Jailcop: She's looking good to me! She's going to look great with decals.

potchip

Good work folks.

All that's needed is some AA guns to shoot those birds down. Knowing Japanese AA it probably wouldn't work but then again Japanese birds were made of firecrackers.

This is my cheerful for this group build - Fuso being the ancient name of Japan...

magnific fuso potchip, i built a kirishima 1/700 some times ago, with less results

You're sure about the old japan name was fuso? i remember was Yamato the old japan name (or probably in a different era)

Jailcop nice future paint even less a finger

Thanks, I'll try to get a pic or two of the finger up! lol

Also, what would you guys recommend I use to run the antenna?  I have some 4 pound fishing line I could use...

I use nylon clear sewing thread now for antennas. It works well and responds to gentle heating.

Too much going on to keep up.

Potchip, I need much more on that Fuso. Is there a WIP in ships?

Len, good looking porcupine. I had no idea they carried torpedoes.

Trey, you're a machine. You just keep whipping these planes out.

Keep it up all.

Thanks fellas and Jailcop that color looks perfect nice work

I've got the silver base down . I'm thinking of going with the  343 Naval scheme its pretty simple and after the last mottle its time to do a basic 2 tone scheme.

heres a pic of aircraft 'A' .I'll be doing 'C' sqdr ldr Oshibuti's aircraft

Thanks, it looked a bit too green for me.

I just put the decals down on the base coat of future, would you guys do the clay wash next or another coat of future?  Can I just seal the decals with the future and do the wash, then clear flat coat?

Yes you can ,I usually do put a coat of clear over the decals before a wash and then after the weathering give it a dose of dullcoat.

Thanks, lets hope it comes out nice!

Wow Great work Guys

Trey the Cockpit and nmf look great on the Shiden

Jailcop I usually recoat the decals and then weather also

Needbeer  nice start on the Dinah

Hercmech Great work on yours I love the brown toopped ones

Potchip very nice ships nice to see something other than aircraft

I have the day off today so will be working and get those pictures up

Jason

Just an update on my KI-46. Went to put on the decals last night and they completly fell apart. I tried using the Micro decal film on them and they still were no use. So I painted on the Hinomarus and the yello ID bands and I ordered a decal sheet for the other stuff.

Trey: Terrific, looks like you've got the whole NM thing down.

Jailcop: As other folks have stated, I'd spray some clear gloss like Future over the decals to protect them from the wash. Then a coat of matte over everything as your last step to even everything out and as the final protective coat.

Jason: Cool, looking forward to seeing how she's coming along.

Herc: Ack! Sorry, to hear that, at least the Japanese markings are fairly easy to mask and spray. I've been painting the yellow ID bands for some time, I can never get the decal ones to look right.

Herc:  My Tamiya kit did the same thing with a couple of the decals, soaked for 3 minutes and still tore when I removed them.  Luckily they were mostly salvageable, and what wasn't I tried to make look like weathering and normal abuse.

Gamera:  Thanks, I brushed a coat of Future over the decals last night, then put the wash on this morning.  I'll be wiping the dry wash off here soon, I'll post pics before final clear coat. 

Jailcop, not using future but is the same steps i use. gloss coat, decals, gloss coat, whashing, finishing coat

Another great NMF  Trey

finally get the opportunity to take outdoor pictures

Gamera the last for the wall

EDIT

bsyamato:

It looked awesome before but in the, it is stunning. Great build!

Well the pit is done....added some drybrushing and washed the sides a bit....ready to close this Oscar up and start on the engine.

GRL

GRL,

What did you use to make the belts? Your pit looks awesome.

Bsyamato: Beautiful job! Posting your last photo to the front page if that's good with you.

Big-Z: Sharp looking cockpit! Like most nicely detailed cockpits it's a shame you won't be able to see much of it once the plane is closed up.

Hercmech

bsyamato:

It looked awesome before but in the, it is stunning. Great build!

thanx Herc

Great cockpit on fire Carsanab

Hercmech

GRL,

What did you use to make the belts? Your pit looks awesome.

Mech...the belts are Eduard PE....painted with Tamiya Flat Earth....some of the other fiddl bits are also PE and I added the wire...

carsanab

Hercmech:

GRL,

What did you use to make the belts? Your pit looks awesome.

 

Mech...the belts are Eduard PE....painted with Tamiya Flat Earth....some of the other fiddl bits are also PE and I added the wire...

Thanks brother...

Great job on the pit

The sun really makes the plane pop

Well here are the pics

Jason

Jason,

Nice loooking build... those Hinomarus really pop

Gamera

Bsyamato: Beautiful job! Posting your last photo to the front page if that's good with you.

Big-Z: Sharp looking cockpit! Like most nicely detailed cockpits it's a shame you won't be able to see much of it once the plane is closed up.

yes, it work

and here come the raiden Jay

i'm surfin between the fujimi kits for the next ( at the end the lower cost between 1/72 kits )

try to fit more than one or two in the same order and keep an acceptable final price with supplies.

candidates are the va, the claude, the ida and the jill! what's your advice between these subjects?

If i go crazy i can consider this aargh!!! 

Well folks, I'm calling this one done:

The Tamiya 1:48 scale Lt. Cdr. Shigeru Itaya, Akagi Aircraft Carrier Fighter Group, 1941 Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero

This was also my first attempt at weathering with a wash, so please be gentle! lol

Jason: She looks good to me, almost done!

Jailcop: Beautiful work there, I think you nailed the right colour for the paint and the weathering came out great! Hope the second photo is ok for the front page, if you'd rather have the other just yell at me.

Bsyamato: They all sound cool. The Hasegawa Mavis is the same age and series as Len's Emily.

Nice work Jailcop

Thanks guys, Gamera, either picture is fine with me.  It would have been better, but the white glue was still wet on the canopy and the antenna broke

Jailcop: Looks good, a solid llooking build. Weathering is nice, not too much, not factory fresh.