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  1. DocRob
    Thanks Harv, the external tanks annoyed me a bit, other ways everything went fine. Cheers Rob
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    After the vivid Kai Phantom, I seemed to have found my love for brightly colored subjects. This kit along the detail set arrived today from Japan, the decals and color were bought in Spain. Cheers Rob
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    The Kai Phantom is almost done. I added the undercarriage, the missile racks, the nozzles and the external tanks. After I left the tanks for some days, there where somehow scratches and some drops on the surface. I have no idea how that happened. The parts most affected were sprayed with Tamiya LP gloss black, which seems to be less chemical and mechanical resistent than other LP colors. There is no reasonable way to correct this given the different (self mixed) colors and decals, so be it. After the UC is cured, another scary moment will occur, the removal of the canopy masks, which my luck, amigos. Cheers Rob
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    I guess you are right Peter, at least to me it's a new record with stencil density, followed by my Mig-31 build. With the Kai, you have to be especially careful, as most stencils are obviously written in Japanese and it's easy to add them wrong orientated. Indeed Gaz, when looking closer, there are even more. Sometimes thought, if I would leave out the base paint, nobody will notice . Cheers Rob
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    That's a very nice looking interior, Phil. Detailing of the IP with the cables on looks especially good. Cheers Rob
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    Very nice, all over. The light weathering suits the plane. My only small critique would be the bomb alignment, which seems a bit off. Cheers Rob
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    Very nice, I like the look of the NMF with the panel accentuation. Cheers Rob
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    Nearing the finish line with the Phantom. I tried different washes and panel liners on the plane and decided to use Flory's dark grime clay wash. I liked the sharp contrast of the black Tamiya panel liner better, but have always issues with removing the residues, without cleaning out the panel lines. I added the tail wings and landing hook and painted the navigation lights with a Molotow marker and clear blue / red. Now I have to build and paint the undercarriage and hope for an unfogged canopy with evenly masked seal lines to finish the build. Cheers Rob
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    Very nice, I like the slightly irregular look of the Zimmerit. It looks handmade, which it actually was, if I remember it right. Cheers Du alter Klebstoffschnüffler Rob
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    Welcome to the forum Daboss, some difficult to answer questions you have here. I really like the Katana and have often thought about building one from the Tamiya kit. I never primed on chrome, so I have no answer for that, but I have a recommendation for a perfect satin black, if airbrushed. Tamiya lacquer paint LP-5 has a perfect finish, I used on some car and bike kits. What I would try to do about the wheels would be, stripping them off the chrome, airbrushing Tamiyas LP gun metal or metallic grey and paint the the chromed rim parts with a marker. For glossy chrome, there are the fabulous Molotow markers, but you need dull chrome or even bette aluminum, where I don't know about a good marker. Cheers Rob
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    No Scots around here, actually no direct neighbors at all. The closest person is a very pleasant old widow100m down the road, who is hard of hearing. I can hear music as loud as I like without disturbing anybody . Cheers Rob
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    It seems like, Phil, always liked a manual better, but here it's is printed seemingly complete ponto the plane. Meanwhile, I gloss coated the Kai, to seal the decals and prepare for panel liner. Again had lots of trouble with GX100 from Mr. Hobby. I have no idea why the probs (fogging and cotton candy) occur, maybe because of the humidity (80%). I used GX100 before and had good results, but similar problems on other occasions. I finished the work with Tamiya lacquer clear which worked very well. Cheers Rob
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    Thanks Peter, I despise stenciling and thought about leaving some out at times, but I want a newish high contrast paint- and decal job and therefore decided to go full in. The other question is, which stencils to leave out, specially with the Kai's decals, where some markings have multiple stencils included, which would lead to a spotty appearance. In fact, I haven't been to healthy the last weeks, with a thumping heart and don't know the reason. The stenciling Zen-ned my restless soul a bit and helped to calm down. You have to look for the benefits in every trade . Cheers Rob Thank you Gaz, coming together, with decaling nearly done now. Cheers Rob
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    Absolutely awesome, paintjob looks great and the whole build is unprecedented. Cheers Rob
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    Slightly OT, but keeping me from modelling today. After an Odyssee of some month, my new Stereo Amplifier arrived today and is warming up for some serious hearing sessions. Call ma a happy listener . I wanted to have a VU-metered Technics Amp, since I'm a teen. Now this beauty will have to fight hard to outscore my old Symphonic Line amp. Sound wise, it will be close with uncertain outcome, but it has remote control, digital inputs, included good vinyl mm/mc preamp, ... and these sexy meters. Cheers Rob
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    Phew, stenciling is nearly done, only some decals and stencils on the tail section last. This was truly a tour de force and I will not buy another Kai Phantom, but have an Eduard boxing in stash. The drop tanks are not easy to handle for decaling, where you have to apply all the decals floating at the same time, to adjust the placement. To make it easier, I attached them to holes in a styrofoam block, which somehow reacted with the black lacquer paint. There was no pressure applied or twisting involved. I freehand resprayed the tail parts, as I wanted no masking border in the shine. The picture shows the tanks before respraying. The decals settled well, with some tiny creases on one tank, which I hope to get away with some mor Micro Sol. The sprayed blue is a great match to the decals blue section. Cheers Rob
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    There are quite some on the market (Beemax, Nunu and others), most in 24 scale and a new mold Lancia HF Integrale from Italeri in 1/12. It's Italeri and therefore I'm not interested. Tamiya is planning to re-release it's F1 Renault RE 20 Turbo this year in 1/12, as they did with their Brabham BT44b this year, which I had to have. Cheers Rob
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    Cool scheme Carl, I like these black and white early camos. Cheers Rob
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    Great that you solved it Kevin, aluminum looks super cool. I had the same probs once with Alclad. After a while of cleaning and cursing, I discovered, that the tip of the needle was bent. I straightened it as good as I could and then honed it on a Japanese grinding stone. Worked perfectly. By your description I remembered the strange look of flying color particles before the repairs, which resembled metal chips. I'm a vinyl addict too, having some thousand albums, but not in my cave, where I rarely listen to music. Cheers Rob
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    My Micro Sol lastet, but my Micro Set is empty . Today I decaled the external tanks, which proved very tricky, to get the decals fitted correctly. There is no margin of error and the placement of the large decals has to be made in one go. I'm looking forward to the after decaling stages and my soon planned Tamiya Tomcat build has been rescheduled to an indefinite future, miraculously . Cheers Rob
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    Thanks Carl, the weird thing is, there are English written stencils and Japanese written ones, somehow I think, they used both sets. Most of the bottom side stencils are grouped, but given the very narrow carrier film connections make t difficult to apply them without folding them over. I cut the bigger groups of stencils in two or three parts for easier application. Cheers Rob
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    What color do you use, Kevin? Have you checked your airbrush. You have pigments of color in the air, when the tip of the needle is bent or the nozzle has cracked a bit on the front opening. Cheers Rob
  23. DocRob
    Stencils, stencils, stencils, don't these Phantom mechanics have books too read? There is more content stenciled onto the Kai F-4 than printed into Tolstoy's War and Peace. Cheers Rob
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    I like lead foil from wine bottle caps for this purpose. It's easy to cut, easy to bend, stays in the desired form and is not sticky. Watch your MP42 Gaz, the barrel looks already bent. Cheers Rob
  25. DocRob
    Nice refining of the parts, Kai. Italeri should be forced to let their engineers study model design with the known mayors. My dislike of the company grows steadily and often I see one of their boxings and think, what a nice..., but wait, no way, it's Italeri. Your masochism shows, that you can produce fabulous results with their kits. Cheers Rob
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