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Badwolf · Posted: Thu 08 Jan 2009 22:30 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the comments guys.

Badwolf · Posted: Fri 16 Jan 2009 22:26 pm Post subject:

Not much progress this week, was assembling flat pack furniture over the weekend. Since then I've masked up the tailfin and put a couple of coats of H60 on, should be ready for the H19 topcoat now.

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TimJ · Posted: Sat 17 Jan 2009 11:33 am Post subject:

Looking very nice Badwolf.

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thomasweir · Posted: Sat 17 Jan 2009 12:45 pm Post subject:

Nice finish with the Silver javascript:emoticon('

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299_paul · Posted: Sat 17 Jan 2009 14:17 pm Post subject:

Nice idea with the Lego jig. I would be tempted to do that myself but I fear I would only end up building hundreds of Lego models!!

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Badwolf · Posted: Sat 17 Jan 2009 21:11 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the comments, much appreciated!

Badwolf · Posted: Mon 26 Jan 2009 22:48 pm Post subject:

Made a little more progress, the tailfin has been given a topcoat of H19. Unfortunately the red peeled a bit in a couple of places when the masking tape was removed so I had to apply touch ups freehand, and the model has had three coats of klear.

I've also partially completed painting the wheel well doors, H56 on the inside and H64 on the outside ready for the H11 topcoat.
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Badwolf · Posted: Mon 02 Feb 2009 22:45 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately I haven't made any further progress yet, I was going to apply the decals last week but they turned out to be totally unusable. They appear to have a glossy carrier film but this is a varnish layer on top of the decal I think

as after I placed them in water they had a much larger carrier film than was visible when dry, and as soon as they touched the surface of the model they stuck fast and would not move at all.

This meant I couldn't adjust the position of the decal after placing, this is something I need to do as I never get it in the right place straight off the backing paper.
I'm currently tracking a couple of Xtrakit Meteor F.8's on fleabay, the plan is to use the Xtrakit decals to finish this build if I manage to win one of them!

(And I'll be able to build another Meteor sometime in the future too!)
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TimJ · Posted: Tue 03 Feb 2009 16:54 pm Post subject:

Sorry to hear about your dodgy decals. Hope you get lucky on fleabay.
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299_paul · Posted: Tue 03 Feb 2009 17:12 pm Post subject:

Hey Badwolf, sorry to hear about the decals, mine seemed ok but slightly on the thick side.
Lookling at my Xtrakit Meteors they look alot thinnner and slightly less carrier film so you should have more luck with them.
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Badwolf · Posted: Tue 03 Feb 2009 21:38 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the kind words chaps, fingers crossed for fleabay!

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Badwolf · Posted: Wed 04 Feb 2009 22:14 pm Post subject:

Result!!! Just won a Xtrakit Meteor F.8 on fleabay, hopefully I'll get this build finished by Easter!

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299_paul · Posted: Thu 05 Feb 2009 10:36 am Post subject:

Glad to here it Badwolf, looking forward to seeing this finished.
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Badwolf · Posted: Sun 15 Feb 2009 20:47 pm Post subject:

I've made a start on the decals over the last couple of evenings, I assumed somewhat naively that the tailfin markings would have been printed the exact size of the fin. In fact they are slightly too large so I've had to wrap them around the fin, only found this out when applying the decals to the model.

I still have some work to do getting the decal to settle down over the trim tab actuator then touch up the red and blue along the edge.

Progress so far...

Apologies for the poor photo, the light wasn't very good today.
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Badwolf · Posted: Fri 06 Mar 2009 22:53 pm Post subject:

Finally got the decals on, even the Xtrakit decals gave some problems. The full colour decals like roundels and tailfin markings went on no trouble, but the black markings (serials squadron codes and walkways) still tended to grab, so some of these are not positioned correctly. I haven't bothered with all the tiny stencils, I think they are a waste of time in 1/72.

The model so far:

I managed to destroy one of the inner wing walkway decals trying to adjust its position, it was stuck and didn't want to play.

Luckily I found these old dry rub transfers in the cupboard and made replacement inner wing walkways with them.

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TimJ · Posted: Sat 07 Mar 2009 12:01 pm Post subject:

Looking good. Nice bit of improvisation with the rub down transfers.

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Badwolf · Posted: Thu 19 Mar 2009 22:32 pm Post subject:

Finally got this one finished! A somewhat challenging build, I'm glad its done now!

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Ratch · Posted: Fri 20 Mar 2009 03:41 am Post subject:

Good job

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Disorder · Posted: Fri 20 Mar 2009 19:49 pm Post subject:

Lovely job Badwolf, hope mine turns out as good. The base really sets it off.

TimJ · Posted: Sat 21 Mar 2009 12:16 pm Post subject:

Nice job Badwolf.

Well worth waiting for.
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