[P-51 Mustang "Nooky Booky IV"]

Awesome! 

[Corsair F-4U 1A Tamiya 1/32 Cockpit resin Eduard]

This is just brilliant!

 

Peter

[GWH 1/48 P-61A Black Widow "Jukin Judy"]

Your detailling is very good! Like it a lot!.

 

Peter

[GWH P-61A Black Widow "The Virgin Widow" Saipan 1944]

On 11/26/2019 at 2:08 PM, Parrahs said:

That certainly sounds like the GWH F-15J I built.

😳 I have it in my stash and will do next year.... or maybe in two years.....

[GWH P-61A Black Widow "The Virgin Widow" Saipan 1944]

Hi Guys,

I would like to introduce my Great Wall Hobby P-61A.

The kit is some kind of Mr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde... Some parts are great, some parts are not. You have to take your time when assembling, it´s ab bit tricky closing the fuselage.

You can see my attempt doing this kit here: pk76scalemodeling.blogspot.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please let me know your thoughts about my built.

 

Cheers

 

Peter

 

[GWH 1/48 P-61A Black Widow "Jukin Judy"]

On 10/7/2019 at 3:39 PM, Christer A said:

 

Edit: how will you attach the landing gear, since you've closed both booms and fuselage?

Installed the landing gear this evening. You only need a little pressure and it's slipping in.

[GWH 1/48 P-61A Black Widow "Jukin Judy"]

14 minutes ago, Christer A said:

Edit: how will you attach the landing gear, since you've closed both booms and fuselage?

Yepp... good question...

This is something I will sort out tomorrow evening..... 😎

I´ll keep you posted.....😉

 

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It looks absolutely brilliant!

Thank you! Great to hear you like it

 

[GWH 1/48 P-61A Black Widow "Jukin Judy"]

9 minutes ago, Christer A said:

I saw your infill that you did Peter, but I must wonder if you ever finished it?

I am still working on it

 

Hope to finish mine next week. 

 

Cheers

Peter

[GWH 1/48 P-61A Black Widow "Jukin Judy"]

43 minutes ago, Christer A said:

There's some good stuff in there, and I've not even started on the tiny bits!

Closing the fuselage parts will be tricky - take your time!
I really like your progress so far and will follow with interest.

Peter

[Revell 1/32 Bf109G-6 to G-14 blue 62]

Hi John,

 

any news here?

 

Cheers

 

Peter

[GWH 1/48 P-61A Black Widow "Jukin Judy"]

Hi,

 

I am doing currently also a GWH Black Widow.
Be careful when closing the fuselage.
You can see mine here: https://pk76scalemodeling.blogspot.com/2019/05/p-61a-virgin-widow-great-wall-hobby-148.html 

 

Cheers

Peter

 

P.S: It´s written in German, but I have a translation available

[Trumpeter MIG-3, late Version 1/48]

Hello,

 

built oob. Painted with Revell Auqa Color.

 

cheers

Peter

[Trumpeter MIG-3 late version 1/48]

I started painting the MIG, but have not jet decided which color scheme this bird will have.

 

1. The dashboard looked nice after a coat of matt black.  I was very happy with the result .
2. Trumpeter made a nice gunsight, but I wanted to have a more detailed version. Evergreen made it easy to realize this part.
3. The new gunsight was also painted in black, still have to add the glas and some wiring

 

 

1. I painted the cockpit parts with a mid grey.  First I have used the Russian blue/gray/whatever color but André told me, that I was wrong with my first choice.
2.  I added shadows and some lights with the airbrush to main cockpit parts.
3. Tamiya tape is always a good choice for masking.
4. After all that airbrush work I used a brush for a light, decent drybrushing with a light grey.  

1.  Next stepp was adding a washing. To achive a matt fisnish it is importend to reduce the oil in the oil color.  A cardboard is the perfect tool for that. Place the oil color on it and wait 24 hours.
2. The cardboard has pulled the oil out of the paint, perfect for a  matt washing.
3.  Before adding the wash.
4. After washing, the parts have more depth and the details are highlighted.

1. The finished dashboard. A coat of clear was used to simulate glas on the instruments
2. Right panel still needs some deatils to be painted
3. Left side, ready for installation

Test before adding the cockpit into the fusselage

 

Trumpeter MIG-3. late Version - The kit

Trumpeter MIG-3, late Version Part I

 

Thanks for looking.

 

Happy modelling
Pete

[Trumpeter MIG-3 late version 1/48]

Hi all,

 

this is my new project. In my opinion it is a nice kit with good details. Maybe not 100% correct, but still good.

You can have a closer look at the kit and some information about the real fighter in our "New kits in the cave"-Site.

 

I decided to build this one out of the box. Only adding things I have like left over PE or bits found in my household.

 

Starting the kit

1. I started thinning the plastic in every opening or intake, Here is the already reworked part
2. Looks much better than before, right? 
3. A lot of holes can be found and the kit will win with that work
4. The new look is much better and compares to the real one.
5. After thinning down I used liquid clue to smooth the parts. 

The seat

 

 

1. The seat is lacking any kind of seat belts
2.  I made  the harness with tin foil and leftover PE´s

Wing air inlets

1. A mesh was added to the intake, after....
2. opening the holes 😉

The control stick

 

1. The control stick ready for installation, note to myself: Remove the cat hair
2. Original part is missing the fire button in the middle.
3. Added some wiring. 

