dmthamade Posted May 2, 2021 Author Share Posted May 2, 2021 Done with this. Lost more than a few parts when i put it away, been cleaning up, have a bad feeling i went too far. Still haven't found the exhaust can...final assembly i couldn't get one wing tank to stayed glued, first time the tank/pylon fell over, dried that way. I "gently removed it", reglued it, knocked it off... get the picture? Nothing to do with the kit itself, fourth Italeri Zip i built, so nothing new, just the builder(me) made "some" mistakes. Anyway, some pics. Don Rainer Hoffmann, Fanes, LSP_Kevin and 14 others 16 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheetah11 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 Glad the repaint worked. It looks great. dmthamade 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 Looks great, Don! Turned out really well. Kev dmthamade 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradG Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 Looks great mate, we all have that cursed kit once in a while! I will add you to the gallery. dmthamade 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themongoose Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 It’s a beautiful build. Good recovery. We all have some like this, might as well get it all over with one model, right? dmthamade 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainer Hoffmann Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 (edited) Nice Zipper and a great paint job after all the trouble you had. I'm curious about the day glow orange on the underwing tanks. I've never seen that on the real deal and so far haven't seen any photographs either. Can someone point me to a reference pic? Rainer Edited May 4, 2021 by Rainer Hoffmann dmthamade 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmthamade Posted May 4, 2021 Author Share Posted May 4, 2021 Thanks for the encouragement, guys. You all are right, there is always that one kit that goes sideways. Glad i went back to this one, for the longest time(decades!!) I've wanted a Luftwaffe Zip in this scheme. Tried the Hasegawa and Revell kits, but inexperience and lack of decals stopped me. The Italeri kit for me is a better base than the other two kits, this is the fourth Italeri Zip i've finished, all schemes i've wanted for a long time. The orange underwing tanks is indeed a rare sight, Rainer. IIRC on 916(?), i did find maybe four pics of the tanks painted this way. Give me some time, i'll find them. Don't think i saved them so i'll be a while. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmthamade Posted May 5, 2021 Author Share Posted May 5, 2021 Well, i did save some of the pics!! http://www.916-starfighter.de/Large/2393.htm http://www.916-starfighter.de/Large/2601.htm http://www.916-starfighter.de/Large/2382.htm http://www.916-starfighter.de/Large/2110.htm There is one pic with tip tanks fully painted orange, though this is a Zip with the towed target, maybe they wanted the tow plane as bright as possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmthamade Posted May 5, 2021 Author Share Posted May 5, 2021 (edited) Stand by, have to figure out the linky stuff... 916 Starfighter 916 Starfighter 916 Starfighter 916 Starfighter Edited May 5, 2021 by dmthamade Rainer Hoffmann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainer Hoffmann Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 (edited) On 5/5/2021 at 2:59 AM, dmthamade said: Stand by, have to figure out the linky stuff... 916 Starfighter 916 Starfighter 916 Starfighter 916 Starfighter Thanks a lot, Don. I hadn't seen those before. Very interesting. Cheeers Rainer Edited May 6, 2021 by Rainer Hoffmann Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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