chrish Posted January 18, 2020 Author Share Posted January 18, 2020 I was on a bit of a roll yesterday/ last night and quit fairly late with the natural result of not posting anything, plus I just plain forgot. I have the first coat of RLM 76 on the bottom now after masking the national markings (again, with home made masks) then shot the top RLM 74 graugrun. Using, as usual, the paint mixing ratios from IPMS Stockholm's website, it's a quick link in my favorites. After shooting the majority of the color I sat back and noticed two things, first that I had forgotten to mask the black of the fuselage crosses, second that the RLM 74 looked wrong, too green? I got out my old faithful, "Camouflage and Markings of the Luftwaffe aircraft-vol. 1 Day fighters" matched the paint to the color chip, grinned happily and decided to carry on. It's a near perfect match! Fuselage markings fixed and back to work Thank you for looking Landrotten Highlander, williamj, Gazzas and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted January 19, 2020 Author Share Posted January 19, 2020 Painting on the 109 underway, again, the Kitsworld decals shows fairly heavy mottling going right down to the bottom of the fuselage sides. While paintings (never trust an artists rendition) show little... or even no mottling on the aircraft sides. There's also paintings of the aircraft with II Gruppe straight line instead of a III Gruppe wavy line, but I have 1or 2 pics. here of the aircraft with the wavy line so, that's what I'll use. I ran out of a key Tamiya color to home mix the RLM 75 so used some recent acquisition paints that were as yet untried, Mission Models, they seem to work ok. My query: does the mottling look to heavy? paint came up with the tape off the resin exhaust pipes, my fault. not the paint. I forgot to clean and prime the resin Thanks for looking MikeC, Out2gtcha, MikeMaben and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 I think it looks great! Not knowing how his mount looked at the time of the incident I cant really comment, but it only looks like slightly heavier than I'm used to seeing paintings of the scene. chrish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Mottling looks fine to me. 109 is really coming along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alain11 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 it's a matter of taste , that works for me Alain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismcc Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 What a great project, well beyond me but it will be great to watch. Cheers Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted January 19, 2020 Author Share Posted January 19, 2020 Decal work under way, couldn't help but stick it on the post and see if it met my hopes. Thanks for looking Out2gtcha, Anthony in NZ, Tnarg and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NORMCO Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Could you please give us a wide angle picture of your workbench/workspace? Where do the drawers come from? Purchased or homemade? . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 2 hours ago, NORMCO said: Could you please give us a wide angle picture of your workbench/workspace? Where do the drawers come from? Purchased or homemade? . They're HobbyZone drawers - I know because I have an extensive set myself! They're made and sold out of Poland, but you can also buy them from one of our fabulous sponsors, HobbyZone USA! Kev chrish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Best of luck with your project and I hope you see it through. The spinning prop idea is brilliant by the way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Chris, What a great looking 109! Love the propeller effect! Gaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Terrific! That filled spinner with the dark blurred band us about the best looking prop blur option I've seen. MikeC, williamj and AlbertD 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alain Gadbois Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Your '109 turned out great! And nice dramatic photographic angles too! Alain williamj 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted January 20, 2020 Author Share Posted January 20, 2020 Thank you very much! I pulled the B-17 out of the stash and opened the box...A little overwhelming! Like getting to the top of the high board at the pool and looking down! Then asking yourself "What the H*ll am I doing?! A couple of pictures for those unfamiliar with the B-17 The box the 109 on the B-17 in the box BiggTim, Alain Gadbois, sandokan and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Yay! Really looking forward to this one williamj 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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