Airfix 1/12 Blower Bentley WIP

[wkennerley]

Hi Guys, a few pics of my start on the Airfix 1/12 Blower Bentley. A friend of mine in South Africa is building one too, but he is a bit slower than me, I will post pics of both builds. We expect it will take at least a year to build them, in between other builds (in my case anyway).

Regards

Wayne

Engine Parts

Main engine parts together on home made stand

Flywheel

Engine with exhaust manifold and waterpipe

Edited July 22, 2008 by wkennerley

[CPNGROATS]

looks like the Bentley will feature lots of cool details..esp. in 1/12 scale...Thanks for sharing...

Cheers,

ggc

[seanrgb]

Very Nice work Wayne

I'll pop the mag in the post tomorrow for you

Heres My very poor effort BENTLEY

[wkennerley]

That looks like a very good effort in my opinion - What green did you use for the fabric body please? I am using humbrol 3 for the metal parts, which I think is what you used too.

Thanks re magazine

Cheers

Wayne

Very Nice work Wayne

I'll pop the mag in the post tomorrow for you

Heres My very poor effort BENTLEY

Edited July 23, 2008 by wkennerley

[Fmk.6john]

I really do like the blower Bentleys, would love to have seen them thraped around the Brooklands track in their heyday.

Mind you the scream of a supercharged Mercedes must have been something else too.

Nice work,

JB.

[wkennerley]

Not much done of late, been fiddling with small assemblies, like the gearbox, rear axle, seats, etc

[wkennerley]

Main Chassis parts puttogether, needs spraying now, also done front seats, drybrushed to look a bit worn, it seems to look right

[keefr22]

Only just come across this thread, & have to say that you have some wonderful finishing effects on the build so far. Those seats are excellent, but what really caught my eye was the exhaust manifold - could I ask how you got that excellent burnt metal effect on it?

Cheers

Keef

[wkennerley]

but what really caught my eye was the exhaust manifold - could I ask how you got that excellent burnt metal effect on it?

Hi Keef, well you got me there, had to think about this but if I recall correctly, the manifold was sprayed humbrol 33 matt black, then drybrushed with citadel tin bitz and then a bit of citadel brazen brass, lastly a bit of powdered chalk pastel, colour unknown but its a light orangy colour, was applied to the grooves where the manifold joins the cylinder head. Hope this helps

Wayne

[dylan the rabbit]

Splendid stuff there Wayne.

I've been very slack at geting those Blower pics sorted for you. I'm resizing them now, will upload them to Photobucket this afternoon, and post the link here.

Wokey dokey?

[wkennerley]

Splendid stuff there Wayne.

I've been very slack at geting those Blower pics sorted for you. I'm resizing them now, will upload them to Photobucket this afternoon, and post the link here.

Wokey dokey?

Excellent thanks very much

Wayne

[Mark]

Aye, when I were a lad .... along with the 1/24th Stuka and Harrier, that was the kit I aspired to! The leather effect on the seats is stunning as is the exhaust manifold, but then that's already been said, just adding my own words of praise! look forward to seeing more!

[seanrgb]

Hi Wayne

Cracking stuff so far ... Its a great kit to do

As for the fabric body parts I painted those Humbrol 196 ...ans I found this on EVILBAY

This is the book I had that I can't find anywhere ...

cheers Sean

[keefr22]

Hi Keef, well you got me there, had to think about this but if I recall correctly, the manifold was sprayed humbrol 33 matt black, then drybrushed with citadel tin bitz and then a bit of citadel brazen brass, lastly a bit of powdered chalk pastel, colour unknown but its a light orangy colour, was applied to the grooves where the manifold joins the cylinder head. Hope this helps

Wayne

Hi Wayne,

Yes, it does thanks! I'd sort of worked out the drybrushing with Tin Bitz as I could recognise the colour - it was the base of matt black & final pastel finishing that I hadn't sussed!!

Once again, lovely work & looking forward to seeing your progress!

Keef

[wkennerley]

Thanks for the comments guys, I will endevour to do a bit more over the weekend, alongside the P-38 and I am about to start an F8F Bearcat too - oh and I started another Rhodesian Air Force Hunter, in flight, in the earlier RAF type camo.

Cheers

Wayne

[dylan the rabbit]

Here you go Wayne.

http://s117.photobucket.com/albums/o75/dyl...erabbit/blower/

Hope they're useful.

Cheers,

Nick

[T-Tango]

Wonderful build of a great classic car, well done mate, that engine and those seats are brilliant, can't wait to see the rest of it.

[Paddy]

Sean

Humbrol 196 is a Satin light Grey.....you sure about that ??

http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/port...nce/humbrol.htm

[seanrgb]

Ah bugger now I'll have to go check I think it was 195 let me look

[seanrgb]

Yep Humbrol 195 it is

[Paddy]

Cheers sean...that makes more sense :-)

[wkennerley]

Hi Nick

Thanks for the photo's very useful

Cheers

Wayne

[Paddy]

I have got hold of one of these kits from e-bay but unfortunately the decals are missing.

This is not a big problem as i can make my own but i do need a good picture of the instruments/dash board to work from....

Anyone able to help ??

TIA

Paddy

[seanrgb]

I have got hold of one of these kits from e-bay but unfortunately the decals are missing.

This is not a big problem as i can make my own but i do need a good picture of the instruments/dash board to work from....

Anyone able to help ??

TIA

Paddy

Hope these help

[Paddy]

Cheers Sean

There is also a picture in the links to the album posted by Nick i just noticed :-)