dashotgun Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 (edited) I first started this in 2015-2016. I am now retired but work then was very draining and stressful( general surgeon working as a surgicalist in a hospital) So the ac got put away. It did not help that the fluorescent light in my diy spray booth fell off and knocked one of the engine nacelles off ocuh. I retired in 2017 but lost the drive to build along with many other life events(grandpa) I still participated here and meant to get back to it eventually. I took up the mantel and got back on the horse and finished it up. Thanks to Thunnus for inspiration David Brown for info on this particular ac and Michael swinburn for sourcing the D/L antenna which took a flight into the wild blue. Yellow 3 was an early build so it had the early scissor links on the nose wheel and you had to delete the pouches on the access doors of the cannons. It is also well worn the only picture of it is nose down in a dump after the war but you can see how worn the paint was. It was an interesting process to create the worn look. I did a partial wip on it but did not include the earlier paint work. It basically had a speckled irregular under coat thin main coat weathered with pastels and watercolors . The mask allowed me to weather the markings as well. Other than decals , masks, nano mold seatbelts(great thing they are) and barracuda wheels the ac is stock trumpeter. This ac aIso had the original wooden rudder and square tail light that was made by cutting off he part of tail and blending in a piece of clear plastic with uv glue. I love AM but it does complicate and slow and already slow process for me. One error was the wing walk silvered old decals and despite a glossy base under it. they are hard to cut as vinyl stencils on my cameo I think that hgw makes some wet dry decal or next time may use the dry transfers for that. The vehicles are a 21 century die cast the kettenkrad is a ZM I just built posted ready for inspection today Edited January 24, 2021 by dashotgun Dany Boy, 109, Old Dog and 15 others 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Nicely turned out Doc !!! Congrats on the retirement Livin' the dream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 Well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 Excellent build, and even more excellent perseverance to finish it! The paint job is outstanding, as is the weathering. Did you scratch build the base? It looks very good! Ernest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dashotgun Posted January 27, 2021 Author Share Posted January 27, 2021 No it was a true detail resin piece think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunnus Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 Awesome! Thanks for sharing your Yellow 3 with us. It took some time but was worth the journey! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wimmer Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 Great build and presentation. Paint scheme and weathering look fantastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dashotgun Posted January 27, 2021 Author Share Posted January 27, 2021 thanks all I had to finish it I love the airplane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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