Love it Joe! Thanks for sharing another great build

You knocked it right outta the park again Joe, super work! And great ruts in the base where the wheels tore up the dirt/sand, love the little details like this!

Really nice finale! Great job and I love that spinning prop.

Max

Truly excellent, Joe. Magnificant !! 

BK

She's a real beaut, Joe. Great work as usual and again, thanks for sharing the WIP.

lawdog114

 

I keep a premixed bottle of XF-64 Red Brown and XF-1 Flat Black which is diluted with 91% alcohol. I use it as a weathering post shade. For darker colors I add a touch more black.  

How do you apply the post shade? (Looks really good)

Also, tell me about the spinning prop in the last shot.

Another museum quality build. It never ceases to amaze me how you manage to get such good color separation with what appears to be very light coats of paint. Plus the paint cover looks so even.  When I try to apply lighter coats it always seems to get splotchy and I end up putting to many coats to even it out. Plus I don't seem to get nice color separation. Did you use the old fan method to get the prop spin?

The tower, the tower! Rapunzel, Repunzel!

Greg

She's a real beaut, Joe. Great work as usual and again, thanks for sharing the WIP.

 

 

lawdog114

 

I keep a premixed bottle of XF-64 Red Brown and XF-1 Flat Black which is diluted with 91% alcohol. I use it as a weathering post shade. For darker colors I add a touch more black.  

 

 

 

How do you apply the post shade? (Looks really good)

Also, tell me about the spinning prop in the last shot.

 

Thanks all. Waaaay too kind though. 

Greg, I airbrush it at low pressure, maybe 5 psi, and get in close, especially in areas that get dirty, like the cowl and the underside.  It takes practice and you need a fine needle or an airbrush capable of such.  

The prop....lol. I was trying to be clever and see if anyone noticed. Well, the ONLY plane I've ever gotten the prop to spin freely on is the Tamiya Wildcat. The normal black grommets don't normally cut it. Here I just used my airbrush (empty) to make the prop spin as I held the camera with other hand as I snapped a bunch until it looked good.  I tried to take the picture so you couldn't tell that nobody was in the cockpit.

Thanks for noticing guys...

Greatmaker

 

The tower, the tower! Rapunzel, Repunzel!

 

My experience is with single engine fighters. This thing has four engines. It's a whole different type of flying....all together. 

It's a whole different type of flying...

You know Joe, I have this same Tamiya Wildcat which is to be part of my up-coming CV-8 Hornet project. It will be built out-of-the box and, at my skill ldevel, will not come close to what you have done; so you have not helped me at all! Really great job; and thanks for sharing your build with us.

Thanks for your feedback, Joe.

On the prop, very clever. And no wonder it looks so real.

Absolutely gorgeous Wildcat.

What a fantastic looking build Law!!!

Excellent build Dog, same for paint and weathering. Awesome picture with the spinning prop, it looks like a full size one.

Have you tried Flory Washes? I love how they leavy streaks and grime and it's so easy to apply and wipe off.

That's one gorgeous model! Beautifully done - painting and weathering are superb.

OT, what was the shutter speed on the image of the spinning prop?

Beautiful build. And a poignant pose from the pilot figure.

What a great build!  Very nicely done, and a fantastic tribute.
But in truth....like Marine Lt. DeBlanc said....he never felt he was a hero.  To his mind, he was well trained, capable, competent, mission oriented, and felt he was doing nothing more than "his duty".
Men like him are lucky.  There are probably thousands of men just like him that felt nothing at all when putting themselves at the ultimate risk to complete their mission.  Very few of them are recognized as they should be.  And far, far more of them never came home.
BUT....men like Lt. DeBlanc, with their selfless, unstinting courage, utterly personify the reason The Congressional Medal of Honor is awarded:  The love of fellow man. 
It all began on December 9, 1861 Iowa Senator James W. Grimes introduced S. No. 82 in the United States Senate, a bill designed to "promote the efficiency of the Navy" by authorizing the production and distribution of   "medals of honor". On December 21st the bill was passed, authorizing 200 such medals be produced "which shall be bestowed upon such petty officers, seamen, landsmen and marines as shall distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action and other seamanlike qualities during the present war (Civil War)." President Lincoln signed the bill and the (Navy) Medal of Honor was born.
Many times I've looked at the Congressional Medal of Honor Society page.  It's stunning....so humbling.  Go see:  http://www.cmohs.org/
John 15:13 says it all - Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
If you ever travel down south....go pay your respects.  He's in the Saint Michael's Cemetery, Saint Martinville, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, near Lafeyette.
The people who run the cemetary will help with finding the plot.  I want to go pay my respects one day.

Semper Fi, Marine.  HooRah!