"Sparrow" RCAF Trainer

[Leigh]

Some more views.  This took about 5 hours.  Maybe not too smart since you won't be able to see the work unless I go to the (tacky) trouble of posing the finished model on a mirror.

OK back to earth, I confess my models sit on mirrors, and they have mirrors behind. What can I say? I'm from Luton of course I'm tacky.

[seavixen]

I used to live in Luton!

[John Howling Mouse]

Wheel wells are done.  This baby's ready for paint!

[Martin H]

What can I say? I'm from Luton of course I'm tacky.

says it all realy  





Only kidding old son.

Nice work there BTW baz

[BlackOps]

Hey you can't paint that yet, you haven't clipped the wings!!!  And what's with all the pea soup in the wheel wells? I mean with all those noodles you added in there I would have thought chicken noodle would have been your first choice...split pea, really!  


:dum:


Looks great, even though I really do like the clipped wings better.

[lancer]

OK back to earth, I confess my models sit on mirrors, and they have mirrors behind. What can I say? I'm from Luton of course I'm tacky.

I'm surprised that you don't have mirrors on the ceiling too....        

[Mike Wren]

I used to live in Luton!

me too!    can we form a self-help group then...?

[retro_seventies]

i passed out there once after a post footy match drinking session, and woke up on a traffic island at about 2 in the morning...

does that count as living there?  it was a very short lease admittedly, but i certainly felt as though it was "my" island    :ar:


*ahem*

LOVE those wheel wells Barry - this little bugger's really coming along now, eh?    

[nev]

OK back to earth, I confess my models sit on mirrors, and they have mirrors behind. What can I say? I'm from Luton of course I'm tacky.

I'm surprised that you don't have mirrors on the ceiling too....      

Pink champagne on ice?

[seavixen]

We are just prisoners here, of our own device!  

[seavixen]

I used to live in Luton!

me too!    can we form a self-help group then...?

Well, I kinda helped myself by moving to Welwyn Garden City!  

[Leigh]

I'm surprised that you don't have mirrors on the ceiling too....      

Who says I don't?

And I got a perm the minute it went out of fashion in Liverpool.
MkII Cortina with a spoiler, go faster stripes, big old tach on the dash and more rust than steel.
Babycham on ice.
a misguided belief that moving to Welwyn is a step up in the world.


Hey at least I'm not from Hemel Hempstead.

And retro you sure you weren't part of those Gypsies that moved in on the rondabout on the Dunstable road?

[John Howling Mouse]

My model is now....aw, forget it.

[seavixen]

"a misguided belief that moving to Welwyn is a step up in the world."

The only good thing about Welwyn in all the time I've lived here was watching all the Hawker Siddeley stuff coming and going in and out of Hatfield, only a mile from where I live.
Trident, Comet, Nimrod, Bucc, Heron, 748, Andover Dove. All were regular visitors!  I even saw the 146 make it's maiden flight in 1981.

Ah, such happy memories.

[John Howling Mouse]

It's red now.  Will mask off all the wingtip areas that are to remain red. Idea was to paint the whole thing red so the undercoat might give the final yellow overcoat just a hint of "orange."

But I do believe I've just discovered that Tamiya's own spraypaint colors are not necessarily compatible with each other, even though all of these are in the TS line.

I had sprayed a silver undercoat as a metal skin-slash-primer to quickly even out all the putty colors, overspray, etc.  Worked really well, too.  Instant neutral monochromatic tone.

But I've noticed that the slightest touch to the red now reveals the silver underneath.  Once again, I've discovered a great potential for weathering...on the wrong kit!

I cannot imagine the red paint staying put after I pull the Tamiya masking tape, no matter how long I wait until masking off the red areas...