Heres my Hellcat finally starting gonna make headway to much snow around.

Will have an update photo or to tonite some time

Sascha(Ironowl)

well heres my update this kit is nice no real fit problems and everything is coming together real nice should be finished this weekend


Sascha(Ironowl)

That Hellcat's coming along nicely.
-Sean

A word of warning about the BWN Enterprise. I remember that some years ago a professional ship model builder in the UK built one for the IWM's site at Duxford and he reported that the instructions were a bit of a horror story. One thing that sticks in my mind is a step which said that there was a part that needed to have been added at an earlier stage and which would now not fit. It was as though the instructions had been written while building it but nobody had thought to re-order them afterwards. Now this was well over a decade ago so with luck, they have since been improved but it might be wise to read them from start to finish before starting any assembly. Count all the parts too - I think he was missing a few from his kit.

Having seen the finished model that he built, it does look very impressive, although the nameplate, presumably provided by someone else, claimed that it was 1/35 scale!

Thanks Sean should have an update tonight


Sascha

Nice work Sascha!

Another warning about the BWN CV-6. Resin shrinks, photo etch does not. The hull comes in three large chunks; bow, midship and stern. If you glue them together as is and get to the point in assembly where you install the photo etch flight deck, you'll be sorry as the deck will be too long.

When I started (but not finished) mine, I first made photocopies of the deck pieces and taped the copies together. Then I cut out the copies around the fore and aft elevators. Since the hull parts include the hanger deck with elevator wells, I could use the deck copy to line everything up and see how much material I had to add between the three chunks. The answer was, a lot.

It's a great model, but you've got to work it.

Michael

Well performing careful surgery on the decals has worked out rather well. Many decals required surgery before and after being applied to make them fit around the contours of the ship. The bottom of saucer turned out okay. There are a couple of thin lines where the pieces that I cut of that big decal ended up overlapping as they were drying, but it is only noticeable up close. At arms length you really have to search for it.

You can see one big tear on the engineering hull. I am going to have to put some battle damage there I think.

Well,
Now that I failed miserably at my own campaign and an extension has been granted I can finish this one.

I have done most of the hard PE work on the nose man those inside frames are a .

Now I just have the instruments and consoles and I can glue the cockpit halves together.

Cheers Rob.

Thanks to Fred and for Russell I'll build the Shuttle Galileo for this campaign.

Hello All,
27 days to go till the campaign ends.
Just a warning
Cheers,
Bruce

Hi Bruce, good to see you!
I will be making a mad dash with an unexpected (for me) build.

The sprint to the end begins (again!) Looking forward to seeing the completed builds!

Michael

Hello All am at the Decal stage should be Finished by tonight some time

Sascha(Ironowl)

http://gallery.kitmaker.net/data/500/Cindy_Luv_s_Peeps_008.JPG



Heres White 71 from the USS Enterprise VF-20 the decals gave me a fit but I was able to finish.

Sascha (Ironowl)

http://gallery.kitmaker.net/data/500/Cindy_Luv_s_Peeps_007.JPG

another shot

Sascha(Ironowl)


now to find the gallery lol

I have tried to download to the gallery they wont download ?
and the pics popped up as links on the above posts? I have to go to work so I cant sort this out until sunday. I had fun an think there was a lot of cool builds here.

Sascha(Ironowl)

Sascha(Ironowl)

well shes done

Sascha(Ironowl)

Nice job Sascha! Sorry the system gave you such fits.

The gallery is here. Don't forget to upload your pics!

Michael

It's coming along,
Although I am having some issues with the cockpit between my eyes and the soft molding on some of the pieces it's taking longer than it should.
Once the cockpit is done it should go alot faster.

Cheers Rob.

Thanks I had a computer moment it wasn't the system. Photos are now in the Gallery. Thanks for the awesome campaign.

Sascha(Ironowl)

The cockpit is coming together rather nicely if I do say
I had primed the side panels in white so after painting the grey, black and the knobs I used the point of a No11 blade to make representations of the text for all the buttons. I then made the throttle and flap levers as well as a couple of levers for the IP and the round cylinder with coiled wire for the rear, not sure what it's called.

Cheers Rob.

Go Rob go!

Michael