Just completed this “ Fighting Six “ Acedemy kit I received for Xmas. My first Academy build and hopefully not the last. All paint is Tamiya spray cans except the tail feathers which I brushed a mix of Apple Barrel acrylics.
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Nicely built! Although this kit came in an Academy box, it is actually an Accurate Minuatures molding originally. When that company folded, Academy obtained the molds.
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That’s a beaut, @Shoop1 – love the vibrant colors. Pretty impressive that you rattlecanned it. How’d you find the rigging – that’s OOB?
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VERY good build @Shoop1. These old Accurate Miniatures molds are some of the best out there and back in the day they were ahead of their time. Really sucked when those guys closed the doors.
Good color usage and application and the rigging looks great! What did you use for the rigging on this?
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Thank you!
The rigging is PE parts included with the kit.
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Thank you sir! The rigging is included as PE parts in the kit.
Amazing how the colours “punch”. Great looking build!
Beautiful job on this plane. I love these Golden Wings between wars planes. I wish that some manufacturer would do a new 1/32 kit to replace the vintage Revell kit.
Love the yellow wing era. Looks great!
Love your Flying Barrel. I built the Accurate Miniatures boxing a couple of years ago. Went together easily, especially for a biplane.
Really nice build. Love the prewar/between war Yellow wing paint schemes.
I built one of the Squadron quick build F4F-3 Wildcats in the Yellow wing scheme a couple years ago when I started building again to give me a little jumpstart (I know they’re for kids but I’m a kid at heart so it’s cool). I’d love to get an F9C Sparrowhawk and paint it in those colors.
Great job!
Regards,
Adrian
I like that Accurate Miniatures supplied the rigging as photo-etch. It replicates the aerodynamic flying wires used at that time, better than fine wire.
I have wondered whether I might be able to use the very finer thickness of styrene strip, too, with some additional sanding, but haven’t had an opportunity to try that yet.