Clebode

B17---Your office looks fantastic.  Did Tamiya supply those trim wheels?  I may have to work on mine more.

No, those are from the Eduard detail set #49-205

Progress update:  got the fuselodge buttoned up and the wings together, adding the details from Eduard into the wing.  Pics to follow.

simpilot34

Excellent work fellas!!!!! Looking forward to seeing them completed!!!!

Ju-88 in 1/72???? AWESOME!!!! For the greenhouse let me tell you about a technique I saw on a DVD with Geoff Illsley. He used a 1/48 Bf-109 canopy for the demo but it can easily be used on ANY canopy or transparency. He simply masked in one direction at a time. Did the cross framesshot the interior and then exterior colors in very light coats to avoid paint build up, then de-masked and then went lengthways with the tape and shot interior and exterior colors again, de-masked and it was done!!!! I saw that and just said,' Well that makes ANY greenhouse look ALOT easier to paint!!!! Now I can't wait to try it, as I didn't get the DVD until after I had done the greenhouse on my Jake!!! C'est la vie!!! HTH!!

Simpilot: I wish I'd thought of that! I'm going to have to give that a whirl next time I do a greenhouse canopy.

B-17: Great looking cockpit!

Spike: Wow, she looks great! Sorry about your earlier problems but she looks fantastic now.

Thanks fellas, I'm glad you like her so far.

Darren, Hugh I removed the filler cap when I deconstructed, just something to add at the end.

Ritchie thanks for the kind words, I had the roundels on and although I sealed them I obviously hadn't done it very well and some over enthusiastic weathering ripped half off on one side

Cheers...

Hey fellas I am now just getting cleared from other GB's and ready to start building here. I have been watching all the progress and builds and some great looking builds going on, very impressive indeed. I will be doing a Do 24 and if time permits finish off my Hasegawa 1/32 Me 109e. Heres the kit im building

I broke some sprue and laid down some paint on the interior so it has begun.

Steve

Steve--That's a neat looking flying boat.  Great choice!!

All---The fuze is closed.  Also, in honor of Daywalker Frank I painted the prop and spinner.  My reference said the prop should be RLM70.  My color chart said one part Tamiya olive drab and one part kahki.(T#s 62 & 49)  Does this sound right?  Seem too light to me. 

Great progress guys!!!! These builds are top notch!!!!

Steve, looking forward to seeing the aerial floaty thing coming together!!!!!

Clebode, the paints varied so much you really can't be too picky IMHO. Looks fine to me. I used Tam XF-27 Black Green and added a few drops of XF-1 Flat Black, probably got it a bit too dark but still enough contrast to the other colors to say it ain't completely black. HTH

to what Sim said great work Guys.....

Great looking work Hugh .  I agree with Richie on the prop, TAM Black-Green mixed to taste with flat black does nicely.  I think from memory I use about a 50/50 ratio.

Cheers

OK Darren sorry I'm later but Daywalker told me he would not ship me anymore free Me 109 kits unless I did him 190 GB first!

I am going to throw my hat in the ring with the 1/48 Hasegawa Me 109 E-3. I decided Priller's marking have been done enough so I am doing red 1 the first option on the decal sheet so put me down on the first page if you would my good man.

Soulcrusher

Coach Crusher--- It is reassuring to know you are here if I need you.  This build is going sooooo much smoother than the DoR III build.

Richie & Darren--- Thanks for the paint tip for the prop.  I will repaint.

All--- One thing I have noticed about GBs is that posting frequent WIPs lets you catch mistakes before they become difficult or impossible to fix.  An example is the cockpit of my bird.  After posting the other day, I realized  the sills were not right.  I needed remove some excess material from the resin pour of the side panels.  If the wings had been on, that would have been a difficult and messy operation.  But, I was able to pop the cockpit interior out, remove the offending resin and now the office now looks right.    I will post more pics this weekend.

Crush I can't wait to see 'Red 1' in th epaint stage!!! That is going to be so cool a scheme!!!!

Hey Hugh I thought I would run into you over here. Its a steep learning cure but you seem to be doing just fine so far buddy. That and you have fallen in with the best crowd around on this forum by joining the DoR GB and now this one. Lots of great helpfull people in both GB's. I will have to read back a bit when I get a chance to see all of the nice stuff I missed.

Richie what up buddy! You know me I do my best and I love thoses Luftwaffe paint schemes.

Soulcrusher

Time for a "Tamiya Two-fer" in 1/72!

What could be better than a Tamiya Emil?  Why two Tamiya Emils of course!  These are going to be "just for fun" builds pretty much OOB, including seat belt decals!

The E-1 will be "Yellow 8" from 9./JG 2 piloted by Leutnant Rudolph Rothenfelder and the E-4 will be "White 6" of 1./JG 3 piloted by Leutnant Heinz Schnabel.

