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Me P.1099B (Revell)

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Me P.1099B (Revell)
Posted by SwedBear on Sunday, February 8, 2015 6:08 PM

I have a certain fondness for Revell as I used to buy their kits back in the late 80:s when I was a young builder. Now that I taken up the hobby again I found that their kits are cheap and still pretty good. I picked up the Messersmith P-1099B (a Luft46-plane) cheap and built it and found that the kit was very nice and well worth building.

149 SKr is around 18-20$ which is a cheap kit in Sweden. Since I am a Luft46-freak I just had to build this. This plane was built upon the Me262. It was of course never built.

The cockpit was pretty good detailed with good decals. I added some small safetybelts.

The plane has two guns pinting backwards at the end of the plane and I had to drill up the hole for them.

I never checked if Eduard or anyone else had masks for the cockpit and made my own. It's not easy though and the result was just ok. 

Here I've started to use putty to fix the few issues that needed taken care of. The fit was overall good although there were some places that needed filler.

After Vallejo primer I started to do some pre-shading. I haven't mastered that yet though as I did not really get it to shile through the paint. 

I used Tamayia tape to mask and started painting with Vallejo Model Air RLM-colors. While I do have a big bunch of Revell colors at home I choose to use Vallejo everywhere.

Starting to get closer to weathering. I used various MIG and AK-washes to weather the plane. I did a lot of reading on the engines which seem to be the same as the ME262 and it seems you did not get a lot of black exhause around them so I left them pretty much as they were.

The decals actually were really nice with a lot of small things to add to the model. No swastica though which is not odd as it comes from Revell Germany. 

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Posted by SwedBear on Sunday, February 8, 2015 6:10 PM

And here is the result. I did some mistaces with it but I don't really care as it was a fun build anyway. 

Defitely can recommend this modell. Nice quality and fun to build. 

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Posted by BrandonK on Sunday, February 8, 2015 10:05 PM

That's a kit I've never seen before. Looks pretty cool. Welcome back to the hobby; this is a great place to share and learn. Toast

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Posted by scorpr2 on Sunday, February 8, 2015 10:34 PM

Very nice looking bird!  Keep up the good work!!!

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  • From: Northern California
Posted by jeaton01 on Sunday, February 8, 2015 10:40 PM

Well done.  Fun, that's what it's about.

John

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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Monday, February 9, 2015 12:52 AM

Nice looking build. I've got this in the stash, I'm a bit of a Luft 46 fan as well.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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Posted by RobGroot4 on Monday, February 9, 2015 11:02 PM

Really a great build of a plane that I don't think I've seen before.

Quick question, did you mask the plane twice for the body paint?  It looks like you did the brown, and then added the green.  Does it make a difference not to just do the green and then add the brown over it?

Groot

"Firing flares while dumping fuel may ruin your day" SH-60B NATOPS

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  • From: NYC, USA
Posted by waikong on Wednesday, February 11, 2015 1:07 PM

thats pretty cool, what scale is that? 1/72?

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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Thursday, February 12, 2015 4:29 PM

waikong, this kit is 72nd scale.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

cnq
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Posted by cnq on Thursday, February 12, 2015 4:56 PM

Excellent build. I like it.

I built the same one last year. This is an excellent kit for a very good price

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Posted by SwedBear on Friday, February 13, 2015 8:24 AM

cnq: Yours look great. Question: those blobs at the bottom of the camouflage - did you do them with airbrush or paint them with a brush? I still such at making mottled camouflage with the airbrush :(.

RobGroot: I've had some issues with paintlifting lately when masking and decided to test to do it paint by paint. Ideally you should be able to do it by painting everything green first and then adding the next color.

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Posted by RobGroot4 on Friday, February 13, 2015 2:06 PM

SwedBear, have you tried reducing the stickiness of your masking material by sticking it on something a couple times before you adhere it to the model?  I've had the same issues and that seems to work for me.  I use my cutting mat or even the pants I'm wearing, 2-3 times seems to do it.

Groot

"Firing flares while dumping fuel may ruin your day" SH-60B NATOPS

cnq
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Posted by cnq on Friday, February 13, 2015 6:25 PM

SwedBear,

 Thanks. I painted those blobs with airbrush using home made masks.

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