Paul's Attempts

[Sunray]

Excellent work Paul. What I do to harden plaster off is to give it a few coats of acrylic gloss spray varnish from a spray can which I brought from my local DIY store. You get a nice shine on it as I used it to make plugs for vacuforming canopy's. It might be a bit cheaper than using CA glue. http://www.uamf.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f= ... 5&start=60 I hope this helps?

[PGAS]

Excellent work Paul. What I do to harden plaster off is to give it a few coats of acrylic gloss spray varnish from a spray can which I brought from my local DIY store. You get a nice shine on it as I used it to make plugs for vacuforming canopy's. It might be a bit cheaper than using CA glue. http://www.uamf.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f= ... 5&start=60 I hope this helps?

Thanks Sunray. That sounds like a good idea as well. I checked what you have done with it to make canopies. Very nice work. I will have to try that later on.

Cheers,

[PGAS]

Superb detailing Paul, that is going to look the mutt's whatsits when painted!

Thank you Iggie. I will wait and see how the camo goes on. I have been practicing however My airbrush skills have not improved enough to do the smoke rings yet. Mike Grant Decals are looking like the way ahead for me.

[PGAS]

Top work Paul, those are very worthwhile additions to the basic kit. I have Hase's 202 in 1/48th plus some of Mike Grant's smoke ring decals. The Folgore is the only Italian subject I currently have in the stash and indeed I've never built an aircraft in Italian markings before. I can't explain why as there are some great looking Italian subjects with very interesting, to say nothing of complex, schemes.

Thank you Shaun. I have seen the 1:48 scale kit online and it looks like a great model. It is a beautiful aircraft.

[PGAS]

Wow, Paul, the bulkhead and other internal details look great! It's ingenious the way you got the right contour. Never seen that done before!

Thank you Fred. The plaster mold has worked out pretty well.

[PGAS]

Superb work!

Wow! Those extras in the wheel wells look very convincing!

David

Thanks Stu and David.

[billyb_imp]

Wow some very intricate work shown in this thread, I will certainly be back for another look

[PGAS]

Paul,
I came across your posts the other day but it has taken me until today to find you again! I just wanted to remind you that, if you want to pose your aircraft on the ground the throttle needs to be in the fully FORWARD position! The Italians, for some strange reason, prefered to reverse the way the throttle works. Bet that caused confusion with other axis aircraft or captured allied aircraft?

I could not tell if you were joking, so I had to google this. I can not believe throttles would be designed that way. I could not imagine flying close formation like that. I suppose like anything you would get used to it but until then I would want a QFI close by or the lead aircraft far away. Also pulling for increased power would pull you back in your seat which may result it you pulling more power. Weird. Are other Italian aircraft like this?

Thanks for the info Tony.

[PGAS]

Excellent work, Paul. Really stunning scratch building.

Amazing work on the additional details, Paul! That's going to look great!

Mighty impressive work, I will try to follow this build

Thanks again. Things usually start off good but I am kind of waiting for the shoe to drop on this one. I think it will be when I try the camo.

Cheers,

[PGAS]

Well, I have finally got back to the modelling bench. Work gets in the way sometimes and it was a bear the last bit. Makes you appreciate when you do get back.

I have painted the greebels in the cockpit and wheel wells. A couple different colours for the various lines.


Cockpit is almost finished. I still have to paint the what I think is the armored back behind the seat and install it and that should come shortly. It is not so dirty looking in real life though.












Cheers,

[iggie]

Beautiful work Paul, that cockpit is a thing of beauty

[ShaunW]

Beautiful work Paul, that cockpit is a thing of beauty

What he said First class work, Paul.

[dollar19]

That is just going to sparkle.

[PGAS]

Just a little update. I had a chance to work on the Macchi on the weekend and it is starting to come together. The armored back is in the cockpit and everything is snug as a bug in there.


I had some trouble with the fit of the engine cowling to fuselage joint. The cowling is too narrow and not quite the right shape. I put some sprue to widen the cowling but there is still a significant step. I could not figure out a way to fix it without removing the details around it so I am just going to live with it. I used some epoxy in the fuselage to strengthen the fuselage halves so my manipulation would not split it later.




The wing fuselage joint required a little work. In all honesty it could use more work still but I am going to call it quits with some sanding to flatten it out.




The underside fit was very nice. Everything lines up nicely and only a little CA to make the seams disappear.


Thanks for looking,

[skypirate]

Lovely work all round that Macchi!

cheers,

David