Luft46's Blog

Don’t worry it won’t last long.

It’s become obvious in this last stage that I really should have done this in a different sequence. Putting the fuel tank on the back of the truck caused many swear words compounded by me trying not to knock anything off at the same time and keep it roughly square. I should have assembled most of it then painted then did the final assembly but as I do trucks so rarely it tends to be a learning experience each time.

After lots of wrestling and knocking the rear doors off a few times it’s finally done. It’s not too bad especially from a few inches back, up close not so much.

This is the first kit completed for the year and I may get one more done before I head off overseas on holiday.

Next week another care package from BNA will arrive.

I did a little more on the Ta 283 starting to box in the main u/c bay with plastic strip. It’s just too much of a look through effect for me not to do this. Not enough to bother witha photo though.

Not much modelling time this week but at least progress. I’ve done some basic weathering and the tyres are almost done in their own PSR cycle which is paint, swear at the couple of mistakes then repeat in the other colour. Not made any easier by one colour being from a spray can so it’s a quick spray onto a tile then use an almost dead fine brush and do my best.

I’m up to the last stage of this I hope and have done both the number plate decals. These are pretty average efforts from Academy and took two attempts to get right and even then both of them split.

I also had to fix the headlights but that was mostly my fault in trying to do them as clear lights rather than hooded. Milliput has fixed that issue.

The Huma FW Ta283 got a little love with some lead in the nose but that’s all.

Hopefully this is the last of these planned events.

I did manage some work on the fuel truck including finishing an initial run at the wheels. I’ll have to do a second run to pick up a few mistakes. I’ve also done some initial weathering but more to come. Once I get the wheels on then it should be OK to finish with the small parts.

I’ve also done a bit on the Huma Fw Ta283 which somehow was missing the small parts sprue. As this is fairly easy to duplicate based on a screenshot a friend sent I will be doing a bit of fettling and dragging stuff from the spares box to fix this problem. As this is Luft46 no one can say I’m wrong. I’ll need to add some weight behind the front uc bay as it will be a tail sitter with those ramjets at the rear.

I’ve done this update on my tablet so feedback on the picture quality would be appreciated.

I had Thursday off and for a change got a lot of modelling in. This included masking up and painting most of the Luftwaffe fuel truck.

Not so successful in this attempt was the Avrocar. In masking up I managed to pop the central fan into the closed up fuselage. After attempting to position and reglue this fan overnight I realised that this wouldn’t work and for the third time the fuselage halves were opened up.

Mind you today it decided to act up further and I lost one of the six flaps to the concrete floor monster whilst sanding so after some searching I’ve given up on this kit. It’s beaten me for the moment.

Despite not having much time for modelling over the weekend with lots of friends and family time I did at least start painting the six tyres. I’ve got a number of small parts to paint and put on the engine area but these need to wait till the fuel tank and tyres are on. They will need some weathering also.

And if you know you know. This was from the BBC TV series back in the 80’s.