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    herpetology, botany, geology, and almost forgot... aircraft models, with a weakness for US Navy aircraft. Again, nobody is perfect.

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  1. jean
    Hi Pat, you really want to impress us! I know I am already impressed and you haven't yet started. This model will make your :sun room" feel cramped! Looking forward to watching this build. Have fun. JR
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    Bonsoir Patrice, great little kit and a plethora of exciting paint schemes related to the Algerian war. Have you got some hardware (AA52 gondola, rocket launcher stubs, etc.) to fit under the wings? I could not find any so will finish my own in Aeronavale markings, without anything hanging underneath. Better than nothing! Keep at it! Great work so far. JR
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    Hi, while masking the airframe for the light gull grey, I started decalling the fuel tanks. The latter are not perfect shape-wise, but they will do. Here is a photo of the result: I suspect sun glasses will be required to look at the finished model!!! Have fun! JR
  4. jean
    Hi Bish, this is looking real nice indeed. Great job so far. I have built the B-1 and this one will some day be on the bench. These Stukas are superb kits. Keep enjoying it. JR
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    Hi everyone, today I decided to get on with the white paint on the A-4. I used a Tamiya mat white rattle can, which I left in hot water for five-odd minutes, on account of a cold front turning sub-tropical Africa into the Arctic. The paint behaved beautifully and I am actually very happy with the result. Over the last couple of nights I have brush painted all the little thingies to hang under the model. So light gull grey next! Thanks for watching. Have a lot of fun! JR
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    Hi Sturmovik, I am going for the VC-5 scheme (the Checkertails). It is the top scheme on the photo below, the one with the checkered rudder. I hope the tail markings behave! Cheers JR
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    Hello everyone, today I gave the A-4 a scrub with micromesh and a good brushing with methylated spirit, and then a spray with Tamiya grey primer. I love that stuff. Anyway, it looks good AFAIAC. That's what matters. I realized that I forgot to add a small protection plate at the base of the rudder, but I may just give it a miss. OK, I will see how I feel tomorrow morning... Damn! A quick photo: Tomorrow I will get on with the white... I may even use the Tamiya white primer for that. Cheers all. JR
  8. jean
    Hi all, just when I thought I was on the straight line for priming my A-4, I found the following photo. I am going for BuAer 144956, of VA-106 Gladiators. Like the one in the photo, it turns out to be an early A-4B. That is, the air scoop on the side of the fuselage is not yet a feature, In its stead is a flush intake. So I have to remove the air scoop and carve a flush one. Not my forte... Of course I could not touch it, and pretend I missed it, but I have just told you, so it's too late! That will be the last change I make to this model. I
  9. jean
    Hi everyone, sorted out the back of the canopy and masked it. Painted a coat of dark gull grey on the canopy framing prior to some primer. Painfully slow some days... Just for fun, the front canopy came off... So I re-glued it using black gloss enamel paint. Hopefully that will d the trick. Cheers and have fun. JR
  10. jean
    Bonsoir Patrice. superb result indeed! Congrats! It looks splendid in a diorama. Just one small detail: only the ailerons are white on the upper wings. The spoilers are light gull grey, like the rest of the upper surfaces. I do not think you will want to change that at this late hour. I would personally be tempted to look in the other direction... Great job! A + JR
  11. jean
    Hi Pat, more than likely there was only two dials on the IP. A speed indicator and a clock... plus of course a framed A3 photo of the Fuhrer! You are doing a great job with this weird contraption. Cheers JR
  12. jean
    Impressive result! Time consuming, no doubt, but really worth it! JR
  13. jean
    Hi Steve, you are doing really good! I am curious to see how you are going to paint the details on the wheels and landing gear doors, etc. I have never seen that approach to glue all these thingies that are hanging below the plane before the paint job! I am far too clumsy to even attempt this!!! Anyway, good luck! And as I keep repeating, it is indeed a gorgeous little kit. Keep having fun. JR
  14. jean
    Salut Fabrice, Airfix, in my opinion, is full of contradictions. Soft plastic on one hand, so easy to mark and/or destroy, and ridiculously small tolerances, meaning that the slightest layer of paint or drop of glue will throw the whole kit out of kilter... Hard to figure. I still think that even if sometimes painful to work with, soft plastic is better than ridiculously hard and brittle, like I encountered on a ESCI UH-1D in the late helicopter GB. Not sure if I'll ever finish it, for that reason alone. Having had my bitch, I nonetheless think that the Airfix A-4
  15. jean
    Hi all, this A-4B is moving pretty much in parallel with my two current other builds, which shows a total lack of self discipline.... Too late to change, I'm afraid. All the main airframe elements are on. I next need to re-scribe all the lines I have erased through the sanding of the seams. This very soft Airfix plastic can be a pain. Then canopy and primer. So all is going (almost) according to plan (read again from the words "lack of self discipline"). Have fun! JR
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