MadYarpen

My only doubt is to dark wash. Otherwise pure pleasure to look at. Love it.

I love it, cannot stop looking... Superb work with the glass masking. So clean. I wish there was some good model in 1/48 of 111...

Great! Any comments about spraying itself and durability will be much appreciated.

Would be great to read come comparison with alclad. Similar price, and i was about to buy batch of alclad colours.

Thanks! I do not like "toning down the finish" part though. This article encourages NOT to secure alclad and decals: http://www.swannysmodels.com/Alclad.html

I use Mr. surfacer 1200 as primer. After spraying it requires a little polishing with sandpaper (I use 2500 grading) and it is super smooth. I use leveling thinner - and a bottle is enough for 3-4 jet fighters in 1/72 scale. Plus lower Mr Surfacer grades can be used as liquid putty.

sometimes it might be a good idea to add clear gloss to a clear paint - it makes it more transparent

My wife got me P-47, in the pipeline there are also mustang and mig-21. All require part- or all- natural metal finish. I often see good models made this way. I wonder, how to make them this good. Standard paints allow to apply camo->acrylic clear gloss->decals->gloss again->oil/enamel pinwash and other oils etc. I will probably use alclads II since the choice of colours is quite big and I know the quality is good. There are some questions I'd like to ask. 1. Should I coat alclad with clear paint (clear gloss I assume)? how to apply decals? Directly onto alclad? Should I secure decals with another layer of clear? 2. How does alclad react to oil wash and white spirit? I tried it on model master metalizers and I cannot say it was a success - white spirit was washing away metalizer with the excess of the wash. 3. If oil washes are not good, should I look for something else? I was recommended a water wash - but I cannot find this kind of wash in Polish shops... Maybe I'll try to do a water wash myself - out of water, dishwashing fluid and paints used by kids in school (no idea how are they called in English;))? 4. The same questions as regards weathering. I guess what I'm trying to establish is how to make good natural metal finish, with wash and weathering, without loosing the natural metal look, using alclad (or maybe other metalizers are better - like gunze's super metallic). I do have sealer for metalizer from model master (and their metalizers). It looks ok but to be honest you loose "metal" look after spraying. It is good enough for exhausts, but to make a whole model this way - you could use reguar paint instead I think...

Must be windy in the cockpit;)

thanks once again for explanation. Natural metal finishes scare me, and I want to have both Mig-21 from Polish air force and Mustang from WWII.

And what about the decals? Are they straight on alclad? Any coat on the decals?

thank you for the info. I'll look for this wash.

And the kit itself - is it any good?

I wouldnt have guessed it is 1/72. Congrats.

I can't understand why people are saying this is an ugly plane...

I like them, surely I'll make one myself. I see there was some pin-wash applied on the alclad painted one. My question is how do you do it? I never painted anything this big with metalizer. And I know, that securing metalizer with clear paint isn't always a good idea (you can lose "metalic" look). Did you apply (oil?) wash right on alclad? Any troubles with that? Or did you actually secure it with clear gloss?

I love it. Very tasteful weathering.

Great work! What paints and colours did you use? FS numbers would be great.

Wow, superb. I need to get one of theese.

Great work - how did you paint the canopy?

Thats a sexy plane. Good model, too.

Wow it is huge...

We definitely need more photos, it is fantastic. I love the bottom. Black surfaces are not easy.

The paint scheme is from 2013 according to the instruction, so I guess it is possible it should be grey. But I see that the brake itself is red. Regarding the decal... Damn, I just forgot! Maybe I'll try to fix this, but the model is in flat clear, so i would need to apply some gloss first. and then flat again. and it may stand out with no weathering/wash. Tough choice. I think I'll leave it as it is.