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  1. I received a spray booth for my birthday, and this was the first time I used it. The difference was notable. Apart from the obvious benefits to the air quality in the man cave and my lungs, the finish on the models was much improved without the oversparay floating around everywhere. The filling the small imperfections and seams with Perfect Plastic putty and Vallejo Plastic Putty was completed and let to cure overnight.The seams were then sanded down and polished to leave a perfectly scratch free finish. The Vallejo putty was used along the wing root joins and levelled down using Isopropanol on cotton buds. This left a pefectly filled join with no areas to sand and smooth. I then cleaned the thoroughly to remove any dust from the sanding, using airbrush cleaner on cotton buds for those awkward little places and wiped over with an airbrush cleaner moistened flock free paper towel. Once dried, it was then placed on flock free paper in the spray booth and given a smooth coat of Vallejo 74601 grey surface primer, airbrushed with a 0.5 needle on the airbrush at 28psi. The spray booth worked a treat, keeping stray dust and overspray off of the model.
  2. Just wanted to say thank you for all of your comments
  3. Tamiya P51-D Mustang 1:48 scale Eduard Photo Etch for cockpit details. Macro shots taken in the studio with a Canon EOS M3 mirrorless compact camera to which a Canon TS-E 90mm lens and 20mm extension tube was attached via an adapter. Lit with three Canon 600ex-rt flash guns mounted inside a large softbox 600. exposure was 1/60th sec. @ f16 iso 100. The cockpit area is just over 2cm in length. My wife has always loved the P51, and Ferrocious Frankie in particular. So to keep in her good books, this one is for her. Scratches on the seat where the pilot clambers in and out were carefully markes with a sharp silver pencil. The wood effect flooring was grained and weathers with tamiya weathering sets. Flory models wash was applied to give relief. Photo etch was glued with medium superglue and some with gator glue. Here is one of my photos of the real Ferrocious Frankie, on which my model will be based. And on the the images of the cockpit assembly.
  4. I purchased it from a timberland store in Peterborough. I suspect it was re-badged floor polish from a well known manufacturer. I just gloop it into a large needled airbrush a give the model a few consecutive coats. It is a balance to get enough on there to flow and level out without pooling. I have actually brushed it on with some success as well.
  5. I have just finished building this for a friend who is Mossie mad! Tamiya DH Mosquito FB Mk.VI. 1/48 Scale. Aircraft represented -487 Squadron RAF. MM417/EG-T Built out of the box apart from scratch built lead wire seat belts. Paint. Tamiya XF-81 Dark Green 2 (RAF). Tamiya XF-82 Ocean Gray 2 (RAF). Tamiya XF-83 Medium Sea Gray 2 (RAF). Primed with Vallejo Light grey polyurethane surface primer. 74601. Timberland gloss floor varnish. Xtracrylix XAFF Flat varnish thinned with Vallejo 71.161 thinner Photographed in studio with still life curve base and overhead studio flash and soft box. Canon 1Dx with Canon 90mm f2.8 TS-E tilt shift lens. 1/250 sec @ f22. 160 iso Colour profiled and white balanced with X-Rite Colour Passport. Edited in Adobe Lightroom 6CC.
  6. Your kind comments are much appreciated everyone. Thank you.
  7. Tamiya Fock-Wulf Fw190 A3. 1/48 Scale. Aircraft represented - III/JG2 Commander Hptm. Hans Hahn. Built out of the box apart from scratch built lead wire seat belts. Paint. RLM 75 Grey/Violet by Xtracrylix XA1207. RLM 74 Grey/Green by Xtracrylix XA1206. RLM 76 Light blue, Mix of Tamiya 7 parts XF23 Light Blue + 7 parts XF82 Ocean Grey 2 (RAF) + 2 parts XF2 white. Primed with Vallejo Light grey polyurethane surface primer. 74601. Timberland gloss floor varnish. Xtracrylix XAFF Flat varnish thinned with Vallejo 71.161 thinner Photographed in studio with stiil life curve base and overhead studio flash and soft box. Canon 1Dx with Canon 90mm f2.8 TS-E tilt shift lens. 1/125 sec @ f32. 160 iso Colour profiled and white balanced with X-Rite Colour Passport. Edited in Adobe Lightroom 6CC. Hope you like it
  8. Thanks everyone. Your kind comments are much appreciated.
  9. Thanks everyone. I can't wait to see the old mans expression!
  10. Tamiya 1/48 DH Mosquito FB MkVI Tamiya Sky underside Xtracrylix RAF Extra Dark Sea Grey top side Scratch built lead wire seat belts Self designed and produced canopy cut out masks I made this kit to be given to my father. He's the one who started me modelling many moons ago, and the Mossie is his favourite aircraft. A nice detailed interior with home made lead wire seat belts. I decided that I wouldn't paint iot the 'normal' cammo pattern, and upted for the Extra dark sea grey to side with Sky underneath. I designed the canopy masks using Adobe Illustrator and cut them out on a cutter/plotter using masking film. Thanks for looking.
  11. All done! Please feel free to make any obsetrvations or ask any questions....... Thanks for looking.
  12. Thanks Tom. It's the same type of stuff as future..... I just spray it on neat.
  13. I use iModelKit to compare and mix colours. The reference for 1:48 scale effect was cybermodeler.com
  14. This is the first model that I have tried to paint using 1/48th scale paint adjustment. I have often found that the standard colours on my models look dark when used, so here are the colours I have mixed up for this Vietnam canouflage Skyraider. I just used a mix of Tamiya colours that I had on the shelf. This is the tan colour mixed for a lightening scale effect. The scale effect green. Scale effect Olive Green. And finally the underside. For the underside, I airbrushed on a very thin coat of the light grey and let it dry for a few minutes. I then sprayed about 5 thin layers until the desired amount of pre-shading showed through. Once I had dried it in my drier, I went over the paint with a polishing stick to merge in the pre-shading with the grey and smoothed of the matt paint. The camouflage scheme took a bit of planning! The kit comes with a full model scale plan of the paint scheme, so I placed wide masking tape on the plan and traced the camo. outline with a pencil. Once peeled off, I cut the curves in the masking tape with a modelling knife and stuck them on. Onece the light tan was airbrushed, the mask was peeled off. The camo lines on the fuselage were masked using 4mm automotive flexible masking strip, which sticks well with no residue left and is lovely and bendy I continued with the olive and then the green, drying the paint and then buffing it down with a polishing stick, to give a more worn and bleached effect. I finished of with a few coats of acrylic floor gloss (Lakeland brand) to seal it all in. Decals and weathering next, I am aiming to try and keep it reasonably subtle, but I'm not sure yet how it will turn out! As usual guys, any observations or constructive comments are welcome.
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