bsyamato - that thing looks really nice out in the sun! Wish I had such a natural backdrop to work from. Can't complain with the Texas Hill Country, but it's not the Med!

Gamera

 

Reasoned:

 

With all due respect bsyamato, please no more outdoor photos, that scenery makes me green with envy!

 

 

Well as long as you don't post any beautiful Italian gals in short skirts then I'll be jealous

Summer is near i'll try

Actually is the only photo booth i have  

Thanx for comments guys

Reasoned

With all due respect bsyamato, please no more outdoor photos, that scenery makes me green with envy!

Well as long as you don't post any beautiful Italian gals in short skirts then I'll be jealous

Those look great Bsyamato, I really love the chipped paint. I'll see about getting the first one posted tonight.

That looks great, especially outdoors.

With all due respect bsyamato, please no more outdoor photos, that scenery makes me green with envy!

No fear Cliff  finally the spring arrived and here the complete things  

btw Have good vacation there

And here the complete gallery withouth put too many pictures

Mary gallery

All pictures are with manual setting withouth flash 

As final words on the mary, the fixing of three back canopy pieces was one of major problems, and the chippin with brush, after the weathering allow a shiny finish of visible metal that contrast nicely with the rest of matt finish

The antenna mast was enforced with metal rod and the pitot replaced with a brass rod too (... and the tail wheel reinforced too with some metal after a break )

Lots of experience collected with this short-run kit good for the next one (just yesterday i found on my main vendor lots of amodel with an high discount, expecially little kamov's helicopters )

C&C wellcomed specially critics (we posting even to grow up ) 

The Claude is at good finished percentage too (80%?), will waith to finish it to put the Tenzan on the table

Bsyamato: How on earth did I miss your post yesterday??? Yet another great build there! I continue to be amazed how you get that fantastic weathering with a brush.

Eagerly awaiting the outdoor photos, ready to post to the front page the one you want.

BTW: Guys I'm going on vacation/holiday next week starting on the 28th and will probably be gone a week and a half. If anyone needs anything done yell at me before I leave will ya?

TREYZX10R

Bsyamato another great looking build,love the finish! Very nicely done Sir!

Thanx Trey i tried this afternoon to take outdoor pictures but wind waited till i was out with the mary and the camera and starting to blow the mary is really heavy for his dimension but preferred to not risk

tomorrow another attempt

DoogsATX

Hey Gamera - you were looking for the Hasegawa Training Group Zero, right? $22 on SB right now...

http://store.spruebrothers.com/148-hasegawa-mitsubishi-a6m2b-zero-fighter-type-21-training-group-limited-edition-series-9834-p17534.aspx

Doogs, thanks for looking out for me man! Unfortunately I'm looking for the two-seater trainer version. That's the one-seat version with the parts for a cut-away lower tail for towing a target plane for gunnery training. I've got one in my stash, very nice kit, with white metal parts and a yellow underbelly to warn the student pilot - 'SHOOT THE TOW TARGET - NOT THIS PLANE!!!!'

Bsyamato another great looking build,love the finish! Very nicely done Sir!

Thanx guys now look better!!! finished

will take complete pictures tomorrow , if weather will be good as today

Hey Gamera - you were looking for the Hasegawa Training Group Zero, right? $22 on SB right now...

http://store.spruebrothers.com/148-hasegawa-mitsubishi-a6m2b-zero-fighter-type-21-training-group-limited-edition-series-9834-p17534.aspx

As I understand it aotake was a sealant used on the internals of the frame. Nick Millman thinks it was a kind of bluish or greenish clear fluid that went over NMS so it would not really have been a color. Millman recommends spraying very heavily thinned green or blue over silver. Of course I've never done it.

Eric

Bsyamato...lokking good my friend. It kinda looks like the Sonia I built last year. Good work...

Len

Looking good bsyamato. Cool effects that you pull off.

Bsyamato: Super job! I may have to try your style of pre-shading with a brush. Last weekend I spent about a half-hour cursing at my two airbrushes.

here some update!

Propeller is not yet glued, i'm unsure about paint blades stips

Bsyamato: Good to see the problems cleared up. The Mary looks perfect now and the Claude is super shiney! 

So i crossed all the fingers, included from foots

i risk to paint the matt layer and worked, will cure another day and pass another extra thinned layer. 

Actually the only bad thing is the not panel lines washing

Basically left only to paint the front of propeller blades , gluing all pieces and weathering some .. and mary is finished

Clade silvered!!! this tecnicque seems work with humbrol silver

Modeler#1: As the guys pointed out, it's aotake - a translucent blue varnish applied over the metal of the wheel wells. As the aotake aged it turned more greenish. You can either use a metallic greenish blue from the bottle or paint them aluminum and then overspray with a translucent blue, possibly adding a little green like Tamiya.

