Paramedic

Allright minor update..
 
 
Made covers for the wheelbay, used the part for retracted position, cutted it in half, less to mask


 
Yes, the flaps, that gap between the halfes is no good, so thin plastic card took care of that.


 
Well, the inside were painted Chromate yellow, so that small detail will be seen in flaps down position, the flaps were inspected properly so they are flawless, washed with alcohol, primed with tamiya gloss black and then Alclad polished Alu.
 
Im pleased, so now i can se how the metal will look



 
 
Mal..

Her in doors doesn't know it yet but the dining room table will become an apron for a Lanc
 
Graham

I think it must be mentioned that the kit will be designed like the B25 where the wing sections can be removed for storage/transportation.
So you can store your Lanc/B17 with the wings down the side of the fuselage when you want it out of the way! 
If you have the storage space for a box approx. 1 meter in length then you can build this kit!
Particularly our American cousins, who mainly have houses the size of mansions in comparison to most U.K sized bunny hutches!! 
If we buy these type of kits it gives revenue back to manufacturers to reinvest, I now possess two He111's and I'll engineer them so the wings can be pulled off just like the B17. 
I say, bring 'em on and sort out the men from the boys!!!     
Have fun.

My demands are 4 engines, propellers preferably pointing towards the front, a couple of wings, some glass bits towards the front and top and a picture of a Lancaster on the box somewhere. 

We are not finished yet hehehe more dirt to come......
 
Tamiya Gloss black and Tamiya redbrown heavy diluted with Isoprop 15+15/60 ratio....now gonna applu strategic places, between the ribs, corners where dustdirt do collect.....look for the wet spot, note aply just for the subtle effect......
 
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and now done almost.....
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Flat coat on top later, then non diluted oilcolor that i will add att some tubes (leaked) gonna use raw umber, indian red and black, but later,
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This is the way i weather, so those hwo liked it, take the bits and parts you like and develop a teqhnic that fits you,
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Great progress, I can assure you! I am almost tempted to post pics for him..
 
Love your cable-job and the painting - this is looking so good!

And ready for inspection:
 
And ready in the gallery:
 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

Heres my next duo build..this time ,2 HK B17s! Certainly a logistics nightmare in my workroom.
The first one will be 'Baby' using Zotz decals. Im also using the MKI detail set on this one.. I havent seen any reviews on it yet..but so far the only thing Ive found in this set to be worth it is the landing gear and MG barrels..the prepainted photo etch parts are flat,bland, and some actually blurry... the photo etch set for the flaps..basic, as inaccurate as the molded on kit details, poor engineering , and poor instructions. The only thing you get out of the flaps is added ribbing ,rivet detail, and a huge headache. The set comes with paint masks for the windows..but is missing a few, alot of them are undersized..and a few are mis-numbered in the instructions. Have I ripped it enough yet? heres one more.. it contains 2 aluminum/photo etch bombs, but theyre too short on the fin end (almost nothing there) to attach the fins to. did I mention the gun barrels?..it has really nice gun barrels! wish they would sell them separate. ok..I think thats enough ripping for now..maybe more later..
for the interior ,Im keep the painting and details basic..since you can see it..but you cant...



 
a note about the ammunition belts..in the instructions, HK misnumbered a few of them, some are called out twice,I cant remember which,but I discovered that while assembling the nose section.



Did I mention the nice gun barrels?

Heres the useless flap details..I'll take a better detail shot in a bit to show how worthless they are.

Heres where Im at so far with 'Baby'  for some reason the left wing fits perfect..but the right wing ,the top half sits too high..not sure what I did wrong there..never could figure out what was causing it.

I've built these in the last few months, hope you like them:









 
The razorback actually got me gold on the first contest I ever entered.
 
Thanks for looking!

Peter, I like to use Tamiya AS-12 for the 'painted aluminium' finish, which is especially effective on the Mustang if you use Alclad or similar on the fuselage, as the contrast tends to make the AS-12 look like the metallic silver-grey that Radu describes. Here's the effect on a Hasegawa 1/48 build:
 

 

 
Kev

Been a while since I've posted anything due to baby's arriving etc but I have managed a couple of builds & here's the first of them. Its the Hobbyboss Spitfire MkVb Trop built out of the box.
Its a really nice kit & I enjoyed the build butb I've just treated myself to the Tamiya Spitfire MkVIII.
I don't go into complete accuracy in my builds, I just have fun...............

 

 

 

 

 
Happy modelling everyone
                                             Martin

According to scalemates, the Mk. IXc was released in 2009, the Mk. VIII in 2010 and the Mk. XVI in 2011. But I would not know, I was not around building kits then..
 
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