I'm glad I didn't hack away everything that Aires said to on the resin tub instructions!

I would have lost the whole top of the area behind the seat where the canopy latches on.

I was careful to examine the fit before I cut away any styrene. As it happens there is a slight gap but it is easily repairable.

Have I mentioned how much I hate cutting resin cockpits away from their casting blocks!

Cheers

Ok, time for my next nightfighter! F-117A Nighthawk

And this time......it's black as well!

This thing is huge, it dwarves the Phantom II! Is this the largest single person plane produced?

I got the Eduard interior coloured PE, the Aires cockpit set and Eduard white metal landing gear. I don't think I'll build the Hummer that came in the box.

Cheers

Wow, another beautiful build Casper, how the heck did I miss it before?

Casper the Chihuahua

Nice! And look at all the fiddly bits that could easily get broken off - lock it up quick!!!!

Terrific plane there Casper.   Excellent work.  :)

Hey Nathan,  I mixed up some of my Flory black and light gray pro modeller washes. I then applied very liberally and streaked front to back with a large flat brush, making sure it all deposited in the panel lines. I didn't want to remove too much as I wanted the plane to have a slightly semi-gloss but dirty look.

Thanks for the compliment

Cheers

Great looking nightfighter casper! i've always wanted to build a 110 in that scheme with the NJG badge. yours looks real good. Did you get that faded look from the washes or airbrush?

Nathan

Very nice dio Casper!

Ok; I'm calling this bird done. Great kit, would really like to do a Dragon again soon. I used a mix of Flory light and dark dirt wash to really grubby up the plane. It also caked nicely around the window frames to give a really weathered look.

Cheers

BLACK!! My favourite colour for an aircraft!

Cheers

That Hellcat is a nice plane.  Wish they had it in 48th scale. 

I'm still searching for other night fighters.  Trying to create all known night fighters used in WW2 in 48th scale.  Seems there were quite a few so I have to break them down by country.  The U.S., I know had at least three designated during the war.  The P-70, P-61, and that F6F.  Others were borrowed from other countries such as the mosquito and beaufighter..  The P38M came too late from my view so I didn't count it. 

Great WIP Casper

Night Fighter Nut , that's an awesome stash of kits ;

I recently picked up the Cyber Hobby F6F-5N Hellcat Night Fighter kit ;

I like the option of the folded wings .

Hopfully I can complete at least one of my on-going Night Fighter builds in the not too distant future .

                           John .

Your plane is coming along really well.  I like it.  :)

I think next month I will have more time to do a model.  Better yet I have several kits to add as time allows.   A Russian night fighter, Pe-3 Bis, French night fighter, Potez 631, Japanese night fighter, J1N1 Gekko, German, He 219, and an English Hurricane.  I had already finished the mosquito night fighter and a couple of widows. 

Casper the build is looking great and the props look super! Do'nt ya just love those antenae lol!

A bit more progress on the Bf-110D.

She's all together, canopy in place and ready for a prime coat.

The nose antenna array has being doing my head in! It's so fiddly and I want to poke my eyes out with a hobby knife!!!! AND it's only halfway done!

Props ready to go...

Cheers

Too many great things to call out each of you....so great work everybody!

I am almost ready to start shooting paint and will post pictures when I can.

Great work Casper, that engine sure adds alot to the model.

Nathan

Great work as always guys!

Have to admit I've been dragging my feet on the Widow but hopefully she'll be done before the end of the year.

Ok, got the bird together. Next comes the canopy and a small amount of gap filling. Most of this kit fits together like a glove so will be very little to do.

Cheers

looking  good !

I have the original four USMC Night fighter kits in the stash , that I nominated to do when Greg kicked off the Group Build and I would sure love to continue on with those when I finish the one's I'm working on now ; Particulary the 1/72 Minicraft PV-1 Ventura with the awesome resin interior set I bought to go with the kit .

At first I was too scared to touch the kit , with the fear of messing it up completely , however Greg kindly sent me an article on the Minicraft PV-1 buid and after reading it a few dozen times and looking at the kit , I'm a lot more game to have a crack at it now .....

Anyway a little bit of progress today on the 1/72 revell P-70 ;

I airbrushed  some chromate to the interior cockpit pieces and engine nacelles pieces as well the landing gear doors and engine cowling insides . Some silver on the wheel hubs and landing gear struts and a little yellow on the prop blade tips . Oh and I made sure to airbrush the underside of the wings with some chromate where the engine nacelles and landing gear housing will be positioned .

A little flat black to the cockpit pieces of the Kamov KA-50W and now I can glue the seat and instrument panel in place and close up the front cockpit section .

So moving along nicely .

                        John .

It would seem all of us have been hit by one snag or another.  My wife had her company merge with another one and told us we had to move.  So the transition has kept us busy for months with more work in the coming months.  I will do my best to finish this Fiat CR 42 CN Italian night fighter.  Perhaps as the holidays approach and a new year dawns we will all find time...  before the world ends..  :)

You know, I would be glad if this tread continues for another year and let it just be the continuous night fighter thread.  Just separate the models completed from year to year until all interest dies.  What do you think?

Looking good guys!

Paramedic school has really cut into my spare time.  I was lucky to get about five minutes of sanding done this week.  Once I get past the body work, it should move along.  I'm glad to see that some of you are keeping this alive, thanks!

Cheers,

Greg

Awesome work Casper

Embarrassingly my Night Fighter builds have been stalled for quite a few weeks but I've been having a great weekrnd so far getting lot's of work done on other builds , so I'm going all out to try and get these three going ....

The 1/72 B-57G Night Intruder has been waiting for the medium green / dark green camo for a while now , so that should get done over the next couple of days .

Zvezda's 1/72 KA-50W Night Hunter is molded in black and the interior color is flat black , so a few light coats of tamiya's flat black should do ;

The Revell 1/72 P-70 arrived and unfortunatly my kit is missing the front cokpit bulkhead . However it shoudn't be too difficult to scratch build one using the rear cockpit bulkhead as a template ;

Interior color will be chromate and I'll airbrush that tonight .

So hopfully by the end of this weekend some more progress has been made .

                          John

Hercmech

Very nice casper. Love the detail you have going on in that office

I second that,nice work Casper!

Very nice casper. Love the detail you have going on in that office

Nathan T

I'll be following this build casper. i'm gonna start the eduard 110 soon, maybe i shoulda went with the dragon? Nice job so far, i love the look of that pit.

Nathan

Hi Nathan, yeah the Dragon is a really smooth kit. It fits together perfectly, little stress or fuss. Having build an Eduard Bf109-E in 1/32, I'd say the two kits are matched about evenly. I have been quite busy lately so found not much time to work on it.

Some work on the wings and got the fuselage together and nose and tail attached.

Also got one of the BMW engines together as well.

Cheers

I'll be following this build casper. i'm gonna start the eduard 110 soon, maybe i shoulda went with the dragon? Nice job so far, i love the look of that pit.

Nathan

The cockpit is looking good Casper!

My sentiments too!  Great detail.

Yes, I have been a slug on my meteor.  I should have some progress soon though.

Cheers,

Greg