A Civvy Tiggie **Finished**

[MDT]

I'm aiming to kick off building the lovely new Airfix Tiger Moth. I have the kit but my Civvy decals are hopefully on the way from Hannants.
Originally I was joining in with the Revell/MB Fury and I might still enter it if I have the inclination...

[JohnRatzenberger]

The Hannant's civvie TM sheet is great -- you'll want to build a number of them !!

[MDT]

The Hannant's civvie TM sheet is great -- you'll want to build a number of them !!

Finding the sheet probably swung it for me definitely! I'm likely to be going with the orange and silver scheme from 1935.

[jssel]

I have the RAF Trainer release so will be watching this closely.

[JohnRatzenberger]

All 3 sheets are great - highly recommended !

[MDT]

Quick overview of what I'm attempting to build...The lovely new Airfix Tiger Moth. Obligatory sprue shots below -
The rather nice Hannants decal sheet arrived promptly and I'm looking to go with the orange 1935 scheme at the top of the sheet -

[iggie]

It's a cracking little kit, and will look great in that scheme!

[MDT]

I'm impressed with the detail but after some dry fit testing things are going to get interesting! A bit more progress...

Prop also done but struggling to upload a decent picture at the moment.

[MDT]

as I have no idea if my chosen Tiger had a painted or varnished Prop I went with the latter-

[fredk]

Don't have any paint on the cockpit/fuselage surfaces which will be glued together.
The tolerances in this kit are very tight and even a thin layer of paint will give you a fuselage gap.

[fredk]

Hows it coming along?

[MDT]

Hows it coming along?

Slow and steady. Fuselage and Wings just drying. For the Orange I used Hu82 as a primer and used an acrylic gloss orange I had lying around...it worked quite well. For the Silver doped fabric Ive used Humbrol Metalcote (27001 I think).

Waiting for everything to dry for 24hrs and tomorrow prepping for decals. I will use Humbrol Clear for the first time as my last bottle of Johnsons finest is long gone.

[TimJ]

Coming along well.

[MDT]

Its finally just about a biplane -

The struts on this kit are beautifully fine but brittle. The carbine struts broke in three places and the whole set of the wings I just cannot get quite square so it's staying as it is!

[JohnRatzenberger]

The cabane struts are key to wing alignment - with them broken and without their "strength" it's tough to do.
You are right about being brittle - I particularly live(d) in fear of trimming the "jigs" from the interplane struts then sanding off the sprue nub.

Even when it went right I still had to "coerce" the wings square while glue was drying.

It's a good kit, but ....