Gigant Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Excellent tutorial... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imatt88 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 A rebuild, I love it! Great job on the cowl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismcc Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Great job on the cowling, most impressive Cheers Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ron Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Wow, as already said, great tutorial. It looks great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misha71 Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vynce804 Posted September 19, 2018 Author Share Posted September 19, 2018 Hi, I have been concentrating on my Mustang for a few weeks but at last I've had some time to dedicate to my Thunderbolt. The main painting is completed as are the painted marking, and it was nice to paint something other than NMF for a change after my last 2 builds! My main issue with this kit the first time around was that the OD paintwork was too dark, Ive addressed that this time around and am much happier. Next a bit of chipping then a gloss coat, decals and on to weathering. Cheers Matt alaninaustria, D.B. Andrus, MikeMaben and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Masterful work, Matt! Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kagemusha Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Even better second time round! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vynce804 Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 Im on a roll with this model at the moment...it won't last! Ive have finished all of the chipping with a prismacolour pencil, it looks a little stark at the moment but from experience when i add filters, washes and oil shading it will be toned down a lot and will add a nice variation to the finish. I have included a picture of it with my other WIP my Mustang, its fascinating building these 2 iconic aircraft side by side. The P51 is beautiful and sleek whilst the Thunderbolt is quite brutish and both definitely suit there names...I was trying to decide if I had a favourite from the 2 but think i will wait till they are both finished...there is a way to go yet! Cheers Matt TorbenD, LSP_Kevin, MikeMaben and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn M Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 wow, heullva nice job on that cowl whole model looks really sharp, I thought it looked good the first time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Hegedus Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 That's beautiful work, and the checkered cowl is outstanding! I'm curious, though, if you realize that the fuselage codes don't match the cowl markings? The LM code is for the 62FS of the 56FG, and depending on the specific time period you're depicting would have either a solid white band 24" wide on the forward cowl (with white theater bands on the fin and stabs as well), a solid yellow band 24" wide on the cowl (with the fin and stab stripes painted out), or a solid red band 24" wide on the cowl (final cowl marking used by the 56FG). the LM-C code is assiciated with "Boche Buster"/Rozzie Geth", one of the airplanes flown by Fred Christensen. The black and yellow checkered diamonds on the cowl belong to the 353FG (same as your P-51). The 353FG had squadron codes of LH (350FS), YJ (351FS), and SX (352FS). Perhaps you don't care, and if so, that's fine, but since you seemed to take such care and effort with the finishing of the model, I thought you might want this info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yordy Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 I love how big they are and this one looks really nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaninaustria Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 Wow! Nice work mate!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJP Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 Hi - like some have already said I thought the original scheme in your first photo looked pretty darn good! - I do like to see old models recycled too - I was very interested to see your masking technique on the cowling and the results on the P47 and also that Mustang on your desk CJP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vynce804 Posted September 27, 2018 Author Share Posted September 27, 2018 On 9/26/2018 at 7:27 PM, Joe Hegedus said: That's beautiful work, and the checkered cowl is outstanding! I'm curious, though, if you realize that the fuselage codes don't match the cowl markings? The LM code is for the 62FS of the 56FG, and depending on the specific time period you're depicting would have either a solid white band 24" wide on the forward cowl (with white theater bands on the fin and stabs as well), a solid yellow band 24" wide on the cowl (with the fin and stab stripes painted out), or a solid red band 24" wide on the cowl (final cowl marking used by the 56FG). the LM-C code is assiciated with "Boche Buster"/Rozzie Geth", one of the airplanes flown by Fred Christensen. The black and yellow checkered diamonds on the cowl belong to the 353FG (same as your P-51). The 353FG had squadron codes of LH (350FS), YJ (351FS), and SX (352FS). Perhaps you don't care, and if so, that's fine, but since you seemed to take such care and effort with the finishing of the model, I thought you might want this info. Hi, thank you for the info, I appreciate the time taken to pass this on to me. You are right I do quite a bit of research into my models and have Graham Cross ‘slybirds’ reference volume on the 353rd. Though not ideal it was a conscious decision to use the codes I did. I really wanted to model a YJ coded machine and in the end would have been happy with any of the codes you mentioned but after searching for suitable paint masks to use there just weren’t any and unfortunately a compromise had to be made. The alternative would have been to set the model aside and perhaps loose the momentum I have for this build at the moment. I never model an exact machine but generally like codes to match, this time unfortunately it wasn’t possible. At some point I’m going to have to produce my own masks as I run into this issue quite often! Cheers. Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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