ModelCrazy - The two on the right are PE. The center one is painted Eduard PE, and the Special Hobby one was brass Ipainted with Tamiya Buff and then dropped a Flory Grime wash on. I did not wipe the wash off at all.

The one on the left is an HGW textile belt, and it's something like 30 pieces of microtextile and PE. On that, I just assembled it and then gave it a Flory dark dirt wash, wiped off while it was still wet so it just sat in some of the recessed areas and darkened it slightly. The harness took me about 2 hours to assemble.

-BD-

Steve, no worries, i can well understand it. I alreaday have plans for when i get to my big ship kits to do them in stages with breaks from the build.

BD, how do you get those belts to look so real?

Bish, I'm taking a wee break from the Eugen for a few weeks. Working on PE day in and day out just makes you feel like you’re not getting anywhere. I needed to knock out a few other builds real fast to feel productive. I will be getting back on the Eugen soon.

Sorted, ye, i guess i must have missed in while in shock.

Thanks, Bish.

It's in addition. I mentioned it in passing in one post, but it was a reply to a joke about Spitfires, so it probably didn't come across as at all serious. But yes, this is a French Aeronavale Seafire Mk.III in 1/48 by Special Hobby in service in 1946 in Indochina (Vietnam).

Thanks again.

-BD-

Its looking god BD.

I seem to have missed this off the roster, i have you down for an La-7 and He 162. Is the seafire in addition to those or instead of.

I also got some work done on the office. It's the one on the right. I wanted to weather it up a bit since it's an Aeronavale Seafire and was both in combat and far from home, which I would tend to think would add to wear and tear.

I also got most of the rest of the office done and hope to close the fuselage tonight or tomorrow. I may still wait to add the wings until after a primer coat to see where more work might need to be done.

I won't bore you guys with the other two seats, as they're not relevant to this group build and are covered in my thread in the Aircraft forum.

Thanks for looking!

-BD-

Hi all,

Sorry for the lack of updates I got a little sidetracked painting a Wildcat and then was busy away from the bench.

This is a quick update on the wing of the Special Hobby Seafire. I knew that given it's a short-run kit, it wouldn't fall together like the Eduard and Tamiya ones. So I spent some time sanding, clamping, filing and filling. In the end, I had to file the surface where the wing meets the fuselage, then sand the top down to eliminate a 0.5mm step that would be a pain to fill later. Also, the ailerons were noticeably thinner than the wing, so I added 0.010" styrene sheet to the bottom and rescribed the panel lines. I also sanded and filled the seam on the oil cooler scoop. It took quite a bit of work, but it's ready for primer.

Next up is the office work.

-BD-

Thought i better bump this up, see how you guys are getting on.

Thanks guys! 

And looking forward to seeing more of yours Bruce. 

Cliff,

Wow! She looks real good. The modulation is outstanding! It does look great as is, but, I feel the camo pattern will make it look even better!

Looks real nice G. Be interested to see that camo scheme.

Looks very good there Dan, even in the close-up!

Well, I finally got the Chi-Ri primed over the weekend. I did a little pre-shading and highlighting. As Bruce pointed out this was both the primer and the base colour over which the camo was applied so in the desperate fighting against an Allied invasion of the home islands the tank probably wouldn't have gotten any camo beyond this. Still I like the camo and think it's one of the things that make Japanese tanks interesting to me. So I started applying the Silly Putty for the camo painting.

Nice detail, Dan. I love the weathering.

-BD-

Looks good! 

Thanks guys for your comments, using a tooth pick I added a little flat black to the inside of the exhust.

BD: Whoops I already commented on your Spitfire trio over in the Aircraft forum so I'll just say COOL again...

I've got a paperback edition of 'The Man in the High Castle' around somewhere. Probably over a decade since I read it. I thought is was kinda so-so, then again I've read about a half-dozen of Phillip K. D i c k 's novels and wasn't all that impressed by any of them. Always seemed odd to me Hollywood keeps filming his stuff when there are much better SF novels out there- then again YMMV! 

