Crashpilot´s bench

[Crashpilot]

This is what I´m up to with this Airfix B-Mustang:

This time I used Tamiya tape for masking - seems, it pays off!
When I used Revell tape, there were always spots, where paint ran under the tape :-(
Now, lets wait, how it will look, once all tape is off....?

[Crashpilot]

it was worth it! apart from some little clean up with a toothpick, and one small frame line, where the paint chipped off,
just like that, it looks the part

[The Great Auk]

What a delight it is to see you posting again, Crash!

That's one very sharp, silver 'Stang!

You had a steady hand on that framing.

The Great Auk

[iggie]

I must say I prefer Tamiya tape to most others; less bleed through every time and easier to cut neatly too. For the amont an average build uses, it's not worth using cheap stuff

[Crashpilot]

I must say I prefer Tamiya tape to most others; less bleed through every time and easier to cut neatly too. For the amont an average build uses, it's not worth using cheap stuff

I had to learn that the hard way
No advance in my workbench rite now, too much other stuff to do :-(

[Crashpilot]

Guess who´s building here?

Hehehehe - those tell-tale missing prop blades say it all:
it must be Crashpilot!!
I really prefer kits, where the prop turns around a fixed axis, protruding from the front of the cowling!
Like in the Academy and Revell kits of the B/C Mustang
It so much helps reducing the risk for the blades to break off
--> cause you can mount the prop in the very end of the build!
....and glueing the prop to the cowling, is no option for me - I want the airscrew to turn!
Decalling started -
and it´s them stubborn MisterKrap decals again
Somehow I enjoy beating krappy decals into submission :-)
I had to puncture those blue/yellow stripes A LOT, to make them become flexible enuff to lay around
the curves
The model will take a few more days til fly-out - I only have little bench time right now.

[Crashpilot]

Some small advance:

This is one of the so-called "Yellow jackets" FG, the 361st.
Had to repair some of the "Bald Eagle" letters, not that the decal broke, but there was half a "G" and "L" missing
on the print
I hardly ever throw decals into the bin, only if the register is real bad!
Those blue-yellow stripes make this Stang look a bit different
The stripes on the rudder´s trim tab, I´ll paint myself:
too much hassle to make the decal wrap around the rudder´s edge!
Will mix some blue and yellow myself, to make the colours match the ones on the decals.
PS: Those "posh" looking gloves I got from my former workplace, they keep fatty fingers off the model -
less clean up needed before painting and varnishing

[iggie]

Nice work Crash

[Crashpilot]

...blue/yellow finished today:

[jssel]

Love that scheme. Shaping up nicely

[Crashpilot]

...more shots of the further advance:
I decided to paint the inv. stripes on the belly - the ones under the wings are decals:








...decalling almost finished:

[Crashpilot]

...finally found some spare time for the bench!
I want to scratch some pylon shackles the easy way, all that Airfix had to offer on this one, were some straight plastic pins on the pylons, that don´t look the part.
I mean these here:


So I needed some V-shaped plastic, and then I remembered, that on some Heller kits, (of which I got some), the scissors for the oleo legs of the main gear are supplied as little "V"s:

I´m "sacrificing" some more "gear scissors" from a to-be-cannibalized MisterKrap 109:



This won´t take long! So the Bald Eagle should fly over the finish line pretty soon :-)

[Crashpilot]

This must do, my eyes start to hurt from staring at little wee things!

[jssel]

Love the scheme. Nice project.

[Crashpilot]

Love the scheme. Nice project.

Thank you for your encouragement!
I´m not in the right mood for another canopy masking job right now, to prepare the Pony for the varnish,
- so I pulled another old acquaintance of mine out of the vault, one that´s quite advanced in it´s making:

Hard to believe it´s a Hasegawa kit,
it´s so raw!

Some filler and tipp-ex correction fluid for the small gaps.
On the right side of the fuse, the panel around the guns needed a lot of sanding:
it stood about half a mm higher than the area around it