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Thanks🤗

great job on that beautiful fighter!

Hello Tomasz What an amazing build. Thanks for sharing the files🤜🤛

Hi, After the dirt was added with oils, I made scratches using a toothpick and a small and pointy Q-Tip.

Thanks! Nico, glad you noticed those weathering effects I tried to replicate.

Hello The new Revell 1/24 N1 Starfighter from the Star Wars The Mandalorian TV Show. The kit is quite fun and simple to build. Details are OK but there is some room for improvement. I scratch built some details in the open panels and engines. Paints are Mr Hobby SM01 super fine silver and Chrome from Greenstuff. Weathering with oils and waterpencil. This is the way!

Great Work! and thanks for the explanations!

Thanks! I used this decal sheet from adeco https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=http://www.kitreview.com/reviews/frenchcorsairdecalreviewbg_5.htm&ved=2ahUKEwi_5qPTuriDAxVscaQEHRl7COoQFnoECCsQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3d_9PmEUv7eiUDGJXp1-CQ But maybe you can look in the Berna range?

I used this tool to scribe the circular rivets: https://www.cookson-clal.com/materiel-bijouterie/Jeu-de-12-perloirs-de-1-à-12,--avec-manche-universel-prcode-999-AIR1?p=gs&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAnL-sBhBnEiwAJRGigvRxTqBNA7xna7HQuws84fB7KKGCFD8NSrs2vdwTsxMW3L3sLcBA9hoC_SoQAvD_BwE Called "perloir" in french

Thank you! And yes, the chipping is done by scratching the blue paint with a blade or sharp toothpick. It gives the most realistic chip to my opinion.

Thanks! Yes that mold seam needs some work. Sanding, puttying, sanding, scribing.🙂

Thank you! The kit is 50cm in lenght.

Hello! So! finally finished! After an almost 3 years stand by. I used some aftermarket: - Eduard photoetch - Master barrels - Legend bays and folding sets - Werner wings stencil decals - Reedoak figure paints are Mr color laquer c308 and mrp 105. Weathering with oils, mostly mig oilbrushers. Again I felt very frustrated with the figurine painting. I tried again the uncle Nightshift hack with black primer, zenithal white and filters. But... Again I did not succeed. The base color are acrylics from vallejo but I tried to paint the highlight and shadows with oils. And I think I liked to do that way. The build will be detailed in a 2024 edition of french magazine Cocardes. Now some pics! Romain

Hello A small and quick build from the box with the 3D Blitz Model kit, using FFSMC decal sheet for french air force. Most of the job was to deal with ultra smooth paint and decals. I used the great Mr Hobbyè GX112 gloss varnish, then polished with ultra fin abrasives sponges, micromesh and Tamiya compound. A very light coat of GX114 satin coat at the end, to cut the "toy like" effect. Cheers Romain

Very nice painting on these exhausts

Thank you so much 😉

Hi Bill This is great! Let me know when you start the build! I would suggest to get the reskit exhaust. They also release wing tanks I believe. Cheers Romain

@Pajarito Thank you very much. The gt resin nose fits like that: As for the Cutting edge canopy set, it corrects only the lack of omega shape from the kit. But I had to make it seats a bit higher to fit with the blackbox IP coaming. As for the axles of the landing gear, If I remember well, I might have used brass rods.

Wow thank you very much David🫠 Thank you. If sharing my work gives other modellers motivation and help, that is the best reward I can get.

Hi Bill, The build was published in Meng Air Modeller issues 93 and 94 if it can help. But do not hesitate to contact me if needed. Romain

Thanks Dave! And yes, you are the nice guys who sent me this set across the Atlantic Ocean back in 2018. Thanks again🤜🤛

Some in progress pics. Do not hesitate to ask if you have some questions. Black Box cockpit: Fischer wheels and Aires bays: Gun bay is made from scratch and with some Eduard PE parts. Gun body is from Verlinden, with Master barells. Intake were rebuilt: When I built It, the nice Reskit exhaust did no exist. So I had to rebuilt the very sparse kit offering: Cutting edge canopy set corrects the section shape of the kit, which not "omega shaped" at all. It needs a lot of work. VideoAviation bombs replace the poor plastic ones. I tried new techniques for the paint process: Underbelly is painted with Gunze H311 fs36622 light gray in several thin layers. the idea is to let the previous effects show trough. Then I tried to add some chipped effects. So Heavy Chipping is sprayed on the paint. After this coat is dry, off white is sprayed. Camouflage is started with the lighter color Brown FS32019. I wanted to have a more faded color so I added some tan and light gray to H310. I start by drawing camo edges free hand with airbrush. More effects are added on panel lines with a darker brown made of base color, wood brown and smoke. Same process is carried out for the light green FS 34102. I used gunze H303 as basis, but found it to light, so I added drops of H302 22-23-24: highlights are done with a mix of H303 and H74 Sky, while shadows are made with H303+XF11 and clear green. For dark green FS34092, the base color is not H309 as required by Gunze. I found this color to tend towards something like olive drab. I chose to use H302 FS 34092 as basis, with some H309 and Tamiya XF11 JN Green. The result is a darker and “greener” shade. Highlights are then done with H303 added in the mix and shadows with XF11 Markings are painted using self made masks, stencils are from trumpeter decals. Weathering is mostly done with oils:

Hello! This build from 2019 was inspired while reading the special issue of French magazine “Le Fana de l’Aviation” about the F-105 Thunderchief. A story in particular caught my attention. While on a bombing mission on the 23rd august of 1967, 1st Lt Dave Walrop shot down a first Mig-17 with his gun, before climbing to avoid debris and get back in formation. While coming back from the clouds flying on his back, Waldrop saw another Mig and shot it down too. When he was debriefing at the base, he got a phone call from… Robin Olds himself. From his F-4, this famous pilot was not happy to have seen a F-105 flying on the back and shooting down the mig he was engaging with his radar. This Mig could have been Olds’s fifth Mig Kill, making him twice an Ace. The Kit Trumpeter released this kit back in 2004. The model shows some shape issues as canopy section, nose curvature, mk117 bombs… Details are a bit basics for 1/32nd scale in the cockpit, wheel bays and exhausts. Many aftermarket were used: - Blackbox cockpit 32014 - Master pitot tube AM-32-038 - Quickboost air intake 32068 - Cutting Edge canopy and spine correction CEC32163 (OOP, hard to find) - Aires Wheel bay 2076 - Fisher Wheels A3219 - Eduard F-105 interior 32514 - Eduard F-105 Exterior 32113 - Eduard F-105 armament 32208 - GT Resin Fuselage correction set (nose, camera, ventral fin) - Videoaviation MK117 bombs 163932 Eduard MER 632102 Paints from Mr Hobby. Markings with home made masks and kit decals for stencils. Weathering with oils mostly I will add WIP pics in another post. Hope you like it! Romain

Thanks! @Exdraken those figurines are from Reedoak and are printed from 3d scans of actual French pilots. More real then real 😘

Hi! Sorry I just read your question. Well...in terms of fitting, they are not bad. But the problem is more that they require a lot of work to be accurate. KH made a lot of mistakes and omissions between the different versions in the cockpit and weapons. The shapes are quite good, except the single seater which is too long in the front fuselage.