That pit look great .

Full time modler ? What does that mean ?

bob

Looks fantastic so far kamil, you can tell it's your gig.  I'm working on their A6M2 1/48 and can now tell why they were asking about 3x as much for the A6M5... DETAIL!

Good Morning all!

Robert92562

Full time modler ? What does that mean ?

It means that is my job

Reasoned

 DETAIL!

..and fitting of the parts, too. Fin tail some details of the fuselage and the wing are mounted without glue for this picture:

KFS-miniatures

Good Morning all!

 

Robert92562:

Full time modler ? What does that mean ?

 

It means that is my job

 

Reasoned:

 DETAIL!

 

..and fitting of the parts, too. Fin tail some details of the fuselage and the wing are mounted without glue for this picture:

I wish that were my job, but then I couldn't make  a living on my crappy builds.

That's a very nice office you have there sir.

tigerman

I wish that were my job 

No, you wish not, belive me. You are building models for fun and pleasure, just when you want to spend some time with some styrene. Full-time modelling means that you have to build everyday, no matter if you have good or bad day for gluing, painting or scratching..

KFS-miniatures

..and fitting of the parts, too. Fin tail some details of the fuselage and the wing are mounted without glue for this picture:

Yeah, I was a little surprised the wing roots on my A6M2 were off as much as they were, not as bad as some but still there.  BTW, thanks for the above shot, I've been debating if the fuselage area just in front of the cockpit (which will be under the canopy) was to be painted black or left the fuselage color, I've seen it both ways.  You painted it black which is where I was leaning.  Great looking build, keep it coming.

KFS-miniatures

 

tigerman:

 

 

I wish that were my job 

 

 

 

No, you wish not, belive me. You are building models for fun and pleasure, just when you want to spend some time with some styrene. Full-time modelling means that you have to build everyday, no matter if you have good or bad day for gluing, painting or scratching..

True - I just wish I had more time to work on my models!

Thanks.

Littleupdate. I paint engine using metallic gray from Tamiya as a basecoat. To expose details I washed it with Dark wash from MIG

I add brake installation on main gear, made with 0,2mm tin wire

.. so now the plane is ready to paint:

please, note, canopy's limousine is temporary mounted with a few drops of masking fluid. Small holes in rear part of canopy (for antenna and aerial wire) are fitted/masked with little piece of sponge

Awesome build so far!!! I'll be watching this, I like the process of how you did the cockpit.

2 questions though, what kind of wire are you using (engine harness, brake lines, cockpit etc..)

And how did you get the instrument detail in the gauges?  Decals?

So far I give your zero a ten...

Manstein's revenge

So far I give your zero a ten...

What, no proposal?

B-17 Guy

 what kind of wire are you using (engine harness, brake lines, cockpit etc..)

it is soldering tin wire- excellent for this purpose, very flexible.

 how did you get the instrument detail in the gauges?  Decals?

Decals from the kit.

About wire- for small loop on the fin tail (helpful for mounting aerial wire) I used piece of 0,2 steel wire. Tin will be not strong enough

I airbrushed main gear gondolas and flaps inner sides with metallic blue green

Similar to interior, I started with silver basecoat

please, note, canopy frames are painted first with interior green.

Stunning build, both in workmanship and photography too.  I just bought two of these kits this morning, and seeing your work has me itching to build them NOW!

I'm not sure I would want to build models for a living but your work is outstanding.

looking forward to the rest of this build.

Bob

Preshadeing.. not so simple as usual. I used different colors. I started typical, with black over panel lines. Some panels and rivet lines are painted with white. Last I pant some trails on the wing and tale, with brown, white and interior green on upper (green) surfaces, and with whitre and intermediate blue on lower parts of the fuselage and the wing

Wow, super sharp work! Never thought to try pre-shading in different colours. Eagerly waiting to see how it all turns out.

That's some straight shoot'n with an AB.

Upper surfaces airbrushed with thinned coat of Mitsubishi dark green. And clear varnish, to protect coat of paint. It will be masked to paint lower surfaces and for hinomaru, and masking tape should tear off the paint

I like your plaid pre-shading...now that's how you get tonal variation w/ a solid green...

thanks

this kind of preshadeing is one of the technique I used to get diferent tones of flat surfaces.

BTW, preshadeing is better for light colors. dark tones have to be posthaded too, a little

for example:

I love your pre-shading and want to blend in with it...

Looking forward to seeing those markings on the Zero---I have that same lit and scheme in the cue...

Looking great so far, preshading with different colours is a really cool idea, one to remember.

Cheers...

lower surfaces are airbrushed with thinned IJN Mitsubishi Gray

Hinomaru signs: first i cut some stencils in Oracal masking foil using tool from OLFA. Originally white outlines were overpainted with dark green, so I started with black green. Red circles are paint with tamiya's flat red and shaded with clear orange. last i cover it with clear varnish

Great looking Zero!  I think mine is going to stay in the stash for a while longer now.

Thanks for posting all this KFS. Will definatly have to steal... um... borrow some of your ideas!

Never would have thought of shading the hinomaru with clear orange, great idea.

Gamera

Will definatly have to steal...

hmm.. maybe I should think about better protection for my workbench secrets :>

~kamil

Very nice work there.  Great idea on the pre-shading.

Mike

I'd like to see a little more of the B-25 if possible?

Cheers...