Complete - Tamiya 1/48 He-219 A-7 Uhu

Nicely done.  I hafta get one of these someday.

Thanks JJ. I noticed a bit of the seam on the top of the fuselage after I primed it, but it should be good now.  I highly recommend this kit.

I love the fact that I've got one of these bad boys in my stash!!  I'm definitely getting some motivation from this WIP. Great progress !!

Thanks Joe!  I've noticed a couple of small boo boos here and there, but they are all my own doing, and hopefully they won't be too noticeable.  I'm hoping to preshade panel lines tomorrow.  I can't wait to get some color on her.

Well, I was able to shoot the RLM 76 Lichtblau and it looked great.  I spent some time cutting masks for the camo out of a full-size sheet Tamiya included in the box to make all those splotches look good.  I started spraying the 75 Grauviolett on the wing, left side of the cockpit and vertical stabilizer, only to realize I have some major overspray and coverage issues that were not repairable.  So I'm going to respray the 75 and try a different way to mask the camo pattern.  If that doesn't work I think I may switch schemes to an overall 75 top with squiggles in 76.  I'll let you know after I get a chance to paint it again this weekend.  Argh.

This has been the most frustrating paint job I've ever done.  I'd spray, have some type of problem, try something else only to run into another problem.  I finally went back to my original idea of using the paper masks and not caring too much about getting soft edges to the camo.  It isn't perfect and may not be too accurate, but it's as good as I'm going to get it.  There are a few mistakes, but you'll only see them if you get real close and know where to look.  I'm going to let the paint dry and tomorrow I'll shoot a glosscoat on it and start getting ready for decals.

I rather like the look of that Bob. I am still to do one of these schemes and am a little concerned about howit mght turn out. But one thing i am going to try is to mist a very thin coat of the light blue over the mottleing to lighten it and blend it in a bit.

Thanks Bish!  I highly recommend you plan out every part of a scheme like this and practice on something before you put paint on the model.  I thought about misting some more of the 76 on to tie things together more, but at this point I'm leaving things at "good enough."

Ye, i am going to get it all planned out.I am hoping to start it next month after i finish my 109. I'll post a WiP, so we shall see how the misting works out.

I'll keep an eye out for that Bish

Looks real good from here silentbob! That scheme can't be easy to do no matter how blended the splotches are. That grauviolett pattern looks very tedious and I think you pulled it off well.

I ran across a thread/blog somewhere a few years ago where the author attempted his 219 scheme thus: he sprayed the entire plane grauviolett, then rolled dozens of tiny tape balls and stuck them over the whole upper half of the fuselage and on top of the wings. He then sprayed the entire plane lichtblau. When he removed the tape balls the grauviolett splotches looked convincing and appeared to have a soft edge, at least from the pics I saw. Anyway, I say a job well done on your efforts

Dave

I am working on the same kit and thanks for the info.When finished it will be completely opened up for detail.

Well done on this tedious paint job.  Your efforts have ultimately paid off to a stunning build.

Thanks Jay Jay!  I think I'm going to do something with a much simpler paint job next just to give myself a break.

You're quite welcome SB,

I like you am going to do a much simpler build next myself, and on a better kit I might add.  Although my Monogram B-26 doesn't have a complicated paint job, the kit itself is giving me a real headache.  The fits are very bad and every kit part i install, I hafta fix, so it's taking me way too long to complete.

Quote: But one thing i am going to try is to mist a very thin coat of the light blue over the mottleing to lighten it and blend it in a bit.

This works really good and I've had great results with it.

Your bird looks totally awesome  SB!!!!

Thanks Joe!

Man that looks good. Regardless of how it's done, it looks plenty hard. You really pulled off a smoken nice camo scheme there. Great work. That scheme scares the crud out of me to attempt.

BK

A+ from me on the paint job, Bob. Looks great.

I'd be afraid to even try it.

Thank you very much.  As I was getting it built up I kept going back and forth on how I was going to paint it.  I thought about misting some 76 over it to tie it together, but I figure with as much trouble I had with it I'm going to leave good enough alone.  I hope to get the glosscoat on today and decals on soon.

If the Nationals would ever reach the north west the modeling world will get to see on display only the super highly detail 1/32 scale HE-219  Which I also have.

Silentbob, I know I saw you on the GB earlier, but while I'm here I'll add my 2 cents...I think it's just fine really.  The camo may be sharper than you're looking for but I think it's fantastic still.  Tedious isn't doing justice to the time I'm guessing it took to cut out all those tiny bits. =]  I'd say it probably borders more on masochism!  Can't wait to see the rest of her come together.  =]

Again .Your UHU is going to look good.Great camo pattern.

Thank you all very much.  There are not many decals for this, so I'm hoping to get those finished up by the end of the week.

The painting looks good. This is a difficult painting job. I had a hard time to do mine as well ( Revell 1/32 kit) and practiced a lot on card board. Here is mine which I built ~ 2 years ago. It's all done free hand airbrush.

I think the camo is outstanding.  i think your over spray plan is a solid one.  bringing down the contrast will give it an illusion of softness tat will look great.

And I'll wager it was a heck of a lot easier then this...

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