I don't remember there being much of a plot to it, I remember it being more a mood type piece on what a US divided up by the victorious Axis powers would be like. Haven't seen the film version yet.  

I just woundered. The 72nd kits i have done both had resin in and i thought that bit on the right looked like a resin part. I notice the similar lok in the sets of the SH and Eduard kit.

Haha, no I must be going crazy... 

The Special Hobby kit is mostly plastic. There's a small PE fret with the IP, belts, some details and the strenghtening parts on the fuselage for catapult launches. There are also some vinyl parts dor raised detail on the fuselage. No resin in this one.

-BD-

BD, i have no idea what you are getting at, really i don't.

I like how your doing this, its good to see the differance, and similarities in the kits. The SH kit, am i right in thinking those parts are resin.

Cool, Brandon! Looking forward to seeing all three built!

Bish -  I apologize in advance for this post.

As tomorrow marks the 80th anniversary of the first flight of the Spitfire, I decided to build my 1/48 Special Hobby Seafire as my first entry in this build. Unfortunately for Bish, I also am building it alongside two Spits, and they're in the pics...

So far I just have the cockpit 80-percent assembled, and I'm looking forward to getting primer and paint on it. It will be in the box art markings of a Seafire Mk.III of the French Aeronavale. These saw combat in Vietnam in 1946.

In all pics, the Special Hobby is on the bottom.

Thanks for looking.

-BD-

Thnaks. Sound slike a good story but could have been made better. Maybe i will just get the book, don't have to pay a subscription for that

Meh, I wanted to like the series, but I found myself not caring about the main characters, and I only continued watching to see what the world was like. The series starts in 1962, and the U.S. is divided between Japanese and Nazi rule, with the latter having nuked D.C. There is someone making movies that supposedly offer a ray of hope, but the series does a bad job explaining what that hope is, and I thought it was pretty weak overall.

Once I'd finished the first season, I just bought the book and read it, and it makes much more sense in the book, as it's more believable, and not quite so random. I think the series tried to do too much without really explaining the people's motivations.

-BD-

Thanks BD. That series looks interesting but i have not been able to watch it. Is it any good.

Looking forward to seeing those pics.

I love all the work being done in here.

Bish - great job on that. I like the subject, and I love the way you displayed it with the base and bomb and vehicles. It looks really cool, and especially after having just finished Man in the High Castle, it's a little chilling to think of what might have been had the German atomic program not been shut down, and had the war gone on another year.

I'll be jumping in soon with my He-163. I got started on it and got the wheel wells and cockpit mostly together. Pics will come soon.

-BD-

qlabs

 

Bish

Sound slike a good idea. I have the Dragon 72nd 234's. One of those comes with a 381 which does underneath. But another carries a V-1 which was carried on top, so that could be another option.

 

 

 

 

Ohh neat, maybe that will be a good option, a top load payload. I just love the look of it.
I can already see a whole shelf of mistel aircraft from both sides in my office, possibly the den. 

 

 

Not sure if your able to find a pic of it, but the V-1 option has a sort of cradle device which lifts the rocket up and away from the aircrfat for launching. Its hard to see on most pics, but this shows it well.

This isn't mine, i just found it on a search.

lost, thank you very much. I really enjoyed doing that build.

And i am looking forward to the MB 5. I had thought vac foarm kits a think of the past, so nice to see you reviving them.

Colin: Now that's interesting! 

LA: Same here, I've used vac-form parts but never an entire kit. I've seen a few kits I thought about picking up but haven't had the guts to try one yet. 

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lostagain,

Looking forward to seeing your work in progress on your MB5. I've never seen a vacuum form kit built. I'm very interested.

 

Me as well. I've never seen a full build of one. Eagerly waiting to see this go together.

The thought of doing an entire build myself just makes my hands shake, after many critical mistakes cutting out vac-canopy's for rubber powered stick and tissue models.