zebra Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Here's my Kinetic 1/48 Hornet in a special scheme commemorating the 60th anniversary of NORAD (as seen at RIAT in 2018) using decals from Leading Edge. Built for the Interceptors Group Build - build thread is here. This is my first Hornet since I built the Airfix kit when it was new in 1982. I'm very impressed with the Kinetic kit, it's much better than the older Kinetic kits I've built. The Leading Edge decals were great - it's a very comprehensive set, including masks for the canopy and the white bits of the colour scheme, with separate masks for the Kinetic and Hasegawa kits where necessary, a lot of decals, and very comprehensive instructions including a sheet of walk around photos. Highly recommended! Paints used were Model Master acrylic (no. 4660 is recommended as an exact match in the instructions) for the blue, Scale Modellers Supply white and clear coats, AK Real Colour grey, and AK Extreme Metal for the metallics. Rather pleased with this one, nice way to round out the year. thanks for looking Julian 45 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Dyck Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Merry Christmas, this color sceme looks amazing! Surly not easy to paint ? But you made a perfect job ! never saw this before. Cheers Andy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zebra Posted December 26, 2020 Author Share Posted December 26, 2020 20 minutes ago, Andy Dyck said: Merry Christmas, this color sceme looks amazing! Surly not easy to paint ? But you made a perfect job ! never saw this before. Cheers Andy Thanks Andy Actually it was pretty easy to paint. The decals included masks for the white bits so I just had to paint the grey and the blue, apply the masks (and there were really good guides to get them in the right place), and paint the white. The red stripes are decals so they covered up some imperfections (not that there were many - the masks worked really well) as well. Merry Christmas to you too! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skapman Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Easy or not, great paint job 👏👏👏 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Aer Lingus Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 That's an absolute beauty Julian stunning finish well done 🥇 thanks for sharing regards Eamonn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swralph Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Lovely build.😀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Absolutely beautiful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phildagreek Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Looks good! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Beautiful finish on her,great work all round! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
112 Squadron Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 An amazingly perfect Hornet in a wonderful paint scheme! 👏 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglierating Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Thats lovely 😀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAT69 Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Definitely one to be proud of. Thanks for the positive remarks about the Kinetic kit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serkan Sen Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 What a beautiful aircraft... Well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zebra Posted December 26, 2020 Author Share Posted December 26, 2020 Thanks everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMCS Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Fantastic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Quality build 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navy Bird Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Time for a thread resurrection! What a great scheme! The Canadians have some of the best display and anniversary schemes going, and you've done a great job with this one. Very nicely done. 👍 Cheers, Bill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Brantley Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 I missed this beautiful model first go around but I will say now that it looks fantastic. Beauty mate! 🍺 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Looks a beauty! I love the LEM Decals and have a fair few in my stash unused ...yet but one of them is for this same subject but to 1/72nd. Too scared to try them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zebra Posted May 6, 2021 Author Share Posted May 6, 2021 I was surprised to see this thread resurrected the other day! Thanks everyone for your kind comments 4 hours ago, Paul J said: Too scared to try them Give them a go! If the set includes masks like the 1/48 set does you'll be fine - the masks worked a treat and made this complex-looking scheme pretty easy to achieve. Probably easier in 1/72 since some of the big decals will be smaller and easier to handle. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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