1/48 GWH F-15 B/D build

George · Post by **George** » Wed Jan 29, 2014 7:36 pm

GWH F-15 video build with Paul. Here is the kit and the spruces. My son (when he can) and I will be building this kit in conjunction with Paul's videos. We are going to try and keep up. This will be our first jet build.

Instructions did not come with the correction sheet for part 6 that was included with Paul's kit.

Lots of decals.

We will post more up soon as we are going to start tonight.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Wed Jan 29, 2014 9:08 pm

George do you want the amendment sheet as I have it on PDF, pm me your email addy and I'll send the to you

Look forward to seeing you built this too, hope you and your son have great fun together

George · Post by **George** » Thu Jan 30, 2014 3:55 pm

I only had time last night to drill out the holes on the handles of the seats. I used a dremel tool to clean up the rest. I should be able to put seats together tonight.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Thu Jan 30, 2014 4:13 pm

Nice work George, looks better than mine, i got a little carried away with my rotary tool lol

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Thu Jan 30, 2014 4:45 pm

That's quite the set up George, your work bench I mean.
Both Paul and I are terrible for looking at work areas. It's like porn to us haha.
That's a great start buddy, I haven't checked Paul's threspad out but it looks as though this will bean cool build to watch.

George · Post by **George** » Thu Jan 30, 2014 5:25 pm

Thanks. This spring i want to put a spray booth area on the right side of the bench. A friend of mine is a heating/cooling specialist and I think we can get a small exhaust fan and some tubing and come up with a good ventilation system to vent outside. This is in the corner of our basement.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Thu Jan 30, 2014 6:23 pm

Nice and clean and tidy, just how a workbench should be

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:54 pm

Paul wrote:Nice and clean and tidy, just how a workbench should be

Oh dear, really?

Nice update, George. I'll be watching this as I tidy my bench then

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:59 pm

Rob wrote:
Paul wrote:Nice and clean and tidy, just how a workbench should be
Oh dear, really?

Nice update, George. I'll be watching this as I tidy my bench then

Only IMO Rob

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 10:01 pm

Paul wrote:
Rob wrote:
Paul wrote:Nice and clean and tidy, just how a workbench should be
Oh dear, really?

Nice update, George. I'll be watching this as I tidy my bench then
Only IMO Rob

Bah!!!! CLEAN!!!!!
BAH!!!!

A happy work space is a dirty workspace!!

George · Post by **George** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 10:48 pm

Its like that game can you find Coen!

George · Post by **George** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:01 pm

All of the seats are built. I did have the same gap as Paul in the video. I have not filled the gap yet but will before painting. I am waiting for my Vallejo putty to arrive. I did notice that when I tried to dry fit the seats into the cockpit the holes did not line up with the pegs. They are off by about the gap in the seats? I should still be able to glue seats in after painting.

Here is the cockpit assembly parts completed.

Everything ready for paint. I will also cut out all the parts that need to be painted as Paul did in his video.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:30 pm

Nice work George, I'll have to check that seat fitting when I go in the workshop next

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 2:56 pm

Problem solved George, have a look here
http://intscalemodeller.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=4795

Nige201980 · Post by **Nige201980** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 4:19 pm

Great start mate

conradschmid99 · Post by **conradschmid99** » Fri Feb 07, 2014 4:02 am

looks great!

RobertA · Post by **RobertA** » Fri Feb 07, 2014 11:53 am

Superior!!

George · Post by **George** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:08 am

Thanks everyone. I have finished all the painting and I am now caught up with Paul. I used Tamiya Dark Sea Grey XF-54 for the cockpit and XF-1 Flat Black for the seats. Now I will wait for the next video which should be out soon, according to Paul.

