Airfix Group Build 2011-2012

Thanks Peter...your strip came out great. It gave me fits trying to match the curve

Hercmech

Nice job on the Stuka Peter...curious how you handled the white stripe on the nose.

Thanks i used tamiya tape cut to the thickness of white little bit of bleeding.Your stuka turned out great

Yeah, youve got approx 48 hours.

dead line is extremely close. i need to get working.

Yeah it seems to be.

Front page is updated. Let me know if you have any other entries you want to try getting sdone before its all over.

Scorpiomikey

So mixed quality then. Did you actually buy it? Or just eyeing it up?

just eyed it. i did a research and didn't any new boxing's of the Mk.vb. still a good price imo. 

Nice job on the Stuka Peter...curious how you handled the white stripe on the nose.

Hi the stukas finished thanks Scorpiomikey for hosting.Nice work everyone i have a few more airfix kits so keen for another gb.

So mixed quality then. Did you actually buy it? Or just eyeing it up?

i know the 109 is the new tooling. i think the Vb is an older tooling.

Yeah those double packs are a pretty good deal. Im interested to see the quality of the kits though.

i feel to lazy to finish the decals tonight. i was sooo tempted to snag airfix's new double combo boxing with the 1/48 109E-4 and Mk.Vb spit. $34 at the LHS. damn good price. didn't know it had paints also.

Nice work on the Seafire and Stuka.  Very well done.

Learn something new every day. Thanks for that randy.

Scorpiomikey

sky overall was a common scheme for this bird. some wore dk. sea gray overall with sky bottom. 

i think the early ones had an overall dk. sea gray fuselage. 

i'll proble need to build two more. such an awesome kit to build. i want to do the overall sky fuselage and dk sea gray/dk slate camo version also. freight dog has a nice decal sheet. the special hobby seafire 15 will look nice sat next to this.

Hi i have just about finished the stuka some more weathering and matt clear .Here are some progress photos.

Must

finish

Greif

soon!!!!

(Then find a spot in my cabinet to display her!!! )

Looking good!

As for my Puma, I am hoping to get some paint on this week, and then I just got a 1/72 Airfix Canberra. I will however not have time to enter it in this GB.

Theuns

Looking good dude, i thought the eggshell went higher on the grey birds?

got the elevators done. excuse the rears, they weren't hit with clear.

need to finish off the decals,landing gear,and wash.

That looks GOOD. 

oh, and the flowery flight deck is very fashionable, I understand, in some quarters

decals go down nicely but are very flat. needs a nice gloss to really blend them in. 

So far yeah yo are. whys that?

I might have to look into MM enamels.

i compared both the MM and tamiya sky and tamiya is a bit darker. i used a little white to tone it down. very very close now. tamiya has a tendency to either be to dark or to light.

when it comes to enamels, MM is best hands down. only enamels i'll use. heard humbrol enamels are great also but never tried them. no point since MM enamel works for me and is easy to get a hold of.

update. hit with TS-13 then started on the decals. will upload the pic tomorrow. em i the only one building the seafire 17?

The MM enamels are good to use? We dont get them so much here but finding a good RAF sky is quite hard. The Tamiya variant just isnt quite right.

paint on.

tamiya XF-54

MM enamel sky 

Yeah, but you can line up a bunch of USN WW2 birds and they all look subtly different. So if you stuff the camo up a tad, no-ones gonna notice. But RAF. Its so precise im surprised no-ones come out with downloadable spray templates.

i thought the same thing about USN birds during WWII. sea blue overall. still like em though. 

Any spitfire. For some reason i just find most RAF aircraft kinda boring. I think its because theyre all painted exactly the same.