Adam Poultney Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 (edited) I'd like to do a Luft'46 build for this.... I have a Revell Messerschmitt P.1099, but I'd like to get hold of a Ho229 or perhaps another Do335 in a fictional scheme (I'm doing a 335 for the Christmas Blitzenbuild), I think they'd look nice in a desert scheme. Only got about a month to do it, but I'm fairly confident I can. Other option is a Bombcorde but I'm wanting to do that for a whatif GB on a Facebook Group. Edited December 14, 2019 by Adam Poultney 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitestar12chris Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 Welcome aboard Adam, look forward to seeing what you decide. All the best chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 Hello Adam.. Welcome aboard I'm looking forward to seeing what you can do in four or five weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 13, 2019 Author Share Posted December 13, 2019 3 hours ago, Corsairfoxfouruncle said: Hello Adam.. Welcome aboard I'm looking forward to seeing what you can do in four or five weeks. Hopefully something resembling something that didn't exist 8 hours ago, whitestar12chris said: Welcome aboard Adam, look forward to seeing what you decide. All the best chris I settled on the Revell P.1099, I've just started the cockpit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 14, 2019 Author Share Posted December 14, 2019 So here's an hour or so of work. It's a what if build, Luft'46 is fiction, I may as well have some fun. I added bunch of old guitar wire, supposed to be various control cables and other things. Don't ask me what they do because I don't know It's refreshing building something that I can do whatever I feel like with, it never existed in reality. Two piece wings went together just fine. They'll just need a pass with sandpaper. I'd like to add some underwing fuel tanks from an Me262 if I can make them fit. The engine still need quite a bit of attention to get right. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 14, 2019 Author Share Posted December 14, 2019 I now have the cockpit painted up and the fuselage halves together. Nose weight will be added before the insert under the Cockpit with the wheel well is added. I'm going to do this as a combination of the one and two seater variants, I have the two seater, however I kind of like the look of the one seater nose and not having tail guns. So I decided this must obviously be a prototype for the two seater or an early production aircraft. It's Luft'46, I don't have to adhere to reality, which is incredibly refreshing. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 Could it be a two seat Recon version ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 14, 2019 Author Share Posted December 14, 2019 2 hours ago, Corsairfoxfouruncle said: Could it be a two seat Recon version ? Possible.... But I like the idea of a prototype 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 15, 2019 Author Share Posted December 15, 2019 Hmmm thinking what scheme to paint this in... For a prototype I think pretty standard splinter camouflage would be the best option... But what colours... 81/82 over 76? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 15, 2019 Author Share Posted December 15, 2019 Making swift progress on this. The wings are on and one engine is attached. I added the fighter style nose, and hopefully added enough nose weight when I added the insert under the fuselage. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 15, 2019 Author Share Posted December 15, 2019 Ready for priming. Canopy interior colour is on 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted December 15, 2019 Author Share Posted December 15, 2019 More progress today. Probably won't get more done since I have to be at work in 40 minutes.... Primed and preshaded Colour is added for tonal variation I decided on RLM 81/82 over 76 as the scheme I'll paint. Mottling included of course. 76 on first, followed by 81. And now the 82... Mottling completed and masking removed and I have a Messerschmitt 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted January 19, 2020 Author Share Posted January 19, 2020 After completely burning out on this build I picked it up again to get it finished by the end of this GB. I've been picking at the model, doing the odd thing to it, demasked the cockpit, painted some panels as added a bit of yellow, today I added decals and I'm getting onto the gear 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Looks good... Sorry to hear you’ve lost mojo on this build. I had the same thing happen to me on my Stearman build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted January 19, 2020 Author Share Posted January 19, 2020 Since almost finishing my Victor, I've really just not had any motivation to do models... My primer is messing up as well on all recently cast Airfix kits, having horrible reaction with the plastic.... Need to find a new primer I started a lightning but as soon as the primer messed up on that one as well I just..... Nope Hopefully getting back into the swing of it with a Valiant though 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Adam Poultney said: My primer is messing up as well on all recently cast Airfix kits, having horrible reaction with the plastic.. Sorry to hear that. Ive had a similar thing happen on the few times Ive primed using Tamiya primer. The paint literally boiled on the plastic, i wound up with dozens of hard bubbles on the builds that needed to be carved off, sanded down, and re-primed. Until two years ago I never primed not even on resin or white metal. I may stop and go back to non priming as i find it to much extra work. Edited January 19, 2020 by Corsairfoxfouruncle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted January 23, 2020 Author Share Posted January 23, 2020 RFI is up and also in the group build gallery now. More pictures on the RFI thread 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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