So my masks for my Wildcat (OA GB) and my Dornier (WTMP GB) seem to be held up in the Xmas post! So I am now cracking open my 3rd kit on the go! Never done this before

I'm doing the Mustang "Snoot Snipers" P-51B with a Legendary Productions cockpit set in resin. I'm also going to do the metal finish in Alclad chrome. I have some left and I think it'll look pretty sweet.

Cheers

Great Casper I believe this is the Tamiya kit you have listed already ? I have been wanting to see on of the Legend cockpit sets for the Tamiya 51.

Some more work on the P-51B

Had to replace the sidewalls with the new resin ones. lots of nice detail...

Cockpit painted ans test fit;

Just need to wait for the decals to dry on the IP and then I can get the cockpit in and sew the bird up.

Cheers

Ok, so got the little bird together and all masked and ready for painting.

...interior canopy colour;

...prime coat;

...the "Blue nose";

I decided early on not to use the decals of the black and whit stripes.

These invariably do not quite match up or overlap properly no matter how good they are designed. I have decided to paint them on;

So these white bands on the wings and the rear fuselage will be taped off ready for the black gloss prime coat. Then the black parts of the stripe will be masked when the Alclad chrome goes on. If it all goes to plan then there should be lovely black and white stripes on a chrome finish with a blue nose.

Cheers

Some more progress on the paint job...

Masking off the white to lay down the black stripes;

...black gloss coat for the black stripes and Alclad primer;

...masking off the black stripes;

...and finally the coat of Alclad Chrome. I decided to go for chrome instead of aluminum to give the plane a bit of a wow factor!

...all will be revealed tomorrow...

Cheers

Ok, so I couldn't wait!!

Alclad dries pretty quickly so I was able to remove the masks and check out the result. Despite a small bit of bleeding of the black into the white in some of the panel lines on the port wing, it turned out very well. Some remasking and extra white should help with that.

I'm so glad I decided to paint on those stripes instead of using the decals!

Cheers

The pit looks great Casper Like you I think the stripes look much better paint than using decals. Glad to see another like me too who cant wait to get the masking off a model.

Ok, this little build is OVAH! Was a nice little kit to work with. The blue on the nose turned out a little lighter than I'd hoped for but otherwise I', really happy with the colour scheme. Very striking with the zebra stripes.

Cheers

Wow Casper, great job and congrads on knocking her out so quickly!

Love a blue nose 51, I surely do. Casper well done sir, I really like the way you weathered it and brought out the panel lines. Just dont know how you build em so well in that small a scale, because it looks bigger than 1/72.

I am sorry I havent been keeping up with things here, I have been under the weather the last few days with 102 temp and coughing both lungs up it seems. Anyway I will get your build on the front page as soon as I can.

Hey V-man, you must be rally under the weather , it's a 1/48!

Cheers

Casper the Chihuahua

Hey V-man, you must be rally under the weather , it's a 1/48!

Cheers

  ummmm sorry Casper I have been a bit ummm fuzzy lately I have updated the front page with your build, ya might want to check it make sure I got it right. Still kinda feverish. Hey I ment to ask what you used for a wash as the panel lines really came to life and it also gave the model the look of some very hard use.

On another note, you are buildin em so fast we are gonna hafta start callin you Casper The SPEEDY Chihuahua

El loco Speedy Chihuahuha, unda-lay und-lay!

I'm on holidays at the moment so I am pretty much spending all day in the man cave at the mo!

I bought the new Tamiya panel line wash. It's excellent. Any excess can easily be removed with some enamel thinner or it can be smeared to give the weathering look. It also has replaced my thin oil wash to help with highlighting landing gear and cockpits. It's got an extremely small application brush which makes it ideal. Thoroughly recommended!

Cheers

Casper if they ever start importing Tamiya paints here in the States again I will have to get a bottle of it. I really like the way it worked for you. Thanks for sharing

thats real nice :)

Finally got a nice weekend and shot some of the Alcald primer on my P-47.  Found some spots I missed.  Time to go back and sand some more.

Got this beast coming from Japan... cant wait!

B-17: Sound good, looking forward to photos!

Furyan: Fantastic, looking forward to seeing what she looks like when you get her started.

