February Workbench Update and Some Extras

[ShutterAce]

February Update - WestFest and Other Stuff

 

[Hodges]

Great video! Sorry to hear about your dad.

 

[Glorfindel]

Nice stash and like Hodges my condolences. Great build on his part.....that car is cool.

 

[ShutterAce]

Thanks guys I appreciate that. Glad you liked the car Glorfindel. It is pretty cool. It's the only thing I wanted.

On to modelling

One P-40E cockpit coming up. Just needs a gunsight, the one in the kit is useless.

I outlined the belts with a fine tipped marker. It looks pretty hokey in the closeups but not bad in person. I think something less stark than black would have looked better but I think the effect is worth pursuing.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

LOVELY work on the cockpit!

I also enjoyed your vid...pls keep 'em coming and condolances on the loss of your Dad. Thats always tough.

Tim

 

[ShutterAce]

Thanks Tim. Appreciate it.

 

[Eastrock]

Looks great on the office, Ace!!!

 

[Chris S]

Sorry I havent commented sooner Shutter ,I want to get time to watch your vid first Man that vid had it all ! Hotrods ,garage ,model stashes & bench progress ...what more could you want ....Oh ,and a mug of Tea ;D ;D ,great vid . Lots of work on eh !! ,I like the little Sprint car kit .
Nice work on the P40 cockpit too .


Chris.

 

[ShutterAce]

Thanks ER and Chris.

Yeah, it was a bit of a catch all vid wasn't it? LOL ;D

I keep looking at the belts in the cockpit and they look horrible in the pics. The magnification really brings them in. Hopefully I can get all these fuses buttoned up tonight. i need to get to work on the Mossie.

 

[ShutterAce]

Ok, we've had a bit of progress. Just a few photo's for now but I have at least one how to video planned this weekend so stay tuned for that. Oh, there should be a MAJOR stash addition this Saturday. ;D

Group Shot

Colorado West Aviation - Curtiss Division
P-40E Airframe is complete. Some filling and sanding will be required but nothing too bad. Expected to be in primer early next week.

Colorado West Aviation - North American Division
All three airframes basically complete. Expect primer early next week. Possible color coats too.
(Sample Airframe)

TaTa for now! ;D

 

[Glorfindel]

That's a lot of pony's!

 

[Eastrock]

Cool a Squadron of P40!!!

 

[ShutterAce]

Workbench Update

Enjoy! ;D ;D ;D

Workbench Update: March 2012

 

[JMac]

YEE-HAW. Crazy that you're building three Mustangs! (and a P-40 too)
I like the Krylon Aluminum, looks good for the scale in the videos.

Good video update Jim. Looking forward to the decals.

Jason.

 

[ShutterAce]

Thanks Jason. I'm planning on printing my own for at least some of them so I've been playing with Inkscape. Really kind of easy if you can find a good profile to work from.

 

[Glorfindel]

Big Jim rollin' along with the pony's. That Krylon Aluminum looks really good. Little bit extra masking and you'd have no over spray. BTW, the camo looks sweet.

 

[JMac]

Thanks Jason. I'm planning on printing my own for at least some of them so I've been playing with Inkscape. Really kind of easy if you can find a good profile to work from.

What's Inkscape? Software?

 

[ShutterAce]

Yeah, it's uses what is called vector graphics. It doesn't use pixels to draw images so you can scale your drawing to any size you want without losing detail. The reason I use Inkscape particularly is because it's free and I'm cheap. ;D

 

[ShutterAce]

Big Jim rollin' along with the pony's. That Krylon Aluminum looks really good. Little bit extra masking and you'd have no over spray. BTW, the camo looks sweet.

Yeah, I know. I could have puled it off with more thinner and less air pressure. The real problem I had was that these acrylics don't hold to well to the aluminum. When I remove the masking from the horizontal stabilizers it pulled @ 70% of the paint of of the port side. I ended up using a handheld paper mask. If this was enamel I could have used a wet paper mask, Oh well.

 

[ShutterAce]

Final paint coats...

Krylon Matte Aluminum(decanted)

PollyScale RAF Dk Earth/Tamiya RAF Dk Green

PollyScale RAAF Sky Blue(I couldn't get my Sky Type S bottle open :)

Acrylics don't stick to Krylon Matte Aluminum. Ask me how I know.