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Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Aero-space => Topic started by: uncle les on October 27, 2014, 08:30:39 PM

Title: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: uncle les on October 27, 2014, 08:30:39 PM: Saturday, One box of 1/32 FW bits and a spare Beaufighter.
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/1655837_10205045905889574_4539936342068645502_n.jpg?oh=9e47de9ab18bf08433c9a3dc6c158c22&oe=54EDFEF2&__gda__=1424985803_46924e3a79ed806aa2e47ba4d2e6c789)
Sunday, some masking and some serious Tamiya putty huffing
(https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/1902954_10205045905609567_4978248157663216817_n.jpg?oh=5de0c9de1a3fe0365b94fdf5f9dec69c&oe=54EA0432)
and having been called out on Sunday after the obligatory visit to Pt Cook for a Corsair viewing making Sunday night a bust...
Monday night ( now)
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10429397_10205045906049578_6217912733766866571_n.jpg?oh=c098e90cc234ee00987bd0449340ef9c&oe=54F2EE4D&__gda__=1425209394_ecb8ca90f1799821f3ce533e81306c1d)

Note the inspirational sideviews... thanks Apophenia

Bring on Tuesday night after work ( not on standby.. yessss)
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: GTX_Admin on October 28, 2014, 02:08:59 AM: Oh yeah!
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: FAAMAN on October 28, 2014, 11:55:52 AM: Whoa!! Awesome!! 8)
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: Volkodav on October 28, 2014, 12:09:56 PM: Got an Airfix Foche-Wulf Fw190A-8 to do something similar, the difference being you have actually built something and, as usual, it's superb. :)
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: Buzzbomb on October 29, 2014, 07:07:07 AM: Wow, interesting build with such a simple modification it looks quite right.
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: uncle les on October 29, 2014, 09:04:30 PM: Nearly there...
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/1891244_10205060082163972_4970698570077296128_n.jpg?oh=95329b4cb3ae7ff0814598005f7d123b&oe=54E46B08&__gda__=1424329777_b68d3a3b82e38c90e43774e8b821e349)
After the decals dry I'll do a little matting down and touch ups..
(https://scontent-b-hkg.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/532919_10205060081363952_8642957447440158605_n.jpg?oh=bc800c89fd077d64741b88cb26ad0f8b&oe=54DC94C9)
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10473176_10205060081803963_1689014569490984234_n.jpg?oh=4549d76eee93a720a1fdbe5f5b300e9c&oe=54AA9C0E&__gda__=1420613400_4f36273cb8806472a5f8849da349cbdd)
(https://scontent-b-hkg.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10418973_10205060082403978_126515191654180035_n.jpg?oh=ea4f01c9aa7c82b809acdccce597d819&oe=54E7D933)
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: GTX_Admin on October 30, 2014, 02:16:11 AM: Damn! You make it look so easy...
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: FAAMAN on October 30, 2014, 04:53:07 PM: Wot E said!!! 8) 8)
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: Old Wombat on October 31, 2014, 12:41:13 AM: Nice one, Les! :)

I'm going to be having a shot at building this variant of the Sea Wallaby;

(http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=351.0;attach=8933;image)

It'll probably be the next job after I finish the M41AS & HMBLT (so, in 3 to 6 months, if I'm lucky).

I have the kits to be bashed, courtesy of the SAPMA Expo, & this build has encouraged me to build it sooner than I intended. :D
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: uncle les on November 01, 2014, 11:47:04 AM: Quote from: Old Wombat on October 31, 2014, 12:41:13 AM

I have the kits to be bashed, courtesy of the SAPMA Expo, & this build has encouraged me to build it sooner than I intended. :D

Nice - glad to be of service !
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: uncle les on November 02, 2014, 11:42:18 AM: Last pics - now I really should fashion a pitot tube so the pilot knows when he's about to stall....
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/1908446_10205085798406862_4593749119142299964_n.jpg?oh=a6d1c540b3d042bccfac67264b001377&oe=54E44D4B&__gda__=1424397564_78a2a385fe049d6f415b834b48cc51d8)
(https://scontent-a-nrt.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10431570_10205085798846873_2086136004395561831_n.jpg?oh=e7ed5dc36937dbdd3fad35807746cf2b&oe=54EC2A6D)
(https://scontent-a-nrt.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10402757_10205085798606867_238978808384997436_n.jpg?oh=703ee48974662d7948884fd9a53aff40&oe=54D75645)
(https://scontent-a-nrt.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10329145_10205085797406837_5144968781291849903_n.jpg?oh=e75282084c966b1447312264a7789da0&oe=54E030DB)
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: FAAMAN on November 03, 2014, 05:34:56 AM: Artistry, well done! 8)
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: apophenia on November 03, 2014, 11:31:34 AM: What a brute! I love it :)
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: Buzzbomb on November 03, 2014, 12:54:34 PM: Just great.

