Greg's Chipmunk. ** FINISHED**

[Gregers]

One Chipmunk in the early RAF colours. Will be OOB with a few improvements.

All the best

Greg

[Gregers]

Hi Folks.

Box shot of a still sealed Airfix Chipmunk box. Opening and hopefully start will be tomorrow (or rather later today, it's just after midnight).
Paint will probably be OOB unless I find something nice in my decal bank.

All the best.

Greg

[Arcwelder]

Box scheme is very smart anyway. Provided the decals have aged well, I guess!

[Gregers]

I'll find out tonight when I open it up. The seal is still on the box. I know I have a rather nice Mike Grant decal sheet for Chipmunks so I may use a scheme from that.

All the best.

Greg

[lancfan]

I have spare BBMF decals from my build if you need them Greg.

David.

[Gregers]

Cheers for the offer. PM sent.
Off into the loft. With luck I'll get a bit of building time in tonight to make up for me missing the Newark show .

All the best.

Greg

[Gregers]

Work has started on the Chipmunk. Pics have been taken but my camera batteries are flat so I have stopped modelling so update pics can be taken and uploaded. I have had a sanding session with the rivets and done a little re-scribing. I used my scriber to open out the rear of the cowling. I totally hosed up trying to get the rib effect on the wings but that's an easy fix. I'll explain more when I get the pics done. I need to go to the Aeroventure Aircraft museum this week so hopefully I will get some walk round pics of their Chipmunk.

All the best.

Greg

[Gregers]

Ok Folks. Pic time. Sorry for the delay.

Obligatory sprue shot






Bracing in rear of canopy and rough test of the instrument panels.




last pic taken, more has been done after this.


Enhancements include instrument panels, Rear cockpit canopy bracing, opening up the rear of the cowlings and re-scribing cowlings, Track in rear fuselage spine for canopy runner, dropping the flaps, Blade aerial and anti spin strakes on rear fuselage. 'stall'strips on inner leading edge. Slicing the canopy so it can be posed open.
I've decided to do it in the OOB red and white scheme.

All the best.

Greg

[iggie]

Looks good so far. I have two in the stash so will be taking care to follow this closely!

[Gregers]

Cheers Iggie. I'll try and get better pics taken but I have had to use my old digi camera and that thing is older than most of my jokes - and that takes some doing Hopefully I will gwt more done tonight. I'll post some reference pics below, please feel free to copy them.

All the best.

Greg

[Gregers]

Just letting you guys know I haven't forgotten about this build. I'm working on it now and taking pics which I will upload shortly.

All the best.

Greg

[Gregers]

A little late but here are the promised pics.














All in all an enjoyable build and the best effort I have ever done with the Airfix Chipmunk. Given more time I would have done a better job though, including scribing the wing ribs where they have fabric covering. Also adding internal structure to the cockpit sides.

All the best.

Greg

[Purplethistle]

Nice one Skipper, I know what a s*d the Chipmunk is to mask!

[Gregers]

Tell me about it. After three attempts and red paint leaking under the tape on each one I gave up and hand painted it . touch up's will be done at a later time

All the best.

Greg

[iggie]

Bleeder or not, it's a lovely looking little thing Greg and well modelled!