MattH912

Thanks so much for the reference images you have been a huge help 😁

Good morning all, I am looking at building Kinetic's new tooled F-16D and I am curious if the F-16D's ever undertook SEAD missions as the box art depicts the aircraft carrying HARM missiles along with an AN/ALQ 184 pod, and if so is this a standard loud-out for this mission type and what type of pods will the aircraft carry. Also can anyone recomned some more modern F-16D load-outs and again what exact pods they shall carry. Thank you in advance.

Hi all, I am looking to find a really “dead” Matt/Flat coat to give my builds an ultra flat varnish. I have been looking around and have heard varying opinions, what do you guys think is the best products to achieve this? I have heard great things about Alclad Klear Koat Flat but I am confused if this is a enamel or lacquer based products and if this is the exact same product as Ammo’s New A-Stand Klear Koat Flat, if anyone had used these products and can offer me some guidance will be much appreciated. I shall attach images of the two products I am referring too, also has anyone used VMs Matt varnish as have heard good things there too. if anyone can help me out here will be much appreciated or anyone’s else’s opinion on the best dead flat/Matt coat out there will be much appreciated. kind regards

Amazing build. May I ask how you achieved the metallic lines on the rear stabilisers?

Sorry for the late reply. They are all Eduard decals what came with the kit, they are the "new style" Eduard decals with the peelable film and they really were great, I used micro-set and sol and then left the decal to sit for 24hrs and then peeled the top layer off and you get an amazing finish, some of the smaller decals I decided to see what it would look like if I didn't peel and compare the results, and when all is said and done with the oils and flat coats its very very difficult to spot the difference if any at all.

Yeah I preshaded the whole aircraft but I added some browns and sand yellows to the top side of the wing where you would expect heavy foot-traffic. Then obviously to lift this effect further I used oils.

Thank you very much all you guys for the kind words really means a lot.

Here is my recently completed build of Eduards new tooled F4F-3 Wildcat. The kit itself went together a dream and the only filler required was to clean the seem up along the spine of the aircraft. I painted the aircraft in AK RC and weathered with a mixture of oils and enamel products from Mig and AK. Please let me know your comments and feedback.

No the the needle came on its own, only cost me about a tenner, the whole needle nozzle kit is 30 quid or thereabouts I think, and yeah I used some airbrush lube before tightening and its spraying a treat now, those MRP paints are superb, I have a few now but likely to expand the range for me I only use lacquers and they are first grade along with AK real colors.

Thank you very much for the suggestion, you are indeed correct, I simply used some soft tip pliers and gave the nozzle a slight extra turn and hey-presto problem gone, I then loosened it by mere millimetres and all the liquid started spitting so I think this is the issue, I shall do some further testing later today with some paints and let you guys know but I reckon this is the problem. Thanks Again

Evening all, For X-Mas my misses got me an Infinity CR Plus 2in1, and almost immediately I dropped the needle after a few hours of usage with my butter fingers, I ordered a replacement 0.2mm needle and after I installed it this afternoon almost immediately afterwards the most strange issue occurs, very little paint is sprayed out while the colour cup has the majority of air pushed through it causing it to spit back out and bubble violently. I originally believed this to be a simple blockage so I stripped everything down and cleaned everything with thinners when I assembled the airbrush and went to wash through with thinners the issue remained, and here I am about 4 hours later, and I have read multiple forum posts and tried about everything, from what I can see nothing appears to be damaged and I am at a loose end. What I cannot wrap my head around is that the airbrush was working flawlessly before I changed the needle, also I swapped out the nozzle and needle set which includes new nozzle seals for the 0.4mm set included in the box and the same issue persists. For the life of me I cannot figure out what it is, all I can think it can be is some paint has become blocked in the air passage to the side of the needle gap on the body of the brush but after close inspection, I cannot see any issues, I non the less attempted to clean this the best I can with a small toothpick soaked in thinners, but still, the issue remains. Am I considering sending the brush back to the store it was purchased from I thought I shall see what you guys think it could be first and if anyone has encountered similar issues in the past? I have attached images and a screengrab from a video I took to hopefully demonstrate the issue. This is the "side air vent" I referred to earlier, my only hunch is maybe something is blocking this and causing the air to be routed up into the paint cup but I really dont know, I did clean this out to the best I could as its a very small gap but the issue remained. Trying to illustrate to immaculate condition of the parts and no damage at all. Hopefully this demonstrated the type of spitting i'm on about from a single image. Basically most of the liquid in the cup is spat right back out, this was at about 25/30 PSI, I normally spray at 12.

Lovely build! Did you use the kit decals? if so did you have any issue with them?

lovely build, i just want to ask did you use the kit decals? if so did you have any issue with them?

Thank you very much this will be a huge help, however i can't seem to identify what the equipment is on the port side of the aircraft.

Hi, Im looking to build up the Revell RAF Tornado in 48th scale very shortly and could use the assistance of someone more knowledgeable than myself on the subject to point me in the correct direction. Im looking to build it into a "modern" pre-retirement aircraft 2015-modern day when they were being deployed in Syria. I am aware they carried Brimstone with GBU's but I am more curious about what missiles they would hold on the pylons with the fuel tanks and what pods they would carry on the external pylons, I have seen reference images with both external pylons carrying BOZ or both BOZ and Sky-shadow. Was there a reason for this, and if there aircraft was carrying certain ordinance, i.e Storm shadows will there missiles/external pylons change. I could just do with some broad run down of modern loadouts for these particular aircraft. Thank you in advance!!!