Tiger Meet GB - Revell 1/144 Puma

[FTS]

I aim to not let this be a one man GB and hope to squeeze this in before the deadline. I'm on leave for the next two weeks, however i'm on baby raising duty, so i'll be building when she sleeps



For some reason this kit had two sets of decals and instructions, so if anyone wants the spare set i'm happy to put them in the post.

[Deacon]

You star mate!

This is a great little kit so look forward to seeing it finished.

This is the one I did for the RIAT GB........



Hopefully yours won't be so ORANGE!

Alan

[FTS]

I was looking at your build yesterday. I'm going to try and remove the middle of the three seats like was suggested on your thread. I'll be making a start on it later.

[FTS]

Here's an update of where i'm up to. Pace throughout the week has been slow but I was able to crack on with it today. This kit fits together really well, but is massively fiddly. I'm amazed I haven't lost any pieces to the carpet monster. I'm afraid to sneeze around it!

After spending ages on Google trying to get references, and looking at what was said on Alans build, I opted to remove the centre seats of the 3 banks. I removed the backs of the forward seats, and in place added some Tamiya tape to form the fabric which covers over part of the window. I forgot to take a picture of this stage. As I couldn't cut the tape small enough for belts, I used a brush instead.
Started with this;

and finished like this;


This is how it looks at present;


I plan to built it with one of the side doors open, and also one of the cockpit doors open. I'll try and start the painting tomorrow.

[Deacon]

Great start mate.

Looking good.

Alan

[Craig]

MY EYES!!!

A cracking start, you're braver than I working in this scale!

[FTS]

I've made the deadline! Well almost...ish My plan over the last two weeks was to get this finished in plenty of time, but my daughter didn't like that plan, so I was only able to bits here and there. Then one of the cats ran off with a side door, so had to find that. Two days later I found it I was going to do Legends today and Wado tomorrow, but I was not going to miss a deadline, so Wado was dropped and i'll do Legends tomorrow.

I found out today that as long as my wife is around, and i'm left to get on with it, I can still do a lot of modelling in a day. This morning i'd got the white and orange on, but I wasn't happy with the orange, so I mixed another batch and applied a few more coats. Then I completely forgot to take a picture until i'd applied the tiger stripes! I couldn't find any staws small enough, so the exhaust were made from the tip of a pipette.


Some of the stripes have to be applied by hand due to the scale. I knocked off the horizontal stabilizer when attaching the tail rotor, and that was a bugger to fit back on and keep horizontal. As mentione in my previous post, the main rotor isn't going together well at all. It still hasn't set, so for my gallery shots, pleae forgive the finger holding it level. Hopefully itll dry hard one day.

Anyway here it is finished. I'll put other shots in the gallery.


Oh and I wont be building anything this small again! Never, never, never!

[Deacon]

An absolute cracking build.

Well done sir.

Alan

[Craig]

Looks a great job mate rather you than me! I'll stick at 1:72 upwards I think!