Frank, the Tigercat looks fantastic, the masks worked out really well. Never realised how thin the fuselage is.
And then straight onto the Corsair – there’s no stopping you! I had to look up the 527th FS and now I get it – great work!
Castelnuovo, that’s looking good there, with good detail in the motor. It is looking good on its feet too. The cockpit looks good too.
Hutch, good to see the Airfix Beaufighter – watching with interest as I, like so many others have it in the stash. Looks good inside, and nice tip about fitting the cockpit in. The rest of it is fitting together very nicely.
EagleCash, that is some very fine detail on the Frogfoot. You really are going all out.
Long weekend here so I got a chance to do a bit more on the Vengeance. Did some oil weathering then a sealing coat. Somehow the sealer coat has made it look all chalky. So I gave it a scrub down with very fine sanding fabric.
Also managed to break off the tailplane!
After that I threw out the flat clear, opened a new one. Did some pastel weathering and then a good flat seal.
Wheels are on and it is looking like it’s getting closer.
Blimey, Frank - you just keep churning them out - I haven’t built that many this year![:)]
Lostagain - is the Vengeance the old Frog kit? If so, I remember building it back in nineteen-mumble-mumble, and not being very impressed, but you’re making it shine - nice one!
Just installed the cockpit in the Monogram A-37. The build is going along pretty quickly actually. As old as the kit is, the fit and detail are pretty good. I read a couple of good reviews on the kit after I started the build. The pilots and cockpit are black-based. The interior is MM Light Ghost Gray enamel over Tamiya Rubber Black. The pilots are MM Faded O.D. over the black. After some detail painting, everything was highlighted with Tamiya Black Panel Liner. I might give everything a shot of Dullcote to knock some of the shine off. Just about ready to close up the fuselage and do some seam clean-up. Just an FYI: the finished build will not be in Vietnam camouflage we are so familiar with.
Vultee seemed to like that wing planform and used a very similar layout on this experimental to the same contract as the XP-55 and XP-56 pusher fighters. The forward swept trailing edge does have some positives as it tends to improve stall characteristics.
The stencils are really good. They make a complex camouflage much easier to paint than trying to do the paint freehand. So far I’ve used Aero Mask stencils on a Hasegawa Bell P-400, an Airfix P-40B Flying Tiger, and a Hasegawa Spitfire Mk VIII. Excellent results every time. As complex as the Vietnam camo is, these stencils are the only way to go for me.
I didn’t get as much bench time as I had expected (the resident Domestic Engineer had a few tasks lined up[:)]), but I did get the engines assembled. These were temporarily pushed onto their locating plugs for a coat of primer from a rattle can -
The primer has revealed a few bits of tidying up for me to do, then I can touch-up the primer & apply some colour (hopefully. this weekend!)
Started on the MiG 27. Doing it OOB, nothing fancy. A typycal early Hase kit, nice fit but very little detail. I’ll add the detail with the air brush. Quick build except for the seam filling, but it’s almost done. Then on to the fiddly parts and paint. I had to go the the store and get some of that Russian interior turquoise, but you probaly won’t see it anyway.
