Sweet builds Aleksander and Eric!

Lovely 109E and MC 202 up there. I have both in the stash. (Never built a 109. Pretty soon.) The Folgore is so pretty that I don't know how I'd handle weathering. All warplanes once in service were beat up, but doing it right would be like putting a smudge on my late, great, deeply lamented Alfa Spyder.

Eric

This is my 1/48 Val. Made my own gray-amber out of Golden Fluids. Even though I had solid data on that color, it nearly drove me nuts. It was supposed to emulate one of the planes that operated in the Indian Ocean in early 42. (Soon later they switched to green "defensive" camo for all Vals & Kates and finally Zeros.) The color is related to but not the same as the early war Zero. The principle colors were ochre and black, but note the "fugitive" green that resulted depending upon the camera angle. Wanted a plane in good shape (carrier crew had some time to work on their toys) but had done some serious flying. So I gave it salt weathering to agitate the surface color. Also did some dot fading with oils. All of the minor panel lines were done with artist pencils. Early war IJN aircraft were waxed, hence the satin finish. Only the numbers on the tail were decals: other markings were masked and airbrushed.

Eric

Great builds here, as I see - congratulations to all of you!

Here are three of mine Hasegawa models - all in 1/48

Bf-109 E-1

Macchi MC-202 "Folgore"

J7W1 "Shinden"

Here's a 1/200 727-200 in TWA colors that I never added:

Fly-n-hi & Speedlimit: Wow that's some fine work there guys! I need to get cracking on some of my air show and special edition jets!

I tried to eyeball a reference picture and cut out 3m painters blue tape to match the splinter scheme. Following the light to dark color scheme.

Eric

Ha!!  Sorry...I thought you were asking me.

Thanks professordeath! I tried to attach the pictures but all I get is links to my pics. I will try again.

professordeath

I love the Tomcat. How'd you mask?

I used Silly Putty worms to mask the line between the grey and white on the sides of the plane and masking tape on the wings.  The vertical stabs were painted then attached seperately.

All 1/48 Hasegawa F-4F

Orange Phantom:

F-4F Little Devil:

My F-1

Splintered F-14A

Eric

mississippivol

Slime lights! Where'd you get the paint?

I also used it on the F-14A that I posted on page 1:

Slime lights! Where'd you get the paint?

Hey all. Man there's some good looking birdies on here!  Love the pictures of the 109's. Got a G-10 here I built around 6 years ago before I did any wash or weathering work. I just recently got into that stuff. Any way here goes:

professordeath

Great, thanks a lot. So, all te red is painted. Large decals like that give me nightmares. That's why I hesitate to do some of those colorful CAG aircraft. When I was still doing RC a guy at the club had an F-18 that was in this scheme. It's a real stunning look IMO.

DoogsATX

I don't do modern aircraft, but man, that Hornet's beautiful!

EBergerud

Lovely build no doubt. I've been finding more excuses to use fewer decals and more painting. Wish the national insignias worked a little better for that: paid for the airbrush, might as well use it.

I agree with you.  Sure, the decals can save a whole bunch of time but I find that things look more convincing if they are painted on where able.

Lovely build no doubt. I've been finding more excuses to use fewer decals and more painting. Wish the national insignias worked a little better for that: paid for the airbrush, might as well use it.

I don't do modern aircraft, but man, that Hornet's beautiful!

professordeath

Oh wow. That is just stunning. I really love that scheme, but I'm terrified to try to pull it off. How much of the red is paint vs. decals?

All of the red is paint.  The only decals that have any red in them are the stripes with the diamonds in them.  The White stripes and diamonds in the horizontal stabs are also painted because I screwed up the decals.

The painting wasn't that tough because its mostly straight lines that need to be masked.  And the vertical stabs can be painted separately and attached later.

Manny, I'm intrigued by the canopy framing on your Arado 234.  It looks really great; how did you do that?  Is the detail(round rivets? screws?) on the frames painted?  It looks awesome and since I have this kit in the stash, I'd love to know the secret.  Thanks!

Gary

Here's a 1/48 F/A-18F that I built a few years ago.  I was inspired to build this after playing Over-G Fighters on the Xbox 360.  This is one of the planes that is featured.  

Its almost completely OOB with the exception being the AGM-88s and their rails.  Those came from the Hasegawa weapons set.  The seat belts are scratch, as well. I used TwoBobs decals for the VFA-102 Diamondbacks 50th Anniversary colors:

This was the first time I used glow-in-the-dark paint for the formation lights:

Wonderful builds all around. How did you like their P-38? I'd like an ETO 38 and see Eduard has one out now too.

Dayum Manny!  You're rather fond on the 109 eh?  Thatsa buncha great builds.  So, you do build a few models from time to time?  Don't it cut into your keyboard time though?

Some of 'em...

No where near the top quality of the other builds in this thread, but here is my just completed 1/72 Hasa KI -46 "Dinah"

Tamiya IJN Grey acrylic over Tamiya silver enamel for light chipping.

Theuns

Gary: Thanks!

They're Royal Thai Air Force. Thailand was 'invited' to join the Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere- or else... They recieved a small shipment of Ki-43s in exchange for their 'support. '

They're on this sheet from Empire City Decals. Excellent print quality and they went on great. I can't find their website and I'm not sure they're still in business

Gamera, those all look great!  I gotta ask though, what markings does the Oscar carry?  What nation's insignia is that?  Thanks and congrats on some fine work!

Gary

Great stuff guys! Loved looking though everything here- some I've seen and some I haven't so it's great to catch up.

Hmmmmmm, well I think Doogs said it before, and I'll agree - I like painting and decaling. Putting and sanding and rinse-repeat isn't fun. No offense to those who like Revell and Monogram kits but I'll pay extra for a Hasegawa so I can get to the fun parts faster.

F-4EJ Phantom in 1/48th:

Ki-43 Hayabusa OSCAR in 1/48th

P-47D in 1/48th:

Bf-109E in 1/48th:

troublemaker66

There  are some nice looking builds on this thread, but, they`re supposed to be...they are Hasegawa kits. The whole point of both Monogram Mafias GB`s and Stik`s Revell thread was to show the guys that bad mouth the "Revellogram kits" that they too can be built into impressive models, naturally with a little extra elbow grease and some modeling skills, possibly some "gizmology". I like the shake-n-bake kits too, as long as I can find `em cheap..... ; p

Fly-n-hi

Nice!  So how did the AK Chipping Effects work out?  Looks like it turned out good but would you recommend it or no?

It worked out great - I honestly think anything "off" about it was my fault with not having used it before. 

Essentially, it works like a controlled hairspray technique that you can pump through the airbrush. It's disconcerting wetting the paint after it goes down, and seeing it rise up and get all bubbly as the chipping fluid underneath reacts.

Biggest problems I had were that I think I both overdid and made the chipping too uniform, and that I overdid the salt weathering, particularly on what was a gorgeous NMF underside:

DoogsATX

Cool idea! Somehow, despite having several in the stash, I've only ever built one Hasegawa kit - the very solid N1K1 Ja-Shiden. Got it for around $20 and used it to experiment with AK Interactive's chipping fluids and a few other techniques. If the other Hasegawas I've got go together half as well as this one, I need to build another ASAP.