It’s finished!! I have to find the clear part for the wing and one of the guns for the wing… carpet monster is playing with them right now. I left the bottom half off the wingbands. I saw a ref pic like that from a bird flying in '45, I thought it looked good.
Here she is for you all to look. Promise the links wont disappear this time.
Ok thats it.
-Jeff
Very nicely doneJeff, thanks for the pics.
Looks good Jeff. Is that the Accurate Miniatures kit in 48th scale. If it is, did you have any problems with fitting the cockpit inside the fuselage? I’m working on one at the moment and the radio and battery floors were too wide, the cockpit floor sat to low and fouled the top of the wheel bay and the cockpit floor was to narrow to reach the side walls.
Was I the only one to have these problems? Because they ruined an otherwise nice kit.
You’ve done a nice job of this one though. Keep up the good work.
All I can see are the dreaded red x’s.
But they do look very realistic[;)]
Bet it looks real nice.
Karl
Sorry KJ dont know what to tell ya.
Ping yes it is and the floor to the radio was to wide. I used my sprue snippers and cut it till it fit. On the cockpit floor there is no room to misjudge. Look at it again youll see that the floor sits precicely in its little holders touching the bottom of the sidewalls. Youll see what I mean. I played with the decals…all were in the kit I just mixed em up to make my own plane.
Paints: Vallejo OD over Med Grey, wing band vallejo flat yellow and spinner is flat red. Int and wheel wells are int green. Gun blast and engine exhaust along the sides and around the top intake is Tamiya smoke.
oo preshading was done with Vallejo black on the entire aircraft and the tires are painted in Pollyscale RLM66 unwashed.
I’ll try it from home.
I often get the red x’s at work!
Must the boss’ way of telling me to actually do some work.
Karl
Wow ,I like it ,very nicely done Jeff.
good exhaust staining too.
hey, nice build you got there jeff!! is it Accurate Min.? scale? good job friend. later.
Great work, Jeff! As I mentioned with your P-38, the dead flat finish is very realistic.
Again, as with your fine P-38, the only weak point I can offer constructive criticism on here is the cockpit framing. I think you mentioned about your other build that excessive handling fuzzed and squiggled the edges on the frames a bit.
Clean those up a tad, and you’ll be 100%!
Again, sweet build.
jeff the only thing i will add is nicely done.
joe
Very nice Jeff.
Thanks for sharing it with us. [;)]
Mike
Very nice build. The finish looks very realistically flat.
Thanks for the pics.
Nice build Jeff[tup]
Pingtang, I had simular problems, Had some filling around the wing to.
Thad
Jeff, I’m impressed! You have a definite talent for weathering brother. If you and Bill keep cranking out these sweet WWII builds I might just have to give one a shot!
Ray
ty all.
Hey hulk with this canopy I had some probs too, but they are me heh. I decided to use clear tape on this one and when I went to remove it after shooting the Humbro flat coat, it didnt want to come off. It had a reaction with the flat coat and was bubbling and melting. I also realized but only after removal that I didnt hit the framing well with paint to start. because I was preshading d\for the very first time ever I was shooting very thinned coats of paint. This plane has 9 coats on the top alone with 2 coats of flat.
The tape was a mess and if you look closely at a close-up of the cockpit-framing area youll see scrathes all over. Next time I will make sure I have better quality materials when building.
Yes Salty Accurate Minitures 1:48
Nice job, woodbeck !
The fuselage halves fit well in mine, after I thinned the shelf for the radio. It didn’t fit well to the molded locators.
Like the markings. Well done.
Wooah… nice build, Jeff!! Love the weathering, thanks!
Take care,
Frank
Very nice build. I built the kit a few years ago & don’t recall many fit problems. maybe the first runs were better than later runs. Thanks for sharing.
Regards, Rick