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Yeah, thanks. Though.. I did a rough camo pattern - the first 50/50% Mr Levelling Thinnder and XF-82 killed off most of the weird colours.. 😕 We will see if I can do just one more to dampen the worst black pre-shade and keep some of the rest.. Not sure.. Next time I might need to get the black and the other colours at the same brightness? Contrast? Whataver. Or atleast a little closer to the black. IMG_0352 by Tobias Björkman, on Flickr

Phantom IIs huh? lovely!

Cool. Actually tempted to have a go at this. And give one to my buddy´s eight year old..

Damn, looking good! B-24s are really cool plane.. Well done so far! And I REALLY liked that other one - Stripped for Action..

Right.. Tried this for the first time so bear with me.. Any tips or suggestions, positive or negative are welcome! Made some figures with Xf-18 Medium Blue, XF-62 Olive Drab and XF-68 NATO Brown mixed with 40-50% X-20A. The hard part seems to get a balance with the black pre-shade and this - and later to get both to give some effect? I am fine with just a tad bit and I guess the biggest risk is just painting voer it? We will see I guess.. IMG_0347 by Tobias Björkman, on Flickr IMG_0348 by Tobias Björkman, on Flickr IMG_0349 by Tobias Björkman, on Flickr Should i add some more umpf to the black pre-shade to atleast get that hinting through?

Sorry about your dogs - I know how it feels.. 🥲 But that is a cool tribute, nice builds!

That´s fantastic - well done sir!

Locating pins or not, it looks good - probably smart with the drilling. Gotta love Hurricanes, I am just too cowardly to get this one! So I have to enjoy yours..

..and I felt a bit stupid posting it since I was sure it had been beaten to detah, I could just not find it.. Why I love Britmodeller and the members so much, a wealth of knowledge and most of the time, very helpfully put forward!

..aaand since I am stupid, I once again messed up buying paints, lol.. I bought Ocean Grey and Medium Sea Grey. I needed Dark Green and OCean Grey....😚. And to make it worse, whilst picking up other paints at another store later - an ATm machine ate my card.. So cannot get new pots until I get anew card (Tuesday?)... Ah whatever.. I can use MRp - I just do not want to, right now. I will wait, mask my big Tamiya P-51D, practice some oil washes on an old upper hull of a Hasegawa Draken.. And start painting that Revell P-47N´s cockpit..😊 Bought that XF-26 to see how it matches up with Dark Dull Green - which I only have in stinky MRP paints. They are good, I just do not have the best facilities for stinky paint that often..

Or both ailerons down, as I saw on one build - not a P-51D though..

That is pretty cool, interesting with the unpainted underside/part of the stripes on the fuselage. As well as the black outlining, I agree! Nice find. Back to the stable for some R&R?

That is a pair of very nice photos, thanks! Makes sense on the different metals too, I should have thought and reacted on that earlier.. 😚

WHatever it is, he should switch to a P&W R 2800 I think.. Nice stuff Bosse, better weather there then we have today eh? The car will get weather soon eh?

Visited one of my local, friendly hobbystores. Just a bus ride and two tube lines away.. Model trains is their main thing but they have Revell, some Airfix but mostly Tamiya and some other things.. And Vallejo, AK, Tamiya and some more brands of paints.. I needed the RAF colours but picked up some I did not have. The shortage of Tamiya paints is still on so no white though.. That light green, I got some plan to mix it up for 506th FG P-51Ds on Iwo Jima I think.. We will see how that goess ome other time..... Aaaaand - I picked up a Razorback.. Why not? They are dirt cheap! About £25.74. That´s nice for that kit! IMG_0344 by Tobias Björkman, on Flickr Also had some decent models in a few cabinets. That VIIC looks great! IMG_0342 by Tobias Björkman, on Flickr IMG_0343 by Tobias Björkman, on Flickr But more important - I can soon lay down the Dark Green and Ocean Grey!

Oh yes, I have FCm´s. Just need to finish off an M and an N. Then it is D bubbeltop-time.. it is badass! Sadly I do not even speak the slightest of Portugeese, but i am glad to have people like you that can enlighten me!

Looking good! Love the sight of the big bird in that camo!

