Aurora Mark

Right on. Thanks for getting back to me on that. Synthetic makes sense... might be easier than having a group of cables and electrical wires glued to my fingers... always a fun sight... a bunch of white tassels sticking to my fingers as I'm airbrushing... Cheers!

Fantastic work! Really going to enjoy following along with this build. Quick question for you though - the white thread you used in the bays, what type is that? Whenever I've used thread in the past, there was always some fuzz on them that looked like the wires were falling apart once installed! Aside from rubbing them with some medium CA, I couldn't get them to look nearly as good as what you've done. Thanks in advance, and again, great build!

My jaw hit the floor. Absolutely amazing work! And an incredible attention to detail. There were a few photos that I had to take a second look at to see if that was of your build or of the actual aircraft. Stunning!

To go further, as mentioned, I needed a base to start from, and the main cabin floor would be as good a place as any. Most of the key pieces are lined up either directly with it (such as the main cabin door), or directly under it (like the bomb-bay roof). But also, having the main cabin floor mapped out, I'd be able to plan on exactly where the structure for the main wing spars would be built, so that was the bit of work done tonight between breaks on house reno's. Always seems we're scratch building something... hahaha, though, the house at times is much easier than this Aurora. So, the fir

Personally, and not to sound selfish, but early summer is fantastic. Lets me get this Shturmovik out of the way, and time to prep all the stuff needed. I'm planning to take a trip up to Shearwater to take a look at the real deal and snap some photographs of the RCN Avenger they have up there. I'd offer to help mod, but being both new here, and having a job that randomly takes me away to random places doing random things... I think it'd be safer not to jump in so quickly. Regardless, excellent GB idea, and yeah! I'm in!

This is 1/72? WOW! Looking fantastic!

Yvesff, I had tried using decals for stencils in the past on a number of projects, and although they've certainly improved over time (looking at the stencil set that came with Eduards MiG-21 for example), the look of the dry transfers vs. the carrier filmed stencils makes a significant difference, enough for me to want to go the dry-transfer route. But regardless, if it falls through, I will be taking you up on your advice. Jennings, Oh, no doubt about that. Looking around at some of the sets done for people, all were within the 3 figure mark. But, I did get some information about a c

Thanks guys. I did take a good look into the MC ones, and although they make the cockpit, it is nowhere near the quality of the North Star Hobbies cockpit set. So that, and the MC rep, I'm hoping for the North Star set. Thanks for the heads up though!

Quick bump, with fingers crossed.

I'm starting to compile all the stencil info for the Aurora build, but I'm at a loss for who to go to in order to get dry transfer stencils done up. There are a number of RC sites that had great reviews, but it seems there is little available in the line of 1/48 stencils. It's either too small, or unavailable in the colours I need (dark and light gray, and white). Does anyone out there have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

AGREED!

Definitely interested. There's a 1/48 Avenger that just arrived through the mail that is screaming to be made into one of our old RCN Avengers! I'd be in for sure!

Your work, and the how-to that you show is simply stunning! Thank you so much for sharing this, and taking the time to go into detail as to how you did it. The build as a whole has been an enjoyable read, and an absolute blast to follow along!

More was done with a calculator and ruler tonight than with a knife and CA glue, but it is progress none the less. As mentioned, the fuselage halves were separated from the sheet. Here's the port fuselage half on the mirror: Next up after that, I had taken the sheets sent from Lockheed and printed out a scale length copy using the ole printer. I say scale length only, because I wanted overlap (in height) to be able to line up all the key parts (such as start of the vertical fin, the end of the rudder, the curve around the nose, bomb bay and just aft of the SLTs). The plans were made an ad

Very impressive work with pencil! I was always a fan of sketching with pencil and just black ink. I really like your shading work to also show the fluid shapes and contours of the aircraft. Well done!

These arrived as well! Fantastic detail and perfect resin casting of these torps. Aside from these, the resin T-56 from E&T, and the resin engine and props, I haven't been able to find a single accessory or AM part that will be able to help with this one, so it's going to be a lot of fun seeing what I can do with white plastic. Talk about shaking out the cob-webs! The first fuselage half is free and cleaned up, and work will hopefully continue on the second one later on. I hope to be able to show the one fuselage half extended where it needs to be by the end of tonight. Wish me

Not a very common scheme to see at all, and you certainly nailed it. Superb job on this build. Your weathering looks fantastic, and the build looks very nice and neat. The only thing I would suggest though, is to match up the canopy frame with the rest of the aircraft. It almost looks as though it were just recently installed, where the rest of the aircraft looks like it has been put through its paces. Other than that though, it looks, as I said, absolutely brilliant.

Not an easy kit at all! I remember doing one of these as an RCN Firefly. That fuselage/wing gap was a complete cow to try and get right. Your did a fantastic job on this one.

First try with mixed media? Looks fantastic! Keep doing what you're doing!

Very nice work.

Absolutely stunning work!

Absolutely BRILLIANT work! I must admit, I'm sitting here with my notepad taking notes. I really like the work you did on the fuselage, and the work on getting the tail fin down onto the top of the fuselage looks flawless. Thank you for answering my question. I happened to be over in your neck of the woods this last week, and yes, sandable automotive primer! Fantastic tip! I can't wait to see more of your work.

I'm sorry for the delay; I had an impromptu "fishing trip" come up. But, while away, I studied the Aurora some more in greater detail, and came up with a plan that better suits this build, but more on that later. Thanks Brian! I did actually look at using other engines, or propellers. The E-2C is very close, however, there are enough differences, than the amount of work would be far greater than trying to rescue the resin plugs. There isn't too much to do to the resin blocks, other than fix the shape of the intakes, hollow them out, and filling/rescribe the panel lines to reflect port/star

Tom, thank you very much! I hope the show will be worth the long go I'm sure this one will be. Yvesff, thank you as well! I'm not going to even try and hide it... I've spent the last 10 minutes quickly going through a lot of your photo's (including the CP-140... 405 Squadron, very nice!), and after this post, will be going right back to look at some more! Fantastic shots! Well, first thing I got to doing once I got home was to go at finding these measurements, and start comparing out what I had... Told you it was a big sheet! Just looking top down, the aircraft looks right up front, but

That's how it works, right? Three weeks before I put the final paint on with markings, the kit will be announced. I'll consider holding off, but will finish the build regardless. And although I'll have a 1/48 CP-140, I'll still purchase the new release from Revell, look it over, swear a little, grin a little, consider selling it to make my money back, sweat over all the things done right about it but be quiet about it, but highlight every short coming... ...and then end up keeping the kit anyway as a "just in case" :rofl:/> Yeah, we definitely like sporting the 1970's Winnebago look, Lol