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Mustang: Looks like you've got things under control. I know what you mean, I've been working slowly on a Kinetic 1/48th F-16 and the detail is great but nothing fits. I think the kit is half putty by now.... 

 

 I broke out the pin vise this morning to restore all of the rivet detail that got sanded away at the front part of the fuselage. I've still got the section behind and on the sides of the fuselage at the wing root to go and that's not to mention re-applying the panel lines that are gone as well. Here's 45 minutes worth of sanding and re-riveting:

Hey Mustang, that looks good, I can't tell what was there and what you replaced. 

Thanks Gamera. Well it helped when I went over the existing rivets with the pin vise. Everything looks uniform now.

Thanks Bish.

Thanks Joe Rix: Nice base coat of white for the insignia, You gave me a idea to use copper wire on my P-51D/K rockets.

Thanks Johnny.

Thanks Gamera: Excellent job on the diorama, those pieces of leave falling is a nice touch. Overall a nice finish.

Thanks Mustang: I hear yeah on landing gears not going in right or not strong enough to support the aircraft's weight. Nice to see the fuselage go together, those seems always like to show there faces. Those rivets look great.

Thanks Moff.

I'm happy to say my Eduard 1/48 Messerschmitt Bf-110 G-4 is done. After decaling I applied a acrylic panel wash, then some engine exhaust streaks, then applied a light coating of Buff XF-57 to the landing gear. Then followed by model master acrylic flat clear on both sides. When that was fully dry I installed the clear parts to the cockpit area, then used black sowing thread for the antenna wire. I started this project back on July 30, and finished it up on Oct 22. Had plenty of fun along the way, along with many challenges. Can only recommend this kit for the experienced modeler.

Next up is Italeri 1/48 P-51 D/K Pacific Aces.  I'm think about picking up Tamiya's 1/48 US Airfield fuel truck #32579 to go along with the Mustang.

Outstanding progress and work Joe. With the body work you've done one cannot even notice there was an issue in the first place. Nice. The rivet restoration is very well executed. I too was unaware that there were camera ports on the 234. Interesting. Loving what your doing and keep doing it.

Congratulations on the finish Dan. And, WOW, what a finish it is. Your 110 is very impressive. You really have some marvelous skills and you certainly demonstrated them here. Thank You so much for sharing your great work with us.

mustang1989

Gamera Mustang: Looks like you've got things under control. I know what you mean, I've been working slowly on a Kinetic 1/48th F-16 and the detail is great but nothing fits. I think the kit is half putty by now....   

mustang1989

Thanks everybody and Gamera that sucks! Sorry to hear that news about the nothing fits. It's just ridiculous to deal with crap like that as much as some of those kits cost!

I too am sorry to here about the problematic issues Gamera. I'm with Joe on his sentiment. Kinetic has released some subjects that I would love to build but then I read build reviews and there is no way I'm going to fork out that kind of dough for such a poorly engineered kit. Not too keen on the practice of putting out a poor kit of a subject of high demand and then asking for your left one for it. 

Dan: I've gotta say that your 110 looks fantastic! Paint and weathering look great. Are the main landing gear wheels supposed to have that much positive camber?

Thanks for the comments Dan and Joe.

Hi Dan, great looking 110.

I like the the heavy exhaust stains, coupled with the asymmetrical array of the pipes.  The black bottom wings is also interesting - any story behind that?

regards,

Jack

Hey Dan thanks and if I may return the compliment your Bf-110 looks friggin' fantastic! Super work there on the camo esp but everything looks perfect. I love the radar antenni on the nose- I'd have broken off all of them five or ten times a piece! I've got a Japanese twin-engine night fighter that's basically the same thing- after your work here I now really want to pull her out and start on her!  

Dan, stunning job there, really like the look of this. Love it.

Front page is updated, and i look forward to your third build. Thanks for shareing that with us.

mustang1989

Moff: Thanks for the comments (and I'm Joe-mustang1989-lol) Joe Rix is that "other guy". These days aircraft are ALOT easier for me after doing some of the crazy stuff I've been doing with auto builds.....or rather what they're doing to ME. Outside of the aftermarket detail stuff, the aircraft seem to almost put themselves together as opposed to the hacking, cutting , fabbing and all those other situations I seem to get myself into with auto builds. I swear this Pro Street VW Bus I'm building now's gonna be the death of me.

Whoops, sorry! I had a feeling something was wrong when I posted that! Too much scrolling back and forth I guess. 

And yeah, I imagine they are easier compared to auto builds. I'm coming at it from the perspective of a spoiled armor modeler though. The two things that made me tired of aircraft modeling were all of the subassemblies that needed to be painted separately, and the stringy little radio antennas.

@DanTheMan: 

Wow!  That 110 is beautiful...the weathering really makes the panel lines pop!

