Hey Bill. Will be checking out your pictures when I get home. All I can do is read and send posts here at work. Yeah I found out about that inside masking thing early on in modeling. I have a green house canopy somewhere in my future to do on a BV141 from Hi PM in 48th scale to mask inside and out on. I am still looking for a set of masks for that thing. A TRUE test of skills on that one even with pre cut masks.
Really nice work, Bill! I can’t imagine doing such stuff with a rattle-can…
Joe: Yep, greenhouse-canopies are a pain to mask… I am dreading the ccanopy-masking on my B-25… Is it enough to just mask the outside and spray the interior color on the outside (before applying the exterior color), or would you recommend masking and spraying it from the inside? It’s 1/32nd scale…
There are others that might say that painting from the outside would be ok but if it were mine I would mask inside and out, especially for 32nd scale. Larger scales need that kind of attention. 1/48th you might get by with just outside and 72nd I wouldn’t bother with inside. Plus the larger scales tend to lend the glass panels to be opened up so again masking inside is the way to go in my opinion.
I usually don’t mask the inside but I think with planes like the 109 where if the canopy is open, the inside frames are easily seen, need to be masked and painted. Just doesn’t look right with the glossy frames on the inside. When I get back to my 32nd 109 I will either mask the inside or might even buy the PE canopy if I can find it.
Didn’t know that PE canopys were available!!
RB makes a couple. They look pretty dang cool, not sure how well they go together though.
I’ll be checking that stuff out at home tonight! Wow. You learn something new everyday.
Clemens, you have a 1/32 scale B-25? You’re lucky you don’t live close to me or I’d steal it. How’d you get ahold of that in Austria? (Yer in Austria, right?) However, I did find one in Minneapolis. I just don’t want to pay nearly 200 bucks for it right now.
Greenhouse canopies are fun. I’ve built a Stuka, so, been there …
And speaking of canopies. On these 190 A’s, have any of you ever made the antenna wire actually work? I mean, make it stay tight AND be able to open and close the canopy. If using thread for the wire, I could see maybe using an internal weight hanging on the end. Or maybe a spring in the fuselage? My canopy already has a slotted anchor on top that could act as a pulley. Just need to make a small hole ahead of that
I have noticed that on most models with movable canopies, the wire is slack when the canopy is open. But on the actual planes, it appears to stay tight.
The later blown style canopies actually fell slack when the canopy was in the open position. Even the flat canopy on Dortenmanns A-8 did not have the pulley mechanism and would have fell slack when opened. Would be interesting to see if this could be pulled off though, but I would think not too many canopies are moved from open to closed in 48th scale, maybe the larger stuff.
Man, its 190 fever in here. Great work going on. Bill- nice job on the cowling. I love those head on shots of the wurger, they just look so mean.
Jester- sweet colors. Now hurry up and unmask that baby and weather her up!
Joe Rix- Nice work on the cammo colors. All that masking paid off for you.
Everyone else, nice job. Way to keep the GB goin strong.
Bill: Yep, I have one of those kits! They are really easy to get here in Austria! Hey, Austria may be a small country, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t get good stuff as well! [;)]
The owner of my LHS has pre-ordered HKs new B-17 as well! I am so going to buy that one!
Just out of curiosity how much is that big beast of a B-17 going for? I can’t imagine building something of that size. I barely have room for my 1/24 scale Bf 109!
Sprue has it listed at 277 clams!!!
Way too much model for me! Price is a bit outside of my range (not by much) but the model is just way too big. I just got off of the HK website. Seems the Lancaster is soon to make its debut right along side of this one!
The wingspan of that beast is just below 1m…
It would be great to see one in real life but way too much model for me. The only place I would have for it would be to hang it from the ceiling. Then I couldn’t enjoy looking at it in detail!
Yeah, I have no place for it either… for now! I am going to either throw it into the NMF GB or Start a WIP thread. Either way, I’ll send you a link as soon as I get started, if you are interested
Bill - I am really liking what your doing there. You sure are making the most of that kit. Good stuff. I will make a plug here though to save you all that taping, SILLY PUTTY BABY!!!
On the HK B-17: Given that it has taken me nigh on 7 months to even get the paint on my 1/72 190 that 1/32 B-17 would take me the rest of my time on earth to build. Heck, I could just sell off my entire stash and not have to worry about what to build next.
Well, I wouldn’t have used Silly Putty for any large masking needs (I just don’t like it. Tape is easier.) But, I probably should have used it for the small, random shaped splotches. Hmmm, why the hell didn’t I . . . . . ? Brain damage.
And about the B-17 … Clemens, really? 1/32 scale B-17? Why are you consorting with the likes of us if you live in a mansion. That puppy would need it’s own hangar
…and ground crew!!!
Well so far so good. After I installed my upper IP the other day, the dang gunsight fell off of the IP into the cockpit. I was able to retrieve it and re-install it. Whew! I also pulled all of the masking off of the windscreen and installed that last night. Will post some more pics as I make a little more progress.