georgeusa

A second go around for this thread that I missed the first time. Glad I caught it now, Nicely done camo scheme that is very different than what you normally see. Well done. Thanks for sharing.

(Please read the following with a great deal of sarcasm). Well, it is a good thing you started with an easy camo scheme to try out your airbrush. Sheesh, most people start off with a two tone camo scheme or even better, a U.S. Navy solid blue scheme to learn how to use an airbrush. You jumped off the deep end and went straight to a Japanese squiggle camo scheme with a NMF underneath. You did a really good job. The finished kit looks great. Thanks for sharing.

Nice effort on the kit and I like your enthusiasm for the build and the history. The only comment I have is perhaps investing in some tape for masking the windows and camo demarcation lines. It is really hard to get free hand painted canopies to look right in a close-up. There are a few people with hands steady enough, but I am not one of them. Also, even though it is my least favorite part of building a kit, investing in the patience to tape up the canopies pays off so well. Of course, I prefer to see if I can find a mask set for whatever aircraft I am doing as it lessens the pain. Overall, a good build and thanks for sharing. Look forward to your next post.

You have got a tremendous amount of detail into this small kit. Seems like it should be a larger scale from the pictures. Just amazing how much you put into it. Congrats. Thanks for sharing.

Great looking Beaufighter and excellent painting skills. Really is a superb build. Thanks for sharing.

A great diorama telling a story not just displaying a finished kit. Everything about it looks good. Thanks for sharing.

Nice looking Mustang. It looks like the red tail and nose fought you a bit, but you pulled it through. Thanks for sharing.

A really good build of a beat up Zero. Thanks for sharing.

Now the name Novo and kit builds rarely comes together these days. You did really well with these old kits as both Fireflies look great. Which one are you keeping? Thanks for sharing both.

For the first attempt at NMF you did just excellent and way better than anything I did for the first 10 attempts I tried to do that type of finish. Your Mustang looks great. Eduard kits, in my own experience, have one basic design flaw in that they are not forgiving. If one step in the build process gets a bit off, then the rest of the build is a struggle. Perfect fit is necessary for all of the steps to insure the future ones work. Zoukei-Mura kits are the same way. Even though I would not consider Eduard a short run kit these days, I still treat them as such as test fitting 3 times before glue is applied is my rule. I'm glad you persevered with this kit and it turned out really nice. My go to decal solutions are always Micro Sol and Micro Set. I seem to be unable to screw up decals with these solutions and they work really well for me. (I need all the help I can to complete models.) Just keep plugging and I look forward to your Thunderbolt build. Thanks for sharing.

Not really used to seeing the Airacomet in British livery, but it does look nice. I'm glad you got the Hobbycraft kit to go together well as I have had some problems doing mine in the past. Just looks great. Thanks for sharing.

A very nice companion to your 88. Looks good. Thanks for sharing.

Great looking finished kit of an aircraft I really wasn't familiar with. The concept aircraft you created is quite interesting also. Thanks for sharing both.

You did a fine job with the brush painting for the squiggle/dot camo scheme on this aircraft. Really nice looking 88. Thanks for sharing.

Again, you have shown how well you can build and finish kits. Both are beautiful Spitfires done great. On the shark mouth, does the decal wrap around the air filter intake? From the angle of the picture, it looks like it completely covers the opening. Thanks for sharing both of these beauties.