Arado 240 V12

[kitbasher]

Very slinky, it's quite skinny thing when it's all assembled. 

The Brigand was a big bruiser of an aeroplane, I remember seeing a couple of them when I was at Benson and they sure looked beefy, and VERY loud too!

I ought to get one, and Valom kit it as I recall.

Yep, AFAIK TF.1 (have one) and B.1 boxing's.  Maybe also a T.4?

I used to scramble around the T.4 wreck in the famous/infamous Failsworth (Manchester) scrapyard when ah were a lad (cue 1970s Hovis TV ad music).  IIRC that particular T.4's fuselage is now (just googled) owned by the RAF Museum.  I say T.4 - I always thought it was as I distinctly recall it being painted in the classic 1950s RAF trainer scheme of aluminium with yellow 'trainer' wing/fuselage bands.

Now there's a good whif idea for an Ar240 

[PR19_Kit]

The Arado's fully PSR'd and primed now too, and ready for the first colour coat.



Unfortunately the underside colour on both this and the Spitfire engine test bed should be yellow, and I don't have any yellow paint with me just now. As Halfords have shot themselves in the foot with their 'new improved' range of car paints, I'm having to look elsewhere, and failed twice y'day and today. 

The first potential supplier didn't even exist when I got there and the second hadn't got a clue what I was talking about.

So much for the Net, I'll be on the phone on Monday I expect.

[PR19_Kit]

I've got the first colour coat on the 240, and it took three goes as the first two were very rough and needed sanding down! Shades of balsa models in the 50s!

Having got that sorted I started masking it up for the complex Luftwaffe splinter scheme, only to find that Revell's instruction writers/draughtsmen don't know what they're doing as the various views on the instruction  sheet don't match up. 

I'll make up my own scheme based on theirs, but as this is a Whiff no-one can tell me it's wrong, can they?

[Spino]

Of course not 

[PR19_Kit]

Total ruddy DISASTER on the paint job for this one.     

After umpteen coats, trying to get the correct shade, and umpteen hours of shaking to mix it up, some of the light grey is STILL sticky after 3-4 days!!

And the miles of masking tape needed for this blasted splinter camo takes off the first coat when I strip it off! It's going to take HOURS of trying to trim the paint off properly again, and I may just say the hell with it and bin the blasted thing!



I never did like the Ar 240s shape anyway.

[Dizzyfugu]

Uh oh.... 

[Old Wombat]

Oh-kay! ... Deep breaths! ... In! ... Hold! ... Out! ... In! ... Hold! ... Out! ... In! ... Hold! ... Out!

Repeat after me - I love my hobby! I love my hobby! I love my hobby! If it's bin-ned, Styrene's win-ned! If it's bin-ned, Styrene's win-ned!

You can beat this kit, Kit! 

[scooter]

A pair of screws eyes, a length of monofilament fishing line, some cannon fuse, bottle rockets, and an M80 in the cockpit might be more satisfying than just binning it.

[Rick Lowe]

You could always strip it back and use it as bits for other projects?
Better thought than the bin...

[Wardukw]

Kit i honestly feel for ya ...like ever since the masking putty came out for doing camo lifes been so good but its useless for straight lines and no matter what i do ,,not matter how many tricks i try i always get that bloody masking tape lifting paint of the primer and now i try to avoid it as much as possible ,,,as much as to the point that that Zero float plane thingy im building had zero masking tape ,,i painted the under side with a brush 
With anger levels like mine i wouldnt have hesitated to see if it truly could fly .

[Scotaidh]

Oh - don't use masking tape.  What you want is drafting tape. 

It looks much like masking tape but has much weaker adhesive. Its purpose is to hold paper down securely for draftsmen but without destroying the paper when said paper is removed from the board.

Even though drafting has mostly gone to computers, the tape is still very much available.  Calligraphers use it, I know.

[Gondor]

Oh - don't use masking tape.  What you want is drafting tape. 

It looks much like masking tape but has much weaker adhesive. Its purpose is to hold paper down securely for draftsmen but without destroying the paper when said paper is removed from the board.

Even though drafting has mostly gone to computers, the tape is still very much available.  Calligraphers use it, I know.

Oh, that sounds good. I have put a 0.6 inch by 180-foot roll into my wish list on Amazon for when I need it 

[PR19_Kit]

But I've been using Tamiya tape since it first came out decades ago.

And only recently has it started to pull the paint layer off, AND the primer sometimes too!

[Wardukw]

Ive had paint lifted even with Tamiyas low tac tape ,,,fact in some cases it lifts the bloody paint better than normal tape ,,

Scotaidh matey i should have been a bit clearer ...my bad 
I do use only Tamiya tape for 90% of work ,,,but one tape i have found myself going to more and more is a good electrical tape ..its flexible and sticks well but doesn't seem to lift paint  as much  ...im going to experiment with it some more with different brand paints ,,,i do know Tamiya's paint is a bitch sometimes for it not sticking