Brabham BT52b - The Guided Missile - Model Factory Hiro - 1/12

[DocRob]

8 hours ago, Nick70 said:

I will be also be doing the smaller rear wing - I looked at the bigger one and thought ‘he’ll no’ - far too fiddly for me!

Thank you Nick, I would like to know, which version your BT52b kit is, A or B and which rear wing decals are included? There is one main sheet for the white areas and sponsors and in my kit there is one smaller sheet for the rear wing of version A (large wing). I know from pictures of the MFH website, that two different small sheets exist, but mine had only one in the box.
The bigger wing looks like it would be sufficient for one or more planes, esthetically not my cup of tea.

Cheers Rob

[Nick70]

Hi Rob, I have the B version, which appears to only have the decals for the smaller wing! I hadn’t noticed until now. 
What on earth were MFH thinking? 
 

[DocRob]

53 minutes ago, Nick70 said:

Hi Rob, I have the B version, which appears to only have the decals for the smaller wing! I hadn’t noticed until now. 
What on earth were MFH thinking? 

Thanks for looking into your kit, Nick. Good for you, that you plan to build the smaller rear wing. I will use the decals for the large wing and cut away the red pinstripe. I thought about contacting MFH, but it would take some time to get replacements and I don´t want to wait.

Cheers Rob

[DocRob]

My ranting time continues. This time it´s about Number 5 colors, specially mixed for the Bt52. The blue is near enough but doesn´t fit 100% to the blue of the decals, but the white is way off. It has a warm tint and doesn´t fit to the decals cool white at all, like seen on the next picture.



I carefully masked the blue side with the decals on (sweat) with de-tacked Kabuki tape and resprayed the white, this time with Number 5 MP4 white. Much better and luckily the decals stuck to the wing, while removing the mask tape.



Cheers Rob

[KevinM]

That's called lucky