elger

honestly an awesome build and an even more amazing video. I'd show it to my friends if your youtube username wasn't so awkward.

wonderful!

I sort of messed it up :blink:

Good question, but I'm 99% sure they're white. I was doubting for a while myself. If you look carefully - perhaps playing around with contrast and saturation of the picture a bit, you can see that they're white. Pictures of other aircraft of that unit show white checkers. And I think in this photo they look different from the airframe, too:

a few more pictures:

finished it about 2 weeks ago, but was incredibly busy so wasn't able to post any pictures until now. hope you like it!

email sent!

Hi Peter and Cathy, What I know about this aircraft's John Campbell was that he was born in 1906 in Northern Ireland, and that he worked with the London police before or after the war. According to my main source, his army number was 1897044. If you send me a PM I'll gladly share any other information I have. Elger

with decals: weathered, and ready for final assembly: thanks for looking!

it's finally getting somewhere :-) I used the profile of "tar heel" found on mark styling's website (http://www.markstyling.com/) and copied it to 1/32 scale and used it as a guide for the markings. the code letters were the first I painted on next up were the white and red markings I used the same principle for the name. the L was a bit too thick, but it has since been retouched. the following picture shows all the markings that I painted on; the rest will be decals

Thanks! The Games Workshop paints are just about as expensive as Tamiya paints, but they're very thick so they need a lot of thinning (which means that they last pretty long)

here's another update possibly due to the addition of the detail sets, I had quite a lot of difficulty attaching the wings. There were huge gaps especially between the upper right wing and the fuselage. A lot of filling and sanding followed. in the end, I won: the front air intake lacked any form of detail, so I cut a little bit out of an old pair of pantyhose of my girlfriend (not mine, honest! :-) ) and glued it to the back of the kit part. When the glue had dried, I cut it to size and fitted it. With all the necessary bits added, it was ready to be masked and painted. I used

great stuff!

turning to the wings, the next step is to fit the landing gear bays. they need some persuasion, but the rutman parts fit quite well after clean up. I opted to paint the wells yellow zinc chromate thanks for looking!