Kitchen Modeller

Hi Fellas - I'm not really a car guy but I'm doing a model Dodge Charger as a gift for my brother in law - I'm having some trouble finding the relative colour match and would appreciate some suggestions - please see photo below (ignore small child in the foreground): I'm open to any suggestions - ideally it would be something I can shoot through an airbrush but happy to use the rattle can variety also. I use Tamiya acrylics typically but I don't think they have anything I can use here... Thanks in advance!

Great - thanks for that. 5th of November isn't too far off. I love that one of the side benefits of this hobby is that you become very easy to buy gifts for . It's my birthday next week and my wife has an Eduard 1/72 FW190 hidden in the house somewhere:)

Brilliant work there Roger - love the toned down look and weathering looks spot on to me. I like the way you gloss coated the nose cone. If the tiffy I'm building comes out half and good as this, I'll be really happy. The Airfix version looks just as good from here. How did the two kits compare in the end - is the Academy kit worth a look? Certainly seems to be the case in your capable hands. Any chance of an underside shot? I'm very much enjoying working on the Typhoon - I could build them for years and not get bored. She is such an interesting and good looking old girl. What scale are you going with next? Can't wait to see it. !

Thanks Roger - aluminum with lots of weathering it is...

Thanks for that - I plan on fixing this - the intake interior is currently painted black but I’ll repaint it one I’ve settled on the outside colors... So a little bit of progress. Tried out the new tube of perfect plastic putty today and wow. So much easier to use than stupid old Tamiya white putty (which I’m never using again) The fact that you can smooth it out with a wet cotton bud makes the whole filling process pretty painless. First attempt and this stuff just about nails it. Of course once I got back to priming, spotted more issues here and elsewhere on the model but after a little sanding and rescribing it all came out pretty well. The after shot: I’ll let the primer coat cure over night and a for a day and I can start painting colors which I’m looking forward to. So one last question to those who’ve done tiffys recently- what colour did you do the wheel wells? I’ve looked into it here and elsewhere and apparently bare aluminum is the way to go. Cheers for any illumination on this..,

I really hope this works out okay! Hang in there mate

Very nice - canopies don't look too bad in the photos - but I certainly understand not being happy with a certain result, no matter who tells you otherwise. It's still a great model.

Nice work - very nice scheme - thought they were invasion stripes at first but they're not - just a very distinctive scheme. Great paint work.

Great job on a great model - love the painted on chequered band - looks really good (must have been difficult?) Brilliant detail especially for the scale - weathering is spot on and the chipping on the nose is very good. Panel lines are very dark but it totally works here in my opinion. This makes me want to do a P-47. Is the revell kit any good? - I was planning on doing the Tamiya P-47 but might look at Revell's as this looks so great.

Absolutely brilliant - great colour scheme, weathering is spot on, just brings out the detail on the model beautifully. Well done.

Very nice - great paint job - great interior work too. I like your base also - did the ground crew forget their ladder?

They are very good - my go to beer at the moment. Mmm - I think I have those colours backwards. Deck colour can be easily fixed - not sure about the intake.... will have a look see. Thanks for the tip

So threw on some primer this evening. Just a light coat to see if the horrible seam lines were going to behave. Port side looked like this: Not perfect but okay... Starboard was a different story: Not cool. No. Can’t live with that so more filling required. So instead of more Tamiya white putty I’m going to follow some advice from @Christer A. Was at the model shop today and picked up some of this. I plan to mask off the surrounding area and put this stuff on and smooth out the join with a wet cotton bud. Another new technique which will hopefully work well. But that will have to wait for a new day. Only thing I’m planning on finishing tonight is this: Night night.

This is turning out really well - well done

Great work on the exhaust - I have yet to settle on the best way to do these - I really like what you've done here - only thing is I don't use Humbrol enamels - I'm sure there's a tamiya acrylic equivalent so will have a look out for that. Thanks for posting the info on the pilot - I'm from Ireland originally but live in NZ now - New Zealand has a great aviation history doesn't it... lots of rich subjects for modelling...

@Smithy Have just downloaded Stapme's autobiography to the ipad - great timing as I needed a new book Full review to follow - It can be bought here if anyone's interested.

Sorry about that! Lol it’s compulsive viewing...

Thanks for that - bloody mast snapped when I was removing it from the sprue. I’ve since replaced it with a sharpened down toothpick. Looks okay I’ll post a photo soon. When I showed this model down at my local model club meeting this was the biggest criticism I received - however it’s a very subjective thing - some don’t like it because it’s not an accurate representation which is fair enough. However many do like it because it really brings out the details on the model and basically just looks cool. It just depends on what you’re trying to achieve. I think you should do whatever you think personally- at the end of the day, you’re just model making for yourself- so you only need to please yourself!

I'll definitely check that out - thanks for the heads up. I don't know if you saw this video on youtube - this really inspired me to do this build. Thanks for that - this is the plan - and using the decals as the main reference for widths. I totally agree with you re. the painted on - I'm not a fan of large decals - either putting them on or how they end up looking. Now that I'm armed with an airbrush, I plan to do as much painted on markings as I can. Wife and kids vacated the house this morning so I was able to put in a little more work... Masked the canopy: And did some more sanding and inscribing - and gave the model a clean - ready for priming... I'm going to fix the canopy in place using PVA glue in order to mask off the cockpit - this is another first for me as I usually just mask off the cockpit with tape and then paint the canopy separably - but because I'm using a PE cockpit seat, I'm afraid the masking tape or the sponge method will bend or wreak this - ie the headrest - so I'm going with this option instead - I should be able to remove the canopy easily enough later for touch ups.

I’ll be doing the same one with painted invasion stripes. I love the red and yellow nose cone and the color tone of the scheme. First time attempting to paint on invasion stripes too - I’m really pushing my abilities on this one. Also you’ll need to build a house extension to display it:) Its the main reason I build in 1/72

Maybe should get myself one of those!

Nice work - good call on painting on the white band on the fuselage - it’s an awful decal to try and put on properly. The end result looks so much better too.

Thanks for that - all excellent advise. Masking the area before putty would have really helped in this case. Will know for next time! I already put the rivets into the upper side of the wing earlier so that’s all good. I spent about 2 hours sanding down the seam lines tonight. Far longer than I have so far in my short time back in the hobby. I must say I really hate sanding. I find it very tedious and it’s easily my least favorite part of the build. (Not fond of applying decals either) However, I saw an interesting YouTube video the other day about simple ways to improve your skills and one of them was to take a task that you dislike doing and take the time to do it really well - therefore instantly becoming a slightly better modeler. In this spirit, I tried to do the best I could with these seam lines - they’ll still probably come out terrible but maybe less than after my usual efforts. We’ll see after priming. I also added a small part of photo etch for the canopy slide. Right - off to bed.

On with the build - some filling so I can let it dry and do some sanding later tonight... This bit (filling and sanding) is not my favorite part of the build - hopefully it doesn't go pear shaped...

Not exactly problem free - maybe our mistake was following the instructions... I've actually looked at Dymo tape but its crazy expensive here in New Zealand - so need to source something cheaper Wow - that looks perfect - obviously the best way to do this. If only you had posted this last night!