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 10:10 am

Looks great so far George. Looking at that paint call out for the instrument panel makes my eyes dry up... WOW!!!
Won't that be fun.
Paul is nodding his head saying yesth ... yesth.... hahaha.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 10:40 am

Coen wrote:Looks great so far George. Looking at that paint call out for the instrument panel makes my eyes dry up... WOW!!!
Won't that be fun.
Paul is nodding his head saying yesth ... yesth.... hahaha.

Lol mike, that's not a paint callout, that's a decal callout lol

It's looking good George, I'm hoping to have part 2 done by weds or Thursday, got held up with the last technique video

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 5:40 pm

yuck... I thought that it was bad enough on the outside.... Wow
You boys have big hairy ones for doing that.

patrickroos · Post by **patrickroos** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 8:12 pm

Looks very nice!
Is that the OOB cockpit? If Yes Wow!! No need for resin there...looks fantastic.

George · Post by **George** » Tue Feb 11, 2014 4:22 am

Thanks. Yes it is. There are a ton of decals that go in there. Paul will be putting them on in the next video. The video should be out later this week.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:38 am

George wrote:Thanks. Yes it is. There are a ton of decals that go in there. Paul will be putting them on in the next video. The video should be out later this week.

Filming starts today

patrickroos · Post by **patrickroos** » Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:34 pm

Coolness!!!
I have the GWH FW-189A2, seems to be a fantstic kit and looking forward to build it.
Super detailed, included PE, nice decals and masks.
GWH is right up there...

George · Post by **George** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:06 pm

The new video is up and I should have updates on the thread SOON!! I will watch the video today and start tonight.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:07 pm

George wrote:The new video is up and I should have updates on the thread SOON!! I will watch the video today and start tonight.

Nice one George I'll update my thread when I venture back to the cave, got some pics of the MacBook

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Thu Feb 20, 2014 5:02 pm

I'm about 15 mins in.... I love this uber kit.... Drool!

George · Post by **George** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 3:34 am

I did get the cockpit masked tonight. It took an 1 1/2 hours but I got it done. I will spray tomorrow and start decaling the instrument panels.

HistoryRider · Post by **HistoryRider** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 5:30 am

WOW!!! A great looking job so far! Cant wait to see the finish!

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 9:09 am

Nice one George

cib2265 · Post by **cib2265** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:01 am

What a great kit and a great build!

I'll have to twist the wife's arm to watch Paul's 2nd part video tonight after dinner instead of our Friday night movie....heh heh heh.

Great workshop setup too George - I'm about to build a set of shelves this weekend very similar to your own for my growing collection of paints. Seem to be buying 5-10 jars a week at this rate and only on my 4th model!

Looking forward to more updates!

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 1:22 pm

Wow... you have a huge hairy set of patience George! I thought that Paul was crazy masking the interior of a cockpit.
That's a skill setter right there.
Nice work guys.

George · Post by **George** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:59 pm

I got all the cockpit and seats painted according to Pauls video. I painted the cockpit in Tamiya XF-54(Dark Sea Gray) and XF-1(black) but because Tamiya paints don't brush well, I used Model Master Dark Gull Grey #1740 on the seats. The colors were really close. I hope to get some of the decals on the instrument panels later tonight.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Sat Feb 22, 2014 11:11 pm

Excellent work George, looks mad seeing a mirror image if the builds

Merlin · Post by **Merlin** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 10:42 am

Only just caught up with this,

but it's looking very very impressive so far George. Keep up the great work.

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 11:14 am

Damn fine work!
Modellers are like US Marines... well only in one way hahah... we make do.

George · Post by **George** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 2:58 am

Thanks everyone!! Well I had to borrow the Hubble Telescope from NASA but I got all 40 decals on the instrument panel. I'm not sure what was more trying, the decals or my son running around with his trombone trying to play it. (While I'm putting the decal on.) He just got it from school on Friday with lessons starting on Monday.

