RAAF. F-111 C
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2 6 July 2019, 09:40
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How crisp is that moulding! Beautiful kit Kerry, must be a pleasure to work with.
7 July 2019, 10:28
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Augie. Over here, next to me, and I hope you bought your painting skills too. And the beer is free. 😉 👍
Peter, This is my third build of the Hobby Boss Pig, and there are some little extras thrown in as part of the 'update' by HB. Such as better decals and and clearer parts for the cockpit. 👍
7 July 2019, 11:16
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Woohoo, so number one of the group build is off with a tremendous start!!!😉 Nice stuff you are doing there, thx for the commented build steps on the bomb bay!
Love all that fancy red, but is it possible to build the kit with the wings folded back? (with a reasonable effort 🙂 )?
Mine is due next week, but I'll never catch-up anyway😉
7 July 2019, 11:42
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I will definitely follow this one Kerry, what a great machine this is ...! 👍
7 July 2019, 12:19
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Slavo, I was thinking about that aspect when I was looking at the lugs holding the wings forward and how easy it would be to have the wings folded, especially with the alteration needed for the 'curtains' the wing passes through in the fuselage. YES. I think it would be quite possible, as the weapons stores location on the wings seems to allow for the folded position too. 😉
Augie, I am depending on you for some hints ant tips with the brush aspect as I will be doing a fair bit in the cockpit area, even though I have the decals. ! 😉.
Jos, Stephan and Maciej. Welcome my friends, I hope I can do it justice. 👍 🙂
7 July 2019, 16:43
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Well now you done it Kerry, now I had to start mine! will be using yours as a benchmark! lol
7 July 2019, 19:07
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Augie, that is one hell of a compliment my friend. 🙂 👍 so, you keep a sharp eye on this build, because, I will have some invaluable tips and hints for you all, dealing with the fit issues that Hobby Boss have not addressed and that that is especially around the cockpit area and how and what to trim to get it to sit right without using the jaws of death to make it happen. ! ! ! and also, the replacement of static electricity discharge wicks on the trailing edges of the tail and elevators that will always be getting bent or broken off and how to avoid that from happening and making them look even MORE realistic than what comes in the box, and the detail for that effort will be found in the 'Boneyard Wrangler' post here. . !
James, the hard ware will be getting built and attached to the pylons, but attached (if I do ), at the very last couple of seconds, though I would like to do a weapons spread on the ground like you see in so many promotional images that came with the F one eleven to show just how capable these animals were in carrying an iron foundry underwing. 👍 🙂
There really are a lot of areas that need 'trimming' to have them fit properly and with ease, so I will post all I find in images with text and some hints on how I went about overcoming these other wise simple fit bits.
So. ! Tally Ho. ! 🙂
7 July 2019, 21:27
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I've been dryfitting mine, I might be wrong, but I dont seem to have this issue 🤔 bizzare, I will see how it goes
8 July 2019, 21:28
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Excellent. ! That is strange as I had this issue with both the others I built. Just make sure it all conforms exactly. 👍 🙂
8 July 2019, 23:33
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Not as fast as with the phalanx, but you are definitely making away in front of the main field of group builders! 🙂 And that´s a noteworthy ordnance load, the fuses look particularly crisp, this is OOB material? I did not even open my bomb-sprues.
11 July 2019, 12:02
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Slavo, The kit ordinance is crisp and exact. 👍
I have just finished masking up the base of the model ready for the matt black. !
The kit goes together surprisingly fast, but I guess having built two others, familiarity helps a wee bit. 🙂
I have been using 'clear fix' to hold the clear parts in place as I go about the spraying, and freezer bags are a lot of fun to use with blu tak putty for the cammo pattern on the upper surfaces. 👍
More about that later. 😉
11 July 2019, 13:10
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Would be great to find an actual use for Humbrol Clear Fix - so far it´s the most overpromise/underdeliver material in my collection - looking great when applied and collapsing into a "empty snake-skin" heap after drying...😉
Looking forward to further tips & warnings, I hope the internet will still be around when I progress enough in my build to do these operations 😄
11 July 2019, 13:29
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The type of 'Clear Fix' I use is this.
Tamiya's Sauber Mercedes C9. | Album by RedRoo
11 July 2019, 14:35
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Maybe I held my tongue in the wrong place when I did mine. hehehehe 🙂
I am pleased that you encountered no problems. 👍
11 July 2019, 20:27
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Excellent! I am enjoying every minute of this. Try and keep up Augie! With four of these classics on the go I won't ever have to build one!
11 July 2019, 21:17
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I just ordered my decal set from this mob in Melbourne. AD 4028
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12 July 2019, 02:33
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James, any sort of cover, including cooking paper is OK too. But I prefer the freezer bags as the blu tak 'lets it go' when removing it from the stuff you have applied. 🙂
14 July 2019, 20:36
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Serious progress, looking smooth all over and a good read too 🙂 I'm going all grey, but I may use the plastic bag for the folded wings at a point, seems a good idea. Very much looking forward for the further steps and particularly on the tips around the static dischargers, I am a little bit undecided how to sort these...
