SPA Modeler

Coming along really nice!

Beautiful work, John. I've always thought the Sea Fury landing gear was interesting. It had a lot of travel and the hose arrangement was rather elaborate. Without two pictures its hard to see how it achieves all that motion.

Thanks guys!

The rear bottom joint has been filled and puttied. Rivets and panel lines have been restored.



A coat of primer (Mr Primer Surfacer 1000) has been applied to check the joint. There is a joint along the starboard fillet that has cracked due to insufficient glue.


In order to fix this joint without re-cracking, I have to do a little bit more than just apply putty. So I've gouged a small trench along the joint using my scribing tool.


The trench is filled with black CA glue.


After some more fine sanding, another coat of primer to check the area.

The rockets have been painted and decaled.

John those rockets look fantastic

Nice work on those seams.

You really do great work on the seams.

Thanks guys! Seam work is one of those thankless jobs that we modelers have to deal with. It's important enough,from a presentation perspective, to spend a little extra time to make those noticeable joints disappear as much as possible.

The brass flap inserts have been glued into place using extra thin CA glue.


A preliminary view of what the flaps will look like once they are installed.


The flap insert area is given a primer coat and all of the orifices have been masked with either wet tissue or tape.



I've decided to give the model an overall light primer coat to make sure I have a stable base for the metal finish to come. I'm using Mr Primer Surfacer 1000 thinned with Mr Leveling Thinner.




After the primer, the base metal shade is sprayed. I am using AK Extreme Metal White Aluminum. Very similar to Alclad.

Beautiful work John! The NMF looks outstanding!

Those rockets.... oh my....

You're making excellent progress on this one. We'll done!!!