorry. 

I decided not to have ANY white on the wings, just the fuselage top and the planning area, like a flying boat Shackleton in fact. I thought the white wings were just a tad over the top, but I'm open to discussion on the matter. 



The LAST round of PSR went OK, for a change, and it's looking quite good now. The loading bay hatch works pretty well too, which is pleasing. The first colour coat will go on later today with luck.

[JayBee]

That chcoice of colour scheme really does work well. The smaller amount of white with the R/W/B roundels makes a very good contrast to the darker foil/background.

[PR19_Kit]

That's it, the last PSR session and the last primer coat are done! 

First colour coat goes on later this evening, and not before time too.

[PR19_Kit]

The white top and planning area's painted, and it's looking REALLY good! <big head mode off>

I'm dead chuffed with it anyway, and the pile of masking tape that I stripped off it afterwards was AWESOME! I'll have to re-stock on Tamiya tape this week for sure.

Here's some pics of the current state of affairs.



Top view, and it's not far off what it'll look like when it's finished, just the grey will be quite a bit darker




Underside showing the matching AAR bomb door




Yes, that really is an 'Orange Harvest' aerial filched from a FROG Shackleton kit.  The Monterey's aerial is retractable, thus the doors on either side of it




And just for the hell of it, here's the whole assembly together. Note the AAR probe on the nose, it's pretty fragile though

[DogfighterZen]

Simple but very nice, i like the looks of that big thing and the detail of the antenna is a nice touch.

[McColm]

Looks very good

[NARSES2]

It really is looking the business Kit  Shame it hides all that work on the trolley 

[PR19_Kit]

It really is looking the business Kit  Shame it hides all that work on the trolley 

Thank you kindly, it looks even better now with the Dark Sea Grey on. I've done the fuselage and the tail so far, waiting for them to dry before doing the wings. The decals are all drawn up or allocated from other sheets to hand, so things are looking good.

I'm going to display it with a pic of the unpainted trolley alongside, just to make the point. 

[The Wooksta!]

It's alreet, I s'pose...

[chrisonord]

Looking good Kit, I have quietly been watching this creature evolve, and it is a marvel to behold considering what you have been through with it. The beaching trolley deserves a thread all of it's own. As for the 20 mm gattling gun, I have one of those too, and yes I tried and failed several times to build it, so I improvised, and bought some quickboost 1/48th scale minigun barrels, which although don't work out at a scale 20 mm caliber, they do the job for me, and would rather live with that than give myself a nervous breakdown/ stroke/ heart attack/tourettes episode.
Chris.

[Scooterman]

WHOLEY FOOK!!

[JayBee]

I really wanted to wait to the end of this build before making any comment, but I can't.

BRILLIANT

'nuffsaid.

[ericr]