Ah thanks! Love your avatar @TAG - cannot wait to slap one of those on a Tamiya Jug soon!

You know which documentary or if it happens to be on You Tube?

Hmm.. Kits World and Zotz are not in an agreement on the Ocean grey and Dark Green shapes either.. A quick look seems to give Zotz right, again. But I will look more carefully tomorrow. Quite different on the wings though! The three kill markings are quite different too..

Lovely work, COrsairs are too cool and the Birdcage is underappreciated, sometimes. Great colour choice and nice painting!

Oh man, I love the Beercans! Lovely planes.. Nice modelling already. Fun to follow!

Thanks. Yeah - I would love that! I do not mind the Hasegawa - but a P-47 series like the P-51Ds, oh YES! "All" of them, Razorback and bubbeltop Ds, the M and the N.. That would be plastic pr0n! The hasegawa effort needs a little AM to make it pop in my humble opinion. Sort of feels like a scaled up 48th scale Tamiya, but not with the added detail for a bigger scale. On the other hand, I have not finished any kit of it - I just have it.. Went for Mr Surfacer 1500 Grey after even more IPA removing all doo-doo from the surface as aclose as I could, to the masking. Oh man it was shining and looked so nice! IMG_0333 by Tobias Björkman, on Flickr IMG_0334 by Tobias Björkman, on Flickr Alclad-damage from the cough/spill. Snaded, IPA-stripped, polished. yet still visible.. Cannot feel it and maybe i should have primed, there, with something with more microfiller? Do not think it will be very visible but it might.. IMG_0336 by Tobias Björkman, on Flickr The big bags that I primed with Citadel Chaos Black, rattle can, for some reason.. God knows why.. 😕 Will make the Neutral grey or some lighter grey.. Not sure yet. Also, parts of the Revell N waiting some detail brush painted..... Discover i have no Gunze colours for the Ocean Grey and Dark Grey - or is it Gray? Not even Tamiy..! But I do have Mr Paint´s.. But at the moment I am back with my Tamiya and Gunze paints.. Used to just AIP thin and drop some Tamiya retarded in, but now I have bought X-20A and the Mr Levelling Thinder, which seems to make it even better.. ANd do not fancy the MRP stench.. So I will probably take a walk and buy the Tamiya variants tomorrow or on Tuesday. I think I will get a better - or atleast easier time covering that pre-shading. The 435M on my J 26 was a little tricky. Doable, just needed many more coats than I had planned for.. XF-81 and XF-82 it is if I recall correctly.. Will probably pick up XF-83 as well then - there will be an Eduard Mk. IX again at some point (Audet´s IXe). A little unsure about the red cowling and yellow tail - probably not really correct with X-7 and XF-3. Will have to look into that! But they are good paints and with some mixing, perhaps..?

Yeah - wonderful clip.. Thanks!

Nothing really exciting to post but since I kinda want to look back myself, maybe.. Masked the underside and ABed the rough area of those (more-) heat resistant areas magnesium (it was that or stainless steel and I was worried about masking that - could have Aqua Glossed I guess but.. i did not.). Hopefully there will be a little bit of difference - I painted it over aluminium on a little rogh suface.. 😕 We´ll see.. I have done something wrong with the Alclad Gloss Black, surface is a little rough - to high psi? Old bottle (it is, does it matter?). Needed some work. Stripped the part on the flap that got coughed on by the AIrbrush.. At first just sanded and polished it but stripped the paint with IPA instead. There is marks , small, on the plastics, where that happened (on the stab too, but not on the NMF area). i cannot feel it but it is slightly visible. Then I am cleaning the rest in IPA, nicely removing the nasty overspray, feeling like a rough varnish, on the rest of the model. That and masking took a few hours, went through several movies but the smell of the IPA and the feeling of getting the plastic so nice again was pretty satisfying! IMG_0331 by Tobias Björkman, on Flickr IMG_0330 by Tobias Björkman, on Flickr I hope I can still make it into a model I will feel decent about, the Jug´s shape and size is so wonderful.. Handling that shape in Tamiya´s grey plastic is.. Satisfying. But I will use another primer for NMF the next time..