Dr Fester

Joe, your too kind The company is called dynamicscalemodeling.com and offer a range of sets for various kits. Quite like the smoke coming from the working A-10 gattling! Sets are made to order and although a 3 week lead time Clyde managed to rush mine through in 10 days. Cheers Doc

More foiling today, mostly to the port side; Sorry for the poor photos, shiny beasts are a devil to photograph! First problem encountered today as I opened a new roll of foil and found it to be more shiny than the previous roll and adhesive much more sticky. This causes lines on the foil as it's removed from the backing which has to be removed by burnishing with cotton buds. More soon... Doc

Thanks Guys, B17, the foil I am using is actually an auto repair foil, about $3 for a 10m roll so extremely cheap also. With adhesive already on it's simply a matter of cutting from the roll and applying. It's thick and covers a multitude of sin's....... Cheers Doc

Managed to get some more modeling time in today and got over my first potential stumbling block, foiling the cockpit area. It seems not much has changed but I wasn't happy with some of the panels so they have been replaced. The cockpit glass has been installed along with 2 blanking panels on top of the cockpit area. Still some of this foiling requires rivet detail adding (...ahem only having seen the photos closeup :blink: ), but the curves of the cockpit caused less headaches for this flexible foil which was a bonus. Before closing the cockpit I added an additional instrument dial

Well progress is being made with the Gooney Bird. Having had MANY attempts using raised rivet detail embossed on the reverse of the foil I have had to throw in the towel. Although more accurate in theory my attempts at adding the raised rivets just looked too exaggerated and toy like. So I have taken the lead from Pierre and used his example of adding recessed rivet detail, not strictly accurate but in this scale I think looks much neater. Searching for reference photos of rivet detail it seems many airframes have different rivet layouts and I can only go from the few reference photos I ha

OK installation of tail lights before I can close the fuselage commences. The tail nav light uses a small section of Fibre Optic, the end of which was passed over a flame to 'mushroom' the end. This was then polished to give the best light throughput. The small section of foil is to cut down the stray light from the side of the FO. Checking and testing as I go:- Flashing red beacon gives exactly the right effect. A fairing will be added for the tail strobe after the fus' is closed. Just have to fix the pilots in with harnesses and close the fuselage...... More soon Doc

As mentioned before this build is to have lights, motors and sound and the intention was to add led's at a later stage to enable work to continue with the fuselage. Having taken advice the nav lights will be installed prior to assembly so I can test in situ before everything gets glued. Anyhow an early Christmas present was this piece of kit; Here is a video of the test bed in operation LINKY . The kit includes the 2 motors with sound, nav lights for tail and wing, landing lights for both wings and the flashing red beacon for the top of the tail. Cheers Doc

Both cockpit windows now installed in the open position and a dry fit of the pilots in the office, in fact seeing these photos I can see the faces still need some work. One looks asleep and the other constipated! More soon..... Doc

Next up altering the glazing, the kit parts have raised circular marks which will have to be removed. I first removed most of the marks with a scalpel then progressively finer sanding sticks and micromesh, finishing with 2 coats of Future to seal and add shine back. Next up a quick look at the reference photos show an additional smaller window at the rear of the starboard side:- This was drilled out and an appropriate clear piece added:- Next I need to remove the rudder which I will duplicate from resin to replace the inaccurate Trumpeter version for that kit. After 20 mins and a s

Hi all, Well it seems like an eternity since I visited ARC but just like to share with you my current project. Ever since Pierre posted his beautiful DC-3 build on ARC, I have wanted to try my hand at one of these workhorses. Having picked up a 1/48 Revell kit at a show recently I searched for a subject to base my model on, something real shiney! Although rigged for passenger transport I'm sure at some stage it's used for cargo, and that is what I intend building. The Revell kit does have some inaccuracies, but then so does Trumpeters latest 1/48 C-47. Picked up the Trumpy kit from Hanna

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Hi Jackman, Yep those would be useful but only in 1/72?? Anyhow if you need some pics of the build try THIS. My FG.1 was part of the Phantom GB and the thread might have been 'trimmed'. If you need any more info let me know. Cheers Doc

Another great PACAIR GB and really enjoyed dropping in and watching the superb builds entered in this GB. Hat's of to the mods Jay, Dave & Mike for making PACAIR 2 a big success and well done to all those who managed to finish in time. Cheers Doc

Amen to that! PACAIR 2 is certainly living up to the original GB and some great builds going on. Doc

She a beut Clark Very sharp build there Dave, decals look really nice and thin. Cheers Doc

A man of few words Mr Gambler, BTW I dig your Minder avatar ;) Doc :D

Jes thats the first time I've seen part of your collection in one photo, magnificent. Doc

hmm.. this all sounds very familiar... ;) Doc

Many people use this method but I've not tried it yet. How do you get the correct dihedral on the upper wings so they match up with the lowers? Anyhow its coming along great David. Cheers Doc

Coming together really well David, Seems such a long time ago I sent that one over to you...... 2005.... yikes! Keep posting the progress Doc

Superb work Jay, love em both Doc

Thanks for letting us know Randy, and well done. Also another big thankyou to Steve and North American Hobbies for the kind donation. Cheers Doc

Hey glad you beat it into submission Julian! Turned out really well and thanks for sharing your work. Cheers Doc

Thats what you think :)

Hi there, Well today the names have been picked for the Splash GB prize raffle and they are as follows:- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jay Allman = Monogram Cessna 180 Amphibian from Chris 'I-16' Helton Mike 'Skyking' = 1/48 Azur Loire 130M from me. :) Andy Mullen = 1 from this selection 1/72 Encore Polikarpov I-15, 1/72 MPC Ka-25abc or 1/48 CA BF2C-1 from Jeff (Ranger 74) Randy Smith = Prize from NA Hobbies TBA Chris Helton = 1/48 Revell Eurofighter Typhoon (Erwin Hallemeesch) Colin Whitehouse = deck of