A Colorful Moth ** Finished **

[JohnRatzenberger]

Mine will be the new-tool Airfix Tiger Moth - the civil version not the "uncivil" military one.

I have the Eduard photoetch set, mostly interior bits, and the Xtradecal Tiger Moth decal sheet #3. I have a set of Kora floats but don't think I'll use them.



The focal point of my scheme, and I stress "my" because it won't be an existing Moth, is the sun burst for the upper wing but otherwise the colors & markings aren't settled yet. I do intend to attempt a brightly polished cowl. I am trying for bright & cheery, not garish ....

We shall see, I have no creativity or artistic ability ...

[Stuart]

Looking forward to seeing this build John - I do mean to get this kit so it'll be good to see what you make of it. I love tiggies, I had a really good flight in one once at dusk in the winter - best half an hour I ever spent in an aircraft.

Cheers

Stuart

[JohnRatzenberger]

I got a start, but have been in meetings the last two days and have one more day to go. So I'll be back this weekend.

I shaved out the interior detail (to be replaced by Eduard) and then painted the interior colors - and that is it. Frankly the Eduard detail doesn't add much and I could have left it alone ....

[JohnRatzenberger]

OK, finally, the GBL bringing up the rear ....

I have the interior done. Having put the Eduard detail in, I can definitely say it isn't worth the effort, except maybe the seat belts.





I have a bit of touch-up paint to do then the fuselage gets closed up and I can move along ... finally !

[PaulBradley]

Nice start, John.

[TimJ]

Nice work on the cockpit.

[JohnRatzenberger]

At last, something bright & cheery. I have decided on orange wings for my Moth, possibly tail surfaces also. I played around and came up with a nice looking mix of 2 parts Vallejo Model Color 70.910 Orange Red and 1 part Vallejo Game Color 72.008 Orange Fire.



Tomorrow I'll get the tops painted and maybe a gloss coat on. The plan is to use the yellow(ish) sunburst from the decal sheet on top. If the sunburst doesn't work, the decal may become the template for a coat of paint instead. Once I sort that then I'll worry about the serial under-wing.

I do not have the fuselage scheme yet - I am thinking a blue.

[splash]

It's looking very colourful.

Splash

[JohnRatzenberger]

I am making a pig's ear trying to gloss coat my wings. I'll attempt to rescue them tomorrow.

I have selected a Vallejo Game Color Magic Blue for the fuselage, at least initially. I need to see it with proper glossy orange wings to decide.

[AndrewR]

That's a nice shade of blue. It should contrast nicely with the orange.

[JohnRatzenberger]

And here we are muddling along.



Fuselage is together, adding tail & lower wing and stuff so I can try another gloss coat. One of the tail struts was short/broken but I made another and you can't tell. Also now starting to work on the cowl.

[jssel]

Nice, John. Really like the interior fabric impression.

[PaulBradley]

Goodness - that'll stand out from the crowd...!

[splash]

I like it, that really is Bright & Cheery.

Regards Splash

[JohnRatzenberger]

Here we are, partly assembled, painted, and all glossed up.



I had all sorts of problems with gloss on this and it really isn't that good up close, streaks underneath and so on.

I need to slow up a bit on this and give most of my attention to the Paper GB, but I do want to keep moving along .... I have sunburst decals for the upper wing and for the fin/rudder but I'm going to try them on the stabilizer instead. We'll see where all this goes ....