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I'm in the finishing mode atm - trying to close projects I've started some time ago (weeks, months or years ). Below another done - Arma Hobby P7a in 1/72 scale. Not their best model, but overall nice build. Painted mostly with Hataka and Mig Ammo with a little bit of Vallejo, Tamiya, GW and Kimera. I've attached group picture of my whole Arma collection as well (2 more still in the boxes - Hurricane and Fokker, will buy P51 for sure, Wildcat is very tempting, but I'm trying to paint as many planes as possible in Polish markings, couldn't find any Polish Wildcats).
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Sure, I know why it looks like that, but it's difficult to put life in such big, flat surface without any details.
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Thanks guys. It is strange plane though - nothing, no panel-lines, red stars, inspecrions etc on upper wing surface. I tried to play with shades, but I think I could be a little more brave with that, because it is barely visible.
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Love, lovely Yak 1b from Arma Hobby (1/72 scale). Had a great time assembling and painting that model. All mistakes (and there are lots of them) it's my fault, not Arma :). No antenna, have to practice first and I see that I can drill guns - I will do... someday ;).
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Thank you. Well I'm living in UK so it was M&S Belgian milk chocolate (really nice and not very expensive). Unfortunately - and I'm not anti-british - when Cadbury bought Wedel they changed recepture and it's not as good as it was and Wedel used to be my favourite.
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I'm in the middle of putting together 1/48 Me-410, but that nearly finished Los annoyed me a little bit so I decided to finish it. Of course during the process it turned out that there is a lot more to do than I thought so I rushed a little bit - bottom is not weathered, no antennas and few things could be better. I'll fix that later, but Los is in the cabinet now, not occupying my working space and thats big difference ;). Very nice model. Straight from the box. Painted with Hataka paints. Wasn't sure about the right shade of Polish Khaki, but I've read it was dark, almost chocolate, so I bought big chocolate bar, consume it and everything was very chocolate ;).
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Top painted as well. Contrast might be too low, but - I hope - wash will help with that a little bit.
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Almost everything is glued together. Everything fits quite well, sometimes a lot of force is required though. Cockpit is leaning to one side a little bit. Too late to fix that, not sure how visible it would be. Not sure as well when and where I've made something wrong. I hope Meng will do Me-210 - I'll buy it and try to do cockpit right ;). Montex mask are hit and miss. Exterior one are ok, interior one have the same size as exterior ones and without trimming they are way too big. Yesterday it looked like this: Today I've managed to roughly prime it with white acrylic paint: And paint bottom part. Not sure about contrast. I usually paint much smaller miniatures and use a lot of contrast. Couldn't use so much contrast in such big model, but I don't have enough experience to judge how much I need. If all the varnish layers lower the contrast too much, I'll try to use some oils at the end. All painted with Mig Ammo paints straight on base color.
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Small update. I've closed fuselage. I was slightly afraid tbh - lots of elements there, but everything fits very well, although I had to use a little bit of force, things are very tight in few places. The only issue is with cockpit - it's too high on one side. Everything is going to be covered by clear elements, so I'm not going to correct that. Noticed on few pictures I found online similar problem, so maybe it's not my fault ;). Overall I'm very impressed so far, it's my first Meng model, hope they will do something nice in 1/48 in the future.
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Thank you guys. Finished interior. There are few things to improve - pictures are very helpful with that ;), but overall I'm happy and what's most important I had lots of fun painting that, although radios are not perfect. Tried dry fitting and - finger crossed - everything looks so, so. Only one small thing has to be sanded a little bit.
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Got it because online shop hasn't updated stock availability and I had to swap my original purchase. I think it's my favourite german plane, tbh, one of the 3 planes in front of I always spent most of my time in Cosford . Goal is to glue everything clean and neat and paint it with more vibrant colors than usual (and with more contrast). Might not be 100% historically accurate because of that. First thing I've done after opening the box: was glueing together few interior pieces and painting everything else in sprues: I've notice that there isn't any decal for control panels. First time in my life I've decided to paint everything inside with a brush. (only aftermarkets I'm going to use are Montex masks and Aires exhaust - mostly because I had to add something to have minimal order at Hannants ). I'm in the middle atm, and I'm quite happy how it looks tbh. Few things have to be corrected, have to add some mud on the floor and some cables at the back of control panel as well (back is going to be clearly visible).
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Little car I've painted recently. It's wargames model depicts improvised armored car Kubus constructed during Warsaw Uprising in August/September 1944. 1/56 scale (or 28mm). Really easy to glue together - only one big piece for hull, 4 wheels, armoured plate for MG, PIAT and few details (hull MG, hooks, posts). Model made by Infamous JT. I've decided to paint it in grey shades, no-one is exactly sure what colours were used in 1944 (although it survived II War and can be seen in Warsaw) - could be grey+grey, blue+grey or rusty brown + grey. Painted with Mig Ammo, Vallejo, Kimera, Tamiya and Gunze paints. Weathered with Mig Ammo. Lots of bluetack was used as well ;). Polish flag made from Snickers bar wrapping - perfect excuse to treat yourself :P.
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Wow. Great model, very nice camo.
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I meant first big one painted with airbrush - models I've finished in 90s were painted with brush, but I'm using airbrush to paint small miniatures (1/100, 1/144) for years :).
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I've painted hundreds of minis in 1/100 scale - I wasn't very good at the beginning . But small miniatures are good for practice, to learn your airbrush and paints to try different styles - with less or more contrast, with different kinds of modulation, etc. Bad painting it's not going to ruin 100GBP model and hundreds of hours spent on building so you can be a little bit more brave :). I'm sure yours will be great.
