Vacform Britannia

[F-27pax]

That's a good looking floor too.

[kfutter]

Really impressive work, Wal! Every time I see someone building a vacform, I'm inspired to build one myself.

Kev

[VH-WAL]

Really impressive work, Wal! Every time I see someone building a vacform, I'm inspired to build one myself.

Kev

Hi Kev at times I'd say DO it! at others I'd say save yourself the trouble!

..............things have been progressing slowly, lots of masking, making up the wheel bogies fettling the white metal under carriage and props, again I am wishing I just stuck with out of injected plastic boxes, if only "they" would make kits that I want to build!

[hrtpaul]

Love it Wally. Looks awesome

[VH-WAL]

hi Paulie

Decal design work.. most have little idea how tedious this process can be!

the monarch logo on the fin will just be a clear decal paper design with the black surround, the underlying yellow paint will be the "fill"

[Graeme H]

Really looking good,

I for one have a small idea of how much decal work takes, as I failed miserably at the one miniscule one I tried
So when I see you doing whole schemes l'm in awe

[tor lives]

Really looking good Wal.
Saw one of these in this scheme many years ago at Duxford.
TOR

[RayS]

lovely scheme Wall, paint and test fit decals are looking good.

[VH-WAL]

well there doesn't seem to be that much progress for the amount of time spent on the model since my last post,
much of the time was decal design work and the complications of door and escape hatch outlines, door handles and associated signage, all was good but for the life of me I could not get the document to print, after much arsing around I determined the problem was that I was putting a pattern fill into the cabin windows to get some nice shading effects but there is a glitch in inkscape that prevents printing of this feature, after I filled the cabin windows with solid colours it printed ok...hours and hours that took!

also the registration letters were of no font known to man so I had to modify USAF Amarillo letters in inkscape to get the right look.
tailplane now painted, I decided to do the continuation of the black cheat line on the nose as paint rather than decal.. black is easy to match to I don't expect any problems at decal / paint junction.
Even though I use a laser printer now I still gloss coat the decals, it makes them much easier to apply and the gloss matches the glossy paint finish.

[RayS]

Still here following, decals look great.