Tales from the Basement Lab by AndrewR

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The story so far:

I've built some kits. I intend to build some more


Here's the first completion of 2014, a Hasegawa P47-D, finished as a P-47C, from the Secret Santa build:

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A very nice kit, all I've done is use brass tubing for the gun barrels, external stores left over from the Revell P-47D bubbletop build, and a Pavla vac-form canopy. A great way to start the new year!

Then there's another kit started last year, the venerable, nay geriatric, old tool Airfix Skyhawk. This one is just getting varnished. It's an A-4a assigned to VX-5, China Lake Naval Air Station in 1961-62. The decals are home made. The national insignia are from an Xtradecal set. Almost finished...

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Then there are seats and cockpits. The seats are resin ones by Pavla. They will go in a Matchbox Alphajet. The cockpits are from the Airfix Spitfire Vb kits, which I am building for a charity auction

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As time is at a premium at the moment, so I need to keep several small builds going at once. If I get the odd quarter of an hour free, then I can usually find a little job to complete on one or other of the builds.

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Welcome to your new bench thread. All progressing drama free. 8-)

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Clashcityrocker wrote:Welcome to your new bench thread. All progressing drama free. 8-)

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Thank you Nigel, and yes, today's modelling has been incident free. I've not even misplaced a canopy today :)

Spitfire building in the late afternoon:

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Interiors now green, primer on the pilots and props. I also got all the filters and intakes on under the wings.

Earlier on, I did some work on the Matchbox Alpha Jet. This has a negligible interior - two monstrous ejection seats and severely truncated moulded-in instrument panels, no side panels, joysticks etc.

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Here are the red seats with their Pavla replacements

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A few bits of plastic card and some primer...

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Good start. Did you sort out your 'spectator' figures?
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PaulBradley wrote:Good start. Did you sort out your 'spectator' figures?
Yes I found some unpainted Preiser airport figures on Evil Bay at a tolerable price. Hopefully they'll turn up this week. :)

Some paint on our gallant Eagle Squadron Spitfire pilots:

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And a few cosmetic paint touch-ups on the Skyhawk, followed by a little pastel powder weathering. Mostly the oil leak from the port side exhaust.

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This one will be finished tomorrow.

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Lots of good stuff going on here Andrew as usual - I really like that Skyhawk.

I hope the little's ones sleep is better

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Sir T wrote:Lots of good stuff going on here Andrew as usual - I really like that Skyhawk.

I hope the little's ones sleep is better

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Thanks Stuart. Unfortunately the sleep (or lack of) is now worse :roll: The Skyhawk is best viewed from a distance, close up it's a bit rough! It's destined for the back of the shelf :-D
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I've been there, it's not a nice situation to be in - I hope it gets better soon.

Looks good to me, but it can join my Tornado which is also a Back of the shelf job!
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Spitfire pilots painted. I've done them as wearing RAF flying kit, but wearing US uniform underneath.

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I'm going to declare the Skyhawk "Finished"

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A new Basement Lab thread and some interesting stuff as always. I like the Skyhawk, it looks good from here (some 3000 miles away :mrgreen: ).
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The Skyhawk turned out great. Nice job. I especially like the use of the oil pastels.
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BlohmWolf wrote:The Skyhawk turned out great. Nice job. I especially like the use of the oil pastels.
Strangely enough it's chalk pastels simulating the oil leak! :)

A whole ninety minutes in the lab results in two Spitfires.

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It's completely OOB at the moment, except for a little bit of photoetch at the rear of the cockpit and a transparent acetate reflector gunsight instead of the solid kit part.

I've used a bit of putty underneath on the intakes and radiators. But not a lot!

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Detailing a Spitfire cockpit with a pilot in it, is an exercise in futility :mrgreen: :grin:
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And just to round off a very productive modelling day, I put the Alpha Jet fuselage together and push fitted the flight surfaces m

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I still need to add quite a lot to the cockpit, bulkheads instrument panels, hydraulics for the canopy mechanisms, but it's nice to see it largely as it will be displayed without even painting. :)

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If the coming week is anything like last week, I might not get any more bench time until Thursday.

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