Bsyamato: Yeah, I'd also go with letting the paint dry a few days longer, it might take care of the problem without you having to do anything. Cross your fingers.

Hope it cures out for ya Bsyamato it looks great!

ops... yes the correct name is the aotake i expained how i did it

Isn't it aotake, which is a blueish-green?

The updates on the Claude (pss.. i started to redraw the tenzan panels yesterday and cut the original cockpit floor )

cockpit complete

glued all!!

I redraw almost all the panel lines to engrave more, did to avoid lost panels after paint

and after first black layer to allow a silver or aluminium drybrush (this was the method i used on the little mavis )

Cliff this is the actual mary situation from pictures it's hard to see so i try a close up on wings

will leave at least 3 or 4 days with the hope the color will totally cure, actually even an high humidity in the air here after this will matt the plane

modeler#1 personally i used a mix with few drops of green ,blue and most percentage of gloss clear cote. painting the wells with nmf before.

heres a good shot of a real zero

zerowell

that's all for the night

Does anybody know the color of the zero's wheel well's? I'm thinking lime green but not sure. You don't have to post on the GB page you can PM me instead. Thanks!

David: Maybe a little too much chipping on the leading edges but otherwise she looks good to me. I think one of the biggest reasons I've never done much chipping is when I do I never like the looks of the results either. Still, I think she looks fine.

I've seen very nicely done light washes at shows but again that's something I've never had much luck with. I generally go with a dark wash assuming as it's been said it's dirt and grime sticking to the seams between the panels.

Bsyamato: ACK! I hope you didn't ruin her, she was looking so good before. Good luck with saving her.

EBergerud

Doog: you have a high bar and I think George makes it. Good work indeed.

bsyamato: You're building one homely plane, but the build looks really sweet so far. 

ric

was sweet!! think ruined it with panel lines washing, the green i use was seriously old and bad, i had the impression that he not really cured and this impression was correct... fortunately decals and marking are ok.

Some upper parts going off but fortunately i did 3 layers of it. Will correct mistakes after the matt coat , at least try.

Claude main pieces all glued, will post pictures later ..

Doog: you have a high bar and I think George makes it. Good work indeed.

bsyamato: You're building one homely plane, but the build looks really sweet so far. I'm very interested in seeing it in completion. I've brought a Hasegawa A6M5 to St. Paul with me and am going to be bookmarking green/gray IJN aircraft for seriously needed inspiration.

Dave: to be honest, I think you might be between two stools with the Val. If you're thinking a Pearl Harbor Val it is, as Reasoned suggested it is probably over weathered. That said, Vals saw heavy work throughout the Solomons campaign when land-based at Rabaul or Bougainville and some of those could have been very heavily weathered. I think you've got the leading edges just about right. In my humble, if I was going to go for a heavy weather approach, I'd weather it more. If not, do some respraying and step back a little as suggested by another wise head here. If you're going to do Pacific War aircraft I don't you can avoid fading. Salt faded paint and when the war got rolling those planes were over salt water or exposed to it 24X7. (Almost all landing strips were close to water.) If you don't want to mess with salt, I'd give oil paint dot fading a try - it's extremely effective when you get the hang of it. MIG also makes "faded" pigments in a variety of colors and those would work too. Again, in my humble, WWII combat aircraft are usually underweathered across the board. That said, weathering is a completely individual decision. Every weapon was new sometime and aircraft were "recycled" at an extraordinary rate during the war. So a mint warplane would be perfectly accurate. A lot of ship modelers do "commission day" models - I think they just don't want to get their pretty boats dirty. (Actually I've got a Hasegawa Mikasa at home and plan a "commission day" build for it simply to see if I could handle a clean finish.)

Panel lines: not sure if this is common knowledge but Tamiya has just put out a line of panel line enamels in the same bottles they use for cement. They have some kind of conditioner in them. I just used them for a pinwash on an AFV and they are very good. Come in black, brown and gray - I mixed the black and brown. I'm still not sure how to handle minor panel lines - I think there's a real possibility they are often overdone. There are some warbirds in the Twin Cities and I'm going to go out and stare at them for a while.

Eric

Davi i used light or medium grey to panel line the zero green, a yellow base color could work too, even black can work, but also dependings on your taste

More mary/claude pictures

Mary decals on!! and last glossy layer before panel washing. The fuselage hinomaru stolen fro one of two tenzan sets (tenzan kit included two complete decals sheets for different versions )

On the Claude i'm near to close fuselage, hope tomorrow