RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted June 24, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 24, 2019 (edited) Oh my word, have you seen this beauty. https://www.hobbyzone.biz/airscale/pe24cat.shtml Edited June 24, 2019 by gwrrob photo 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted June 24, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 24, 2019 40 minutes ago, gwrrob said: Oh my word, have you seen this beauty. https://www.hobbyzone.biz/airscale/pe24cat.shtml Yep Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 2 hours ago, gwrrob said: Oh my word, have you seen this beauty. https://www.hobbyzone.biz/airscale/pe24cat.shtml Good grief! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted June 24, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 24, 2019 32 minutes ago, railroadbill said: Good grief! More images on the Airscale website... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted June 25, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 25, 2019 16 hours ago, toboldlygo said: More images on the Airscale website... What I find astonishing is the availability of an aftermarket item before the Airfix kit was out. Someone must have had inside knowledge. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted June 25, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 25, 2019 2 hours ago, gwrrob said: What I find astonishing is the availability of an aftermarket item before the Airfix kit was out. Someone must have had inside knowledge. I believe they were given an assembled test shot of the cockpit to work with 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted June 26, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 26, 2019 Meanwhile in the railway world... Turntable finished for now - final weathering will be done once it's in place on my client's layout.. While I'm waiting for a new set* of HMRS Pressfix Sheet 2 LMS coach and loco lettering to renumber 8 coaches. In between weathering the other 6 (which didn't need renumbering) - I spent a few hours on the Tiffy. * Transfers where so far out of register you couldn't make out the coach numbers.. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 On 25/06/2019 at 18:12, toboldlygo said: I believe they were given an assembled test shot of the cockpit to work with The nickel silver etchings look very impressive, but I'm now wondering if the cockpit instrument panels would have actually been in bare metal on a full sized aircraft. In a factory while being manufactured, perhaps, but pics or preserved aircraft seem to have black painted panels? There's usually an exception I guess. :-) There's a very short review of the Hellcat kit here, http://finescale.com/videos/new-product-rundown/2019/06/new-product-rundown-161-video-review-moebius-kelvin?utm_source=Yesmail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=News0_FSM_190626_00000 at the very end of the clip, which does show all the sprues. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted June 27, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2019 On 26/06/2019 at 22:23, railroadbill said: The nickel silver etchings look very impressive, but I'm now wondering if the cockpit instrument panels would have actually been in bare metal on a full sized aircraft. In a factory while being manufactured, perhaps, but pics or preserved aircraft seem to have black painted panels? There's usually an exception I guess. :-) There's a very short review of the Hellcat kit here, http://finescale.com/videos/new-product-rundown/2019/06/new-product-rundown-161-video-review-moebius-kelvin?utm_source=Yesmail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=News0_FSM_190626_00000 at the very end of the clip, which does show all the sprues. Looking at the instructions, the colour call out for the instrument panel is black on the Hellcat - Airscale's instructions call for it to be painted black too. They did the photo's for show, however they have got a panel wrong 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 Um I guess if the panels are going to be painted black anyway then might as well use the original plastic parts... Just that the bare metal looked impressive! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted June 27, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2019 22 minutes ago, railroadbill said: Um I guess if the panels are going to be painted black anyway then might as well use the original plastic parts... Just that the bare metal looked impressive! I've got Airscale decals for 4 1/24th scale kits in my stash - I'm waiting to see what the etch cockpit looks like all painted up, before I consider purchasing it 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 Airscale look like they do some good bits in other scales as well. Thanks for heads up on them. I now wonder if nickle silver etch would look good with heavily worn and scratched black paint on the panel. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted June 28, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 28, 2019 If you go on You Tube and search Nigel's modelling bench you will see daily video builds of two different versions of the new Hellcat. