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Progress of Jack's build can be followed here.
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| Posted: Thu 24 Jul 2008 21:03 pm Post subject: |
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Very quiet in here Jack! Have you managed to make a start?
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| Posted: Wed 30 Jul 2008 01:07 am Post subject: |
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I have opened the box does that count?
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| Posted: Mon 18 Aug 2008 07:46 am Post subject: |
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Sorry Adrian still not started as got to do a lot of clean up and even drilling some major holes just to get started and it has put me of a little 
looks like the molds did not sit tight and plastic went all over the place
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| Posted: Tue 19 Aug 2008 15:44 pm Post subject: |
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well belive it or not i started, drilled the hole out so i could place the forward gun turret together, will paint some interior green later, then some parts can be glued 
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well this model is fighting against me, the flash is very very bad, looks like the molds where not sitting correct ( i should of taken the model back) but hay ho. well got the two halfs together now not easy going as nothing wants to fit on this model.
 
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well got it masked up and some paint on there looks like i am going to need anouther coat on.... hate white its a nightmare... but hopfuly will look good at the end. using revell SM371 white as all ways had good resultes with that rather than using matt white.
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got the 2nd coat on and was time to peel the maskol away... to my suprise it worked very well
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| Posted: Wed 29 Oct 2008 17:27 pm Post subject: |
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Looking good  but will the bubble fit over your waist-gunner 
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| Posted: Wed 29 Oct 2008 17:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Ratch wrote: | | Looking good but will the bubble fit over your waist-gunner |
hehehehehe..... When they were drying i had the bubble's fit in place with bluetack bubbles had to be closed unless i was going to chop some of there feet off, but due the the amount of flash and miss alinment of the mold the bubbles will be closed to mask them up a little.
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getting there with this so far up to this stage:
getting the parts together to get sprayed up:
the wing going to be a little bit of a pain but cant have it all me own way.
center wing prt being held down by lots of clamps it was not the greatest fits:
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bits are just waiting for a coat of paint now
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paint on will give them a quick klear then will get them on the model
 
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thingare getting to a point that this model is heading for the bin. its got right on my nerves now. and dont think i want to even hash it together.
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| Posted: Wed 05 Nov 2008 17:28 pm Post subject: |
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 and it looked like it was going so well 
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| Posted: Wed 05 Nov 2008 18:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Ratch wrote: | | and it looked like it was going so well |
That's what I thought too.....If the kit is really giving you the hump that badly, then set it aside and work on something else. Before long something will come along that will refresh your 'Catalina Mojo' and you will have the makings of a masterpiece already prepared! 
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Why what happened 
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Well the lighter fuel and matchs where at hand... but was to cold and wet to set it alight... first problem was the mess the model was in as in flash, but i worked round that... and was going good for a bit, but had a few things all go wrong all at once, i rushed it a bit so my fault a little, tile monster also got one of the parts, bits fell off as i started to get frustrated and the biggest problem was it was time to fix the tail sitting problem, was going to poor glue and some weight in to the nose to sit it back down...had to wait tell all the tail parts where on and the wings where on so i knew how much to add, but it needed more weight than could sit in the nose, so had to go further back... but that in turn requied even more weight, and in the end had to prise the model apart to sit the weight as far forward as possable and also to tie it down so it did not move, plane feels like a paper weight now lol.
any ways fabricated the part i lost, glued the to halfs with the weight fixed, had to fill in the gaps caused by pulling it apart, and will require some TLC from the airbrush to mask that.
this is how it is at mo, but as you guys surjested i might leave it a few before returning to it.
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notice its a long distance photo at mo :p to hide the mess that i caused tell i get some tlc on it.
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| Posted: Thu 06 Nov 2008 18:11 pm Post subject: |
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I'm sure you'll get a good result
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