Josiah,

LOL that looks like one of my canopies!!! I will usually hand paint with acrylic and go back with a toothpick and scrape of where I went outside the lines. I can do it with enamel but it’s not easy.

Steve

Looks like you're on a tear there! Looks good!

I know what you mean about the canopy though, I've tried hand painting the things with the thin brush I use on figures and it always ends up looking that way no matter how gingerly I paint them.

Exactly, I've notice lately I've been spending less and less time on the cockpit because I know it won't be seen by anybody, especially since they hang from my ceiling. 

It was nice outside so I decided to airbrush it. Tonight I put pretty much everything else that is going to go on the plane minus pilot, canopy, prop, and fuel tank (I think that's all). Then a few touch up paintings and it'll be ready for decal and slight weathering. 

Also painted the canopy tonight, i was nice and patiently impatient (didnt want to spend the gazillion of hours masking) so I use a piece of stretch sprue to dip in the paint lid and then just lay on the canopy.  I thought it looked real good...until I took the picture with light shing through...yikes haha.

Sometimes a decal is enough and it's not like you'll be able to see much of it down inside there.

Cockpit looks really good there, I really like how the instrument panel came out.

Going to re-enroll you on the roster now.

Thanks Gamera, it is Tamiya's 1/48 A6M2.

I'm pulling this thing out of the cobwebs today. Here is the last pictures I took.

Joshiah: Heck you're more than welcome. I think I said before I'm more interested in people getting stuff built and out of the stash. Finishing stalled projects is even better, I've got dozens of stuff I need to finish up. Can you refresh me on the company and scale and I'll put you down.

LA: Whoa, you lucky dog!!! I'm a little embaressed to be running this GB and I've never been to Japan. Just looking at the awesome stuff on HLJ that never makes it to the US I can't imagine the amazing stuff over there. I could make an entire vacation/holiday out of just prowling around hobby shops there!

Okay, I just had to tell (brag to) someone, and this seemed to be the right place...

Just got back from Japan, a week's skiing, a night at the Sumo and six hours in Akihabara model shops. Here is the swag...

All bought at the second hand Leonardo model shops except for the snowspeeder (1710 yen!! about $17US)

Have been enjoying the builds, MC your usual great finish, and great work on the surf.

Lone moose, looking forward to the Oscar, started well.

Brian, Maya is looking really good, great work with the model and its setting too.

If I get through the Aces, Mustang and 1946 group builds in time, I will be back to do my first ship model for decades...

Thanks Gamera. the PE for this kit is overdone sometimes. The kit turrets are well done with nice details, but the PE contains a skin that goes around the turret. It would seem to me to be overscale. Im not sure if I'll use it. 

Looks good to me Brian, I think I've said before the PE is one of the major reasons I'm too much a wuss to build ship models.

It's getting closer to finished. The more I do of phototetch, the less I know what I'm doing. 

Ah ok, I can imagine. I was wondering how you kept the lacquer thinner from burning the paint off your Rufe, I figured you had to be super careful there. 

Lacquer thinner and scrapping with an xacto. It isn't too bad, and looking at it this morning, I removed most of it. The tough part was working around the Rufe without damaging the floats or paint. 

Ack, that blows Steve! I think you said before the Amazing Clear Cast was still tacky, did it just never dry? Did you use the lacquer thinner to melt it off? Sounds like a royal PitA in any case. 

Gamera

Wrinkledm: Looks good! But as you said the cockpit opening is so small you won't see much of it.... 

I've got a Prismacolor silver pencil I use a great deal, gives me more control than even a small drybrushing brush, I'll have to look into using some of the other colours too. Thanks for the tip Sibz. 

BTW: It's Cliff or Gamera or whatever, no big deal. 

 

sibz

Looks good so far, Wrinkled. I thought 700 scale PE looked hard, but those decals.... Wow. Can't wait to see how she comes along.

Wrinkledm: Looks good! But as you said the cockpit opening is so small you won't see much of it.... 

I've got a Prismacolor silver pencil I use a great deal, gives me more control than even a small drybrushing brush, I'll have to look into using some of the other colours too. Thanks for the tip Sibz. 

BTW: It's Cliff or Gamera or whatever, no big deal. 

lonemoose

The ip turned out great! You can see the dials perfectly! Great job! I have a set of the prismacolor pencils too. I'm just about to use them in cockpit for the first time. At least I know they do work good!

Thx, The decal took a bunch of extra Micro-sol but it finally sat down. The pencils look good to the eye even with my high powered glasses, but the photo really accentuates the grainy nature of the pencils over paint.  

hogfanfs

Wrinkledm,

The ip turned out great! You can see the dials perfectly! Great job! I have a set of the prismacolor pencils too. I'm just about to use them in cockpit for the first time. At least I know they do work good!

 

Sibz

Wrinkledm,

The ip turned out great! You can see the dials perfectly! Great job! I have a set of the prismacolor pencils too. I'm just about to use them in cockpit for the first time. At least I know they do work good!

D - one of the coolest things for me is, that each phase of every model, you could choose to do it any of several different ways, different materials, techniques etc. i think changing it up and trying new stuff or scratchbuilding is a lot of fun.

sibbles

Wrinkledm

I tried something different and that was to use colored prismacolor pencils for all the shading / color, etc.. in the cockpit.

 

Sibbers

Ok, with about 9 different models all in various stages of construction I finally got back to my Japanese GB models. The Claude has been getting a bit of lite sanding to fix a few scratches and more primer. I finally broke the box on the Oscar.  So far I'm impressed with the fit / design of this Hasegawa kit. I cranked out the cockpit area in no time. I tried something different and that was to use colored prismacolor pencils for all the shading / color, etc.. in the cockpit. The only paint is the overall green and the brushed grimy black on the black boxes.   :)  It looks a bit clunky in the photos but when buttoned up its pretty decent given the steep angle of view.

D

Hey Lonemoose, welcome aboard! I'll go put you down now. We're pretty informal here and if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask. 

Have a safe trip and we'll see you when you get back. 

Hello JGB v. I am a newbie. New to FSM and a very inexperienced modeller. I am going to build a Ki27 Nate. 1:48 and probably Hasegawa. I will get some aftermarket bits too. I am traveling to China next week and plan to visit a couple hobby stores. I'll post some pics in a week or two. When I get back in mid Feb I will start the WIP pics...

Thanks guys! 

Bruce: Nope, not sure the kit needs any AM parts: incredible detail in the cockpit, a small PE fret for extra detail, metal parts for the gun barrels and pitot tube, hey they even throw in canopy masks! It's expensive but you don't really have to buy anything else! I'm not a big fan of Tamiya decals so I might end up replacing those though. 

A guy on Facebook did send me a link to an article on J-Aircraft on correcting a few issues here and there which I'll probably be following. 

BTW: Toshi posted his WiP over on the aircraft forum which tempted me into buying mine. I want to get some other stuff on the bench done first but heck this thing will probably tempt me into starting on her anyway. 

Cliff,

I haven't seen very many 1/32 Zero's being built lately. Looking forward to see the WIP pictures. Are you planning any AM parts for this build?