A great place to see heaps of colour / CAMOUFLAGE PROFILES types for the P51 ... or any plane for that matter!!

http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/f/165/3/10 

B17 and Furyan cant wait

I like this colour scheme for the P51. Looks so clean and fresh doesn't it

I'm just about to start an Academy F-86F with a bare metal finish, but I haven't really done much serious work with MM's metalizer line, I thought I'd ask here before diving in, is there any difference in the finish between their Aluminum (non-buffing) and Aluminum Plate (Buffing) airbrushed Metalizers?  Does the Buffing vs. Non-buffing make any difference?

It's been a long time since I've used it but I seem to remember the buffing being much shiner than the non-buffing (which always seemed to me to pretty much silver paint). I really liked the Metalizer and it worked very well but gave up on it when if you so much as give it a dirty look it would peel up on me. Masking must be done with really low tack stuff like Post-It notes.

Haven't posted much of my work on "Magic Carpet" yet as I haven't hit the NMF portion of the build - but I'm getting pretty well into main assembly, so here's where it's at.

Here's the engine, next to the Revellogram unit:

The cockpit. Painted with MM Euro Dark Green to represent DDG. Eduard placard set and an Ultracast seat:

Fuselage together and wings on. The join at the wingroot is so good that I didn't have to use Tenax along the top at all.

Hopefully I'll be shooting the Alclad soon!

Hey Doogs..

Cant wait to see that razorback, any of yours is sheer pro man. That cockpit is already amazing _b

Gamera

It's been a long time since I've used it but I seem to remember the buffing being much shiner than the non-buffing (which always seemed to me to pretty much silver paint). I really liked the Metalizer and it worked very well but gave up on it when if you so much as give it a dirty look it would peel up on me. Masking must be done with really low tack stuff like Post-It notes.

I was inspired by the Metallic finishing article in the January issue.  The author used Alcad II but my local hobby shop doesn't carry it, so I'd have to order it online.  Is Alcad really worth it?  The stuff costs more than twice what MM does per bottle.

Ghostrider114

Gamera:

It's been a long time since I've used it but I seem to remember the buffing being much shiner than the non-buffing (which always seemed to me to pretty much silver paint). I really liked the Metalizer and it worked very well but gave up on it when if you so much as give it a dirty look it would peel up on me. Masking must be done with really low tack stuff like Post-It notes.

 

I was inspired by the Metallic finishing article in the January issue.  The author used Alcad II but my local hobby shop doesn't carry it, so I'd have to order it online.  Is Alcad really worth it?  The stuff costs more than twice what MM does per bottle.

Well I don't think the Alclad really looks any better than the Metalizer- if anything I think the Metalizer looks slightly more like real metal than the Alclad. Where the Alclad beats it and any other NM product I've seen is the level of sheer toughness. You can mask over Alclad with about anything and it will not peel up, The Metalizer will rip up even with low tack tape. With anything there are ways around this like painting the anti-glare panels and any colour trim first, masking and doing the NM last.

I just find the Alclad much easier to use IMHO, your milage may vary . You might want to search the forum for other opinions.

Doogs: Your usual fine job there

Furyan Yeah thats one eye catching color scheme for sure. I like it alot Hery and thanks for sharing that link.

Ghostrider I haven't used the the other MM metalizers but I have used the buffing metalizer. I find it to buff to a high shine but its very delicate and scratches very easily. I use it on small parts from a rattle can because after buffing it brings out small detail where the buffing wont reach. I do seal it with future right after buffing because its so delicate, and it will show finger prints if handled after buffing. Personally I wouldn't use it on large areas, but thats me.

Doogs I always like seeing your builds come together, Very nice work on the cockpit and engine, both engines really But yeah I like the one on the right much better than the kit offering.

Guys I am sorry I haven't been around much I have been fighting walking pneumonia. I do have the B-29 all cleaned and ready to start, just waiting to start feeling better to get started.

This is my next entry for this GB. This kit is massive! It's one of the best Revell kits I've seen in ages, despite the crappy instructions. These look the same in all kits and probably need updating of their format.

But anyway, should be a fun build. I also picked up the B-17 Walk-around book, lots of great photos for reference.

This will be pretty much OOB, perhaps a little scratch added but no AM extras.

Cheers

Casper: Picked one of those up a few months ago, really super nice kit- light years ahead of the Academy and Hasegawa B-17s. Looking forward to you working your magic on her!