Mick Reeves 80" hurricane

that is true sir and i thank you for them sir.

oh i hope it looks half as good as your builds sir, i will be well happy.

got the tail fairing looking better now and the rudder fits as well.


need the pull pull wire next and then i can get the elevator fitted and finish off the tail area.

next job is to make a nose and sort out the front panels.

Son has just collected the panels Tony,he is down Surrey in the morning at stupid oclock,staying over and returning Wed. he epects to get to Cobham Services anytime between 12 & 4 on Wed. so I expect he will contact you then.I have sent couple of Mick Reeves inst sheets for you and one in relation to where the positions for u/c etc.Would appreciate you sending me that one sheet back when you have finished with it please.
PM me what your car/colour and reg is please and I will forward that to him.
John

been slogging away at this one.




going to take a look at the paneling on the front tomorrow.

well i dunno if i have done this right, but............................................................



the gaps between the panels of brown paper will be painted silver and them when the camo goes over it i can scrape it out to highlight each panel.
now do i have a play with pva rivets or not bother.

well hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm not sure maybe.

Tony
Will you really be able to scrape the camo paint out of the joint and leave the silver?
Technically joints are darker. I would have thought you would do better to find a way to smear a darker colour into the joint line after the camo.

ok, a bit of black then after its all painted.thank you

i had originally thought silver to give the ally showing on the wear marks.

well the fuselage looks a bit better now, the pva panel fixings look reasonably good and the panel lines show quiet well.

getting stressed now with making a canopy.

Would some self adhesive silver sign writers vinyl be of any use to you Tony? .... It may be a bit too shiny for what you need, but I've got some that you're welcome to & it would be easy to post.

thanks for the offer pol, but it is sorted now.

slopped a base coat over the brown paper panels this morning.
looks ok i think.




you can see the panel lines and the pva panel fitting screws.

the i tried to make a canopy frame.
had the idea of curving some balsa and then gluing strips on the inside to take the glass, but it didn't work. i could not get the wood to curve enough without breaking.
then i had a brainwave (or not as the case may be) i cut some strips of thin plastic and glued some 1.5mm square strip on the inside. when whetted it curved easily round a can without breaking.
so the job then was to make up 4 strips for the frame.
then we started joining it all together.


the cross braces just hold it together temporarily for now.



then i used the same method to make the front section up.


the glass will glue in behind the strips on the frame and then have another strip glued inside them.
not too shabby.

I told you brown paper panels where the dogs danglies, rivets are a tad on the large size, but owts better than nowt

I don't mean this to sound nasty, but it's taking on that "tatty" appearance that you need for a warbird.
I said to Garry when you delivered his, that I like the way you get the authentic look of an aircraft that's been battered about in a war situation.... I hate the way some commercial models come out looking like they've just come off the assembly line .... In fact, many of them are even "cleaner" than that. It just doesn't doesn't make them look realistic.

they aint rivets Alan, they represent the fixing screws that hold the panels on, not bothering with rivets as it isn't that good a model.

it looks worn cos it is a tatty build .
i find that if i paint it first, then if i have to alter things you get the patched look that a in service aircraft gets.
rather than spraying a finished model that then looks too new.

of course they are, daft me, still too big though,