Fire Spotter

[chrisonord]

I missed this one too, it looks absolutely fab. 

[kerick]

Thanks everyone!

[Captain Canada]

That looks wild !

[su27rules]

  

[ericr]

  

[kerick]

Thanks gents!
Babysitting the granddaughter today. No progress as my wife and I will be exhausted. Tomorrow may or may not be corrective surgery for my wife if the Dr ever calls to let us know what's happening.

[NARSES2]

Hope your Mr's finds out from the Doc'. Nothing worse than waiting.

[killnoizer]

Well, it's only been a few months since an update on this one.
It turns out Testor Bright Red in their spray can was a near perfect match for the red in the CAL FIRE decals. Here's what it looked like over the white.



It took more coats than I expected and managed to leak under the tape in several of the typical places.



Some spots were my own fault. Over all, it could have been worse. And I managed to break the nose gear off.



Nose gear pinned in place and a lot of touch up.



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A boarding ladder under construction from spare parts.



So some progress has been made these few months. The mojo has been lacking and I'm spending far too much time looking at modeling stuff on my phone instead of building stuff. Now that summer is almost here it will be even harder to focus. Decals will be next so pray for me! I'm still on a mission to finish things so go ahead and nag me into working on stuff!

Very good concept and design, that works well , I like that  ! 

Those skinny legs could have some more struts to make them stronger , for me on every build is that daily business because the parts OOB are most just ready to break , and I hate that  ...  you can easily add some support struts in the landing gear bays  .

[kerick]

I did add a strut to brace the nose gear. The main gear I had already pinned with a sewing pin. Those steel pins are really rigid and perfect for this.

[killnoizer]

Somewhere outside ...


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[Mossie]

Another one who'd missed this. This is great, I have a soft spot for Firefighting aircraft.   

[kerick]

My club had build a thon yesterday. I brought the Firespotter along to try applying the decals. They are from Draw Decals for the OV-10 Bronco and worked beautifully. Even the little black stripes that outline the red areas went on without any problem. I need to finish a few more stripes then a clear coat and onto the shelf.

[kerick]

It's rainy today so I'll work on it this afternoon. Then a few pics. I had to reinforce the main gear last night with UV resin. This will never be a contest entry so the blob of resin doesn't worry me much. At least it's clear so it's harder to notice.

[su27rules]

      Nice work!!

[kerick]

I painted in the black area around the engine exhaust tonight. The decals are for a Bronco and the decal for that area just didn't fit properly. I had a 1000 sanding pad I used to remove some bits of red paint that somehow got pushed into the white paint in random spots. Probably bits that stuck to my fingers as I pulled off the red masking tape. At least that came off easily. I have to figure out how to ground these builds to a copper pipe to get rid of the static electricity that's attracting lots of lint again. Maybe a copper plate on top of the cutting mat with a ground wire. Aluminum should work too.