I can see Fred H harumphing now.
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: Brian da Basher on November 03, 2014, 06:18:25 PM: A real winner and looks like a million bucks in that lovely RAAF green!

Brian da Basher
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: Volkodav on November 03, 2014, 11:24:11 PM: On the green, what did you use to match the RAAF Foliage Green?
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: Weaver on November 04, 2014, 02:11:53 AM: Amazing how the canopy and cowling job changes the look of the 190: I really had to look twice before I got it. Very well done!
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: Cliffy B on November 04, 2014, 02:14:48 AM: It looks so right!!!!!! Top notch job sir :) 8) :)
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: uncle les on November 04, 2014, 07:24:54 AM: Quote from: Volkodav on November 03, 2014, 11:24:11 PM
On the green, what did you use to match the RAAF Foliage Green?
Funny thing that. I rarely trust what's written on the tin and use my FS chart as a guide not a bible. I just mix until I see (in my opinion) the right mix for the amount of scale colour and fading etc. In this case I mixed Humbrol 21, 30, 101, 149 which is basically black and a bunch of greens tending to the blue part of the spectrum until I got the shade I wanted. I mix as I go in the airbrush pot correcting along the way. Highlights achieved by adding Testors dullcote to the mix with a little black or mid green depending on whether I want lighter or darker. The dullcote makes the coat a bit transparent and you just build on it.
I don't profess this to be actual foliage green, it's just my interpretation. This is how I approach all my paint jobs, lob some paint into an airbrush pot and keep spraying until the fat lady sings.
HTH
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: Volkodav on November 04, 2014, 12:20:07 PM: Thanks for that, so the answer is artistic license, or in my case probably more like autistic license
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: uncle les on November 04, 2014, 01:45:59 PM: Quote from: Volkodav on November 04, 2014, 12:20:07 PM
Thanks for that, so the answer is artistic license, or in my case probably more like autistic license

;) Yep. [chuckle]
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: uncle les on November 08, 2014, 07:20:42 PM: Took the green bird out for a sortie today..
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10157404_10205126160575891_1272483212681021201_n.jpg?oh=d8edc4f15dc7bd4ec05745c2a85e8c71&oe=54DAC159&__gda__=1424460013_7888852f8d639213a5a715d472665c8e)

I'd say it was a successful mission
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/1511254_10205126147935575_2799514110502031602_n.jpg?oh=4eb6bd9204ab4a913506855206b95448&oe=54D9182A&__gda__=1423806877_962d1c77183ee0acb5c1a665ca2ded84)

;)
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: Brian da Basher on November 08, 2014, 09:20:16 PM: Congrats and well done, Les!

Those beauties are some real show-stoppers!

Brian da Basher
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: Old Wombat on November 09, 2014, 08:50:09 AM: Cool! 8)
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: uncle les on June 24, 2016, 08:17:15 AM: I see the links on my pics broke (serves me right for using facebook as storage ! ) So here are some of them again but from my website instead.
(http://uncleles.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ac2.jpg)
(http://uncleles.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ac3.jpg)
(http://uncleles.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ac4.jpg)
(http://uncleles.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ac5150.jpg)
(http://uncleles.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ac5152.jpg)
(http://uncleles.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ac5154.jpg)
(http://uncleles.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ac5157.jpg)
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: GTX_Admin on June 25, 2016, 03:18:33 AM: :)
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: apophenia on June 25, 2016, 05:29:12 AM: Great to see again. Love that engine swap :)
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: Tophe on June 25, 2016, 07:16:29 PM: Nice! :)
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: Brian da Basher on June 25, 2016, 09:54:28 PM: Quote from: apophenia on June 25, 2016, 05:29:12 AM
Great to see again. Love that engine swap :)

Concur, that's really sweet and I especially like the work on the exhaust!

Brian da Basher
Title: Re: CAC FW PDQ
Post by: Kerick on June 25, 2016, 10:15:16 PM: Amazing what a nose job can do!
Nice work!