The dashboard

 

1.  The dashboard like Trumpeter designed it
2. 0,3mm wire was use for the bezzel ring
3. Much better and will look nice, once painted.

The  main cockpit

1. Added some details to the aerial. Don´t know the real part, I wanted to make it look busy. 
2. The cockpit bottom, added the foot rest to the pedals 
3. Main Cockpit parts ready for paint.

 

Hope you will follow my work here. 

Happy Modelling

 

Pete

[Hasegawa P-51D "Nancy Lee"]

Hi all,

 

this is my P-51/D "Mustang"  I always wanted to add this bird to my collection. I was looking for an unusually "stang" and found this "blue nose".

 

Parts used for this model:

• Hasegawa P-51D
• True Details Cockpit
• Aires Wheel Bay
• Ultracast Porpeller
• Ultracast exhaust stacks 
• Ultracast  landing flaps

If you want to see the built steps, please visit "Work in Progress"

After all I have to say, the Hasegawa Kit is still a great kit but needs some help with the details

 

Thanks for watching!

 

Pete

 

 

 

 

https://abload.de/img/20171111_174822z3ret.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

[P-51D Daddy's Girl (Or how to ruin a perfectly good Tamiya Mustang kit)]

very impressive!

 

Pete

[Hobby Boss F/A-18 D "Hornet" 1/48]

Started building the Cockpit. I used Quickboost  seats cause of the great details they provide.

Aires aftermarket cockpit would be a great choice, but I didn´t manage to get one. The Hobby Boss details ar not that bad, so I used the kits office.....

 

 

A few weeks later the Hornet was done. I had some fit issues and in my opinion it is not a beginners kit.

 

 

I used Revell Aqua Color for painting. For the red outlines on the landing gear doors I use a red Edding pen. Well... worked nice but I will use brush and paint the next time.

 

 

 

The weathering was also done with colored pencils. Worked very nice and I will use them again.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for watching.

Pete

[WIP: Airbus A300-600ST BELUGA Revell 1/144]

Hi,

 

really lovely work! 

 

A friend of mine made so pictures of the Beluga:

 

 

The pictures were taken in Manching.

 

Pete

[Pictures from Manching an Neuburg]

Hi all,

 

A good friend made some incredible pictures from German Aircrafts in Neuburg and Manching.

Neuburg is the home of JG-74 and Manching is the place German Eurofighter Typhoon are build

 

http://petesmancave.blogspot.de/2017/06/petes-mancave-news-62017.html

 

Have fun with the pictures.

Cheers!
Pete

[P-51 B "Salem Representative" 1/48]

Thank you for your kind words. It makes me happy to read that you like my model.

 

@Crossiant Oliver

this is the Accurate Miniatures Kit, actually available from Academy. Very nice kit!

 

@jean

Thank you for your note, That´s new to me and I will take care of it at the next one.

 

All the best

Pete

[Munich Airport Days 2017]

25 years ago the airport "Franz-Josef-Strauß" opened near Munich. Since then, the airport has been expanded again and again. The airport is one of the most important German airports. He had a great influence on the city and the surrounding area. In order to celebrate this anniversary, the airport invited a large party. Altogether, four days were celebrated with current artists and musicians. There were also a number of aircraft to visit. Among the exhibits were a DC-6B, Catalina, Beech Electra, Puma, Ha-200, Li-2, Eurofighter Typhoon and the impressive A-400M. Please visit for more: Pete´s mancave

 

 

All the best

 

Pete

[P-51 B "Salem Representative" 1/48]

Hi all,

she´s done, hope you like it

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can find more pictures and some information about the real plane in my Blog:

Pete´s mancave

 

All the best

Pete

 

[Trumpeter T-38A Talon 1/48]

Hi Guys,

 

While working on my P-51´s I thought I need something different and I started to paint the superb Academy F-4 pilots. Looking thru my stash, my eyes spotted

the nice looking T-38A from Trumpeter in 1/48. It took only a few seconds to check the fit of the two guys in the new cockpit. A new projekt was born!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More pictures can be found here: http://petesmancave.blogspot.de/p/trumpeter-t-38a-talon.html

 

Hope you like!

 

Pete

 

[Hasegawa P-51D "Nancy Lee" 1/48]

@Crossofiron1971

Great you like it, thank you very much, sir!

[Accurate Miniatures P-51B "Salem Representative" 1/48]

Hi Guys,

this is the second P-51 i startet in October 2016 for last Mustang Group Build...  Here is the starting post: Accurate Miniatures P-51B

I will finish the build log here.

The P-51 in 1943 was a workhorse and much of the aircraft looked heavily worn. There was only a limited time between the next mission. I wanted to put this into a hopefully realistic way.

 I started with chipping the Cadillac with a sponge and a thin brush

 

After that was done I started with the wheathering. I applied to individual panel filters made of oil paints...

 

I did not want to put too much emphasis on it, and I added the oils step by step.

 

 

 

 

oil stained added....

 

 

The tools and colors I have used for wheathering:

 

Please visit my Blog for more: Pete´s mancave

All the best
Pete