Tales from the Basement Lab by AndrewR

[Martin R]

It turned out nicely with the Zoom photoetch.

It turned out very nicely with the Zoom photoetch, some effective scratchbuilding and some nice painting. Cracking job!

regards,

Aartin

[AndrewR]

Sea Fury joint checking in progress:



It's brown because I was putting a second coat of English Uniform Brown on the Hurricane:



And the interior of the upper part of the Eurofighter was primed yesterday and painted with Light Grey Blue to match the cockpit tub.



Cheers

Andrew

[AndrewR]

Antarctic Explorers and interested native observers with the Airfix Auster.

[Clashcityrocker]

An excellent little scene that one, and the Eurofighter looks good.

Nigel

[AndrewR]

The Eurofighter gets more bits added. There's plenty of room in front of the cockpit tub for the 7 grams of weight.


The tail is not a great fit. The wing, fuselage and inlet region is going to need some smoothing!

And now for something silly.



Pink silly putty (old Easter stock going cheap on Amazon!) for masking.
The Hurri has now gone for the dark green coat.

[AndrewR]

To the paint shop!

[AndrewR]

And the Hurricane is back from the Paint Shop.



The silly putty comes off much more easily than blu-tack.



A little touch up needed on the underside of the tail planes.



Overall, very successful!






So for a change of pace, some decals on the upper and starboard side of the Vampire T.11



Very impressed with the quality of the Airfix decals. Thin but robust. Well printed too.



Cheers


Andrew

[AndrewR]

The Sea Fury being built in the current in the SKGB. Primed in white, as there will be some white recognition stripes for wings and rudder.



Decals will be adapted from the Yanks With Roundels, Part 2 sheet



Edit: did a second coat underneath!

Also sprayed yellow prop tips on the Sea Fury and a red spinner tip on the Hurricane. Not very productive today

[giulio_gobbi]

Corsair's camo it's unusual and really tempting!

[AndrewR]

Decals almost completed on the T.11



Just the decals on the outer undercarriage doors left now.



Cheers

Andrew

[AndrewR]

A bit of sky underneath the Sea Fury:



I'm also putting decals on the Hurricane, but Daddy Duties have called me away!

[AndrewR]

Filler applied where needed on the Eurofighter. Not as bad as I had expected, from the online build reviews.



The tricky areas are at the front end under the cockpit. Everything else is fairly straightforward.




A test fit of the nose shows that there is a mismatch of the flange on the fuselage. This will need a bit of work to get the nose fitting properly.

The main work of the day was decalling the Hurricane. The first session went alright, but later on, I lost both serials, curled up into little balls like worried hedgehogs. One of the JX codes nearly suffered the same fate, although I was eventually able to coax it back into shape, albeit in three pieces



I only did one of the rudder decals. It needs trimming before the other one goes on.

[AndrewR]

My Dark Slate Grey for Fleet Air Arm aircraft is actually Vallejo Air 096 - Panzer Olive Green (1943)

[Clashcityrocker]

Consistently good work Andrew. A nice mix of subjects and schemes.

Nigel

[Kitaholic]

Some great work going on here, but I have to say that Vampire is gorgeous