Williams Bros. 1/48 Flivver....Model T of the air. Sort of..

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Williams Bros. 1/48 Flivver....Model T of the air. Sort of..

Postby Cap'n Wannabe » Sat Jun 05, 2021 6:23 pm

So, in an attempt to restore my mojo - which has been gone for a loooooong time! - I decided to bite the bullet and build one of my Williams Bros. Ford Flivvers. I have plans for the second one as a WIF, and those in Australia *might* be able to guess what I have in store for it...

Anyhoo, this is my progress so far - painting and decalling the wings and horizontal stabilizer. Unfortunately some of the decals cracked while drying, but it'll never be in a competition, so I'm not *really* worried about it.

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Re: Williams Bros. 1/48 Flivver....Model T of the air. Sort

Postby oz rb fan » Sun Jun 06, 2021 4:23 pm

looking good so far.
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Re: Williams Bros. 1/48 Flivver....Model T of the air. Sort

Postby tor lives » Sun Jun 06, 2021 10:57 pm

Nice!!!
And geez.....do I hear ya about lack of mojo :(
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Postby hrtpaul » Wed Jun 09, 2021 6:40 pm

Nice work knackers :)
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Re: Williams Bros. 1/48 Flivver....Model T of the air. Sort

Postby Cap'n Wannabe » Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:59 pm

I'm not sure whether to try to use pieces from the remaining decals to cover the cracks or not. I ended up spraying the remnants of the sheet with Testors decal bonder, so we'll see..

Also started to close the fuselage. It was a little tricky - I had to trim one side of the IP to remove a gap in the front fuselage, and there are no locating pins. Still, so far, so good.
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Re: Williams Bros. 1/48 Flivver....Model T of the air. Sort

Postby Cap'n Wannabe » Sun Aug 15, 2021 6:00 pm

So I got off my butt and did some more painting. I used Mr Colour Phthalo Cyanne Blue and SMS Aluminium. Masking it was a bit of a pain....took me three goes to get it right (ish).

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It's almost at the point where I can run around my lounge making BRRRRRRMMMMMM noises..

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