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Wonderful work!

Thanks Kevin! Tamiya's kit, despite its minor shortcomings, is a wonderful (and humongous) model of a beautiful plane!

Actually, the colour contrast is quite noticeable. I just used scrunched up masking tape to cover them as the openings are quite small.

Excellent work as always Chuck!!!!

Looks very nice Karl! Great work on a challenging kit!

Withe the model ready for painting, I started by priming everything with Mig Ammo's grey primer. I decided to use the preshading technique for the first time. Here, I sprayed each panel line with black. I also decided to use Hataka paints for the first time. The first camo colour to be applied was light ghost grey. The centre of each panel was sprayed with a mix of light ghost grey and white. And bottom camo is done!!!

That looks beautiful Gregory! Love the camo!

Hi all! After a bit of sanding and polishing the beast is finally ready to paint. First, all parts will be primed to check for imperfections which were missed during construction!

Wonderful painting Henrik!

Peter, that looks terrific!!! Well done!

Great cockpit Eric!

Wonderful work Rainer!

That detail! Great work Peter!!!

Very beautiful build Kent! Love the look of that helicopter!

Excellent start Harvy! Following your build with interest!

Thanks for the info guys! I was wondering whether this is an effect caused by the HUD's thickness or if it really is painted grey?

Hi all! Apologies for the late replies. Had a short holiday and managed to travel to Seoul for a few days with my girlfriend. I also took the opportunity to propose to her after three wonderful years of dating! On a separate note, I also wanted to express my gratitude for your continuous help and advice! It's the first forum I ever joined and the amount of information you all provide is overwhelming! I am forever grateful to all of you! Now, back to business! Thanks Shelby! I deliberately painted only the side of the HUD glass as I think it gives a more realistic look to it. But looking at the comments and links below I may have to repaint it. By the way, for the clear green I use Mig Ammo's crystal green which I find pretty good. Thanks Luca! The pylons are provided by Isracast together with their conversion set. The same are provided by Wolfpack's conversion kit. I decided to use the kit's AIM-9 missiles instead of the Pythons as I nearly went crazy with the resin ones. Then again, I wasn't happy with how they turned out so I found some old AIM-9s from Academy's F-18 kit to attach instead. Thanks Mark! Thanks John! Thanks F. I kinda like the combination of the bombs and missiles on each pylon so will use some artistic license here.

Not much of an update so far as work has been quite busy. I did, however, manage to finish the gun. I decided not to add further detail after opening up the vents apart from some decals from spares to represent placards. Not accurate of course but at least they do make the area look busy. I also managed to finish loading the pylons with all the weapons. I gave up on the Isracast Pythons as I had difficulties assembling them and they drove me insane! At the end, I just used the kit's AIM-9L missiles. That's all for now! Thanks for checking!

Fantastic work so far Nico!!! Well done!

Thank you Kev!

Excellent build! Love the cockpit!

F, those cans look wonderful!!! I can see a subtle weathering on the metal rings before the petals. How did you do these?

Awesome!!!! Nice painting!!!

Looking good Ben! I wish my scratch building skills were as good as yours!

Beautiful work Creg! Love the camo!