Splash's Day Fighter ***Finished***

[Old_Tonto]

I'll show you mine if you show me yours

[splash]

I'll show you mine if you show me yours

I'm not showing you mine because you have made yours bigger than mine

I have now added the new nose and taken off the raised part behind the turret, to fill the hole I have glued an oversized pice of plastic card that I plan to rub down and blend in.

Regards Splash

[splash]

OK enough work has been done to show you some progress, the nose is on and I have removed the ramp behind the turret and replaced it with a strip of plastic and then rubbed it down.

I thought before I cut the tail off I would rub off the thick ribs and see what it looked like and to my surprise it looks OK, I know it not the right shape but as I'm not a perfectionist or have any scale drawings I'm going to leave it as it is.

[Old_Tonto]

Good job.

I wish I had thought of that with the tail.

[splash]

I now have the basics of the kit all put together, I found the ailerons aren't the best fitting part of the kit and needed a skim over with filler to get them to blend into the wing.

Haveing looked at Dirks build, I like what he is doing with the area behind the turret, but I'm too lazy to try something like that, so I'm going to try a different approach, I'm going to mask the area then paint ribs on with liquid filler, then depending on the results scrib the panel line back on.

[splash]

[TomW]

Yeah that works pretty well Splash , really coming along now.

Regards

Tom

[splash]

Slow progress due to other commitments, but progress is progress.

tonight I scribed some panel lines to the rear of the turret using plastic tape as a guide and finally decided what colour to paint it, after several changes of mind from green/brown/black & white to all black I have gone for the green/brown/sky as supplied in the box.

[Jagewa]

Very effective technique there Splash. Well done.

Cheers
Jim

[splash]

Just a quick update, tonight I gave the kit a coat of green/brown and its starting to come together.

Photos tomorrow when the sun comes up.

Regards Splash

[splash]

I just spotted the date only one day to go so I had better pull my finger out and do a bit of a blitz.

Here are the progress shots.

[Dirkpitt289]

Looking good Splash. Real good

[splash]

I'm running out of time fast and I have to work on my Dennis Fire Engine so I'm declaring this one a failure to finish

Credit when credit Is due Airfix are using excellent decals when re issuing these old kits, these went on with no problems and have settled down well.

[TomW]

So close Splash! Looks great though. Were these the Cartograph printed decals in your kit? if so it bodes well for my spares .

Regards

Tom

[splash]

I have not given up yet just stopped for supper.

Only u/c to add to call it finished. I nicked the prop off an Airfix Spitfire I/II working on the principle that when I build the kit I will use the two bladed prop.