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She's coming along Toshi. Very nice! =] Yeah, that Brassin kit is leagues above everything else. I can't wait to try one.
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ManCityFanAs usual, you are doing a great job. Gaps that need filling are a pain, but seem inevitable. You obviously have the skills and patience to fix them. I am still learning this skill. Looking forward to more pics!
Toshi
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Married to the most caring, loving, understanding, and beautiful wife in the world. Mrs. Toshi
bvallot She's coming along Toshi. Very nice! =] Yeah, that Brassin kit is leagues above everything else. I can't wait to try one.
To to my fellow forum members,
I have the first coat of Vallejo Chrome Metal Color on. I'll clean up the Lightning and wait a couple of days to add the black out on the P-38. Until then, please enjoy these photos.
I appolagize for the lighting as I was too excited to wait for the sun tomorrow to take a photo shoot of the Lightning. So I used some LED lights instead. As you can see it is not the best photo but at least everyone can see the progress and outcome of this kit. Thank you for the support in my projects. I greatly appreciate the visits and conversations as it's important for me to continue with threads of WIP for my TBI therapy.
You have all helped me get healed from my TBI and I am forever greatfull to you all, my FSM Family!
While waiting for the NMF coat on the Lightning to cure I am working on the wheels assembly and painting. All of the items you see below are from the Eduard Brassin Kit. The wheel assemblies are all cast in resin.
That is coming along nicely, Toshi!
- Mike Brindos "Lost Boy"
M. Brindos That is coming along nicely, Toshi!
Being that this was a NMF, the paint sceme although singular was most challenging as you well know the any defect will show up ten times ten through the NMF chrome paint. And you know me, I'm not all that capable! LOL! But I do try. Thank you sir for always supporting my projects!
It's 4:26am as I write this addition to this thread. For some strange reason, it's one of those days of which I awoke at 2:00am and decided to work on my Putt Putt Maru. With this in mind, I don't know what possessed me but I decided to do the black out free hand with no tape demarcation lines. What I did was to follow the panel lines and to the best of my abilities I did the radius as best as I could.
If you look closely at the photos the blackout is not perfect by any means and you can definately tell it was done all by free hand brush work. I just wanted to see how well I could do it as well as to challenge myself if I could. I'm taking new medication called Lyrica, it has definately helped with my chronic pain and has steadied my shakey hands. My fellow brothers and sisters, tell me what you think on my free hand brush work. All comments good or bad are more than welcomed, I can only learn from this experience.
Let me just say that I had to go over several times with black and chrome paint to correct any discrepancies. And boy did I have a lot! LOL! Also as you can see, I have assembled the resin wheels and in my humble opinion they look fantastic compared to the OOB stock kit wheels. I'm also pleased with the masking done on the canopy which was interesting at best. My next step is to work on the P-38 Lightning's resin turbochargers. They need to be cut out, sanded, and painted. There are some PE parts that go with the turbochargers.
Thank you so much for all of your support my brothers and sisters. This experience for the last twenty one months has not only healed and TBI progress but has brought me so much closer to humanity because of all the love you have all given me. I find this forum my life line as I get to meet and greet fantastic people from all over the world.
And once again, please forgive my photos as it does not depict the NMF. It seems blurred and it also deflects the LED lights. During the the day with natural lighting, I will take proper photos to depict the paint scheme properly. Thank you for your patience in this manner.
tempestjohnnyIncredible work Toshi.
On this kit, some of my challenges were the work on a resin cockpit as I've never done a complete one before. I also had several fit and gap issues due to my incompetence but I was able to overcome these issues with your and forum members help in the way of everyone's works via the threads you all produce at such a high level that I hope one day to achieve. Thank you so much for your support in this P-38 project!
The resin turbochargers.
The OOB stock kit turbochargers.
Here are some photos of the P-38 Lightning "Putt Putt Maru" in natural lighting. Or what you can call natural lighting in North East Ohio during this time of the year. We don't get much sun at all. But one thing that is very uncommon is the fact that it is almost 60 degrees now! WOW!
I took these photos early as I'm going to be watching the NFL Playoffs this sunday afternoon. For those of you that are rabid fans like myself of the NFL, I think that the two teams that will be in the SuperbowL will be the Greenbay Packers vs New England Patriots. That's my guesstimate! LOL! I have the Patriots as the Super Bowl winners! I think? Anyways, enjoy the photos below. I really like how the turbochargers came out! It was painted with Walmart craft painys of Burnt Sienna and Gun Metal with a Burnt Umber wash. The item surrounding the turbochargers are Eduard PE to look like burnt dirty NMF. I think that was a pretty cool part on behalf of Eduard.
That is really looking good, Toshi. I love the P-38 and you are doing a bang up job again. Keep it coming.
BK
A lot !! And I mean A LOT!!
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Toshi, the painting is looking great. Total freehand painting is a challenge for anyone and I really feel you pulled it off!
Toshi,
As always super nice job so far.....always look forward to your WIP's. Keep up the great work.
Hunter
To BrandonK,
Thank you for your kind comment on my P-38 Lightning "Putt Putt Maru". A lot of what I learned was from your builds and from forum members builds as well. The hardest part was the fitting of the main nacelle as I noticed that that's what is the issue with most P-38's kits.
Moving forward, I have definately learned patience and timing of builds. I think those are the two most important facets of a build especially timing. When to glue or paint a part prior to assembly and patience on when to move forward. Thank you BrandonK for your support and always reading and replying on my builds, this fact is most appreciated!
iampiper13 Toshi, the painting is looking great. Total freehand painting is a challenge for anyone and I really feel you pulled it off!
Your TBF Avenger WIP is going just great. I'm quite impressed with your work. Keep it up as I'm following with great interest. Thank you so much for your support in my P-38 Lightning project, I greatly appreciate it.
Hunter Toshi, As always super nice job so far.....always look forward to your WIP's. Keep up the great work.
I messed up with the subsequent blackout design on the "Putt Putt Maru"! It is a unique design so I added the enhancement and pin striped it yellow all by free hand brushing. Here are the results.
I'm in the process of applying the main initial decals "Putt Putt Maru".
Decal application is completed. This afternoon I will see if the weather is still nice. If it is, I'll seal the decals in and work on the HVAR Rockets. Thank you forum members for your suppor.
Thats looking realy nice there Toshi. You did a great job with that yellow strip around the black. Real nice.
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