Recent content by Silver wings1

I have also started the Airfix 1/24 Typhoon car door . Right from the start the first problem encountered was that the spars procedure was shown backwards and of course I followed that procedure and discovered that it was wrong and had to remove a lot of the glued pieces including the spars...

Thank you, Wurger, I knew that I could count on you :salute:

Thank you, all. I am enjoying it

After posting my latest pictures of my Accurate Miniatures SBD-2 build the thread seems to have vanished from the modeling site. What happened ?

Hi Wurger, I think I posted this in the wrong place, if you agree you can move it with your expertise.

All the details have been applied to the fuselage of the PT-17 and it is closed up. I ordered seat belts for this model from Eduard but they were horribly over scale so I kept the molded seat belts that came with the kit. after painting I used a Derwent water color white pencil to hi-light the...

I am glad to see this work progress as I have an Airfix 1/24 Typhoon car door version with all the extra photo etch parts from Eduard which I will eventually get to after or in between my current builds I am working on.

Here is an update on the progress. Parts are attached and the fuselage is ready to be assembled. I discovered some interesting information on Zinc chromate colors. There was no special color specified like the RLM colors in Germany. So the manufacturers mixed whatever was handy. The colors were...

Moving right along. All the parts for the A1 left fuselage have been cleaned and are attached to it.

Comparing the 2 instruction sheets,Accurate Miniatures and Academy, instead of posting information from memory I find that the 3 dots accompanied by a D in a square is on the Accurate Miniatures kit not the Academy. The Academy one only shows a copy of the gunner's instrument panel and painting...

Yes I'll try tomorrow. They also included pictures of both sides of the cockpit, but they are so black, you can barely pick out the details.it reminds me of the old hand cranked ones , and I forget the name of this method. Thank you all for the nice comments on my work. Crimea -River, I will...

BTW, The instruction sheets are very bad, no explanation as to the parts and poor painting instruction,i.e they show a drawing of J111 (a clear instrument panel for the gunner.) It stipulates painting it black, but beside it they show 3 black dots,duh!. If you didn't have the original...

Very nice work.:salute:

That is the academy kit but using the old Accurate Miniatures molds, which is what they are doing with all of the Accurate Miniatures kits they bought out. On the box they show an Accurate Miniatures logo. So be aware.

I started on an Academy Douglas SBD-1 Accurate Miniatures kit and it is one huge challenge . Because the molds are very old the flash on delicate details is unreal. It took one hour to try to remove flash from a delicate interior fuselage part, but it could not be removed entirely. Fortunately...