SPA Modeler

Stikpusher wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:47 pm CA Accelerator is great for when you need something to set now, like an EZ Line aircraft antenna or ship rigging. If you’re setting up something with tension, CA plus Accelerator does the trick perfectly.

Maybe this is something I really need to get especially the frustrations of getting rigging lines to set. I can’t count the number of times trying to get rigging lines to catch and hold using super glue.

Here is an overall view of the cockpit parts as I've been adding some details and photoetch.


The gun sight assembly has been painted. The Type II RAF gun sight was taken from a Barracuda Spitfire set and includes the tiny decals on the gun sight body. I still need to add the manual crosshair sights.


The Eduard inserts for the fuselage cutouts behind the pilot were strangely extending beyond the cockpit bulkhead.


So trimmed them.

Not much time spent on model building this week due to a busy schedule. But at least it's moving forward, slowly.

I've added some details at the base of the control stick including a flange around the base and the control lock linkage.


The crosshairs are from the Eduard set and have been added to the Barracuda Type II gun sight.



Here's a look at the port sidewall with details added to the throttle quadrant.

Getting better and better John!

The instrument panel has been completed. It's the Yahu instrument panel glued onto the kit IP backing, but trying to make it look like it is one unit.




I went ahead and drilled out the waste gate openings. Small sections of brass tubing will be used for the waste gates and I'll use punched circles of brass sheet for the covers. They have not been glued into place yet.

No detail is being missed

tempestjohnny wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 4:52 am No detail is being missed

Nope. No stone left unturned. She’s going to be one gorgeous bird when he’s done with her.

Man, this build is looking good!

Thanks guys! I've started on the painting of the cockpit. Based on the amount and type of photoetch/decals that go on each sub-assembly some areas are closer to finished than others. And there are adjustments being made during painting. For example, the control stick looked too high to me so I shortened it.



The floorboard and the seat assembly have been painted, chipped and weathered. There is more chipping than shows up in the photos. The base metal color was a dark steel and that was augmented afterwards with dry-brushed silver but only the silver seems to be showing up in the pics.



I'm still working on the sidewalls but here is a peak at the port sidewall after the throttle controls were painted.