We're off to the Paint Shop

P 38 Out of the paint shop

Finally getting going on the Jug

ooh, shiny! Looking forward to more progress :)

Thanks Owl. It's coming along nicely I think

I am very surprized how fast this Otaki P-47 is going together. I am already filling and sanding the seams after only 3 evenings work!

I am not going to add extra detail to the kit, my main idea with this build is to practice same Alclad tecniques in preperation for my 1/32 Tam P-51D.

Here is the basic George cockpit needing the "hurt your eyes" green paint LOL

I can for the life of me nit figure out what the idea was behind the sahllow wheelwells on the George while the rest of the detail seems so nice! It will be an inflight pose for it then.

Theuns

Ken & Theuns: Nice work guys! After all the P-38, P-47, and Shiden are my favorite USAAF and IJN aircraft!

Thanks Gamera. The P 38 hasn't given up the fight yet. It's becoming a real pain, you know where. But I'm close to finishing it. Will get a couple of pics tomorrow, oops I mean tonight. Even with the continuous struggle, I think it may turn out okay, Yea, Just okay. I'm pretty sure it will become a crashed P 38 just like the real one.

I was looking at the pic of the one they found unburied on the Wales UK beach last year LOL. That would make for a good diorama. For 60 some years, people went there swimming and vacations at the beach and they never knew it was there. The pilot ran out of gas and landed on the beach in ww2, then everyone just forgot about it.

Just thought, Now that's a real force of nature.

Wow, that's a heck of a photo! Strange what ends up buried and then washed up.

wow. crazy photo that is!

Yea thats a little different, but then you have Glacier Girl. A P 38 they found buried about 100 feet (aproximatey) under a glacier.

Here is the latest on "JEANNE" She isn't done yet. I need to touch a few things up on it.

Ken: Looks good so far. I like the yellow nacelle tips, not a colour you see as often as red or blue.

Cliff

Thanks Gamera. Yellow is the color they used on  the 1/1. I have come to the realization that taking pictures can hide a lot of the flaws on models

Hi all.

The P-47 is coming allong slowly. I sprayed matt black and grey pannels as my experience with gloss humbrol was not good. To get the gloss I put on a coat of future (like I did on the small Jug).

For some reason it did not go on very glossy atall, followed by two mre future coats to build up a coat. I then sanded the whole thing with 2000 wet paper and it is now quite smooth. I just hope the gloss will be enough for the airframe allu alclad.

Theuns

nice progress greentracker!

Theuns, where are your photos?!

Camera fixed, so here you go!

Primer masked for the lighter pannels

I then painted black, coated with 2 coats of future as a sanding base and sanded with 2000 wet paper for a smooth finish. It is not super glossy, but very smooth, I am interested to see how the Alclad airframe allu will go on. tleast the masking ridges between the grey and black is totally gone.

The streaky effect of the sanding I hope will show through the alclad ,to give some "feel" to the pannels

Theuns

Theuns: Looks good! I haven't tried the different colour primer trick but what I've seen from videos that should be perfect.

Thanx mate. The only hassle I had with this kit is the VERY fine pannel detail, I lost most of it withing the first sesion of priming and danding, so I will not I think be able to do a pannel wash. I hope the different shades of alclad will be enough, I also intend to stain some of the pannels with highly thinned oils , so stay tuned.

All of these tecniques I will need on the Mirage and the newly acuired 1/32 Tam P-51 and the 1/48 Hasa F-86, so I am learning on a cheap model.

Theuns

so our force of nature wasnt very forcefull.....just a day of constant snowfall. So much for winter storm 'Q'

Here is my 1/48 Hobbyboss Mirage 3 cz.

Black undercoat it Tamiya X gloss black enamel.

I put on the alclad pollished allu to heavy and lost the tone difference , but I will add it later with oils and a pannel wash.

The underside however look awfull after my airbrush spluttered , too late now!

Theuns

well, its shiny! :D

That is no lie!

I hope to simulate this look then done - www.saairforce.co.za/.../mirage-iiicz

Theuns

P 38 Lightning Finished

Very nice looking, Lightning, Greentracker.  NMF looks excellent.

Looking forward to seeing what you do with yours, too, Theuns.  

And, as an aside, the force of nature is about to drop 8 more inches of snow on us tonight, and two more tomorrow.

Didn't the groundhog predict an early spring???

CK - Yea, Punxy Phil did not see hus shadow. It was 70 degrees here (NW Pennsylvania) today Where ar you at?

Thank you for the eencouraging words about my Lightning.

Wisconsin.

nice, Greentracker. Can you post more pics?

CallSignOWL

nice, Greentracker. Can you post more pics?

Weeellllllll, Seeing as how I don't think it turned out very good, I'll take a coupl of pics of it side by side with the finished P 47. I also will post more pics with the Academy P 38 when I get it, WIPs and when It is finished.

OK one more pic

I also learned a valueable lesson with this kit; Don't put the smallest parts on untill the very end.

Ken: Nice work, I wish we'd see more P-38s around here, used to be my favorite fighter as a kid.

Thanks Gamera, I "will" be doing this over. except it will be n academy (I think) Kit