neil5208 Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 (edited) Next kit I be doing is the Italeri Hs129B2, the Luftwaffe's dedicated close air support aircraft. I picked this up from the big on line market for a measly £7 last week just after completing Revell's Hurricane as a IId and Italeri's A10 Thunderbolt, so CAS aircraft are a bit of theme ATM. Will be built OOB and as quickly as I can as my "stash" box has exceed SWMBO's limits and I'm not permitted to add to until its been run down. Heres the box and sprues. Didn't realise it was out of focus when I took it last night So straight into construction a very basic cockpit, sprayed already and will add some seat belts later. Wing section is made up and engine cowls assembled will be sprayed green later today. Test fit the the fuselage revealed some gaps to be filled. The Hs129 is a small aircraft for a twin engine, quick comparison against the Beaufighter I have on the go. So far 25mins construction time. Edited October 13, 2019 by neil5208 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Nice start, I really must get round to digging out my Airfix kit of this subject, it was a favourite of mine when I was a tiny Martian. Martian 👽 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil5208 Posted October 15, 2019 Author Share Posted October 15, 2019 Had 10 minutes spare so I made seat belts from Tamiya tape and closed the fuselage tonight. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil5208 Posted October 17, 2019 Author Share Posted October 17, 2019 Sprayed the inside of the engine cowls and fixed to the wings, fitted the bomb racks as well. Filled and sanded the fuselage seams and fitted the rear tail planes. Looks like there will be some fitting to get the wings on without to much filler. Oh I fitted the centre rack as I'm going for the Romanian scheme. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andwil Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 Great stuff. I was reading through this thinking “I hope he does the Romanian one”. Interesting scheme with nice colourful markings. AW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil5208 Posted October 18, 2019 Author Share Posted October 18, 2019 Spent 20mins tonight fitting the wings and got a pretty good result. I've noticed a few errors in the instructions so far such has its says to put the decal for the engine gauges and one of the later pictures show the B1 variant engine cowls fitted. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil5208 Posted November 11, 2019 Author Share Posted November 11, 2019 Been too busy for any time modelling recently but finally got some time today, been filling around the nose area, canopy and flap actuators fitted. Primer coat applied. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil5208 Posted January 18, 2020 Author Share Posted January 18, 2020 Quick update, been painted just the engine cowls need to bee redone as both split when I unmasked them. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil5208 Posted January 19, 2020 Author Share Posted January 19, 2020 Got the clear coat on this morning and started the decals this afternoon, this set is being difficult to come of the backing paper enough after 30 seconds in boiling water, can only assume that they are quite old. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil5208 Posted January 24, 2020 Author Share Posted January 24, 2020 Time to get a bit experimental! as this is the first time at winter camo I thought I would try a new technique by using maskol instead of tape or bluetac. 3 night of dabbing on maskol and I am ready to spray the winter white. Hopefully it will work out, will find out later. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortCummins Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 nice idea, I'll be interested to see how the winter camo' turns out rgds John(shortCummins) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil5208 Posted January 24, 2020 Author Share Posted January 24, 2020 So I sprayed this 2 hours ago. Mix of 30% Tamiya XF2 / 30%Tamiya Clear / 40% Tamiya thinners, so the paint had a bit of transparency to it and so doesn't appear to stark against the splinter scheme. And after 10 minutes of peeling the maskol off. I'll let the paint harden overnight and use blue tac to clean the flakes of tomorrow but I think I can call this a successful experiment. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil5208 Posted January 26, 2020 Author Share Posted January 26, 2020 I left the white to harden over night and rubbed the flakes off with some blue tac, then sprayed some flat clear. Took the mask off the canopy as well. Repaired the engine cowls and painted to match, needs clear coat tomorrow. Just bombs, undercarriage to go, hopefully finish by next weekend and I can move onto the B58 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil5208 Posted January 29, 2020 Author Share Posted January 29, 2020 Quick update, I have had to take the day off work so my new french doors can be repaired by the inept company that fitted it so I have taken the opportunity to sneak some bench time in! Props, exhausts, main undercarriage and all bomb sway braces fitted, just wheels and bombs to go. I may add some exhaust staining later if I have time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 I like the winter camouflage! And the decals seem to have survived the masking too. Regards, Adrian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil5208 Posted January 29, 2020 Author Share Posted January 29, 2020 And finished! RFI up shortly 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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