Tokyo Raider Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Greetings Friends! Here is my latest build just finished, an excellent Hobby2000 kit which used Hasegawa Plastic, great decals, masks and color drawings. I did use a stew of decals including decal scheme from an old Eagle Strike Ar234 Sheet, and added Peddinghaus decal stencils and used kit Insignia decals. The adds to this kit were the excellent Eduard 'Look' Instrument panel and resin wheel kit. I also used a Hasegawa German Pilot from their WW2 Weapons and figures kit! This pilot assembled and fit wonderfully in the AR234! Minor trimming of bombsite and he looks great in the cockpit! The Paint is Gunsie Mr Color RLM 81/82/76. The Clear is Tamiya Semi Gloss. I had to paint the canopy rivets with a toothpick sharpened to a point. They look good to the bare eye, but zooming in with camera phone shows the painting challenge. I may still just overpaint the canopy frames black. Or someday get custom rivet decals made. What do you guys think of the canopy or other tips you can give? The decal rivets I had handy did not match the framing rivets in spacing so I tried toothpick! Let me know what you think... 29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billn53 Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Very nice! And, I think your rivets look just fine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinChipmunkfan Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Agreed- an excellent model ant the canopy rivets look like those on photos of the real thing. Colin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Wow, what a fantastic build! And innovative aircraft! Have the same kit..... plan a similar scheme and hope it turns out half as good ,;) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertie McBoatface Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Those rivets are good enough for me. Nice model all round actually. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedingBlue Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 I could certainly do no better on the rivets. The areas where it got a bit outside the circle look like chipping. In fact, I'd tell everyone that is what you were going for. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billn53 Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Just a tip... if you need to paint small circular dots, these "nail dotting" tools do the trick and are cheap to boot! They may not be small enough for your rivets, but then again, I've made some pretty small dots using them. (p.s. they also work great for burnishing down the edges of masking tape, to prevent paint from bleeding under the tape) 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo Raider Posted January 18, 2022 Author Share Posted January 18, 2022 18 minutes ago, billn53 said: Just a tip... if you need to paint small circular dots, these "nail dotting" tools do the trick and are cheap to boot! They may not be small enough for your rivets, but then again, I've made some pretty small dots using them. (p.s. they also work great for burnishing down the edges of masking tape, to prevent paint from bleeding under the tape) Great tip! Thanks! I will see if I can find these... My problem was getting a uniform dot. I have steady hands and can get this on the target, the toothpic just would not transfer paint uniformly! Thanks for the idea, just what I needed help with! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo Raider Posted January 18, 2022 Author Share Posted January 18, 2022 12 minutes ago, Tokyo Raider said: Great tip! Thanks! I will see if I can find these... My problem was getting a uniform dot. I have steady hands and can get this on the target, the toothpic just would not transfer paint uniformly! Thanks for the idea, just what I needed help with! I just ordered a set of these and will try this out! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMCS Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Lovely 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col Walter E Kurtz Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 (edited) This looks fantastic. I like the colours you used and the bags that go in to the engines to stop crap getting in are a lovely touch! Impressed! Regards, Andy Edited January 18, 2022 by Col Walter E Kurtz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomcat101 Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Looks great. I have always wanted to build an Ar-234. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
europapete Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 You have done a great job. I believe either Archer Fine Transferes or HGW do silver rivets in various sizes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo Raider Posted January 18, 2022 Author Share Posted January 18, 2022 1 minute ago, europapete said: You have done a great job. I believe either Archer Fine Transferes or HGW do silver rivets in various sizes. Cool... i will try them if the dot tool fails! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo Raider Posted January 18, 2022 Author Share Posted January 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Col Walter E Kurtz said: This looks fantastic. I like the colours you used and the bags that go in to the engines to stop crap getting in are a lovely touch! Impressed! Regards, Andy Hi Andy... those bag looking things (if I understand what you mean) are the parachutes for the RATO (rocket assisted takeoff) units that are installed at the front and strapped in... this parachute deploys automatically when the RATO units are jettisoned... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col Walter E Kurtz Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Ah! I understand now. Pretty cool! I'm leaning something new again. Thank you for explaining.im a bit tired and should have looked at your pics a little more carefully. The engines are there in addition! LOLIt must have been a wild , fast and hairy take off for the pilots with those huge fireworks propelling them down the runway! Great model indeed! Cheers, Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fubar57 Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Very nice. I have the old (shudder) Hobbycraft kit at the very bottom of the todo pile. For small dots I use a push tack, dot...reload....another dot....reload 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billn53 Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 9 minutes ago, Col Walter E Kurtz said: Ah! I understand now. Pretty cool! I'm leaning something new again. Thank you for explaining.im a bit tired and should have looked at your pics a little more carefully. The engines are there in addition! LOLIt must have been a wild , fast and hairy take off for the pilots with those huge fireworks propelling them down the runway! Great model indeed! Cheers, Andy As seen in the video below, at about 6:30 minutes in: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo Raider Posted January 19, 2022 Author Share Posted January 19, 2022 1 hour ago, europapete said: You have done a great job. I believe either Archer Fine Transferes or HGW do silver rivets in various sizes. I just ordered some Archer rivet decals... thanks for the tip! 1 hour ago, Col Walter E Kurtz said: Ah! I understand now. Pretty cool! I'm leaning something new again. Thank you for explaining.im a bit tired and should have looked at your pics a little more carefully. The engines are there in addition! LOLIt must have been a wild , fast and hairy take off for the pilots with those huge fireworks propelling them down the runway! Great model indeed! Cheers, Andy Cheers Andy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo Raider Posted January 19, 2022 Author Share Posted January 19, 2022 2 hours ago, fubar57 said: Very nice. I have the old (shudder) Hobbycraft kit at the very bottom of the todo pile. For small dots I use a push tack, dot...reload....another dot....reload Hey Fubar... from what I hear, you will poke yourself with those pushpins if you build that hobbycraft ar234... hasegawa is a nice kit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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