RadMax8

Following along, if you don’t mind. I recently added the earlier model to my stash, and I’m curious to see how you crack on! I “cheated” and bought the AK paints for the Soviet VVS colors. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for the answer, I may be ordering soon. Much appreciated!

Phenomenal work on everything so far! Sorry for not commenting sooner, my jaw has been on the floor! Thank you for sharing, this has been very educational.

Wow, great build and presentation. I can’t find any of the issues you mentioned, it should look nice in your display! I too remember watching that season on F1, those were remarkable cars! I have an F2000 to build, do you mind me asking where you sourced the Marlboro decals?

Following along if I may. I’ve always admired the Gullwing, if from afar. Watching you add to this kit is enjoyable. Congratulations on your retirement, I’m glad you’ve found enough to keep you busy and out of trouble (or maybe in just enough).

Just recently picked up a Hasegawa George myself to add more Japanese planes to my stash. Very impressive builds, these will look nice together on display. Thanks for sharing!

I’m going to enjoy seeing this come together, I yearn for one (or five!) of these kits. Plus, quite a noble mission. The museum is going to have quite the collection from you lot! Hope you still have some room at the bar for me & my weak American beer! 🍻

It almost looks to me like they brush painted the front of the engine with yellow paint. Obviously someone at that squadron was a big fan of yellow!

Pulling up a chair to see how this one goes, if you don’t mind. A Hellcat was one of my first airplane kits I ever built when I was small, so I’ve got an appreciation for the type. I’ve also got one of the Eduard kits in the stash. Looking forward to your efforts!

Came here to post this. I’ve been watching that channel for a year and a half now. If you love data and physics, that’s a good way to spend some time. Mark, great work on the kit, and fascinating history of the unit. Amazing they sent pilots with so little experience... Thanks for sharing!

Considering the age of the decals, I’d say that was about as good of an outcome as your Dad could have expected! Also, phenomenal work with the airbrush! I just finished up the mottle on a FW 190 and it looks purely amateur compared to that result!

Nice recovery by your Dad! Fun to see something unusual on his workbench.

I’ve got this kit in the stash, but unfortunately not that boxing. Will be following along with interest, both in your build and the added history. Cheers!

Nice start to both these kits! How do you like the AK paints? I went pretty much all-in on Mission Models, and while I have liked them, they do leave a bit to be desired. Also, that circle cutter is a marvel, isn’t it? I bought one and waited a few months for its arrival, and it was worth it! Thanks for sharing.

You’ve really flexed your airbrushing muscle here. Amazing job!

I was just reading through my copy of Detail and Scale for the Hellcat and saw a couple pictures of this very plane. Nicely done, it’s great to see one fairly factory fresh! Looks like the canopy is a bit narrow and sits proud when in the open position. Too risky to try to do anything about it, at least in my eyes. My luck, it’d crack down the center just thinking about it. Well done build on a very cool aircraft!

@mathy I was going to be “that guy” and say that you really built a beautiful kit but I wasn’t sure the He 162 was around long enough to ever see the type of weathering you’d portrayed. But then you posted a photo, and I really must say BRAVO! I’m very impressed you were able to replicate the photo so faithfully. Truly an outstanding job, and honestly your last photo of the model could easily be confused for the real thing. Sorry for doubting you!

After not visiting Britmodeler for awhile I’ve recently started scrolling around and viewing threads again. Upon my return, I’ve noticed that the page isn’t taking up the full window, so when I scroll the page can move left to right as well. Best I can tell this is due to the banner at the top being truncated, so that 2 of the colored squares are (mostly) missing. The user “dashboard” is still the full width, but the page defaults to the truncated width of the banner. If I zoom out, it snaps to the width of the dashboard. I’m using Chrome on an iPad. Granted, I’ve not restarted my Chrome in ages due to having 40 tabs open, but I just thought this was an interesting issue. Even when I change the banner to one of the other options, it still truncates the banner. Hopefully this makes sense?

Getting very close now. Looking forward to the thrilling finish!

Very well done, Reini! Those decals could have been a nightmare, but your dad turned them into a much easier task.

It’s a great film, and it’s gotten my creative juices flowing with respect to making a PR XI in 944’s markings. I’ve got a thread from a few years ago bookmarked on how to make one with the Airfix PR XIX kit and another one. Probably go the Eduard route since there’s an extra nose in it, as outlined in the thread, which can be found here: Also, there’s some nice high quality pictures of 944 (and others) on the American Air Museum in Britain’s site, found here: http://www.americanairmuseum.com/aircraft/18764

The cockpit looks the trick. Well done!

Any decal setting solution will not penetrate the top layer, unfortunately. It looks as though your clear coat reacted negatively with the decals, which has been know to happen from time to time, especially with “hot” clear coats such as lacquer. I think you’ve got three options: Try adding additional flat coat and ignore it when displaying Try to remove the decal, and replace it with another. This might be tricky given it’s already been sealed, but not impossible. Sand the area down, repaint, and then replace the decal. Did these decals come with the kit? Someone may have an extra sheet due to using another option, or some aftermarket decals. It’s worth a shot! Good luck!

Very nice job on the primer, looks perfectly smooth. Seems that your effort was worth it! Also, nice work on making your own PE components! Very nice tutorial, and the engine looks amazing. Keep up the great work!

After watching the WIP thread, I can safely say that the time and effort put into this one was well worth it. Excellent paint, masking is clean, and your dad handled the canopy fit issues perfectly. Many thanks for sharing this unique build!