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- Stuart
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That's a corker of a build, great stuff!
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Lovely Stranraer, the rigging is very impressive.
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- gnomemeansgnome
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Thanks fellas. Not sure I would ever want to do that much rigging ever again though.
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And now back to our regularly scheduled programme.......more work done on the Jumo-engined Dinah. Got the airscrews and gear hatches on, and just a bit of canopy touchup plus a wire for the radio mast and it can take its place down on the apron......
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Well now. That turned out really well. Totally believable WHIF.
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Re: The home of gnomemeansgnome
Nice one GMG, the Dinah is a stylish aircraft anyway IMHO and it looks great with the Jumo engines.
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Agree, believable and nicely executed.
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Great looking PZL 23. I do not see Polish aircraft too often but they have a look that I really like. Very fine job. Cool Dinah too.
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Needed a no brainer shake and bake kit or two to keep me sharp until I feel like getting on with various long stalled builds and restorations. Keeping my idle hands slightly busy with this and that....this for instance, the venerable Airfix FIAT G.50. Tacked the fuselage halves together. Not much to see in the cockpit and Pilot Officer Mario Andretti will fill most of it anyway. The wings will be fun as only the tops are dihedral and no dihedral at all on the bottom part of the wing.
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As well, now that the Stranraer and all that other Group Build jazz is out of the way, this shelf queen has come out to play. A 1980's re-release of Monogram's Grumman F8F Bearcat. Good fortune enabled me to get my mitts on a decal set for a Cat based I think out of Dien Bien Phu itself. Have wanted to bat this one out of the park for a while......
That last pic is clearly me going full Don de Torquemada on the airframe, getting it to confess its sins! And yeah I know that the office isn't exactly regulation but it is a lot more busy than how I found it. My chief thing was how to put something in that looked vaguely like a console from a few feet away.
That last pic is clearly me going full Don de Torquemada on the airframe, getting it to confess its sins! And yeah I know that the office isn't exactly regulation but it is a lot more busy than how I found it. My chief thing was how to put something in that looked vaguely like a console from a few feet away.
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The Bearcat's current state of play till I can get a rattlecan of gloss black to prime the airframe......
And the FIAT G.50's lack of wing dihedral was corrected after much hand to fifty plus year old plastic combat and liberal bastings of putty.
But I am well pleased with how Pilot Officer Andretti has turned out.....
And the FIAT G.50's lack of wing dihedral was corrected after much hand to fifty plus year old plastic combat and liberal bastings of putty.
But I am well pleased with how Pilot Officer Andretti has turned out.....
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Good grief! The Airfix G.50!
That takes me back to my school days!
Good on you!
David
That takes me back to my school days!
Good on you!
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Heh heh, we shall see, David. The first one I built over 25 years ago turned out all right as I recall but perhaps this one has not thrived so well after all these years in a plastic bag. There is some fiddly sanding in this one's future. I have quite a few G.50 bis's in the stash, inherited from here and there over the years.
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Puttering and wheezing along..... fuselage band and Savoy cross on the tail now painted flat white and waxed prior to be being taped over for grey primer which will also serve as underside paint.
Then, acting on a notion I had earlier I started cutting plastic in the vague shape of the G.50's wing from plastic card and glued a couple of cuts together to start forming what I hope will be a top wing. The result should hopefully be FIAT's answer to the I-153 Chaika if I get it right. Clearly my masochistic pash for impossible biplanes has not abated....
....moving right along. I employed le baton hirsute in the pursuit of getting gloss black on the Bearcat as primer, my funds for a new rattlecan of the stuff not being presently viable. The Modelmaster Acryl dark sea blue I have will suffice for the Bearcat's Navy scheme.
Then, acting on a notion I had earlier I started cutting plastic in the vague shape of the G.50's wing from plastic card and glued a couple of cuts together to start forming what I hope will be a top wing. The result should hopefully be FIAT's answer to the I-153 Chaika if I get it right. Clearly my masochistic pash for impossible biplanes has not abated....
....moving right along. I employed le baton hirsute in the pursuit of getting gloss black on the Bearcat as primer, my funds for a new rattlecan of the stuff not being presently viable. The Modelmaster Acryl dark sea blue I have will suffice for the Bearcat's Navy scheme.
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