Beany's Lastminute.com Big MiG - Revell 1/48 Foxbat
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Re: Beany's Lastminute.com Big MiG - Revell 1/48 Foxbat
Disaster - the instrument panel decal broke up so I salvaged what I could and layered it with a coat of Klear. The side panels of the cockpit tub then looked very bare, so I decided to riff a bit with some old printer labels and some felt pens that were to hand - a red and a black CD marker and a silver and a gold gel pen.
Once drawn, the labels are just pealed off of their backing and stuck to the cockpit tub. I may either attech them with PVA glue or seal them with Klear just to be sure they don't peal off in the future.
These are impressionistic and look much better from a distance and are only intended to give the suggestion of knobs and buttons on a panel. I also daubed the pens onto the disgraced decal on the I/P to make it look a bit busier. The seat will still require belts painting on but after than I will shut up the fuselage halves and stick the canopy in place - closed - so most of this work will be obscured anyway!
I/P before...
...and after
Time check - 17:11 as I type this - nearly 6 hours into this 24 hour build.
Once drawn, the labels are just pealed off of their backing and stuck to the cockpit tub. I may either attech them with PVA glue or seal them with Klear just to be sure they don't peal off in the future.
These are impressionistic and look much better from a distance and are only intended to give the suggestion of knobs and buttons on a panel. I also daubed the pens onto the disgraced decal on the I/P to make it look a bit busier. The seat will still require belts painting on but after than I will shut up the fuselage halves and stick the canopy in place - closed - so most of this work will be obscured anyway!
I/P before...
...and after
Time check - 17:11 as I type this - nearly 6 hours into this 24 hour build.
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Re: Beany's Lastminute.com Big MiG - Revell 1/48 Foxbat
Liking the build so far.....and there's now't wrong with a big'un
Best wishes
Jim
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing
"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
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If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing
"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
Re: Beany's Lastminute.com Big MiG - Revell 1/48 Foxbat
Very nice rescue there and a new idea learned. Looks real convincing and once closed up in the fuselage will be fine I am sure.
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Re: Beany's Lastminute.com Big MiG - Revell 1/48 Foxbat
Thank you for the encouragement thus far gents.
I touched in some buckles onto the belts with the silver gel pen. These pens are magnificent and appear to "write" on anything - the paint for the belts was less than 30 minutes old when I dabbed the pen onto it - the joys of the Blitzbau eh?!
So having competed the tub I stuck it and the front u/c floor into the fuselage half.
I soon discovered on trying to mate the fuselage halves that the u/c floor was in fact back to front - being wider at the front than the back, but fortunately the Contacta was still tacky enough to effect a rescue and get it in the right way around before it was too late. The nose cone was then added and thus the fuselage front is complete. New listening material also on display = Yes ~ Tales From Topographic Oceans - double CD + the usual remastered extras bunged on to fill the CD means I should be good for another couple of hours
Enjoying this a bit more now that real progress is apparently being made!
Cheers
Al.
I touched in some buckles onto the belts with the silver gel pen. These pens are magnificent and appear to "write" on anything - the paint for the belts was less than 30 minutes old when I dabbed the pen onto it - the joys of the Blitzbau eh?!
So having competed the tub I stuck it and the front u/c floor into the fuselage half.
I soon discovered on trying to mate the fuselage halves that the u/c floor was in fact back to front - being wider at the front than the back, but fortunately the Contacta was still tacky enough to effect a rescue and get it in the right way around before it was too late. The nose cone was then added and thus the fuselage front is complete. New listening material also on display = Yes ~ Tales From Topographic Oceans - double CD + the usual remastered extras bunged on to fill the CD means I should be good for another couple of hours
Enjoying this a bit more now that real progress is apparently being made!
Cheers
Al.
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I just realised why I've been humming bits of this album all day - I've just taken my sweater off and saw what I put on when I got dressed in the dark at stupid o'clock this morning...