Went together as expected, just about flawless fit everywhere:

Here's my deviation from completely OOB (decals excluded of course).  I ran across a profile of "Yellow 8" from 9./JG 2 and really wanted to do this scheme so some minor surgery on an E-3 kit was required.  Removed the gun blister for the wing mounted MG FF and the associated panel lines and then re-scribed the detail that was lost during sanding:

Will start painting them today.

Looks like you are going to have a nice pair there Mike. I build the E-4 kit a long time ago. It is a great kit and it went together will no filler needed anywhere.

Soulcrusher

Hugh your 109 is moving along nicely.

Soulcrusher I eagerly await "Red 1" .

Luftwaffle, nice work on your two, I just love all these 109's

I'm almost done on the Spitfire, hope to have pictures up in the next few days as I just need to complete the under carriage.

Cheers everybody, keep up the good work.

Okay.  I just primed the Bf109E-4 and realized I am dealing with raised panel lines here.  First time for this feature.  I need suggestions as to how to treat the raised lines for a look like you can get with a wash applied to recessed lines.  Preshading?  Also, any reasonable way to restore lines lost due to seam sanding?

Hugh I think people often remove raised panel lines and then rescribe them, as you've already started I would think that's a no goer, I'm sure someone will chime in with the best solution for painting them, I'd of thought post shading may work better on raised panel lines.

My good lady is away this weekend and has taken the two cameras I use to take my pictures! A few little bits still needed and sorry about the camera phone pictures but this is where I'm at.

I should be posting proper finished pics tomorrow.

Cheers....

Mike nice looking Spitfire!!   Clebode the best way to fix raised panel lines is to rescribe. I f you dont want to bother with that you can preshade. I like to post shade I use post it notes to mask off the line and spray slightly darker paint at the line edge. I have used Tamiya clear smoke paint also, then you can take a pencil and run over the raised line to bring out the line detail. Some people use pastel chalk to bring out the detail I have not tried that one. Hope that helps

Damon

Mike she's a stunner mate!!!!!! Beautiful job on everything!!!!

As far as raised panel lines go, well, the last one I did was my Hase Jake and I preshaded them. After final color I highlighted the center of the panels with a VERY thin mist of a light gray. When shooting, as soon as you notice the hue STOP! Anyway here's a pic of what I mean.

I wasn't about to sand down and rescribe everything. I chose to just work with them. Done the same thing on my Swordfish, just sort of tried to disguise them rather then totally change them. HTH!!

Got my 109 together.  Eduard had me replace the radiators on the bottom wings. Can't see much of them, cause the kit supplied cover was still used.  Cut the elevators off to repostion later (going to do a diorama with the bird).  Just need to fill the seams and then I can paint her.

Here she stands at the moment:

Looking very good so far B17.

Thanks guy's for the comments. Well I'm now done on this build, had a few problems along the way but all to do with me and paint. I dropped the elevators on this, first time I've done anything like that and I am pleased with the result. I used some Xtradecal to depict Spitfire Mk1 flown by Sqn. Ldr. Brian Lane of 19 Squadron, March to September 1940. Apparently this aircraft causes a bit of debate as regards the colour of the spinner, I went with yellow simply because I thought it looked good.

Hope you enjoy the pictures and all comments are welcome.

Not my best effort but I'm glad to have finally got her finished.

Thanks Darren for letting me join in the fun, I will keep an eye on all the excellent stuff being built.

Cheers everybody ...

The Spitfire looks very nice indeed, well done.

Spike -- you have a build you can be very, very proud of! This is one of the best Spits I've ever seen, and if I'd turned out a result like this I would be more than happy. The finish and detail are superb, the paintjob is entirely evocative of a serving aircraft of the period -- it's the perfect foil to all the 109s that proliferate at this time of year!

Cheers, Mike/TB379

Spike - Nice work on the Spit! The paint work is beautiful!

jmabx

Spike - Nice work on the Spit! The paint work is beautiful!

Very nicely done Spike. The staining on the underside came out great.

Soulcrusher

Spike---Awesome Supermarine.  Ditto Crusher's comment.  The weathering is superb.  Understated but recognizable!!! 

Al---Moving along on the Bf109E-4.  Main colors are on.  We have to get the Luftwaffe in the air!

Hugh that is looking great!!!

Mike, what can I say apart from wow, what an awsome job.

Hugh in terms of painting or highlighting raised panel lines I think the best method(s) would be a combo of pre & post shading. 

Whilst the Spit Mk.VIII in the pic has recessed panel lines but all of the panel line shading on this model was done with the air brush in a post shading frenzy: 

B17 & Hugh great looking progress work from both of you.  Those 109s are really starting to come together.

Cheers

John, Mike, Jeremy, B17, Soulcrusher, Hugh annnnd Darren, thanks chaps for the extremely kind words. Also thanks to Nomad who advised me on the best way to mask for the camouflage, it worked really well and I will use that technique again.

Hugh nice update on the paint progress, I really like the 109's without the mottle, will yours remain mottle...less? I'm gonna have to do a BoB 109 sometime.

Cheers....