Thanks Joe Rix: Happy to share my building experience on the Bf-110. It is a hand full but well worth building.

Thanks Mustang: When I got the landing gear stage, had to look that up about the wheels camber. Kind'a looked like some had it while others did not.

Thanks Jgeratic: Was a little nervous at first airbrushing exhaust stains on, first time doing that. I like the final result, the key is the start at the area where the exhaust empty’s out over the wing and airbrush down. Don't know much about the black painted side on the bottom wing.

Thanks Gamera: Luckily the front antenna has some give to it, I've bumped it a few times. only just bearing came undone. Good luck on your Japanese twin fighter.

Thanks Bish. My pleasure, might be adding a 1/48 Tamiya US Airfield Fuel Truck #32579 to my Mustang build.

Thanks Lostagain.

Thanks Muff: I'm happy with the acrylic panel wash, but some times it's hard to remove it from area's of rough paint.

Started my Italeri 1/48 P-51 D/K Pacific Aces #2743 on the 17^th, after finishing my StuG III and when the Bf-110 was starting to be wrapped up. This kit is a rebox of Hasegawa P-51D Mustang #09014, dated 1991.

Kit comes with six decal marking on a big decal sheet.

Before painting the cockpit area I washed the parts with soap and water.

The cockpit is nearly assembled, the pilot is from a Monogram P-51D kit. With a small part count, this should be a quick build.

Dan: Nice choice there. I've got a couple of decal sheets for Pacific Mustangs and there were some pretty awesome schemes on some of them. 

Off to a good start Dan, and i hope you can do that fuel truck as well. Looks like we are going to have a flurry of completed builds in the final 2 months.

All,

I have been lurking here for a while as real life has kept me plenty busy.  I am impressed with all the work that has been done.  I am truely impressed with the dioramas that have been produced.  I know that  I dont have the time to put one together.  I have been able to do a bit of work on my Do-335, the hardest part was getting past the engines.  Once I was able to do that things have been moving a bit faster than a snails pace.  Here are some pictures to prove it:

I am even further on than this shows, I am working on the detail painting an wiring of the front engine / radiator assembly now.  Hope to Prime this weekend and see how much needs to be cleaned up on the cannon farings.

Thanks for looking.

Good to see you back Matt. Some nice work going on there, looking forward to seeing more of this.

This kit has the most resin I have ever used.  Also using lead wire for the first time, that makes wiring the engine much easier.  Since I plan on having the front engine cowlings opened, it's importanot to have enough to look busy.

Dan:After watching the way that 110 turned out I'm really looking forward to the P-51 build.

Matt: I've got the Tamiya trainer version of this kit with just about as much resin and is one reason I haven't started on it yet. I do look forward to building this unique aircraft and am in awe of the work that you are doing here. Keep it up and keep plugging away at it.

You are certainly pulling off some magnificent work Matt despite the pace. All that patient work needed to add all your AM parts is really paying off. Great work.

Matt,

The detail on the Pfiel is looking great, there is a huge amount of work and detail there. Looking forward to seeing it progress, and the open front engine. I do have the 1/72 Frog nightfighter version, it doesn't have that level of detail.

Dan,

Racing ahead there, should be done soon! Looking forward to the build and what you think of the Tanker truck.

Matt: Wow, that's some detail there. She's coming right along. 

LA: Looks good too! You have my respect for building a vac-form kit, someday I guess I will try one..... Love the instructions telling you to use a large lump of epoxy to anchor the gear legs! 

Nice work lost, you have my respect as well for building vacform. I had a couple of vac kits years ago but never plucked up the courage to build them.

I have noticed problems with PB as well. yestefrday i could not get on, then when i did, the links didn't work. I had to open the pic and copy and paste the addy.

was able to mask, prime and begin painting last night.  Not 100% sure I like the colors though.

preshading was done with Tamiya NATO brown, really like the way it adds depth.  Lower surfaces are in RLM 84(the straw colored one) with light green(83) and greyviolet (75).

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was able to mask, prime and begin painting last night.  Not 100% sure I like the colors though.

preshading was done with Tamiya NATO brown, really like the way it adds depth.  Lower surfaces are in RLM 84(the straw colored one) with light green(83) and greyviolet (75).

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trying to post from my phone, Photobucket doesn't copy correctly I guess.  Will update when I get home.

You are certainly doing a remarkable job of whipping that vacu-form into shape Lost. Kdos on the work you have done so far. 

Alright, round two.  Here was the first paint scheme which I based off of the FW-190 pattern. 

Did not look right, so I removed the paint (acrylic thankfully) and went with RLM 77 and 75, and went back to the splinter pattern.  Looks much better to me now.

Next will be the RV band and possibly masking for a third color (would be RLM 80) to add to the scheme. Then mottling along the sides.  Some of the Panels are going to have different camo on them in the same manner as other late war aircraft had. 

Thanks for looking.