Dollar's Vault

[Clashcityrocker]

I've got one of these Tomcats in the stash. It was a lot cheaper than the Tamiya 32nd scale kit, suited my cheapskate nature

Nigel

[dollar19]

Right you are Nigel!

[ShaunW]

Oh man that Tomcat must be pretty huge in 1/32nd, Dollar, but it's an impressive beast nonetheless

[dollar19]

The landing gear well are all closed up now. I had to scratch one for the nose gear, lost it some where along the the other landing gears parts. A little White out to fill some gaps and moving on to th making new face curtain pull rings for the bang seats. Also lost them.

[ShaunW]

Nice and tidy bit of work with the u/c doors, Dollar.

[Dazzled]

Nicely done on getting such a neat result....but what's with the lighter fluid?

It can't be that bad a model

[dollar19]

I used mineral spirits to wipe off the excess white out. Then the lighter fluid to get the final wipe down. It’s not as aggressive as the spirits.

[dollar19]

Ive just broken the seal on the box!




The sprues...







The clear parts such as they are, I really like the dimples in the side windows!





And the flash!! not too bad really. I've had a lot worse to clean up.







And last but not least the very nicely done Cartograf decals!



'm doing this as a shared build in the SST Shared Build forum. Just thought I'd stick it in here to keep it alive.

[dollar19]

Here's what I got to show for today.

[Ratch]

Impressive

[dollar19]

Thanks Ratch!I got some more time at the bench today. I did a lot of little fiddly bits, the landing gear doors that are closed on the ground were glued in place. And the flaperon actuators fairing were glued on too.




While that was drying I started hand painting the main landing gear components.





Then I tackled the engine pods. Got the turbine faces painted and glued in and then just slopped some flat black in the after end so it wouldnt look like the hollow box that it is when viewed from the back.





That's about all I'll get to do today, the wife and i are going to see a film and taking our grandson to see THE AVENGERS.

[ShaunW]

I missed the start of this one, Dollar. What a beautiful aircraft the Concorde is and what a great shame she no longer graces the skies. This looks to be a decent kit and I note offers the earlier and later BA schemes plus Revell has gone down the decal route for at least the passenger side windows which I prefer in 1/144th. I really don't like transparencies in this scale for airliners and nearly always I'll fill window apertures (including the flight deck) and use decals, often resorting to replacement after market items if necessary.

[dollar19]

getting time myself in hits and misses.
I do have the visor masked and attached to the nose

and the nose attached to to rest of the airframe.


and finally I shot a coat of gloss white on the whole bird.



Now to let that dry for a few days and we'll see about getting some decals placed.

[ShaunW]

Nicely done, Dollar, gloss white can be a tricky colour to apply in my experience and often I'll airbrush matt white, as I find that goes on better and then apply gloss clear coats to obtain the depth of shine that I'm after.

[dollar19]

I’m with you on that. All I had in hand was a rattle can of gloss white. I’m still going to hit it with a coat or two of Pledge. There are dull spots here and there that need fixing.