What's on the Bench? 2021

[Lee Drennen]

This made its way to the bench last night did quite a bit of work on it. Hope tonight I’ll be done with it and ready for paint.

 

[Ian M]

At the moment I will have to say filler mostly. Held together with bits of plastic.

Fit wise its OK the deck was a bit squiffy and resulted in a high one corner, low in an other. The big problem is sink marks!!! Everywhere that there is a rib, detail, connecting place on the back side of the part there is a sink mark! Surprisingly hardly any flash so that's a good thing. Must be a Monday morning kit where the tool had not warmed up. The other one I built was a great little kit and was built with out the use of filler!
If anyone is in doubt its the 1972 Airfix 73 ft. Vosper torpedo boat.

 

[Tim Marlow]

Coming along well though Ian, despite the issues.

 

[spanner570]

Strange. The Airfix Vosper I made a year ago was a great fit, with no issues.

As you write, your's must be "A Monday morning kit"

 

[Ian M]

Strange. The Airfix Vosper I made a year ago was a great fit, with no issues.

As you write, your's must be "A Monday morning kit"

Funny that 'cause it was one I bought from you together with the Rescue launch. .
As I wrote the fit is OK it was just all the sink marks! Every single part. Sink marks! As for the poor crew... don't think they will survive. One has more hole than bum, another looks like he has been shot in his appendage with a large calibre flak shell...
Never let a few gaps get in my way. Just takes more time to get to the fun part....

 

[spanner570]

Funny that 'cause it was one I bought from you together with the Rescue launch. .

Luck of the draw I guess!

 

[Allen Dewire]

Having to take a break from my feeble attempts to paint the face of lutz the loader for my Maultier, I kept hearing a voice from the stash saying "Me, Me Me!!!"........I gave in and pulled out the Fly 1/32 Ar 234B-2/B-2N kit and started cleaning up the parts. It's a limited run kit and I wanted to see how the parts fit together as there are no locating pins at all. Molding is very decent and some of the attachment points are large. Lots of resin and some etch too. So here's what we got,



It's quite a big puppy and I'm going to need a bigger mat. You can see the the resin parts come in 3 colors and is very nicely detailed. The parachutes (dark gray) for the rocket assist pods on the left are finely cast with super cloth detail and straps. On the cockpit parts, even the cabling is molded in. A better shot,


Not many ejector pin marks and they are all on the inside of the parts. Also note the lack of locating pins/holes,



Crisp details on the resin and clean up was very easy too. To make the night fighter version, you need to hack out a chunk of the fuselage for the radar operator station's window,



There are no marks on the inside, so you have to saw the opening in the fuselage panel lines outside. JLC saw blade to the rescue and an hour and a half worth of careful sawing. I must have done it pretty good and with a little scraping and sanding, we had this,



Only the oval part will be clear as the rest is the frame and will be painted. So far, so good and the fit is surprisingly good for a short run kit. On to the cockpit......................

Prost
Allen

 

[Mark1]

Neat job with the hole making.

 

[Allen Dewire]

Thanks Mark, it was a little nerve wracking and I really did surprise myself that it came out as good as it did. Still have to drill out the porthole windows on each side though.....................

 

[Ian M]

Nowt like taking a razor saw to a nice new kit. Focuses the mind.
I have a 1/32 spitfire conversion in the pipeline. Cutting the fuselage up is always 'exciting'.

 

[Mini Me]

Nice bit of "Hackery" there Allen.......I'm just curious, how thick is that fuselage? In the photo, it appears to be an eighth of an inch! Small wonder it took so long to cut through it. You must have the patience of a Saint. All else looking Tops Sir!! Rick H.

 

[Allen Dewire]

Thanks Ian, I hold the saw blade in my fingers and go slow. The only precaution was not to drink a cup of coffee before I did it. Can't wait to see you chop up your Spitfire....

Thanks too Rick, As it's a limited run kit, the plastic is thicker than most. It's about 2mm on the fuselage where I cut. Just went slow and used the fine tooth side. The worst was doing the horizontal cut, but I got lucky.......

Prost
Allen

 

[Ian M]

Thanks Ian, I hold the saw blade in my fingers and go slow. The only precaution was not to drink a cup of coffee before I did it. Can't wait to see you chop up your Spitfire....

I would not even pick up the saw without at least to cups! It will be a while yet, so stand at ease. Lol

 

[SteveH]

its finally finished

Just need to put it on a base and off to the finished kits for 2021 thread

All 2 of them

Regards

Steve H

 

[Mark1]

1/32 gladiator now just waiting for the postman to bring some paint.

1/72 mig 21 pfm being put together in the meantime ,etch seat belts are fun at that scale!

 

[Lee Drennen]

its finally finished

Just need to put it on a base and off to the finished kits for 2021 thread

All 2 of them

Regards

Steve H

Looks good Steve.

 

[Jack L]

Nice to be painting with a bit of colour for a change!

 

[Tim Marlow]

Nice Jack. Wondered why you picked those colours in your new acquisition post….now I know Are they Haradrim? The second one looks like a crew member from one of Sam’s oliphants…..

 

[Mini Me]

Nice Jack. Wondered why you picked those colours in your new acquisition post….now I know Are they Haradrim? The second one looks like a crew member from one of Sam’s oliphants…..

Yeah Tim, I thought he was doing his fingers and toes!

 

[rtfoe]

Hi, I had to paint the deck lines for the Knox with the help of masking tape and a free turning compass with attached rolling pen for the circle.



Also managed to add tail stabilisers using plastic strips. Painting after this.



Cheers,
Richard