I guess you got the quiz wrong. (Hint: It's the last answer).

Even The Duke can't believe what you've done! Look!  He's incredulous!

B-26s rule the skies of France

Maybe you should take this quick quiz and remind yourself what we were expecting to see from you.

http://www.cinema.de/community/quiz-arena/?do=show-quiz-arena&show_question_id=4186522

Ok, decision has been made on my build for here.

This subject

with this kit

SchattenSpartan

Yeah, nice finish Ken!

Thanks SS, At the moment, I'm sitting here looking at the P-47  without invasion stripes. contemplating the paint job. I admit to being a procrastinator. LOL I guess I just have to be in the right mood for it. Yea, right, That's my story and I'm sticking to it. LOL

Yeah, nice finish Ken!

Thanks Bish.

Welcome aboard schmidty, I have added you to the roster.

Ken, that's looking nice.

Hi everyone!  I would like to enter with a 1:72 Academy P-51B.

Lol, thanks but after doing two P-47s and a P-51 I'm kinda burnt out on NM!

Go for it Gamera, Im interested to see how that looks

Ken: Looks good! I may have to try this for an undercoat and then paint different panels with the Alclad.

Gamera

Ahhh, consider myself corrected. I guess I just assumed you were going with Alclad- my apologies.

Looking forward to the photos of how the Krylon turned out, I might have to give it a try myself.

Not a probkem Gamera

Anyway here are the pics

Ahhh, consider myself corrected. I guess I just assumed you were going with Alclad- my apologies.

Looking forward to the photos of how the Krylon turned out, I might have to give it a try myself.

 Thanks guys, I sprayed the P 47 last night with this Krylon, Every one seemed to like it before when I sprayed it on my other P 38. I haven't been in to look at it yet this morning, but it looked okay when I left it to dry last night.

Gamera, It was bare plastic. I have a tendency to get more paint on things than I need, so I stopped using primer. Things seem to work out okay, So, I'm going with it. I'll use primer on the really off colors of plastic. The Kenworth W900 was red plastic. I knew I had to primer that

Ken: Both of those look pretty darn good to me.

I can't tell if the P-47 is grey paint or bare plastic. You really need a primer coat if you're using Alclad. And it doesn't cover very well so you'll have to use a bunch of coats to cover your pre-shading. You might be better off applying a couple of light coats of grey over the black to tone it down some. If you're doing olive drab over grey you should be ok though.

Ken, 38 is looking nice, I see no reason why the propellers should not work on your kit. I have never done pre shadeingb before, but I think the idea is to do light coats, especially over the panel lines, until they only just show through. But I am sure someone with more experience can give you more help.

Okay, I'm back again.

I've never done this before. I brushed the black on. It seemes to be okay. Now do I just spray the NMF on and how do I know when to stop?

Here are 2 pics. What do you all think? Constructive critisim is welcome.

I'm not finished with the stripes, Many problems,  Touch ups come next. I didn't think when building it. I'm glad I don't have much done to the P 47. I broke the props on the 38. I guess I'll have to get new ones. Question, will the propellers from Quickboost fit? They have ones for 1:48 scale for Hasagawa. Can anyone answer this?

Thanks

Oh Well,,,,, no one said it would be easy LOL. I think I'll start taping off the P 47 stripes.

Sorry, I didnt get to finishing the stripes last night. I'll try again tonight.

Ken, that sounds like a good idea. Even if they had air brushes to spray them on, chances are they would not have had many so others would have used brushes to get the job done.

Well. since I have alot put together on it (I didn't think to paint the stripes before I had the propellers and landing gear etc etc) on it. I used the tamiya painting stand like a bridge (I laid my arm on it) and that really helped to keep my hand steady. I'm painting the under side black stripes tonight.

Thanks

Good idea with the stripes Ken. You must have a good steady hand to make a reasonable fist of it. I don't think I would dare.

Cheers

Tony

Hey Ken, sounds good, I'm looking forward to the photos!

I was thinking tonight. If the ground crews just wanted to get the (painting invasion stripes) job over and done, Then I should paint them by hand. Well, I didn't paint the white by hand. I sprayed them because whenever I paint white and other light colors, it just doesnt look good at all. But tonight I brushed  the black on I still need to touch up them up a little, but I think they look pretty good. Pics will be coming.

I also found a P-38 on google images, This person has the stripes on the booms too far foreward.

I still have to paint the stripes underneath, but I'm going to let these set for a couple of days.

ajd, that's not one I would enter, I don't have any Pacific stuff, but might defiantly be worth a feeler thread just to see if there is enough response to make it worth while. I assume it would be a combination of ships, aircraft and armour. Your time frame sounds good, there are a few new GB's planed for early next year, and if there are two many running at one time, it can be hard to get people to commit and when they do, they can find it hard to find the time to fill all the commitments.

I would second Stik. If your planning a start in say August, I would do a feeler no later than end of May with a GB thread starting a month before kick off.

If you plan on starting mid summer, I suggest putting out the feelers in early summer.

Ok, first, Shiv, I love your Lightning. A beautiful representation of a beautiful aircraft.

Second, since you guys are throwing around distant GB ideas, I was just wondering what you all would think of an Iwo Jima build starting mid/late-summerish running through March 26th, 2015. I know that's thinking wayyyy far in advance, but I've never hosted one before, and I want to make sure I get everything together.

Clemens - Bish

Thanks, I think I'll leave it until Wednesday. Like you said, there are other things I can do. I get anxious to see it finished. So I'll just try not to think about it.