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  1. Stickers are on! I choose the second option since that had the least amount of "white" in it. I can live with this Time to do more weathering!
  2. Oh dear.... I friend of mine gave me a Christmas gift: A Third Tempest then? Well why not? To make life MORE interesting, I decided to add some stuff to it: The headline says lowering the blood pressure? I think I must be doing something wrong then: 😨 Anyway. What's up the the Early one and the TT? Well, the early one got a dark clay wash: Then I started with some streaks of different kinds. It needs some dust and pigments, but that will come after final assembly. Time to get cracking! Oh, that TT will get a separate update 😇
  3. I always mix up the restauration job of the Caproni with the B18 that was raised from the seabed at Härnösand and which was done for which purpose.
  4. The only thing I remember about a B18 was with the drama "Tre kärlekar" that run on 8 episodes during 1989. A replica B18 was built, and for many years this was displayed at Flygvapenmusem in Linköping. The Drama is possible to see on SVTPlay here: https://www.svtplay.se/tre-karlekar But it's viewable in Sweden only.
  5. Anything with a BFG in the nose is always a win in my book! Gimme gimme gimme!
  6. Thanks guys! I had a lot of fun painting this, and I really hope the decals will behave nicely.
  7. Decal time! These are not the thick Tamiya decals of old, but something closer to the more thin ones that is more easy to use. Micro Sol works quite well on them, but I learned the hard way not to use Mr Mark Setter: Not totally sure what it does but it feels like it makes the clearcoat bubble ? I've hid that bottle deep in the cupboard, marked not for use... Efter another gloss coat I started with the weathering: A clay wash, some streaks and exhaust staining was the order of the day. After a final flat coat I called it a day: Off to the RFI !
  8. Well, I missed the deadline quite a bit, but life happens. Anyway, during the vinter vacation I took the plunge to get this into the paint booth, warts and all. One shiny primer coat and off we go! For this kit, I'll use Real Colors primarily just to see how the turn out. To start with, Azure Blue with some splatter on top. With some lightening and postshading this was the result: Then, attention shifted to the topside, where I had a lot of work trying to get that canopy to fit, but some proper clamps solved it in the end. I just hope the inside wasn't a total mess... Mid stone was the next paint to go on: The dark brown splatters was e little too heavy so a lot of layers ensued, but I arrived here at the end. Off course, it had to be repeated for the Dark Earth...but now with some Panzer Putty masks: Lightened version of DE in the center of the panels: With a final filter of thin DE on top I was quite satisfied how it turned out. Gloss coat and decals next!
  9. I guess those are not new tools then?
  10. Thanks! I had to make some more touchups , no rather re-paint the green areas again. So, more masking ensued: But it gave me the look I was after, so that's something! Except that one should not dribble paint onto the turret hatch! Yeah, that'll have to be sanded down... Now one basic painting is done, what's the next step? A cleracoat perhaps, and the few few decals? Or should I start the weathering process?
  11. Thanks everyone! @Fin, It's a decal for the control panel. The cockpit is so tiny and I didn't really see a need to delay this build by getting an etched set. Order is now restored, since I had to use filler at last! There was a rather unsightly seam line that I couldn't get rid of, but that's probably a builders error and not a fault in the kit. I did paint the RLM76 areas as well, with the usual loop of lightening the surfaces afterwards but not pictures of this state. Instead, I carried on and steeled myself before doing that dreaded mottle camo on the sides. Removing the crown cap of my Iwata AB helped a lot, so did reducing the pressure and getting real close to the model! Still, it's very hard and I'm far from an expert but I think this is the best I can do in 1/72. All masks were removed and the main painting was completed: That blue band a the rear was a sorry sight though: Hopefully a light sanding and a repaint will solve it. Some RLM76 had seeped in under the masking on the lower engine cover: I think that could be covered by some inspired weathering. Ok, let's repaint the blue and then hit the model with a gloss coat!
  12. There must've been something on all that mulled wine that has been drunk during this week. I'm never this fast with building and painting! Since the speed is up, a nice coat of grey primer was shot onto the model: The lower engine cover and rudder got a dose of yellow as well and was masked off. But there is also a blue band over the rear fuselage that Tamiya supplies as a decal...After thinking about it for a while i decided to paint it instead. A "correct" reference claims it's painted in RLM24 but no such pot exists in my paint collection so I decided to mix something up by using Tamiya X-14 and X-4 instead. I got a shade that was close enough for me, so that was good. After masking that band as well, I started with the top side and RLM 74. Luckily, my trusty Gunze pots came into service and what a nice paint that is to work with. Together with their Self Levelling Thinner it sprays just beautifully! But a nice smooth solid coat like this looks a little dull and lifeless. For my next step I mixed some light grey to the RLM74 and postshaded here and there, and finished it off with a thin coat of standard RLM74 on top. That's more like it! For the RLM75, my idea was to just mask it up using tape, but no, the demarcations are soft! Freehanding that in 1/72 would be challenge so I used my trusty masking putty instead. Perhaps not straight enough for some edges but it'll do. The RLM75 coat was subjected to the same lightening as before and in the end I arrived here: Mhm, that looks promising. Stripping of that goo, and this is were we are right now: Success! Time for even more masking, and then RLM76!
  13. Thanks! I'm steaming on ahead with a wash and light drybrush in the cockpit. Hopefully some of it will be seen afterwards in that cramped cockpit. With that done, I then started with the fuselage: Tamiya has made the engine covers as loose parts, which could lead to some issue but not so! Everything goes together beautifully, and virtually gap free as well. The tail also got glued together. The fin attaches from the top which feels quite weird but it ensures that the rudder gets the proper angle towards the center. I guess this was done to counter the torque from the prop? With all that behind me, the wing was also glued in place. So far no filler has been used, and it looks like I wont have to either! Time to ponder which decal option to choose...
  14. Thanks Keith! I dread the idea of properly weathering those tracks and not just make a shoddy work with hairy stick painting as was don now... Well, it's December and I do have one and a half week of winter vacation to burn through, so why not paint this beast some more? I had and idea that I could maybe freehand paint this NATO camo? But no, there are too many nooks and crannies and the paint dust goes everywhere! Bummer. Oh well, time to break out the Symbiotic goo instead. The brand I'm using isn't that stable, so even after shaping all sausages it's still somewhat runny, at least when viewed for a few hours. That means that I cannot mask it all and let the goo stay on the model, but I need to remove and reapply it. So, that's NATO Brown and NATO Black (Tamiya paints) in place, time to respray the NATO Green areas then. I also took some time to replace the outer wire on the barrels with some spun tin wire from and arts & craft store Let's hope it will look good under some paint!
  15. I have a friend in the northern part of Sweden that I've never met in person, but in this day and age that's no issue. We like to swap Christmas gifts to ensure that we actually get some plastic under the tree every year. This year I have him an Academy F-8E and in return I got this. With two weeks of vacation over the holidays I wasted no time to get started. It looks like a little gem in the box and the details really pop with little paint: That narrow little cockpit was a little gem of it's own. A little wash and some weathering and all the major parts can come together! With a little luck, this could be done by Epiphany 😇
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