Luft46's Blog

So tonight I have a scheduled blackout whilst various electrical cables are fixed overnight.

There was a little work done yesterday but as I undertook a nice local walk and some gardening I was too tired to do anything today.

I got a walk into my local model shop today and picked up some paint and a new book on doing vegetation for dioramas at a good price. I also particularly like the Vallejo rattle can German Yellow which goes on nicely without a primer.

The Vallejo white grey is a suggested Luftwaffe nightfighter colour according to an article in SAM.

It’s been a week where lots of stuff I ordered came in including the Me210 from Italeri as well as some paint from Ironlak.

Next up is a tool set from Displae via Ali Express for the huge sum of $62. I’ve already used the sprue cutter.

On the modelling front I now have lots of stuff that need the Vallejo rattle can including the fuel truck and Minenraumer back wheels. Additionally I need to mask up and paint the Avrocar in Tamiyas rattle can silver.

Last up is something silly.

Busy personal week so not much modelling time. I did get sone more done on the Avrocar with all the flaps back on. I’ve also polished the canopies with toothpaste and Future’d them.

The other work was on the fuel truck wheels which were sanded on the joint around the middle.

I also heard that Brengun/Hauler are releasing a 1.35 Wirzberg Reise radar which I’m looking at buying sometime. I’ve already built their lovely 1.72 version so I’m looking forward to this one. With the larger scale I am hoping to detail the actual control cabin area so that’s sent me down the rabbit hole of finding more details. And it’s a very deep hole.

The other area is I’ve bought a Me210 that will yield up a replacement canopy for the yellowed Toad resin one in the Me 265 kit. It will also yield the remote control gun pods that are also missing from the Toad kit. As the 265 was a redesign of the 210 using as many as possible of the 210 components this is a good starting point.

Not much modelling actually. Actually the only thing done was some kit fondling with the last box of kits coming out.

This is the Luft 46 resin kits one with lots from Toad Resins and the old Czechmaster.

Hopefully this lurgy will go away by next weekend.

Yep after 26 weeks of getting it done on time it all fell over. More due to just ran out of time.

Anyway more a week of stuff coming in the mail from Ali Express and BNA.

Here’s the BNA stuff – a rather large box with the 1.32 Hs 129 and some other stuff.

And the Ali Express stuff

I managed a little work on the Avrocar

And lastly I dragged out this part finished German fuel truck but more for a look, not sure whether this will get much love.

It’s been both types of PSR this week – Putty Sand Repeat and Paint Swear Repeat (Hein wheels). The wheels aren’t well defined to do painting on especially on the inner surface. A rare gaffe for Tamiya.

After last week’s accidents with the Avrocar this week has just been catching back up with some more work on the undercarriage and more PSR on the join in the middle along with  the fans.

The kit fondling has stopped for the moment.

Well it’s been a week of various things. I’ve had a week off work and had time for some modelling at least.

I’ve had this blog for 11 years free for a total of 3GB uploaded. I finally hit that ceiling and am now paying $5 per month for an additional 3GB. The service from WordPress to effect this was great. I’m happy to pay this given I’ve had so long for free.

Below are some more shots from Expo I was unable to upload as I had hit that ceiling.

Next up is the weekend’s purchases.

This week has seen me doing work on the Avrocar which looks like a Flying Saucer. Unfortunately over Friday and Saturday I managed to send it flying twice and that put me back to where I was a week ago as I had to repair it twice. In the meantime I did do work on the U/C at least.

And lastly a bad joke.

The week started with a public holiday so I managed to get some Milliput down on the UFO at least and it’s ready for some PSR next week.

In Melbourne I’ve been to both Hearns and Metro Hobbies. Hearns continues its slow decline with buzzer controlled entry now needed. It’s not a good sign and yet again I bought nothing there.

Sunday saw me at Expo at 9.30am with half an hour spare to check out a few traders before    following the emptied long queue upstairs. I bought a few decal sheets and headed back downstairs to buy a few things and check out the entries.

On the whole there seemed more entries and traders compared to last year and more people there which is a good sign.

I’ll post a few pictures below of the entries below finishing with what I think will be best of show. I’ll post a few more in another post.

It’s been a quiet modelling week with more stuff on other fronts occupying my time.

The UFO got a fair bit of work in part due to the very vague instructions which caused me to put the main cockpit in the wrong place. It’s a typical short run kit with a bit of wrestling required to get it done.

Anyway that’s all done now and after it sets up overnight it will be onto putting both halves together as tomorrow is a Public holiday.

Also my gold plated decals for the Mystery Machine arrived quickly enough. I’ll look at these properly tomorrow.

Apart from making very little progress on the wheels the Ki61 is nearly paint ready. Unfortunately as the inner rims are poorly defined it’s proving troublesome. I may have to resort to wheel masks.

The bin got more primer and I gave another one I have a coat also as I’ll be using it as a test bed. I’m getting a brass mask to help with this from Ali Express to do the rust effect.

I’m also getting a few other items from them that will appear in later posts. I’m blaming this on a friend who has led me astray in discovering this company.

Last up is the new shiny thing being the Avrocar VZ9 from Fly. It’s limited run and includes resin for much of the interior details. I’ve started in detail painting after cutting out most of the resin. The engine exhaust vanes are tricky as they are easy to break off which I did on two of them having to replace with plastic card but this was pretty simple to do as they are just rectangles.

Last up is my latest attempt to airbrush. It’s closer but that’s next week’s problem.

Not really much done due to the weather, concrete floored garages are just not conducive in this sort of weather.

I’ve resprayed select bits on the Mine clearer and a little sanding on the bin. It’s now had a coat of primer that I’m not really happy with. Card is not a great material and seems to get furry if you sand it at all. I’ll have to do more spraying to see if I’m happier after that. I’ve definitely not sprayed it enough yet.

An indication of how cold it is is that the below hat is now being worn in addition to the winter jacket.