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I am now thinking that it will be too cold in the shed to spray this model, for both me and for a good drying temperature for the paint, so I decided to apply a first very thinned coat of XF-19 Sky Grey with a brush to all of the main parts. It is apparent that the glue hasn't totally dried on some seams so there will be some filing and retouching of paint tomorrow no doubt. I forgot to include the bleeding phone in the photo again but the time is 19:21 as I type and I'm breaking for something to eat now.
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Good idea leaving the shed. It's unlikely you'd ever be able to get that thing out of the door once it's fully assembled.
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I suspect the shed would fit inside it!flakmonkey wrote:Good idea leaving the shed. It's unlikely you'd ever be able to get that thing out of the door once it's fully assembled.
Best wishes
Jim
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"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
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"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
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These are only marginally - and I mean by a matter of a couple of millimetres - shorter and narrower than a 1/48 Su-27. And that's a hell of a big model, I know because I built the Academy one. Think two 1/48 Beaufighters end to end. Then add an inch for the spaniggie wrote:I suspect the shed would fit inside it!flakmonkey wrote:Good idea leaving the shed. It's unlikely you'd ever be able to get that thing out of the door once it's fully assembled.
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Everything has had a second coat of XF-19 Sky Grey. Side panels have been fitted to the forward fuselage sides. Rear end has been assembled after torso sides were vigourously scraped with a scalpel to remove the join lines - couldn't be bothered to start mucking about with filler.
Wheel seams have been filed down and painting of the tyres started. Missiles have been hand painted in XF-2 Matt White as an undercoat.
Engine nozzles painted Revell Aqua No. 91 Steel then given a wash of the Aqua No.6 Tar Black I was using on the tyres.
Going to take a break now and watch a bit of TV with the missus.
Cheers
Al.
Wheel seams have been filed down and painting of the tyres started. Missiles have been hand painted in XF-2 Matt White as an undercoat.
Engine nozzles painted Revell Aqua No. 91 Steel then given a wash of the Aqua No.6 Tar Black I was using on the tyres.
Going to take a break now and watch a bit of TV with the missus.
Cheers
Al.
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Re: Beany's Lastminute.com Big MiG - Revell 1/48 Foxbat
Enjoy the TV. Making good progress here.
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Love the cockpit work mate and well done so far. Hope you enjoyed the TV.
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Had a quick hour of TV - started watching Trapped from On Demand - an Icelandic murder mystery. Carrie and I are huge fans of Scandawegian Noir as we call it - loved The Bridge, Arne Dahl, and all incantations of Wallender etc.
Back to the build and this one is really beginning to fight me now, to the point where I've had to use CA glue to get a good join between the front fuselage and the main torso = ordinary glue just didn't seem to be setting and certainly not quick enough for a Blitzbau.
The side intakes look like they will be a world of pain tomorrowe and I just can't face them tonight so I'm calling it quits at midnight and going to bed.
I'm not expecting to finish in time now but will carry on to see how long this build actually takes.
Tire finished in Tar Black.
A second coat of XF-2 on the missiles - gloss coat and detailing going on tomorrow.
Night, night everybody.
Back to the build and this one is really beginning to fight me now, to the point where I've had to use CA glue to get a good join between the front fuselage and the main torso = ordinary glue just didn't seem to be setting and certainly not quick enough for a Blitzbau.
The side intakes look like they will be a world of pain tomorrowe and I just can't face them tonight so I'm calling it quits at midnight and going to bed.
I'm not expecting to finish in time now but will carry on to see how long this build actually takes.
Tire finished in Tar Black.
A second coat of XF-2 on the missiles - gloss coat and detailing going on tomorrow.
Night, night everybody.
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Re: Beany's Lastminute.com Big MiG - Revell 1/48 Foxbat
Good night Al.
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Re: Beany's Lastminute.com Big MiG - Revell 1/48 Foxbat
Impressed you're going for 1/48 in a blitz.
You're defo off to a good start here.
Plenty of great series lately from Sweden and Norway. Fjallbacka Murders, Johan Falk, Eyewitness, Undercover etc.
You're defo off to a good start here.
Plenty of great series lately from Sweden and Norway. Fjallbacka Murders, Johan Falk, Eyewitness, Undercover etc.
Confused as always, and somewhere in hiding on the Scandinavian peninsula...