14 July 2019, 20:42
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Hans, a great solution for the static electricity discharge wicks for sure, as I used fishing line but it always had a curve to it. 😉
Thanks for all the comments and watching from the bleachers lads. It certainly helps. 🙂
BTW, the humbrol dark green colour I have used, (The required stipulated one) seems awfully dark and not as I remember seeing all the other.....
Maybe the sun had something to do with it. ? !
15 July 2019, 02:06
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Sounds like a solution, but you have to time it well, applying just before the jury comes to see your model 😄 👍
15 July 2019, 05:04
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All I heard is that you have to swallow them fast, ior you'll have a stiff neck...
15 July 2019, 08:50
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Make sure you use gloves or you'll end up with fat fingers. Makes applying photo etch quite difficult.
20 July 2019, 19:56
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Thanks James. But as I have indicated. Some of the decals look like there is silvering, yet the other 99% are just as I wanted them. 😉
29 July 2019, 23:25
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Mr Tim. Thank you for that. 🙂
This kit is such a joy to work on. And having crawled all over one a few years back taking images, they are my favorite aircraft. 👍 🙂
30 July 2019, 01:14
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Tim, Donald and Clifford. 👍
Thanks for tagging along guys. 🙂
I am at the 'lock up' stage now.
Undercart, bomb bay doors and lights.
I have had my dramas, and now, I am picking little white spots off the body work from the talcum lumps in the dull coat that got past my gauze filter, 🙁
modellers measles hahahahahaha 🙂
Unfortunately, we have hands that must always be handling the bloody thing, and with that, some paint wares off that I will have to hairy stik back to health. :-/
All in all, a grouse time and lots of enjoyment. 🙂 👍
Thanks for hanging around. 👍
30 July 2019, 04:16
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Kez, if you ever give up building models you can start a career in photographing them. My favourite part of this build might surprise you, I just love the red slats, they remind me of a fish showing it's gills! I guess for me it shows the third dimension to the plane. I do have a question though, and it is a little weird but how do you ensure all your tyres touch the base? Do you have a process? No doubt all aero builders have an approach but yours is?
30 July 2019, 06:50
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Tyres on the ground. ! Mmmmmmm
Being a tricycle configuration, all wheels/tyres naturally level out under the immense weight to have all wheels even out.
Why the trick question. ? Mmmmmmmmm.?
30 July 2019, 07:44
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Looking great in the finished SEA camo and with the decals ON 👍 Looking forward to the bombload and all the final bits😉 Did the HB kit need a nose weight after all?
30 July 2019, 07:55
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No nose weight other than the blue tak putty in the avionics bays.
The bomb load is something that I just don't like, even with the lot we have in the kit, I will not be slinging any iron.
Why distract the viewers attention on what is under all the excitement that is the PIG. ?
30 July 2019, 08:15
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So the preps on pic 59-61 were a tactical diversion? 😄 No issues with a clean plane on my end though, going for the same, just with swept wings... 👍
30 July 2019, 08:24
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Kerry, not a trick question. The nose wheels are a dual wheel set up, that makes four tyres on the tarmac. Most builds end up with one on the deck and one in the air. You NEVER do, how?
30 July 2019, 09:02
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Peter, now I know what you mean about the nose twins. Thankfully, the casting was a perfect mould. 😉
30 July 2019, 09:08
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I was in Australia back in 2006 and it was in the news that they would burry the Vark airframes in some undisclosed dump. I was astonished and pretty sad to hear this...
30 July 2019, 19:37
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Yes mate, they stuck a whole squadron of them in the ground. 🙁
The "River fire festival" had it as their draw card because it was used every year to dump and burn all the way along the Brisbane river, but now use F-18's and no flames, just afterburners.
31 July 2019, 00:32
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Great looking & pimped engine, & a really cool scratch cooler😉 👍 The HB kit concept is a little bit of a mystery to me - providing a decent base for this type of engine presentation, which normally gets hidden inside the fuselage & stay invisible, but no intake ducts to actually lead to the engine, which is at least a partially visible part of the kit...
Also the clear parts job looks excellent. The Parrafilm solution seems a great way to go, need to check if there is a continental Europe equivalent! (not the case with Future... 🙁 )
Is the interior side of the canopy just painted black or did you apply some tape/material for the black layer?
31 July 2019, 15:49
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Slavo. I applied the parrafilm to both sides of the clear parts and removed with a new scalpel blade the film that was covering the parts I needed to paint.
It takes just finger pressure to squeeze the film into position, but not that much that your going to start the shatter effect and spoil everything.
As you know, there is a difference in both sides of the access windows, internally and externally, and with the parrafilm, the differenced are more pronounced/obvious as the film is gently squeezed into place.
