68GT looking forward to seeing that Panther build out!
Bish what scheme are you going with on the Ar234? Got a nice artist remdering of a Nachtjager version[;)]
I’m in with Revells 1/32 162 A-2 ,got started this weekend as usual office is were it began.The interior is rather spartan but I’ll be adding bits as it goes together to remedy that. The seal belts were tackled first,I used foil from a wine bottle cut up into strips then added some buckles and bits from the spares box
The nose gear assembly was missing the small return spring on the port side so I wound one out of a strand of small wire,more details will be added later. I plan to display it with the nose cone off I want to dress it up a bit
The IP is just the supplied decals with some canopy glue dropped on the instrument faces,I added the straps on the rudder pedals with the same wine foil as the harness
Starting on the engine next, still doing some research for the plumbing and accessories. cheers Trey
I have no idea yet. I was going to do the recon version, but that not set in stone. I have all the 72nd dragon kits, which of course includes the NF. I am always open to ideas for Luft 46 schemes.
Going to watch this one closely TREY, I have got this in the stash and was thinking of doing it for this GB, but I don’t think I have the time. Be keen to se how it builds.
Bish the Luft 46 schemes are wide open,still you ca’nt beat a good mottled N/F scheme. Just a heads up hope its just my kit but the plastic on this is really soft .
Woody,Gamera ,AJD thanks!
Small update tonight I cut the nose away from the fuse,in this instance the soft plastic was a plus
Using a razor saw I opened the gaps on the flight controls,this soft plastic was a pain here and would actually tear. I wound up having to add some sheet styrene on the stab to repair a bad one,if you look close on the right stab you’ll spot it
Added some paint to the interior walls. Small things, the oxygen system is in the right spot but angled wrong and too small,as is the flare gun tube. I really would have to do more cutting and scratching to correct than I feel is needed for this build so I’m rolling with it as is.
Sanded all the seams smooth and shot the base colors on the engine,lots of work to do here
I know what you mean about NF schemes. I plan on doing a 219 for the Luftwaffe NF GB, but that will be in a more traditional NF scheme. For the 234 and 335 NF kits I have, I want to come up with something different. I liked the scheme I did for the 335B-4 recon I did earlier this year, so for the 234 recon, I might do something similar, I will have to see what I can come up with.
Thanks for the heads up. How come you cut the nose off.
Bish I’m going to have to go back and look @ the 335 scheme I missed it,geussing it was in the Arrow G/B? When does the Luftwaffe N/F G/B start not seen a post about yet? I cut the nose off just to show the detail that otherwise would’ve been hidden,going to try to motivate myself to maybe and Im just say’n maybe build a small service type Dio.
Not a lot to update ,adding some scratch details to the engine and also relocated some of the kit supplied parts to more scale positions. Then did a little painting in the gear bay .
Thunderbolt was planning on starting the NF GB at the end of this year, so I imagine he will be posting the build thread soon. Its the next one in the Defence of the Reich GB series.
A little dio would be nice for this, looking forward to that.
Great work going on here Gents . Finally did the pit for the Cutlass. The pe set really dresses up things, adding some really nice details . The IP instruments have a drop of Clear Parts cement for the glass face. I still have to shoot some clear flat on the pit (less the IP) to kill a bit the shine of the pe consoles and need to paint the head cushion grey. The camera flash makes colors look a bit lighter.
Thanks Bish. It’ s a bit brighter cause of the camera flash but it’s interior green equivalent to RLM 83 according to my color cross reference guide. As I was reading, the very early F7’s had a yellow green seat and green pit. The later ones had the interior green pit and seat. The Fujimi instructions have all the color callouts wrong. No surprise there.
