Fly Me to the Moon - BLAST OFF (I mean Finished)

[DavidWomby]

Thanks.

I've got all the new decals on now and it looks pretty good BUT now I see I put the original hull stripe decals on too far up from the tail!!!!!! Compare my recent pic and the one of the DisneyLand original.



David

[splash]

Your stripes are correct it was Disney who got it wrong

On you bench you have a copy of Aviation News, is that an artical about Royal Naval Wessex helicopters in Norway?

[DavidWomby]

Sorry, Splash, it isn't. It's a cover photo only, no article, of an RAF Wessex at Mount Olympus, Cyprus. I dug the magazine out as a friend wanted the scale plans of the HP Marathon of all things!!!

As to the stripes: I like the way you think.

David

[philp]

Nice save with the decals.

Since you are building a "working" version (you are still doing the take off thing right?) there obviously would be some differences from the display model Marketing gave to Disney.

[iggie]

That sounds like a horror film.....
"When Decals Go Bad.....just when you thought it was safe to put a matt coat on! " or, "In the modelling room, no one can hear you scream!!"
Fingers crossed this time!

[DavidWomby]

WOW

Rightly or wrongly, I decided I had to take those incorrectly positioned stripes off the lower hull. I was going to use Solvaset to soften them when I remembered a tip I read years ago. So I rubbed down some masking tape on the decals, pulled it up and the decals came with it. Less than a minute and they are all off and no paint damage!!!

Moving on to applying my homemade replacements in a more correct position and get back to making the base.

David

David

[DavidWomby]

So here it is with all the decals on. The lower hull stripes are still slightly higher than they should be but that's so they match the stripes that I also misplaced on the landing legs !!! (What a tale of goofing up my positioning of these stripes has been.) The stripes also do not lay properly on this double curved section of the hull so they look slightly off when examined closely but we're not going to examine them closely any more, are we?



Overall, I am pretty happy with it now. There's some minor touchups and then I need to paint the landing pads and supports and assemble the landing legs and do the base. I think I'll make it in time (fingers crossed).

David

[Molly-new]

I rubbed down some masking tape on the decals, pulled it up and the decals came with it. Less than a minute and they are all off and no paint damage!!!

Nice tip, I will have to try to remember that for future reference.

Good to see that you are still progressing with this one, it seems to have fought you all the way but I reckon you are winning.

[iggie]

Great save!

And a great tip about the decals/masking tape

[Stuart]

That's looking super - despite the fight you're whipping this one into shape!

[DavidWomby]

So last night I reglazed the cockpit and did the portholes all with white glue. Today I tested that the legs all fit within the diameter of a CD to ensure compliance without the aid of the infamous laser.

I'm now on to final assembly but photobucket is down so no pics until it recovers.

David

[splash]

We look forward to seeing the photos.

[DavidWomby]

It's actually finished but I still can't post the pics.

Very frustrating when I actually finished a GB entry before the last day!!!

David

[Stuart]

It's actually finished but I still can't post the pics.

Very frustrating when I actually finished a GB entry before the last day!!!

David

Same situation with me!

[DavidWomby]

First some proof that it really does fit on a CD - just.



I had to shave a tiny bit off the end of the jacks that push out the landing legs. So no laser surgery needed after all!

David