Hunting After Dark, 2011-2012 Night Fighter Group Build

I love it Enrico. Congratulations on a superb model. I agree that you have captured the look of this aircraft very well.

Cheers

Tony

Fantastic Enrico!  It is quite a beautiful build.  Your photography is great too.  Very good at capturing all the great details.  It looks great from all angles.

Cheers,

Greg

Fantastic work Enrico! Love the shading you accomplished.

Fantastico lavoro di Enrico! Amo l'ombreggiatura che è compiuta.

The war is over........not an easy model but it cathes very well the lines of the Nachtjager.........Ciao all and good work,Enrico.

Enrico, beautiful airbrush work so far!

hi all.....I want to say that even if I don't speak often about the others planes....I look at them ever and I find them very fine models made by very capable modellers....Excuse me for my bad language.......

The post shading is done.....after finished the model again same dirty by chalk powder and a very light steel dry brush......Ciao Enrico.

Wow , amazing work Enrico , She is going to look awesome when finished .

Casper your F-4D Phantom is SUPERB , I really like the detail to the cockpit and pilots seats and the open drag-chute door at the rear looks great .

Well done Sir ...10 out of 10 from me .

John .

Hi guys.....the show must go on......(.........I ever loved the PINK FLOYD...)....Put on decals....sprayed future....Ciao Enrico.

Heavens Eagle

....I really wish forums wouldn't make sweeping changes in the ways things work like this.  ...

Hear hear   . 

Enrico:  Great job on the paint 

Click on the "Use Rich Formatting" at the bottom of the last post and the familiar box opens and we can post as we did before.  All the familiar tags are there.  The "reply" button is for the quick text replies.

I really wish forums wouldn't make sweeping changes in the ways things work like this.   That is why I hardly ever mess with Facebook anymore.  Yuck!

Enrico! Your Me 262 is coming along quite nice.  I wouldn't worry about the mottle on your model.  It is of a consistent size and looks appropriate.  At the wars end these aircraft were painted in all manner of ways.  Many of the Ta 152 and Fw 190 D9's were left in primer and bare metal underneath.  In many cases if there was camouflage paint applied it was with all manner of devices including old mops and scrub brushes.

@Night fighter nut:first edit the text and reply.....than edit the same post and insert the immage ........

The mottles 2:the revenge!!!!

It seems things have changed in how we post now.  How do we do photos?

Enrico...it doesn't look out of place to me, but I admit I don't know how it should look on that particular aircraft. I have seen other types with similar mottling.

Casper...that's a great Phantom, well done on getting it finished too. The camo and weathring look spot on, and the detail in the cockpit isa stand out.

Cheers

Tony

Hi all...only a question:I think the mottles I've done are too big.......What do you think about??Ciao Enrico.

Whoa!  A lot happened while I was on vacation!  Not so sure on the sit "update"..???.... but, I did update the front page here (I hope that is what I did).

Regardless, some cool happenings!  Caspar's Phantom is awesome!  You might have to add some reinforcements to your display shelf with that monster on there.  Congrats on hitting 5 "kills"!

Speaking of aces, glad to see Trey is back for number 8.  The Moskito looks like a good kit.

Waikong, another really nice Italian "Job"!  I love those RA subjects! 

NFN, that Pe-3 looks to be a really interesting choice.  Very cool!  I also added your cool widow pic to the front page.

Last, but certainly not least, Italian Starfighter, your Me 262 is amazing!  If I didn't know better, I would think you were photoshopping pictures of a real 262!  Everything is just so spot on, the wheel bays to the mottle camo.

As for me, I started plugging away on the Canberra again.  The Corsair is on hold till I get a chance to paint the prop, and the bombs.  As an added build, I am going to build a Fujimi A-6B "Iron Hand" Intruder.  Back to the Canberra....  I put the wings together, realized the exhaust is sorely lacking.  I tapered some tubing, and made a flame holder insert.  I still need to taper the exhaust cowling some, but it is looking much better than stock.  Thanks to Helo's nav light remarks, I realized this thing is missing them, so I used the wing from an Italeri as a pattern, and I started hacking away.  The wings still need a lot of work even when I finish that.  Rescribing, flap bays and more.

Cheers,

Greg

Enrico...nice job on the mottle!

....Mottles................Ciao Enrico

Casper the Chihuahua ;  great job on the F4, amazing the size differance between it and the Spit. 

Italian Starfighter your progress is very good, you make the build look easy 

Hi all.......today I've sprayed RLM76...tomorrow I'll go with RLM75 mottle......Ciao Enrico

Hi all....ehi Casper your phantom is a beauty.....

My work is going on:primer on,black undersurface on......Ciao all Enrico.

Just to get a sense of the epic size of this beast, here is a shot of the 1/32 Phantom alongside a 1/32 Spit and 1/32 Sea venom.

Cheers

Well this has been the longest build I've done in a while and certainly has been the most fun. The engineering on this kit was amazing and allowed the details to speak for themselves.

Now where am I going to put this thing.....

Cheers

Thanks night fighter.

I'm very interested in how your Pe3 build will go. I have a version of that kit, and had thought about selling it - the stash is just getting too big.  Not too much stuff you can find on the web regarding this kit.  But I'm still on the fence, maybe your build wlll tip the balance.

You know, I put this picture as my screen saver at work and many people believe it was the real plane.  Perhaps should have put this as a representative picture of my plane at the beginning of the thread.   Hmmmm...     :)

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Ok, here is my next attempt at a WW2 night fighter.  Here is my Russian Night Fighter, the Pe3 Bis.

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262 is looking real sharp!

Gregg can ya put me down for a Ta-154A-O 1/48 Pro -Mod next,thanks buddy!

Nice job on the Me 262.  :)

Dude, I like your Fiat CR 42.  You did a great job on it.  I know because that kit is not an easy kit to work with and what you did on your plane looks great.  :)

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wow.. I really like that.. nice ..!