Derek Moss

If you are looking at resin beware of the Aires cockpit!! It's a ***** to get to fit and if you are tempted to open up the side hatches you will find that the hatch position on the fuselage (according to the panel lines) does not match up with the compartment in the resin part!!

LOVERLY!!!!!

DITTO THAT!! DITTO THAT!! DITTO THAT!! (eg beautiful avionics bay on the Mig 29 cockpit that does not match the panel location!

Almost finished!! I still have a few decals to add, the u/c to attach and a few points to touch up on the paint job and that's it. I found, on looking at the available photos again, that what I had thought was an error in the red painting of the top deck was not - there is a drawing showing it different but many photos show it as I have it. Should have these complete in a week or two so more pics then

Now you tell me??????

Too flippin' old for WHAT?????

66 and counting! Just browsing through the posts it seems I'm the oldest around here, at least amongst those who were willing to admit to their age. I started modelling eons ago (balsa and plastic) and then took a very long break. Started again about two or three years ago and am still struggling with p/e, resin, different types of paints and lately, an airbrush (thank g-d for optivisor). Through the fog of my memory it seems that the old paints (humbrol, official etc) went on as smoothly with a brush than today's with an airbrush. Must be all those banned ingredients!

The weekend has come around again so I've made a little progress on the "Cavallino". The red is all painted and the masking removed. There is a little touching up to do but not much. The eagle eyed amoungst you will see that I've made a rather glaring error - the red on the top decking does not go back far enough!! This means remasking and spraying the missing bit but that will have to wait for next weekend though. No advance on the "Lanceri" until the paint arrives (it's on it's way).

WOW! That looks great! Glad I could take a small part in it. Derek

If I didn't have an inferiority complex before, now would be the time to develop one - beautiful looking work!! How do you get all those stencils on without going totally cross-eyed?

You're most welcome! Glad the decals were still OK. Derek

DITTO! DITTO! DITTO Derek

Not much action here for the past few days (recovering from the 4th of July revelry?) so here's a bit to keep things moving on. I've done most of the painting except for a second black coat on the "Lanceri" (I ran out of paint!!) and the red on the "Cavallino". I actually got that masked up and a first coat of red on but there's not much to see except for a big red blob until the masking comes off (something like bandages after cosmetic surgery) so I didn't take a photo. Here's what the rest look like so far - top and bottom for each.

Without a doubt - OPTIVISOR!!!!!!!!

First of all - a happy, healthy and above all PEACEFUL Independence Day to all you Americans out there!! Now for the progress - not much but still ..... I tried to find a commercial paint that matched the FS 17778 that Tauro suggests on their decal sheet so I mixed up an "ivory" (a cream really) by adding some Humbrol "canvas" to their gloss white which looks quite good (you can see the contrast to the wing tip white in the photo). After spraying the cream I masked off and sprayed the blue sections. On the Lanceri Neri I've painted the red-white-green underside of the wing (only the green,

I finally managed to get some more done. The fuselage halves are closed up, the seams filled and sanded (using Gunze's disolved putty) and the whole lot given a base coat of their base white. next step is to polish the base coat down and then start with the real painting but that will have to wait for next week. Attached are some photos of two stages - before and after base coat. The quality is not great but then neither are my photography skills!

WOW!!! That's an impossible act to follow! As to the interior colour I went through over 700 pics on airliners.net and only three or four of them were interiors. The black one I found was for a USAF aircraft and the grey for "foreign" so I opted for the grey assuming that went for Italy as well. Also the IP's I used from Eduard were grey and I did not fancy painting them black as I was sure I would mess up the dials. (I did this on a 1/32 F-15I and it was not easy in the larger scale!). So, in the end I think they will stay grey. I was intending leaving the panel at the base of the fin but

Thanks for the info everyone. It appears that it is a case of "you pays your money and you takes your choice". Derek

Thanks Jesse. I'll try britmodeller and see what they have to say. Derek

Well I finally got some work done this week end and last. The cockpit interiors are done and after I took the photos I got the fuselages closed up. Went together pretty well with almost no gaps at all. Oops, I just noticed when posting this that I took the pictures before adding the head rests and the joysticks. These did go in before I closed the fuselage. Next weekend I should have the construction done so more pix then.

I want to buy a 1/48th scale kit of the Hawk and the question is: what is the difference between the Airfix and the Italeri kits that makes the latter worth paying double the price for? Is it indeed better?

I am finally getting round to signing up officially. As I said during the "promo" mine will be two 1/48th Hasegawa F-86's done up as the Cavallino Rampante and Lanceri Neri Italian aerobatic teams.I'll be using the Tauro decal sheet and Eduard's p/e for the interior. Hopefully I will actually get round to starting the build this week-end!

I have Modeldecal Sheet #3 which has 3 n/m and commo a/craft named "Charlene" on it that you could have if you want.

Try: www.airliners.net

Looking for a 1/48th Sword T-38 Talon, any boxing. Anyone??????