VV's _very_ yellow winged Monospar **Finished**

[VickersVandal]

I originally bought this kit for a Biggles build, later realised it was entirely wrong for the story and replaced it with a DH Dragonfly, and have since been hunting for inspiration for a scheme for it. Then I came across this picture:

http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/Adelaide%2 ... stcard.htm;

Sold!!!

So, I'll be building the Adelaide Airways Gal ST-25 Monospar VH-UUV using the Azur 1/72 kit

Box and sprue shot:



I just finished the Special Hobby Lockheed Orion mixed media kit, which is very similar with regard to resin parts and vac canopy, so it gives me more confidence with this. Can't wait to get into it!

[JamesPerrin]

Look forward to seeing this one as the Monospar has a high cute factor.

Can you and others please note as what can happen when you cross link images from other sites without permission! You should replace it with a link to their webpage.

[VickersVandal]

Right, it's gone midnight so it's officially the 1st of Feb in the important parts of the world



I thought I'd get the drop on you podeans , so since taking that shot I've stuck a wing together. Seemed like the right thing to do....



From the way it went together, I'm anticipating some cooperative behaviour from the kit (excepting that vacform canopy )

I'll post more progress pics once I've had a sleep and not crashed into a tree on my long drive tomorrow.

[VickersVandal]

Can you and others please note as what can happen when you cross link images from other sites without permission! You should replace it with a link to their webpage.

Hey James, sorry I didn't think about that

I'll fix it.

[VickersVandal]

Ok, so not exactly flying along but wings are together, Pobjoys on and getting some paint on the interior. There was a massive resin plug to sand off the cabin floor. Resin is fiddly.

I'm not absolutely convinced about the interior silver that the instructions call for but for the life of me I cannot find colour interior pics of a Monospar anywhere so silver it will have to be.

[VickersVandal]

This month is just punishing me
Modelling time has dropped to zilch. Hoping to get back to it after this weekend (meeting a work deadline!)
Just signing in to say this build hasn't dropped off the edge of the earth......yet.

[PaulBradley]

Just signing in to say this build hasn't dropped off the edge of the earth......yet.

Well, you are a lot closer to the edge of the Earth than most of us....

[Chuck Finley]

Ok, so not exactly flying along but wings are together, Pobjoys on and getting some paint on the interior. There was a massive resin plug to sand off the cabin floor. Resin is fiddly.

I'm not absolutely convinced about the interior silver that the instructions call for but for the life of me I cannot find colour interior pics of a Monospar anywhere so silver it will have to be.

Looking Good!

[VickersVandal]

Well, I got a little bit more done....



Vacform canopy cutting and fitting....... *twitch* .....

Sorry for the rubbish image. I need to hurl our camera off a cliff and buy one that works.

[Softscience]

Vacform canopy cutting and fitting....... *twitch* .....

But you did it! Awesome.

I got a big vac canopy job coming up. Any tips?

[VickersVandal]

Fake your own death and flee the country so it can't find you?....

I saw somewhere that filling it with blu tack was the way to go. It certainly helped. For this one I scribed the lines with a scalpel to use as a guide, then did the actual cutting with extremely fine sewing scissors. There are probably better methods out there though.

[Chuck Finley]

Well, I got a little bit more done....



Vacform canopy cutting and fitting....... *twitch* .....

Sorry for the rubbish image. I need to hurl our camera off a cliff and buy one that works.

Not bad, not bad. Vacuum canopies have often been a problem for me in the past.

[VickersVandal]

Canopy masking - more or less painful than rigging biplanes? Hard to say....

Anyway, it's ready to hit with the primer now

[Molly-new]

Nice masking job, canopies are my least favourite job.

[TobyC]

Nice masking job, canopies are my least favourite job.

Agreed on both counts. Rigging is a doddle by comparison