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What kind of heresy is this!?!

Ze Germans don't speak Zinc chromate. Some kind of dark grey seems like a safe bet. Maybe raw aluminum for the tubes.

It's a good call, but on something that never made it to prototype stage, colors are kinda open, within reason, in my mind. Late war, paint inside cockpits and wheel bays was possibly just a suggestion of the intended color. One self appointed expert at the local was trying to state that a thin (nearly transparent) coat of RLM 02 was the German version of Aotake... He was corrected very quickly. LMAO.

Oh come on now! You know they have to marinate in the stash for at least a year!

1/48 Airfix. This may be my first ever Airfix kit. Not sure. I wanted a car door Typhoon but didn't move fast enough. Anyway, here it is. Have to do the box art scheme, for many reasons, but mostly the over wing missiles. That just looks crazy, to me, like something out of a Gerry Anderson show.

Lmao! Lucky you didn't end up chained to a radiator!

Tamiya is R/C as well, isn't it?

Das Werk Kit is just a re-boxed Trumpeter with some added goodies to make it an A7. I believe they do this quite often. When it's their own tooling they make a big deal advertising that.

Amazing. It's a beauty. If, though, they are really interested in history and preserving it for future generations or whatever he says in that video it needs to be parked in a big glass box and never flown again. I love seeing them fly, but with so few left in the world especially with an intact, working engine, it needs to be kept safe. On the ground. Go fly a Mustang, we have plenty of those.

Duck you!

Another Lego jig. Airacobra advancing at a glacial pace... And murderers row of small models in various stages.

Nice chromatic richness, as the Spanish modelers would say. Oil's or acrylics?

This is a fine analogy. Volkswagen, Porsche, the two that I am most familiar with but possibly other German manufacturers after the war (And during, looking at Pz III/IV) Changed more or less in an evolutionary way. Almost grudgingly, it seems, especially in the case of the Type 1 and the 911. And very much so with the 956/962. Yes they had a lot of paint schemes, which is always a good thing, again, Ala, the 109, but its shape is just kinda meh. Particularly around the cockpit, which never seemed to change, long tail, short tail, what have you. It's not swoopy looking like the 917's once they figured those out, shape wise. The early ones are just kinda ugly, with typically, for the period, boring Porsche team paint jobs. I did see they are planing one of the Lang (long) cars. I believe that's the "psychedelic" purple/green car they previewed. Not really one I care for, but it means everything under the skin is tooled, waiting for one of the later bodies. which I would buy. The Jag's are much more flashy, shape wise. IMO. And I love the Silk Cut colors. I'll get my 962 fix when Tamiya repop's their kit with the Jagermeister orange paint scheme. With, I do believe Cartograph decals, so it's a one box purchase.

The Jags for sure. 956/962 are kinda boring, despite how successful they were.

Could use a step drill bit, very slowly and carefully. But ultimately you would have to use the ream for final fit, I doubt the steps on the bit would end up being exactly the right size. Look very nice though, so your method worked fine.👍

1/35 Dauntless. n

Nope. The Zeta is a better design. They have never topped it, IMO. And I still wouldn't pay 700 bucks for it.

I'm leaning more towards buying one of these now. I wish it was a Do-17. Then it would be just take my money.

I want this. I don't want those molded on stripe divider or whatever they are. I seriously doubt those are intended for the production version, but why are they there now? To stress years off of our lives!?! lol 3D printing is a miracle and curse all rolled into one IMO. I saw this car at the LA auto show, I assume fresh from Le Mans, covered in dirt and bugs and grime from its win. It's why I fell in love with "dirty" race cars.

Primer is possible. I guess it depends on how the slats work, powered or gravity. I always wonder about this. After listening to the Tank Museum chats about the qualitative shortcoming of (some) British tanks seems like they would have done whatever was easiest.

I wouldn't trust that game as a reference for a moment.

You can do the same thing with the cast off ends of stretched sprue. For free. 👍👍

Yeah I get it. I can't disagree.

I remember getting and building a Monogram funny car, Snake or Mongoose, I don't remember, and it had a rubber band for the blower belt. The height of super detailing! I was so thrilled by that I put it on before the glue was dry and it pulled the blower off the manifold... I was so impatient. Lmao.

Did something like this years ago with an Airfix 1/24 Spitfore for a Glad sandwich bag commercial. No pretty like your's, the Tamiya reduction box took up almost the entire nose of the spit. But it worked nice once it was all set up. And it was a big hit on stage. Everyone wanted to play with the power supply to rev the "engine". I have that spitfire around here somewhere still.