With nice seams sprue glue is good enough even if you have to go over some parts more than one time. Sprue glue dries gloss and after sanding it’s easy to see if any of still is gloss.
The nacelles got a little more sprue glue.
Then after sanding the body I had to sort a few more spots.
The tires was assembled and wings and nacelles are ready for some paint.
Done sanding the body.
The canopies and turret was masked.
Next will be painting the area above the IP before glueing the clear parts.
I did a bit of dry brushing and the glued the weights in place.
The mid section guns.
The landing gears got painted.
Once that was done I started glueing interior parts in place.
The front landing gear was glued in place and then the cockpit floor and turret was glued before joining the fuselage halves.
While handling the plane I accidently broke part of the front gear. Hopefully I can get it in place later.
I also did a bit of dry fitting of the wings a tail assembly.
It’s quite a large beast! Luckily I don’t have to glue the wings until when it’s time for final assembly.
I struggled a bit with the metal parts to the landing gears, especially the smaller ones. So I took a break and built a few (quite a few rather) dwarfs for my Warhammer army.
I decided to have a go at it again and after checking both instructions I realised that the small parts I needed also was provided with the kit.
That made things a lot easier for me, and after some work they looked like this.
And sometime later they got black primer.
It was first after taking the pic that I noticed that one cable had moved a bit. I’ll correct that asap.
Kind of a quick update. The bolt thrower, crew and Bugman’s cart was primed black.
As well as som parts for the choppers.
I need to paint the interior and probably the bombs as well before continuing with the build.
I’ll try to solve it somehow with masking of some kind.
Next up on the table was my Ironbreakers and Irondrakes.
I made 2 groups of bodies with 10 in each. There are 4 of each body with a slight difference between them.
The Ironbreakers was assembled first.
The figures are fairly easy to build with very nice fit. The Irondrakes was a bit harder as both arms had to fit together in order to hold the weapon properly.
Games Workshop have made quite a few versions of the White Dwarf on their magazine with the same name. The figure is called Grombrindal and it turned out that I have one of the early ones.
I just have to paint him with white beard and all.
I also have two of the newer versions, the slayer and the latest 400th ed WD.
Some of the figures I have are made of white metal and even if I bought them recently they’re fairly old.
It takes more work to build a metal modell and the fit isn’t as good on newer ones in plastic.
Once I got all the pieces sorted and glued in place my Bolt thrower looks like this.
Next I’ll sort the crew for it. Not as much to do except cleaning them up and glue them to their bases.
I also have Bugman’s cart to build, which also is in metal. That will be the next project on my table.
Some time ago I bought the Mountain holds battalion box, which I haven’t started building yet. I also bought a few other boxes.
The first one was the King and Thane with shield bearers.
I could say that it’s fairly easy to build and being quite new, it is.
The three shield bearers.
The king built as well! I opted for the Odin helmet and great weapon.
I also thought it would be best to paint the shield bearers first, but after checking the fit, I had to rethink that a bit. More about that later.
There’s also a Thane figure, that I for some reason forgot to take pics of.
Next up is a set of Hammerers. A box with 20 figures that can either be built as Hammerers or Longbeards, or 10 of each with full command. I choose the latter option.
With them done I moved on to building some cannons.
The kit is a bit old, but went together pretty well. It’s possible to either build 2 cannons or 2 organ guns, or one of each.
Each crew member can have different arms which gives them a bit of variation.
It seems like I’m forgetting to take pics, but here’s the next one I’ve built.
After checking GW’s site about Grombrindal, I found out that the Slayer is one of the versions. I just have to paint his beard and hair white.
Here’s a pic of how the army looks like right now.
Next up will be these two boxes.
Once they’re built and painted I’ll have well over 2000 points or closer to 2500 even.
I got a little parcel today.
With this content!
So hopefully I can get this sorted and in place, so I can continue with the kit!
After sorting the instrument dekal, the IP was glued in place.
A little weathering and it’s done!
Some push rods was cut off!
The engine parts was painted.
Then I started assembling the engines.
I used Tamiyas panel wash on the back row cylinders.
I then decided to use the wash on the whole engine and the fuel lines was glued in place.
It wasn’t easy to get all the fuel lines right, and even worse was the exhaust pipes that had to go inbetween push rods and the other pipes.
Some more parts was painted interior green.
With the engines done, I did a little test fitting.
A little touching up to do, then I can glue them in place and start adding the exhaust pipes.
I assembled the wings.
Even if the fit is good, be sure to check that every part goes where it is supposed to. Some of them needs to be fit under the wing surface. I’ll wait with the lights until later, except for the three lights on the wing tip, which I nearly missed to put in place.
Then I started with the engine. Removing all the nubs and cleaning up took a while.
I read on a build that there was some issue with the push rod and after checking pics I realised that HK had made twice as many. There is as I understand it only two per cylinder.
I removed the parts for the other engine and will use 2 of the cleaned up push rod rings, and 2 rings where I’ll remove the push rods.
The reason is that the assembly will need all rings to fit later.
I’ll sort that next time a the desk!
I did some work on the backsides of some of the panels for the bombbay, painted the instrument panel black and sorted a few ammo lanes.
One strange thing is that the 1/48 scale version actually have a premade weight that goes with the kit! There’s none with this kit but I think there’s clear evidence that there was supposed to be one.
I measured 80g of bullets and put as many of them I could in the nose.
Then I used blue tack to hold the rest of the bullets that I put in the empty space behind the front landing gear well.
As can be seen I’ve also repainted the cockpit area with dull dark green.
I added the bombs to the side walls.
Then I assembled the bomb bay.
Lastly I added the ammo lanes to the rear gun.
I still need to paint a few more details and sort the mid guns. I’ll probably add a few wires to the guns as they seems to have that.
Hopefully I can soon start to assembly the interior and then the fuselage halves.
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