All done and dusted - KB's teeny tiny Blitzbauchen

[Kevan Bailey]

Not sure which day, but certainly very soon: Revell 1/44 Tempest and FW190 Gleichzeitig Blitzbau! Well, it's a bit of a cheat only doing one teeny tiny aeroplane.

Here's the plan:

1. Stick them both together
2. Let them dry (a bit)
3. Paint them.

What do you reckon? Five hours?

[jssel]

Possible with no snags

[fredk]

and lots of, lots of fillers

[Kevan Bailey]

Yeah, I know, they look horrible, don't they?

[mjatx]

Having built a few of the Revell "Micro Wings" I can say that although the kits are 1/144th in scale, the gaps are more like 1/48th scale. Still they make good Blitz subjects. Looking forward to it!

[ShaunW]

I've never built any of these little 1/144th fighters from Revell but your Blitz battleplan sounds about right to me, best of luck!

[fredk]

Any plans yet?
or have we put you off with tales of Grand Canyon sized gaps?

oooh, I know, you are out scouring all the LMS for tubes of fillers........

[Kevan Bailey]

Could even be tonight, Fred. I'm aware that I'm running out of time; I'm off on Saturday and I'm out on Tuesday Wednesday and Friday.............

And I have a Zero to finish off, but that's not as bad as it sounds as I've been working on that but not updating my thread.

[Kevan Bailey]

I'm going to kick this off at 6.30. Here's the bits:

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WiFi's dodgy out in the Hobby Eyrie tonight, so I'll post every hour on the half hour.

[splash]

This will be fun to watch.

With a cunning plan like yours what can possibly go wrong.

[Kevan Bailey]

Everything!



These little kits are so full of flash. Nothing fits. It's a filler fest. But at the end of the first hour the bits have been cut off, stuck together and..... filled, to some extent. I've left the Tempest prop so you can see the state of some parts.





I'm knocking off for an hour now as they need to dry a bit, and the inhabitants of the Bailey compound need to eat. Corned beef hash, I think.

[Kevan Bailey]

A couple more pictures of how horrible they are.

[iggie]

Crikey! They are a tad rough about the extremities!
I wonder how many budding modellers have been put off for life by those little beauties?
Hope the corned beef hash was good

[splash]

I hope we get to see photos of the corned beef hash

That's quick progress with these two.

[jssel]

Didn't realize these were so rough around the edges.