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Richard M

Progress of Ratch's build will be reported here.
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Ratch · Posted: Fri 16 Nov 2007 15:54 pm Post subject:

I shall be building from the Type 11 box

that I purchased with 5 Flying Hours

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Ratch · Posted: Fri 16 Nov 2007 21:32 pm Post subject:

I sorted 12 crew figures identical to the kit ones from my spares box, and have de-flashed them and started painting all 15, beginning with the skin tones

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Flash Flash · Silver Star Joined: 16 May 2006 Posts: 2938

12 crew figures ?
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Ratch · Posted: Fri 16 Nov 2007 21:46 pm Post subject:

12 spares + 3 in the kit = 15

Just as easy to paint them all at the same time

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hewman100 · Posted: Sat 17 Nov 2007 10:29 am Post subject:

I was gonna say it would be a little cramped in there!
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Ratch · Posted: Mon 19 Nov 2007 14:05 pm Post subject:

The pilot painting is now complete and various other bits have also received some paint

I airbrushed the interior with Xe: 10 Matt Aircraft Interior Grey/Green, the control column, machine gun mount and Lewis gun were painted Hu: 33 Matt Black, propeller tips Hu: 24 Matt Trainer Yellow, undercarriage & engines Hu: 56 Metallic Aluminium, instrument panel Hu: 21 Gloss Black, seat covers Hu: 72 Matt Khaki Drill, propellers & radio equipment Hu: 85 Satin Coal Black, navigator’s desk Hu: 110 Matt Natural Wood, Lewis gun dry brushed Hu: 53 Metallic Gunmetal and tyres Xe: 505 Tyre Black

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Ratch · Posted: Mon 19 Nov 2007 16:01 pm Post subject:

Looking at the decals supplied with the kit, with a little modification I'll be able to mark mine as N4997, one of Silverstone's own

My brother-in-law copied an article from Flypast magazine April 2005 with an Anson 1 In Focus

The aircraft featured is N4877 and has two (off-set) control columns

Presumably this is a T.1

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Ratch · Posted: Mon 19 Nov 2007 18:16 pm Post subject:

A pictorial update

The crewmembers

The driving seat

Stage one of the canopy framing, the interior colours applied with the ruling pen (on the right)

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Ratch · Posted: Wed 21 Nov 2007 11:33 am Post subject:

A little more progress made...

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Richard M · Posted: Wed 21 Nov 2007 11:38 am Post subject:

Looking good Ratch, just a word of advice, paint the wing locating tabs interior green, as they will be visible when attached! If they're green they blend in a bit more.
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Ratch · Posted: Wed 21 Nov 2007 11:45 am Post subject:

Thanks, good tip, just done it before I forget

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Hawk · Posted: Wed 21 Nov 2007 15:23 pm Post subject:

Ratch · Posted: Sun 25 Nov 2007 17:54 pm Post subject:

I had hoped to add the undercarriage after the under-surfaces had been sprayed, but a dry fit exposed this as a flawed concept

So, the wings have been assembled complete with undercarriage

Joining the fuselage brought a different problem in gaps

Those on the upper surfaces were not too bad, but the under sides were considerably worse

All have been filled, along with a couple of sink-marks near the nose

When set, sanding will be done

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Ratch · Posted: Mon 26 Nov 2007 12:54 pm Post subject:

This morning I've sanded back the filler I applied yesterday, cemented the wings and canopy

The wings fit very nicely, no need to filler at the root of the main wings, but just a smidgeon on the port tail wing root

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Ratch · Posted: Tue 27 Nov 2007 09:47 am Post subject:

Still a bit of tidying up to do before I'm let loose with the airbrush

The wing root is almost seamless

but I need to do a bit of carefull filling & sanding of the seam near the canopy and turret, and fill around the canopy with PVA Nailbiting

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Ratch · Posted: Thu 29 Nov 2007 18:37 pm Post subject:

Filling & sanding done, today I've been experimenting with pre-shading Sofa

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Richard M · Posted: Thu 29 Nov 2007 19:01 pm Post subject:

Pre-shading what? The Anson doesn't have any panel lines

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Ratch · Posted: Thu 29 Nov 2007 19:09 pm Post subject:

Panels around the cowlings, flaps, ailerons, rudder... stuff like that

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sanzoku · Black Star Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Posts: 29 Location: Japan

Nice going there Mr Ratch.
Wish I had a Anson to join in with. Next time right?

Do you keep all your paints up side down? Don't you get nasty spill problems?