Doggs, The Mozzie is looking great...gotta love that first coat of primer and how it starts looking like a finished project.

NFN...man that widow came out superb, definitely an inspiration for a future build

DoogsATX

 

VanceCrozier:

 

 

 

Lookin' good Doogs - is this going all-black or gray & green? Not sure the paint bottles are to scale, they look a little oversized to me...

 

 

Actually, I'm going to do it up as the Oscar Meyer wienermobile. Hence the red and yellow paint!

This one's going to be all black...or black grey, with black pre-shading. We'll see how it goes...

I'll be watching you, I'll be doing a similar treatment on my P-38. Primer / straight-black preshading / thin coats of almost-black. I'm hoping to mimic some wear by laying down matt black layers first and finish coats of gloss black in the appropriate areas. Anything I've found so far shows the NF Lightning as allover gloss black.

VanceCrozier

 

 

Lookin' good Doogs - is this going all-black or gray & green? Not sure the paint bottles are to scale, they look a little oversized to me...

Actually, I'm going to do it up as the Oscar Meyer wienermobile. Hence the red and yellow paint!

This one's going to be all black...or black grey, with black pre-shading. We'll see how it goes...

DoogsATX

Lookin' good Doogs - is this going all-black or gray & green? Not sure the paint bottles are to scale, they look a little oversized to me...

NFN - Love the Widow! One day I'll work up the courage to build one of those!

And...the Mossie is over the hump! There's nothing quite as satisfying as seeing primer cover up all those nasty-looking puttied areas and leave a nice, smooth surface!

The concrete monster managed to claim the little observation window on the underside aft of the bomb bay, but it's in an out-of-the-way enough location that I'm not going to sweat it. Other than that, everything appears to be 5 by 5, so I'm sort of waiting for the inevitable something to go wrong, as it does on every project!

Thanks guys.  much appreciated.  :)

NFN, very sweet build..! makes me wanna get one of mine outa the stash !

NFN- fantastic work on the Widow. Exceptional results, inside and out.

Nice Widow. The work definately paid off.

Doogs, I'm liking the Mossie too! 

NFN, awesome job on the Widow!!!  That was an incredible amount of work you put into it. 

Doogs the Mossie is looking clean and nicely prepped

NFN Outstanding Widow ,the 4 months of hard work have paid off with a very authebtic build that is stunning!!!

Ok, now I will cut to the chase and show you the finished model...  May I present to you the product of about four months labor.  My P-61A  Nocturnal Nemesis ...

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Getting closer to paint.

All the seam and sanding work has been completed. Aerial mast, radar antenna and dipoles attached. Canopy masked. Priming tonight?

I got started on the 234 and the kit looks decent. First had to cut out the top of the fuselage for the radar operator.

and got a good start on the office wich is lacking detail so I'll scratch some items to make up for it

Thanks guys, always liked the looks of the 630 and 631. Too bad they were so under-powered.

The Potez is very nice looking indeed.

Doogs, I was just saying that the French seemed to fight more effectively when they were Nazi puppets.  And their planes were certainly more effective when flown by Poles and Finns.  I definetly wasn't standing up for them.  If the truth hurts.... in their case anyways, ignore it!

Cheers,

Greg

Gregbbear

White flag?  That is funny!  Too bad a lot of them fought pretty hard for the Vichy, though.

Oh I know, France gets a bad rap. Poland moreso IMO (love that apparently the Brits and French advised them to delay mobilization to avoid provoking Germany...), but France too. 

Still, hard to pass up a good France joke...

Gamera that is some awesome work on the Potez ,nicely done! I like the nose art too!

Hah, that's funny! I did a Potez 631 night fighter about six months before I joined this site!

I was very happy with how the camo came out the the canopy was a mess, you can tell it still doesn't fit all that well. This is the 1/48th Azur kit. Not the worst limited run kit I ever built but still it was a PITA.

The 631's main problem (the 630 medium bomber as well) was like a lot of aircraft in not being a bad design but the engines were under-powered making the plane slow and sluggish. Plus the fact that radars early in the war were so big and heavy that the plane didn't carry one. The French would spotlight German a/c from the ground and vector the 631 to the area. Many other nations tried the same thing and it never worked very well for anyone.

Greg thanks its a 1/48 scale Hobbycraft AR-234B-2N flown by Kurt Bonow with the Erprobungskommando at Oranienburg March 1945

White flag?  That is funny!  Too bad a lot of them fought pretty hard for the Vichy, though.

Trey, the Arado sounds good.  Just give me the particulars, and I will add it too the roster.

Cheers,

Greg

Night Fighter Nut

There is also the French Potez 631...   Yes the French had a night fighter too.  Wasn't effective but they had one.  :)

Yes, the white flag made it all too visible.

TREYZX10R

Night Fighter Nut:

There is also the French Potez 631...   Yes the French had a night fighter too.  Wasn't effective but they had one.  :)

 

Well at least it fit in with most of the other equipment they had.

You can't beat their French Press for coffee.

Night Fighter Nut

There is also the French Potez 631...   Yes the French had a night fighter too.  Wasn't effective but they had one.  :)

Well at least it fit in with most of the other equipment they had.

There is also the French Potez 631...   Yes the French had a night fighter too.  Wasn't effective but they had one.  :)

Night Fighter Nut

I'm still waiting to see if someone will do the Fiat Cr 42 CN, or the Russian Pe 3 Bis.

Wow...I didn't even know what a Pe-3 was until just now! I'd be tempted if I didn't have enough other kits in the stash whispering sweet nothings into my ear!

I'm still waiting to see if someone will do the Fiat Cr 42 CN, or the Russian Pe 3 Bis.

Gamera the office is looking great

Doogs the Mossie's coming along nicely,looks like a good fitting kit to me and a real clean build you've got going to boot.

Hey Greg got another build if you'll allow it,ca'nt let these Allies overun the Gb can we? I just got the Ar-234B-2N in from an e-bay victory

The seams I saw were the centerline and the ones ont he bottom of the nacelles. I know pictures can show things worse than they are. I look forward to seeing it all done up, as you do great work.

Hercmech

Doggs,

Looking great. You did a fantastic job on the pit. It looks like there are some nasty seams you had to deal with this kit. Please say it aint so as I have this one in the stash

Thanks!

What seams are you seeing? Overall, I wouldn't put this kit on the same level as some other Tamiya efforts (their P-47, etc), but the fit is worlds better than the Eduard 109 I just finished. The gun bay door seems a bit narrow for the fuselage, the bomb door fit could have been better, and the separate wingtips are a pain, but apart from that everything went together well. I think maybe the seams (like the centerline seam) seem worse than they are because I haven't done anything with them yet...