Westland Wyvern S.4 late- 1/48 Trumpeter

[BlrwestSiR]

I've started on the Suez stripes. I also painted the gear bays in silver. 

[Martinnfb]

Fantastic progress. 

[DocRob]

Nice Carl, this strange bird will look fantastic in your magic hands.

Cheers Rob

[KevinM]

Looking very Nice Carl should be finished soon methinks.

[HubertB]

7 hours ago, KevinM said:

Looking very Nice Carl should be finished soon methinks.

It all depends on Carl …. But …

 

[BlrwestSiR]

21 hours ago, HubertB said:

It all depends on Carl …. But …

 

You know me too well Hubert. 

[BlrwestSiR]

Finally, an update. 

I started over on masking the Suez stripes. This time it went much better. 

I can finally start on the upper side Dark Sea Grey now. 

[BlrwestSiR]

For what seems like a straightforward camo scheme, there was a lot of masking involved. 

I had to use different tapes depending on the location but got it done. 

Then I sprayed the Dark Sea Grey. 

There's a couple small spots of overspray but it worked. I'm much happier painting stripes than using decals, even if it might be more work. 

[Martinnfb]

Looking really good Carl.

[Landlubber Mike]

Looking good!

[BlrwestSiR]

The horizontal tailplanes have small vertical tabs on them. They're red with a yellow stripe. They're supplied as decals but I painted them on as per the Suez stripes. 

First a base coat of yellow. 

Then the stripe was masked off. 

Followed by a coat of red. I did the spinner at the same time. 

Installed on the tailplanes and then onto the fuselage. 

Getting closer.

[HubertB]

Go, Carl, go ! You CAN make it before the deadline (says the man who is a "specialist" in GB deadlines) !

Hubert

[DocRob]

I also hope you´ll make it Carl. The paintjob looks great and astonishingly vivid.

Cheers Rob

[Spitfire]

Impressive.

Cheers

Dennis

[BlrwestSiR]

Trumpeter makes the underwing rockets in three parts. Each one is tiered so you get the rocket bodies and launch rails as one part and the fins as two parts per mount. So lots of cleanup on the fins. 

I painted the mounts in the underwing colours first. 

Then I glued the fins on. 

When dry, I'll mask and paint the rockets themselves. 

I also got the MLG installed. 

The wheels need cleanup and then they go on next. 

[BlrwestSiR]

Next up, time for the prop.

A bunch of parts for this. 

Assembled in place. 

 

 

[Landlubber Mike]

Looking really sharp!  Fantastic paint job!

[BlrwestSiR]

I got the rockets painted. 

Dark green and then when dry, I installed them onto the wings making sure the pylon colours matched the underside location. 

Then the flaps, and wheels. 

So the dive brakes, wing tip lights and decals are left. 

[CANicoll]

Strange looking bird, Carl, but you've done a super nice job on that paint scheme and the underwing pieces.  Wow, that is a LOT of work. Three pieces per rocket??  Nice work on the elevator tabs.  Agreed that painting is better than decals.  The fit of the kit looks really tight from here.  Beautiful.

[BlrwestSiR]

Air brakes are on, as are the wingtip lights and all the little probes and protuberances. 

For the air brakes, I lost one of the rods so I replaced both with styrene. 

Now to let those dry a bit and then decals. 

[BlrwestSiR]

Decals are now on. They're nicely thin but a bit brittle. I had a couple tear but not too badly. They are a bit translucent though. You can tell with the roundels over the stripes. 

[Martinnfb]

Done by the end of the year? Boom!

 

[belugawhaleman]

Looks amazing Carl!!