BradG

I think you're pressure is too low and paint not thin enough. You're almost there based on what I see in your pictures. Like others, I spray at about 20-25 PSI for everything and for mottling I'll have the paint at about a 60/40 or 70/40 split (thinner/paint) depending on temperature. My weapon of choice is the plastic fantastic Aztek A470. I use it in the single action mode and adjust the trigger until the smallest amount of paint is coming out and go to work, getting as close as I can to the surface of the model. The best way I can describe doing the mottle is if you had a pen and you are trying to scribble the smallest star possible on paper. I use Gunze Aqueous thinner with lacquer thinner. Sometimes, no matter what you do, you will get a little spatter around each mottle. To get rid of this, I spray a pretty 'hot' Humbrol gloss over the paint. The humbrol gloss thinned with lacquer seems to dissolve those annoying little flecks of paint. I don't have any 1/32 kits where I've done Luftwaffe mottle, but here is a 1/72 Hasegawa Focke Wulf that I painted freehand using the technique described above.

It looks pretty good, just maybe the way the 190 is sitting looks odd. I can't see under the fuselage so perhaps there is more broken ice under the fuselage to cause the aircraft to sit tail up. If I could build a diorama like that I'd be happy.

It's good stuff but I've had trouble finding it. It seems they like to produce the thinner type of tape, probably because it's cheaper, but I cleaned out a local Officeworks of their last stock so I'm set for a while if the stuff ever gets discontinued.

Patience grasshopper.

Recently I've been getting the attitude from some long term traders and supporters of our modeling event that the smaller events "aren't worth my time". I ruffled a few feathers with one when I mentioned the fact our members spend a good amount of coin with them each year and I always say to our members; support those traders who support us. Support for our event for anyone wanting to trade is less than the retail cost of a Hasegawa 1/48 scale fighter, keep in mind! This 'me me me' attitude seems to be growing my it also effects our sporting club where players want to get paid to play yet when asked to volunteer some time to help the juniors (we're talking a couple of days per year for each player and people like me are there almost every week), many just refuse to help out. Again, I tell blokes to stump up, drink less on a Saturday night and make an effort in the junior program Sunday mornings. Actually I edited out the profanity there as it is a cricket club so you know, we swear a lot. So I've copped a bit of flak (that happens pretty regularly) for basically telling someone "support our members because we line your pocket with our hard earned throughout the year". Am I just being a heartless, blunt, hard, SOB, or do I have a point that co-operation and support is a two way street?

Some really nice stuff there.

As complete as you might expect a recovered Wildcat can be I would think. The wings are underneeth the fuselage, smaller parts an be made or sourced and it does say it comes with other spares. It's a good price too for that package and I have a friend who restors airworthy warbirds....I'll have to wait and see how much my loaded grandmother has left me in her will and hope my greedy aunt doesn't clean her out before she carks it.

This use to be the norm back 40 years ago. Good hunting grounds were farmers paddocks as many aircraft were bought post war for their engines and tires which were hard to come by in the immediate post war world. A Beaufighter and Kittyhawk were found in a paddock here. Infact the Mk 1 Beaufighter in the USAF Museum was that paddock queen.

Use in scale dots though lol. No seriously there is no reason why it won't, obviously you will have to use less paint than say a 1/32 kit, but it's just the same as oil stains or exhaust smoke. Go for it I say.

Showcase Models Australia here in Melbourne, John had 1 on the shelf when I was there last week.

That Walrus looks interesting.

Damn, I saw them out here for $50.

I bought the old Hasegawa Mk Vb and took the spinner, prop and front windscreen from that. The back plate of the spinner is slightly bigger than the hobby boss kit, but that should be fairly easy to fix. The good thing is the Hasegawa kit has both internal and externally armoured windscreen and both types of prop/spinner, so you can still build a complete kit even after scavenging some parts.

Well there goes that idea. I trawled through my spares box looking for my extra cannon buldges too, oh well.

Yeh mate, good save.

Supurb.

Niiiiiiiiiice!

Cool, it looks pretty good mate.

They look really good mate.

From a swap and sell today.

It seems you had similar issues as I had with the wings. I found it usefull to put each wing half on seperately, although you are now beyond that point.

No it's not a flyer. The aircraft is being built to accompany the Deperdussin (this was also a replica built by a volunteer and donated) and the Boxkite which were the 3 aircraft that founded the RAAF. The Boxkite is an original aircraft owned by the RAAF and is airworthy, although I don't believe they will be flying that at all.

Mr Andrew Willox is Museum Volunteer of the Year 2013. Andrew is building a full size replica BE2 for the RAAF Museum here in Melbourne. He was nominated by my dad for all the hard work he has put into the aircraft. As you can see it's not quite completed yet, but it's close and will be finished for hand over at the 2014 Point Cook Air Pageant. It's the ultimate LSP as Andrew has built this from scratch and had no skills in woodworking when he started. He spent alot of his own money on the project and taught himself the required skills to build it, even basket weaving to make the seats. Well done Andrew, you truly deserved it.

Sweet. I'll be interested in seeing how you fix the problems with this kit.