Coming along nicely. Love the PE intakes. Great Wall really dropped the ball in that area.
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The “Lady in the Dark” is now finished! First, I know it has been two weeks since my last update. We were out of town last weekend visiting friends. To bring everyone up to date I completed the decals and then weathered the exhaust using pastel chalk. For the exhaust I laid down a medium brown followed by a light gray and finally a streak of black giving the exhaust staining some depth. In the reference photos there are two short whip antennas on each side just behind the nose cone. I use 30AWG wire to simulate these and then sprayed the final top coat of matte on the aircraft. The canopy masks were removed and I then added the wire antenna from the tails to the rear of the main fuselage using EZ-line. I installed the propellers completing this build.
This kit is good in details but has some issues during the build. As stated previously the fuselage assembly is challenging due to the belly guns. The other issue with this kit is the decal sheet shows the wing insignias incorrectly. The previous confusion with the landing gear was due to the Eduard instructions only showing one side of the landing gear bays and showing the numbers for both sides. This led me to assemble the main gear bays backwards. Aside from the incorrect instructions the kit decals worked well. They went down well and conformed to the surface details. Since I changed this to wheels up, this is now displayed hanging. Overall this kit had its issues but in the end it makes for a nice looking P-61B.
There are more photos and details from the start to finish in my build log at https://davidsscalemodels.com/build-log/1-48-p-61b-black-widow-lady-in-the-dark/
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That is beautiful.
I have the kapton tape now and am trying your tip for canopy masking. I hate canopy masking so I haven’t built my Avenger or Me-110 in my stash haha!
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That looks great. Love the detailing you did. I always liked those planes. You did a great job on it.
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Excellent work on your Black Widow! I’m sure a lot of modelers with the old Revell kit are putting there kits up for sale.
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Excellent start! Keep the pics coming.
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I’m so glad someone else bumped this up, otherwise I may have missed it. Incredible job done, all the PE work is great. Black is a difficult finish to pull off, but you did a great job on it.
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