Vitor Costa

Hi guys Thank you all for you nice comments. kev1n, i can build one for you :-)!!! But i think you should try to build it yourself. Regards. Vitor Costa

Hi Kev1n Thank you. I will build another heli soon, this time a mi-8 with p.e. so stay tunes if you like this kind of "bugs"! Regards. Vitor Costa

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Hello friends This is another build of 2008 (or 2007?). I hope you like it. Thank you for watching All comments are welcome. Regards from Portugal Vitor Costa

Então camarada!! Epá está muito bonito! Já não sabes fazer nada que não fique uma maravilha e este não foge à regra, não é a minha guerra mas gosto muito, parabéns. Um abraço (Hey man (i know José Pedro for a long time) Its very beautiful, you dont know how to do a bad kit, and this one is prove of it! Its not my "war" but i like it, congratulations. Cheers Vitor Costa

Hi Tez Very beautiful aircraft, one of my favorite jet, you have done a very good job, and building the monogram kit give it more value! I like it! Regards Vitor Costa

Hello friends. Thank you all for your nice comments, its very good to hear so many compliments. Hi Paul, you are right, but i dont have place to put a such large base! Can you imagine the area that is needed for one display base to this kit? I would like to do it but unfortunally i cant... Hi MDriskill, im glad that you can see it from another perspective now! Yes its a very beautiful aircraft, and very big also :-) Thank you guys. This week i will put some more kits here... im thinking in... a Swordfish, an F-15I, a B-25, a F-104, a T-37, an Avenger a Beaufighter ... so if you have any preference... just lett me know and i will post it here. Best regards Vitor Costa

Hello friends Hi Obi-Jiff Thank you for your nice words. Yes im enjoying to be part of this forum, i hope that my presence here can bring something to the forum with some portuguese birds. Obrigado meu amigo (thank you my friend) Hi SniperUK. Thank you for you comments, this is something that i expect in this forum, that you can help me making better kits, that you can see what i dont see or i dont know, this is one of that situations. I didnt know, but if i did that is something that i can note do, this was a commission build, so with a low budget will be some aspects that i will not improve, when i built for someone else with a log budget it will be OBB, i will do my best in all aspects but i dont have time to correct major problems. But tank you for telling me something that i dont know. Sorry my rusty english, i dont practice it for a long time so... Thank you all for the nice words. Best Regards Vitor Costa

Olá Pompeo, muito obrigado, é sempre bom falar português aqui. Thank you Pompeo, its nice to speak portuguese here. Hi ChancerUK Thank you, if you want to know what is expecting you take a look at this, here you can see all the major problems of the kit. http://arquivo.modelismo-na.net/viewtopic....ll&start=30 Thank you for watching. Best regards. Vitor Costa

Hi Arkady I like the weathering that you gave it. I have one of these to build. Well done. Regards Vitor Costa

Hi guys. Thank you for your nice comments. This kit fall down when i was painting it, at the time a little gap appear in the join i put some glue and i thougth that was ok, but latter it opened again, so i decided to do it in the hard way! I opened the gap and put some evergreen, some putty and sanding did the rest the major problem was to put all with the same color... i dont know how but i did it! I finished this kit at 3-4 in the morning... 5 hours latter it was going to the contest and it won 1/72 1st prize, Best aircraft and the IPS Portugal Award (a kind of best of show) at the major contest in Portugal, the most desired award for me. I never went to a contest after this one, maybe its time to start again. Wayne i use oil colors (Winton, Van Gogh). After a coat or two of future i apply it (all over the kit) and i let it "rest" for 2-3 hours (until the glow effect is lost) than i remove it, more or less until i reach the level of dirty that i want. Be careful you must be sure that the future coat its ok before you apply the oil paint. Tigercat i used Gunze Fluorescent H98 at the first stage, then i gave some coats of yellow very thinned, in the top parts i insisted more due to sun light the effect is more visible so i try to make a "degradee" effect. Mentalgury, this is a very big kit, there are some tricky parts (the cockpit its almost impossible to fit inside the fuselage without cut some plastic) but its amazing when he is done. Shaun, you are a lucky guy the only one i saw till today... its this one, but i would like to see a real one, who know one day... Rob C, at the time i was about to quit, i tought that was no time to fix it, but my best friend (that is a modeler too), insisted with me, so i did it and im very glad i didt it! kpc7676 the pleasure is all mine. This year i will (i hope) build some of this big aircrafts (Noratlas, C-130, P-4 in portuguese marks, as a Nimrod and a C-119) and i will build them here on BM. Stay tunned. ;-) Thank you ancient mariner, the only "problem" was that when i won the IPS Award i loose the will to participate in contests, i did it between 2006 and 2008, lets see if i return this year... Thank you all for watching and comment this work. I will put here one that you are going to like it for shure, its British and the most beautiful bi-plane ever (at least for me :-)) Best Regards Vitor Costa

Hello guys Thank you all for your nice words and "welcomes" Daniel, thank you he did, he told me that he was very pleased with the kit, this was a quick build OOB and with a low budget so i think it comes a nice kit at the end That is nice, you must call me for a coffee (a nice portuguese one! I went to London in 2000 and one of the things i missed was the portuguese coffee) when you return to Lisbon please. I do know Fernando and the shop for a long time now. If you want i can show you others hobby shops here in Lisbon. Thank you all guys. Best regards. Vitor Costa

Hi guys. Soon (today) i will start painting the F-86 Sabre with alclad colors, i have several but i didnt not chose the colors yet i was thinking to apply Aluminium (103) for the general airframe and Dark Aluminium (103) for the darker panels. Do you know what are the correct colors to paint the airframe? Thank you in advance. Vitor Costa Regards from Portugal

Hello Thank you all for your nice words. Its nice to be here sharing my works with you. I will put some more pictures soon. Once more, thank you for this reception. Best regards. Vitor Costa

Hi guys Here is one of my works, one of my favorites too... Its not new but i think that you are going to like to see it During the painting process the kit fall and... at the end everything went ok!!!! Thank you for watching. Best Regards. Vitor Costa

Hello guys. My name is Vitor Costa, im 41 years old (6 June 1969 (D Day) :-)) and i come from Lisbon, Portugal. Im "modeller" since i was 7-8, and i mostly build aircrafts after WWII in 1/48, but some in 1/72 too (big aircrafts only), but i build under commission so i build almost every subjects, probably some of you already now some of my kits if you want i can post here some... but is stuff that probably most of you already know. My "new" client wants to have a FAP (Portuguese Air Force) collection, so its what im building right now, portuguese "birds". Im a daily visitor of Britmodeller and i decided to post here some off my work, i hope that you like it. I like to see the stuff you guys show here, this is a reference forum for me. Thank you for watching Here... ready to go to the new "home" As you can see im not a good photographer, (and the camera dont help) so i get always several color tones when i take pics. Best regards from Portugal Vitor Costa