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08-16-2009, 05:15 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Canvey Island, Essex
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| Trackends Attempts 2nd ever build a Spite IX Goodmorning,Goodafternoon,Goodevening or Goodnight (please select the the approprieate greeting to match your time zone)  This is my second ever model build the first being a Tamiya 1/35th Bren carrier and with much swearing and mountains of help form you fellas I ended up with a reasonable result. Again I will be asking lots of daft questions about kit building (some I have already emailed to our resident experts) Instead of bunging your own threads up I think it is best I have my own one. I am a total novice at this so I will be making loads of errors but I hope it will help guys who are in the same boat as me not to give up hope but perciever. Before I even started this build I had a problem as my eyesight is not very good, so not being backward in coming forward I spoke with Airframe (Terry) as he is doing some very fine work. I now know he is around my age and also lacks 20/20 vision but he uses a helping hands bit of kit that has a mag glass attached I had a look on google and I believe I now know what he uses. As it's Sunday and no chance of getting one of these for a while I went into my garage and came up with this (see below) I found a piece of 2X2 , and a pair of tweezers. I then drilled 2 holes screwed one end to the wood and epoxed a small bolts head to one blade of the tweezers and left the bolt loose through the other hole. I then rummaged around and found a soft plastic end from a bathroom light pull cord (these have a hole for the cord to go through) by letting it cut its own thread onto the bolt I can use it to tighten the blades together The wood is heavy enough that it does'nt move about but I can stand it up or lay it down as required. it seems to be really effective if i use it under my homade lamp magnifier it clamps the smal parts firmly without any damage problems. All of what I am doing from now on I have picked up from reading the threads on this site or articals and info kindly supplied by various members of this site, so it is readily available to all of us here. So now down to the build. Revell 1/48th Spitefire MK IX First I washed the parts to get rid of grease and releasing agent that may be left after the injection molding, then an airbrushed flat base coat (light grey in this case) to give me a good keying surface last for today I applied the airframe green to the major internal surfaces. More when I have done a bit but be warned Im very slow at doing modeling I read,digest re read then take my time.... then swear and start again so it may be a little while before my next post on this build Last edited by trackend; 08-16-2009 at 06:19 PM. Reason: rubbish gramma |
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08-16-2009, 05:20 PM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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 | Not bad, Lee. Great engineering for the clamp!
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08-16-2009, 06:06 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Canvey Island, Essex
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| I work cheap Eric, the cheaper the better . its crude but does the job |
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08-16-2009, 06:21 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Adelaide Sth. Aust.
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| hey Lee before you get too excited , have you got my email about confirming the Spitfire kit, as I have some PDF's that will be invaluable to you! 
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08-16-2009, 07:10 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2008
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| Nice start Lee, and I love the clamp.
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08-17-2009, 03:52 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Canvey Island, Essex
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Ive PM'ed you so it should explain things many thanks lee PS I've stopped doing anything more till I've looked at your info Wayne. I must also mention here WOjtek (Wurger) as he sent me a fantastic document on painting models, this was invaluable in my first build and is so comprehensive, I keep it handy for reference on the side of my work area. thanks again WOjek Last edited by trackend; 08-17-2009 at 04:58 AM. Reason: added comment | |
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08-17-2009, 04:42 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida
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 | Nice lee.. Im building revells 1/48 spit mark II, sort of similar!
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08-17-2009, 04:47 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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| Looking great Lee! Love the tool! 
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08-17-2009, 05:24 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: billingham nr middlesbrough uk
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| great start Trackend
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08-17-2009, 05:24 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Queensland, Australia
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 | Looking forward to more Lee!
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08-17-2009, 06:53 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2008 Location: New Zealand
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| Looking good!
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08-17-2009, 08:07 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2007
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| Looks like a great kit Lee, should be a nice build! How are ya looking for the Wellington build btw? I'm thinking of doing a 1:72 Mk.X for the bomber build...be an interesting comparison to see how the '72 and '48 kits shape up... (Your workmanship will be better though I think )Evan |
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08-17-2009, 08:24 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Canvey Island, Essex
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| Not doing anything Wimpy wise AK4 until I get at least 2 more models done maybe more if i'm not happy with the results |
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08-17-2009, 08:29 AM
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| Older Than Dirt   Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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| Good start, Lee. Love that clamp ! [I must have one !]. Wayne's PDF's are priceless..... I know !! Charles
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08-17-2009, 08:58 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Adelaide Sth. Aust.
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