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Duke Maddog
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Brilliant work on the Kingfisher! What a beautiful masterpiece! I started three 1/72 scale Seagulls and broke them every time when I tried to rig them. I am hoping to see yours completed!
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Re: Kari's bench 2021 -->
Many thanks Mark,
let's see how the rigging goes...
- Kari
let's see how the rigging goes...
- Kari
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On the bench:
Tamiya F-4B Phantom II 1/48
Kinetic F-16A (new tool) 1/48
https://www.facebook.com/GrundAsk-Scale ... 721218708/
On the bench:
Tamiya F-4B Phantom II 1/48
Kinetic F-16A (new tool) 1/48
https://www.facebook.com/GrundAsk-Scale ... 721218708/
Re: Kari's bench 2021 -->
So I have started with the Seagull, actually the work has going pretty smoothly.
I'm very impressed of the kit, so well engineerd, even if the tooling is from 1969, more than 50 years old. This particular revisionis from the early 70's.
The cockpit is really basic, but that does not matter so much, the plastic of the canopy is rather thick, difficult to see anything clearly through.
I scratched an instrument panel, perhaps more because of the fact, that it needs to have an IP than it would be visible
I added some weight in the main float
Glued the struts into the upper wing, slowly and carefully, making sure they are in the correct angle etc
And here are all the main parts, ready to go to the paintbooth
But to demonstrate the quality of this old Hasegawa kit and it's excellent fit ( the upper wing and main floats are not glued nor have I added any blu tac or masking tape to keep them together ). The fit is just amazing!
As said, next step the paint booth!
- Kari
I'm very impressed of the kit, so well engineerd, even if the tooling is from 1969, more than 50 years old. This particular revisionis from the early 70's.
The cockpit is really basic, but that does not matter so much, the plastic of the canopy is rather thick, difficult to see anything clearly through.
I scratched an instrument panel, perhaps more because of the fact, that it needs to have an IP than it would be visible
I added some weight in the main float
Glued the struts into the upper wing, slowly and carefully, making sure they are in the correct angle etc
And here are all the main parts, ready to go to the paintbooth
But to demonstrate the quality of this old Hasegawa kit and it's excellent fit ( the upper wing and main floats are not glued nor have I added any blu tac or masking tape to keep them together ). The fit is just amazing!
As said, next step the paint booth!
- Kari
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On the bench:
Tamiya F-4B Phantom II 1/48
Kinetic F-16A (new tool) 1/48
https://www.facebook.com/GrundAsk-Scale ... 721218708/
On the bench:
Tamiya F-4B Phantom II 1/48
Kinetic F-16A (new tool) 1/48
https://www.facebook.com/GrundAsk-Scale ... 721218708/
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jeaton01
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Much better than I would expect from such an early kit.
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Exactly!
- Kari
- Kari
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On the bench:
Tamiya F-4B Phantom II 1/48
Kinetic F-16A (new tool) 1/48
https://www.facebook.com/GrundAsk-Scale ... 721218708/
On the bench:
Tamiya F-4B Phantom II 1/48
Kinetic F-16A (new tool) 1/48
https://www.facebook.com/GrundAsk-Scale ... 721218708/
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Medicman71
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Re: Kari's bench 2021 -->
It's looking great Kari!
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Re: Kari's bench 2021 -->
Thanks Mike!
- Kari
- Kari
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On the bench:
Tamiya F-4B Phantom II 1/48
Kinetic F-16A (new tool) 1/48
https://www.facebook.com/GrundAsk-Scale ... 721218708/
On the bench:
Tamiya F-4B Phantom II 1/48
Kinetic F-16A (new tool) 1/48
https://www.facebook.com/GrundAsk-Scale ... 721218708/
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Duke Maddog
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Yes, I always thoroughly enjoyed building mine, what a blast they were until the rigging step. Seeing this getting done may motivate me to bring out my two broken ones and try to repair and rig them again.
The Duke
Virtuoso of Miniatures
"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I get and beat you with 'till you understand who's in ruttin' command!"
-Jayne Cobb, Firefly Episode 2 "The Train Job"
We are modelers - the same in spirit, in hunger to insanely buy newly released kits, hustlers in hiding our stash from our better halves and experts in using garbage as replacements for after-market parts.
Virtuoso of Miniatures
"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I get and beat you with 'till you understand who's in ruttin' command!"
-Jayne Cobb, Firefly Episode 2 "The Train Job"
We are modelers - the same in spirit, in hunger to insanely buy newly released kits, hustlers in hiding our stash from our better halves and experts in using garbage as replacements for after-market parts.
Re: Kari's bench 2021 -->
Time to attack the main float and especially the red propeller warning line, after the float was primed and painted a silverish metallic finish.
Always an exciting moment removing the masking, is there any leakage visible.. so far so good..
Success!
- Kari
Always an exciting moment removing the masking, is there any leakage visible.. so far so good..
Success!
- Kari
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On the bench:
Tamiya F-4B Phantom II 1/48
Kinetic F-16A (new tool) 1/48
https://www.facebook.com/GrundAsk-Scale ... 721218708/
On the bench:
Tamiya F-4B Phantom II 1/48
Kinetic F-16A (new tool) 1/48
https://www.facebook.com/GrundAsk-Scale ... 721218708/
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BlackSheep214
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That looks nice!
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