I have been very fortunate this weekend, no putty needed for the underside fuselage fix, just a couple hours of careful sanding. An added bonus was getting the bottom wings (two parts) and tailplane on (3 parts).I went for a different style of getting them aligned perfectly this time.
I took the...
Small update, sanded the two fuselage halves and found I did a good job glueing the halves together almost no seem 😎 after applying Tamiya Flat Aluminium to check, which means next to no putty will be needed yay 😍 (although the wings will certainly need putty).
I drilled out the exhausts but not...
The weekends progress:
Both fuselage sides painted 😎 my detail tool top for size comparison
All the pieces coming together
I love this next shot a macro view from the outside in 😎🤩😎
The seat was uneven so i popped it out and repositioned
Perfection
From the top
More soon thanks all 😁
A bit of an update
I decided to attach some levers (scratchbuild from rod and a dab of super glue on the end to mimik the reference photos) as was the references three in total one on the right fuselage (knob was done in Tamiya flat white) and two on the left (Tamiya flat yellow and medium...
Woo Wurger thank you so much 😍 your references are gold.
I was building through the week a bit and this weekend for Halloween I went to my wonderful partners over this weekend and got some building in with her.
The week went something like this:
Oct 29 - Tamiya XF-71 IJN cockpit Green applied...
Thank you all its great to be back :) first a little research, these photos found online of the interior of various Airspeed Envoys,
The instructions show the pilot seat as having seatbelts (provided in nice PE) but as we can see here the only picture I found of an airspeed pilot shows...
I've been eyeing this one for a while and while I have the Airspeed Envoy on the go, I'll make this Saiman 200 as well :) the wonderful thing about this aircraft is that it has some crazy markings...which are real! :D reference photo posted below.
I'm currently trying to figure out the...