Stephen, thank you for your most welcome comments on the detail, the fun part of all modelling I think. 🙂 👍
1 August 2019, 21:08
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Clifford. I am embarrassed now mate. 😉
Thank you so much for your uplifting words, I am most humbled. 👍
1 August 2019, 23:42
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Thank guys. 😉
I am pleased with this build, but the decals.
Short of plying the whole thing with more matt clear, I don't know what to do. 🙁
2 August 2019, 08:10
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I am overwhelmed with such compliments. !
You are all most kind and supportive and I thank you all for how it makes me feel. 👍
Thank you. 🙂
2 August 2019, 09:13
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Have the same problem with a few kits... 95% finisher, but still haven't found how to treat this...
2 August 2019, 10:55
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Kerry having a look at your albums with all the great stuff built and pedantic comments & tips is ever so helpful it's us who should be grateful for the support!😉
Since this is obviously not your first F-111, I suspect not even the second... so Congrats to one of the best Pigs/Varks you've built!😉 - a pleasure to watch, enjoy whichever is closest to your heart!
2 August 2019, 11:09
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Slavo. You certainly have a way with words mate. 🙂
I have been around for a few years, but it's only since I have been with SM that I have really started to enjoy my hobby, and mastering how to use 'Paint' and the text and paint brush, I have been able to translate some of what I do and find into something that I can pass on tips and trick to all you lads and lassies.
And being an avid photographer helps too. 👍 🙂
2 August 2019, 11:49
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I have learned so much from so many people, since I became a member of SM, that I cannot even count them.
2 August 2019, 20:50
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Kez, I hate to be a pain but could I ask for a photo essay on the finished build and you have not included any detail shots of the engine gurney that you scratchbuilt. That looks worthy of three or four pics as well.
2 August 2019, 22:46
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James, I am looking at some 'Uschi' airfield/revetment situation stuff he has on offer, or, just a plinth from Bunnings painted up to look like a concrete apron and a small tow tractor attached to the trolly. 👍
KISS (keep it simple) and see what happens mate. 🙂
4 August 2019, 23:10
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Thank you Mr Crandell. I was always in awe of the Pig, from the day one we got it. 👍 🙂
7 August 2019, 18:25
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Excellent finish, pic 134 one of my all time favorites! 👍 👍 👍 I also sign under James petition to reveal the secrets of the yellow canopy outline😉
7 August 2019, 20:02
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James, the yellow around the canopy glazing are the decals provided with the kit, as Augie has knowledge of too. 🙂 👍
Stephan, I thank you my friend. 👍 🙂
Slavo, I am humbled that you think my work is good. 😉 (Thank you master. !) 😉 👍
Augie, good spotting mate, and, I trimmed off most of and a little more of the carrier film on them too, mainly to cut down on something that would other wise over crowd a small space as it is. ! 😉 👍
7 August 2019, 22:18
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I only twigged as I have been doing the very same thing in preparation for my own lol
7 August 2019, 22:34
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Cheers Augie. And be careful not to tear them once the support of the carrier film is gone. !
7 August 2019, 22:55
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I dont think they are on mine. i will have to look. If not, I need to find a set.
8 August 2019, 02:07
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I have the same issue also. I think I will try and paint mine. The Acadmey sheet doesn't have them and I don't think the Carcal sheet I am using has them either. I am not sure if the Dark Vark's had them. I will have to do some research and find out.
8 August 2019, 03:44
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Not many actually had the yellow at all, as it was usually the white detonator cord that was obvious, but was useless to have it, as the whole cockpit module was the only way of escaping a damaged bird, and there was a fail safe system of opening the access windows when complete exit from the module was necessary.
Cosmetic I call it really. "Lipstick". 😉
8 August 2019, 04:16
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Very nicely done, nice camo too. Don't knew the wingroots could turn like that.
With regards to the ejection: ejectionsite.com/f111.htm very elaborate but no mention of detcord in the canopy. Could also be some insulation as seen on Russian aircraft.
8 August 2019, 05:48
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Bart, Thank you muchly for your positive comments. 😉
In my post of the Bone Yard Wrangler, there looks to be det cord in or close to the frame.
8 August 2019, 06:22
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She is all finished now Stephan. !
Everything is where it should be and I am most happy. 👍 🙂
8 August 2019, 20:34
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@ yellow canopy lines - sometimes we need Mr. Kerry Cox to remind us what's actually in the box... Working with the Aussie decals, I completely forgot I got these too on the HB decal sheet... 😄
8 August 2019, 20:52
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Slavo. 🙂
The HB decals are not that bad really.
But one thing I did notice s the 'walkway' and 'No Step' are back to front and it would have been wiser to trim them off and place them in the right positions and correct way . Other than that, a good decal sheet. 😉
8 August 2019, 21:29
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Clifford. Thank you most kindly my friend. 🙂 👍
I had an immense amount of fun. 👍
9 August 2019, 02:27
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Hobby Bosses 1/48 Australian 'Pig' in the original South East Asian camouflage, naked, or............. without weapons.