My production line

What dull coat are you using....

How many coats?
Dilution?

Dottore

Dottore wrote:What dull coat are you using....

How many coats?
Dilution?

Dottore

What you see in the pictures above is one semi-light coat of fixitive and one medium light coat of Testors canned dull coat.

Here is the XB-35 about 95% done....











I dropped the P-51 in there for scale, both models are 1/72 scale....

Did I little more on the HO-229

Holy cow, but that flying wing is just huge! Looks really nice! If I ever get around to doing mine, I was thinking of doing it in a flying display as it looks so sleek in the air.

slingshot392 wrote:Holy cow, but that flying wing is just huge! Looks really nice! If I ever get around to doing mine, I was thinking of doing it in a flying display as it looks so sleek in the air.

Before you jump in a tackle the wing, read up on the build reviews on it. There are fit issues with the kit, as there seam to be with ant AMT kit. (Don't let the Italeri release fool you, Italeri bought the AMT molds for the wings - prop and jet)

Well it took longer than I hoped... the nose wheel was a $*%&$(#! It had four parts that had to be installed at the same time, in the wheel well! You couldn't build it outside and install it later. half of the connections needed were inside the wheel well. Several 4 letter words and a lost piece later they were finally done.... So now it is ready for weathering...

wedfactory wrote:Well it took longer than I hoped... the nose wheel was a $*%&$(#! It had four parts that had to be installed at the same time, in the wheel well! You couldn't build it outside and install it later. half of the connections needed were inside the wheel well. Several 4 letter words and a lost piece later they were finally done.... So now it is ready for weathering...

Hey, it looks great!

A tip, if you combine that four letter word with a five letter word in the same sentence you have a new curse word! I do it, but in Swedish so no-one gets it!

/Joseph "Tiny"

Great work, they all look really nice. What a production line.

Did some more work on the XB-35, got the panel lines on. (took forever)










This is what it looked like before....



rather plane... (sorry about the pun)

That is shaping up nicely! Good work, and it's nice to see how much a wash in the panel lines can do to a model.

/Tiny

Finished the Stuka!!!

Hi mate,
What's its scale?

What colors are used for the camo? Maybe my screen cheats my eye! RLM 70/71?

Alex Kontiveis wrote:Hi mate,
What's its scale?

What colors are used for the camo? Maybe my screen cheats my eye! RLM 70/71?

It is the 1/48 scale hasagawa kit and you are right on the camo colors.

Great finish, what a nice stuka.

Worked on the F-15 a little bit, it finally got it's legs. Going to get gloss coated tonight so I can get going on decals this weekend....

started decaling my F-15 tonight. There are a lot of overlapping decals and decals that have to cross "rough" terrain so it is going to take several nights.

Looking great

The scheme is strange for an aircraft though but nice

My challenge for today .... 2 decals ... yes that is right just two decals .... these 2 .... that is the back of a 1:48 scale F-15 so you can see how big those decals are



this is what is should look like ...



it is now make it or break it time on this model

Now I can breath easy on the rest of the decals!!

Well she has all the decals on now....













Next step is to gloss coat again to seal the decals then sludge wash the panel lines. Planning to use a medium gray this time, I want the decals to pop not the panel lines.

I also have to finish the weapons and fuel tank and build the engine exhausts. This kit has 2 sets of exhausts, plastic (the easy way out) and a PE set. I will try the PE set first if I don't like them then the plastic ones go on.

And I have issues with a small decals!

Great work with that big sheet!

/Tiny

William wrote:Looking great

The scheme is strange for an aircraft though but nice

Agree with you Will but it came realy good on the plane , Good Job mate

The paint scheme was for a 50th anniversary celebration of a Japanese fighter squadron.

Man, the Japs have some of the most colourfull yet unusual colour schemes ever!
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