I sprayed the instrument panels with a coat of gloss after I was done with the decals. It was fun. I've never put that many decals on in my whole life. (With a lot more to go). Paul, did you put the decals on the side of the cockpit seats? I don't recall hearing that in the video.

cib2265 · Post by **cib2265** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 7:24 am

That looks like equal parts fun and tedium! Did you just water slide them on or use Micro set or similar? I find the smaller decals (on 1/72 aircraft at least) extremely frustrating to use...

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 9:36 am

Nice work George.

I didn't do the seat decals on camera (I ran out of time) but I'll do these before I come back for part 3

George · Post by **George** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 2:50 pm

Thanks Paul. I will put them on tonight.
Chris, I used Paul's method from the video. I put a couple of drops of the micro set in a small dish with some water, damped the area with the mixture, applied the decal. When I got it where I wanted it I used a Q tip to take away the excess water. I dampened the decal with the micro sol and let it sit for about 30 seconds and used the Q tip to push the decal into the instrument panel recess turning the Q tip as I applied pressure. As long as you do not have too much micro sol on it won't move but pushed the decal into the panel recess. At 1/72 scale you will probably need to use the Tamiya Q tips with the pointed tip. Thanks. George

George · Post by **George** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 3:09 pm

I watched the video last night and was able to get a few things completed. I had already applied a gloss coat to all the cockpit parts in inticapation of applying a wash. As Paul did in the video I apply another coat of gloss over the instrument panels only. Here are the results.

After that I started to dry brush the cockpit. I used Taymiya XF-66 since i did not have Mr Hobby 334. This were my problems began. On the cockpit side instrument panels there is two hoses, as I was dry brushing that panel one of the hoses broke off and flew somewhere. After about 10 minutes of searching I found it. I should have stopped there and fixed it tomorrow. It was a sign of bad Karma. I glued the hose back on with super glue and in the process touched the side of the cockpit next to the panel. It was very visible. I fixed it by scraping off the glue with the tip of a knife and then touched up the paint. I finished dry brushiong all the parts. I should have quit there but wanted to get it posted to the thread. I took some pictures and while in the process dropped my ipad on the cockpit and broke off the railing where the seat slides in. In Pauls first video he almost broke his railing off, but glued it back on. The drama's of modelling, but all is well and fixed. I will finish the rest this weekend.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 4:15 pm

How weird you broke the same rail I did and in the same place, weird.

If modelling was easy I guess it wouldn't be much fun eh. Looking good though mate' I'll have another vid next week all going well

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 12:56 am

Ah crap... well it looks as though you've recovered for the most part... aside from the broken rail.

George · Post by **George** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:23 pm

Here is the Cockpit with all the washes and buttons painted. I used a mix of gray oil paint and turpenoid for around the panels. The picture does not show the gray wash very well.

Here is the side panels and instrument panels with a black wash added.

Here is all of the cockpit, side panels, and instrument panels installed. At the end of the video Paul talks about a gap or seam line on the top of the fuselage. I have a seam on the top fuselage and a little gap on the bottom half (2nd photo). It will be fun trying to make that line disappear without losing parts of the panel lines. The bottom will be a lot easier there is only one panel line. See you after the next video. Any suggestions on the seam with the panel line are welcome. Thanks George

longlance67 · Post by **longlance67** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:09 pm

looking great mate its an unreal looking kit !

Shane

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Fri Apr 04, 2014 3:16 pm

Nice work George, ill most probably use superglue to fill the seams, ill see what happens in the next video

campbellbarker · Post by **campbellbarker** » Fri Apr 04, 2014 10:43 pm

Really enjoying the progress. Looking to do an F15 at some point. What made you choose this one?

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Fri Apr 04, 2014 10:52 pm

campbellbarker wrote:Really enjoying the progress. Looking to do an F15 at some point. What made you choose this one?

George is building it side by side with my video build of the same kit

http://www.intscalemodeller.com/viewforum.php?f=213

longlance67 · Post by **longlance67** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 2:15 pm

great work George

cockpit looks great

keep it up

Shane