75th Anniversary of 1945 Group Build (World at War)

Great job on the 163!

Built this Monogram kit once in the 70s and cant figure out why I never built it again.  Humbrol French Blue looks to be a nice match to the decals.

Still a good-looking kit, Ed.  Nice job putting it together.  I like the look of the prop.  The blue color is very effective.

Excellent work, Tony.  It's a very appealing plane.  You did outstanding work with the shading!

Both photos are great.  I think the top one is a little bigger, so I'll go with that.

Plus--you're the first to finish!  Congratulations on that!    Gold star for you.

Thanks for being part of the GB.  It's always a pleasure to see your work!

That old Monogram kit looks like a lot a fun to build.  Nice job.  That blue looks like a perfect match.  

It's been a little while but I completed the initial construction on the captured Nick. Filled, masked and applied the black base. Next is the silver.

Very nice, Steve.  Looking forward to the next step.

awesome stuff...

back in the saddel I hope...

some P47 cockpit pics...

Very nice, Nick!  Detailed work on all those buttons and guages!

CM many thanks.

finished engine and fitting cockpit to fuselage.

A little more done on Nick. Bad lighting.

Nice work, Nick.  Cockpit looks good in place, and you got a really great appearance out of the engine.

Good to see the progress, Steve.  Lots of little windows to mask on the canopy!  Looks like a great NMF, despite the lighting issues.

So I quit procrastinating and got to masking and painting.  I have a little touch up to do but pretty happy the way things turned out.

Yeah, Ed, you can be happy with this!  Excellent painting results.  And those colors look great together.  Good job!

All these people putting down Testors MM Enamles really dont know what they are missing.  I picked up these RAF colors at Scale Hobbyist.

I've used MM paints since they came out in the '80's, and always found them very workable and pretty accurate colors. 

Same here.  Local hobby shop (when I had one) always tried to push Tamiya, Lifecolor and Vallejo on me and hated Testors.  Dont know if it was a buisness thing or not but I was always happy with the MM line.

68GT

Same here.  Local hobby shop (when I had one) always tried to push Tamiya, Lifecolor and Vallejo on me and hated Testors.  Dont know if it was a buisness thing or not but I was always happy with the MM line.

cm many thanks work is slow on any of my projects...

Steve it still looks good in bad light.

68GT nice work on that camo !!

I finished pershading and going to paint it in drk grn/earth/sea gray.

Still trying to figure out what to build... Bodenplatte aircraft? B-29? P-61? Monogram 262? Kamikaze? 

Fine progress, Nick.  Should look great with those colors.

Choice, choices, cb!  Any of them would be fantastic.

Put me down for the Hobby Boss FW-190D - it appears to be a very good kit of a plane that was botched by both Tamiya and Eduard.

After that a Meng 1/48 P-51D or a Tamiya 1/48 IL-2.

Eric

Eric:  I've added your selections to the build roster.  Welcome to the GB.  Good to have you join in for another go-round!

EBergerud. thanks for the tip. Ive seen his video's lots of good info 

The kit decals were alittle thick on the Typhoon so I tried some solveset with some odd results.  Going to take me a while to get these smoothed out enough to look okay.

CM: I haven't received any messages from any group builds including this one since mid-January. Are you getting my messages?

Ed:  that's something I don't think I've ever see before--at least not that severe.

One thing that's worked for me when decals won't lay flat is to apply some more solvent, then very gently roll a q-tip over them to press them down.  Wet the q-tip with water, since it might stick if it's dry.  It has to be done very carefully, so as not to pull the decal apart, but it has worked for me.

I hope you can get it fixed!

Eric:  no, I rarely get any messages about anything, except sometimes from the older GB's, like 1939-40.