2016 OTS (1/72) SMALL IS BIG

wow, really nice detail on the f6!

Theuns

Thanks MC!

Oooo Bish I am liking that!!! Love the office! Looking forwrd to seeing this one finished!!

Thanks guys.

I have the painting underway. Got the white underside done and the ligter blue, should be able to mask and paint the rest tomorow night.

Fabulous Bish. I can't believe the amount of detail in 1/72 on the Eduard kit!

Thanks Rob. ye, it is rather nice, but the PE really makes it. Its nice to have these kits with the extras in there.

Time for a short update, mainly been painting this week so that took a bit of time. All the assembly was done soon after the last update. This went together like a dream. I just needed a small bit of filler infront of the canopy, but i think that was more doen to me. I really like how the wings fit especially, no filler at all there.

And then off to the paint booth. After some primer, i used Xtracolor white on the underside and the two blues are Humbrol. I left 2 days between each coat before masking and then finished off with Alclad gloss on top, as the Xtracolor is gloss anyway.

I am just taking a break from adding the decals, so should have that doen tonight and then some detail painting.

She's gonna be sexy Bish!! Lookin' great!

Thanks Rob, she is loking much better now with the markings on, my favorite bit.

The Hellcat is coming up well Bish. It's one of those aircraft that I like well enough to just keep on building. The Eduard one is a massive improvement over the Academy one, which I think was the previous best. Then the Hasegawa...

I finished my Pioneer2 Fokker DXXI last week. It was built according to very strict guidelines for a club build, so a lot of things that I would normally do were excluded. It makes a pretty enough model for the shelf though. If you really want one, I think that Special Hobby had a crack at it...

Cheers

Tony

Very sexy Tony. Love an unusual subject...and Finnish to boot. Love it

Very nice work sofar lads.

I have been a tad lazy wrt my builds lately, work deadlines and bitter cold.

On my Zvesda ANT-2 I got the extremely spartan cockpit into the fuse. This kit has no locator pins and the fit of the bottom corigations is poor so trying to sand them to the correct shape will be interesting!

The bottom wing of this plane is so small I wonder why they even bothered to fit it.

Pix to follow

Theuns

Thanks Tony.

I really like the look of that Fokker, nice looking build.

Don't sweat it Theuns, life happens. 

indeed it does, just makes me like the shake 'n bake kits more and more LOL.

Theuns

Time to call the hellcat done. Really enjoyed building this. A great little kit that built up so well and really nice to do something different and not worry about figures or anythign else.

I got the decals added which were really nice and used some black craft wire for the brake lines.

And to finish off, some very light weathering. I used some flory washes for the panel lines and taniya smoke for exhaust staining. And after a flat coat, some Tamiya black weatehring powder for the gun staining.

This is my last aircraft build of the year, and realy chuffed with how its turned out. Time to get back to some heavy metal and black crosses.

Thnaks for looking and all comments wlecome of course.

That was quick! It does look look a great kit. Where did you get the deck? Nice job on the finish I really need to try some of those Flory washes.

I see the next on you list is your 1946 build.

Thanks Steve. It was a really nice kit to buld, and not worrying about the figures and otehr bits made it a quick one. the deck is from Verlinden. Its a bit sheet, i could get anotehr two this size out of it, really nice and better than the old ones.

And yep, the big Jag is under way.

Here is where I am with the ANT 5. The zvesda instructions are quite confusing but I will beat it into submition....

Theuns, excellent work on that ANT-5. You'll get it!

Bish, that Hellcat is magnificent! Congrats on getting it done!

Hye lads, not a whole lot of progress on my 53, still making "stuff" to go inside the cabin.

Duke Maddog

Theuns, excellent work on that ANT-5. You'll get it!

 

Bish, that Hellcat is magnificent! Congrats on getting it done!

 

Thanks Duke. It was a real joy to do.

Theuns, thats some nice work in there.

That effect looks really good, how do you do it? 

Theuns

Great work tehre Steve. And ye, how do you do that, i have not seen it done on a kit before. I wasn't even sure what you meant by oil canning until i looked at the pics, but i know the effect your going for and its working out really well.

Theuns and Bish,

The oil canning effect was created by using a #22 curving carving blade. I scratched the plastic off until I achieved the result I was looking for. You just have to careful not to scrape off the rivies. It is tedious but believe this method would work well for other ships and the wrinkles found on the skin of planes.

As I said on my post, I won't go as deep on the rest of the hull, but this amount of oil canning on the bow would make sense since the bow takes most of the water pressure as the boat moves forward through the waves. The flat paint should tone down the effect as well.

I managed to wrangle the fuse together but I will have to do allot of filling and sanding on the bottom. Lucky for me I got a new re-scribing river tool so it should be OK.

I am starting to think my odea of folding the rotor and the tail was to optimistic for this kit, I am not sure all that work will add to the overall improvement of the final result. Maybe just build it and move on.