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted June 28, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 28, 2019 1 hour ago, gwrrob said: If you go on You Tube and search Nigel's modelling bench you will see daily video builds of two different versions of the new Hellcat. Here's the direct link - Nigel's Modelling Bench 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted June 29, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 29, 2019 In between weathering coaches and waiting for a new sheet of HMRS transfers to arrive. I more or less finished the Fuselage for the Typhoon (just some photo-etch to add). And this kit arrived 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 That Fairey Seafox is a bit of a rarity! Personally think Matchbox were well moulded when they came out. And some still going - the corvette was innovative for being such a large kit. Got that one, and also working on 1:32 Spitfire mk24 which came in a Revell box. (Which is basic compared to what can be produced now, ie Hellcat). Haven't started the 1:32 Lysander yet. So - be interesting to see how the seafox comes out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted July 1, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 1, 2019 10 hours ago, railroadbill said: That Fairey Seafox is a bit of a rarity! Personally think Matchbox were well moulded when they came out. And some still going - the corvette was innovative for being such a large kit. Got that one, and also working on 1:32 Spitfire mk24 which came in a Revell box. (Which is basic compared to what can be produced now, ie Hellcat). Haven't started the 1:32 Lysander yet. So - be interesting to see how the seafox comes out. The Seafox is quite rare - it's only be released once by Revell, it's a bit of bogie kit for me - as both previous ones I've built have ended up in the bin in failure, with modern glues & tools it should go together ok (hopefully). This one is getting aftermarket decals - as the originals are u/s. I may well have a day or two on the Corvette either this week or next- if all goes well. Getting the decking all removed (where need), the filling all done & rubbed down & possibly primed. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted July 3, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 3, 2019 Meanwhile in the coach works... Oh and this slipped in... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted July 4, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 4, 2019 Few bit's arrived today. Airscale Hellcat cockpit.. And a set of Xtradecal FAA Transfers which include replacement for the Seafox 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted July 4, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 4, 2019 I was feeling a bit coached out this morning, I decided to get on with the Typhoon - oh boy the kits got more fit problems (a 1/16th inch gap the starboard wing root), so back in the box she went. So I decided to make a start on the Eduard Tempest V - fortunately this kit is an absolute beauty to build. Taking a slight departure from the instructions, I started on the radiator assembly.. I used the fuselage halves to ensure the assembly lined up properly. I added a few detail parts to the fuselage and then braved the hot house of the paintshop... Once down from the paintshop I did the detail painting to the radiator assembly and fitted the front grill (correct for the variant I'm doing) That's most of page 5 of the instructions done (apart from fitting the cockpit & gluing the sides together) 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbowilts Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 Good to see someone else whose reading of instructions is like Eric Morecambe’s piano playing, “all the right notes but not necessarily in the right place” Tim T Modelling South Wales branches in EM 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted July 5, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 5, 2019 (edited) 11 hours ago, timbowilts said: Good to see someone else whose reading of instructions is like Eric Morecambe’s piano playing, “all the right notes but not necessarily in the right place” Tim T Modelling South Wales branches in EM Funny you should mention Eric - my late father got mistaken for him, more than once Meanwhile you'll be pleased to hear I went back to the beginning to start the cockpit... .. okay after gluing the radiator assembly in place in the fuselage Kit goes together like a dream btw. Edited July 5, 2019 by toboldlygo edit text 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 "Funny you should mention your father being mistaken for Eric Morecambe because I've often been mistaken too", "For Eric Morecambe?" "No, I've just often been mistaken". (apologies to Spike Milligan). That tempest does look rather ace... 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted July 5, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 5, 2019 2 hours ago, railroadbill said: That tempest does look rather ace... An there's more... I've left off most of the photo-etch, as most of it won't be seen in a very dark cockpit.. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted July 6, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 6, 2019 (edited) A brief interlude from the Tempest - here's another batch of coaches, all but the Maunsell have been renumbered & weathered. A couple in OO gauge LMS Dining Car 238 (a Dapol - Hornby Mix) LMS Period I Composite (Mainline) P4 Gauge LMS Period I Composites (Mainline) SR Maunsell (Low Window) Corridor Composite. Edited July 6, 2019 by toboldlygo to add text 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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