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Hello Ferrata,

 

Oops, I only discovered your construction now!. :blush:
Congratulations for your work, and especially for your self-sacrifice in resuming a construction that has been stopped since...

This week, I'm taking back the Kinetic box of the Fouga CM170 in 1/48 scale that I had left aside for seven years.

The reason? too many small parts, and a rather rough manual. 

 

I too built the Hobbycraft Cutlass a few years ago. So I take the risk of polluting your message with photos of my construction:

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I really like the look of the plane and built it almost out of the box. Nevertheless, the wheels are pretty crappy, and I had the same thought as you when I did the windscreen.

This is the one that came in the box in my model, which I sanded.

To cut the acetate canopies, I fill them with plaster. This material is not expensive, and the cutting is rather easy afterwards.

I did a wash of black and brown in the structure lines, today I would rather use a Payne grey, so that the effect is less sharp.

By the way, your ejector seat is splendid! 👍

 

Have a good holiday and I wish that you will come back strong, with the desire to finish this funny bird! :boxing:

 

Regards,

Eric-Snafu35

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Thanks Eric,

It's great to see another one of these kits actually completed! More inspiration and I hope mine turns out half as good as yours. 👍

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  • 2 weeks later...

Well I’m back from holiday and feel like my mojo is rejuvenated so got stuck straight into the paintwork starting with the underside. 
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I know these aircraft didn’t serve for long so I’m assuming that they would not get too weathered and beaten up, so working with thin coats I have tried to create a faint patchwork of white across the underside. I put on about 4 or 5 coats of Vallejo Insignia White which might just be visible in the pictures.

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Once the underside was dry I went on to paint the white control surfaces on the upper surface and create a mottled effect for the light gull grey to go over. The squadron markings include yellow wing and fin tips so I made sure these areas were given a good cover of white as a base. 

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This can dry overnight and I’ll hopefully get started on the grey tomorrow.

Thanks for looking and happy modelling.

 

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  • 2 weeks later...

Well I said my mojo was recharged after the holidays and I’ve been making good use of it. Painting has been rolling on at a cracking rate! First the yellow unit markings

 

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then the light gull grey

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then the details 

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The the bit I’d not been looking forward to, the canopy. The size of the vac form replacement canopy meant it was very flexible so I had to add a brace inside before I could start the masking. An hour later it was masked, inside and out, then it was primer and colour. 

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The plan now is to fix some small areas of overspray and take care of the detail painting in the undercarriage bays before sealing everything in with a coat of gloss ready for decals.

That’s it for now, thanks for looking and happy modelling.

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That’s the detail painting all done. I’ll leave it now for at least 24 hours before giving it a gloss coat ready for decals. 
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Time now to get on with that Airfix Stuka.

Thanks for looking and happy modelling.

 

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On 8/21/2022 at 8:05 PM, SallysDad said:

It is really looking fantastic... wow!

Thanks. Some of these older kits are a lot of fun and still look half decent.

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Well the gloss coat is now dry so here goes.

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And in the blink of an eye the decals are on! 

I have to be honest here, I actually forgot to take any pictures of the weathering and final assembly process so I’m afraid you’ll have to take my word for it when I say that after this I gave the model another coat of Satin clear then an application of Flory Dark Dirt wash. Once dry the wash was removed to leave a grimy finish which I could then use as a base to add oil stains etc. with oil paints.
It was at this point I discovered I had lost the nose wheel door! I searched everywhere, even in the Hoover, but no joy. Thankfully, it was a relatively easy thing to scratch build a new one. 
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Another coat of satin clear and it was final assembly. The finished result is this.

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I hope you like it. I will post more pictures in the Ready for Inspection section later on. Thanks to everyone who followed this build especially Tailspin Turtle, without who’s help this would have been a lot less accurate and a much harder build.

Thanks for looking and happy modelling.

 

 

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