[Tamiya Spitfire MK XVIe]

VEry pretty, Peter.  Seems it would almost be a shame to weather it.

[Duchess of Kingston - Beauty of the Seas - Wooden Sailing Ship 1/64]

Did the DoK hit an iceberg?  Been pretty quiet lately.

[AK Interactive 1:35 SD.KFZ.234/2 PUMA 1/35]

Thank you for the nice review, Fran!  I have the original Dragon kit, so I don't really need to buy another.  I would love to see the color and marking options, tho.

[German Panzer IV Ausf H]

Looking good, Daniel!

 

[Ferrari 330P4 Open top 24Hrs Daytona 1967]

That hood looks sweet, Mark!

[Infinity Models SB2C-4 Helldiver.]

On 8/8/2022 at 2:02 PM, Clunkmeister said:

I actually get bored with the almost snap title Tamiya kits, *snip*

And you bought how many Wingnuts kits?

Love your work Ern.   The office looks great!

[RCAF Liberator GR Mk VI]

Turrets look great!

 

[Chikuma - Tamiya - 1/350 - IJN Heavy Cruiser]

I love these Japanese cruisers.  Will enjoy seeing you complete it.

[LeO C.30A Early Production MiniArt 1/35 -Finished]

Well done, Kevin!

[Tamiya's !/48 scale MiG 15 bis]

17 hours ago, Peterpools said:

Gaz

Awesome figures and imagine a Jeep being included as part of a steering wheel kit 😉

Looking forward to seeing the dio come together and leave it to Martin to come up with fantastic detail photographs  

 

Thank you!  Yep, Martin is the king of research photos.

[Tamiya's !/48 scale MiG 15 bis]

20 hours ago, DocRob said:

Great finish on the foiled Mig, Gary, the shine is outstanding. Love to see, what you do with the figures, it's 48 scale, right... .

Cheers Rob

Thank you!  The finish will change as weathering progresses.  Yep...  1/48.  I don't imagine that these guys will get the attention that a 1/35 guy does.

[Tamiya's !/48 scale MiG 15 bis]

Nice!  A little cheesecake for the VVS.

[Tamiya's !/48 scale MiG 15 bis]

3 minutes ago, Martinnfb said:

Kim aproves

Uniform for pilot is basically the same as WW2

Aviation epaulets were in blue

HERE

 

Spasiba, Tovarisch!

 

[Tamiya's !/48 scale MiG 15 bis]

Comrades!

      Our intrepid pilot...

He is from CZplusmodels.  Pretty hard to find, actually.

And...   because every commie needs a comrade:

He not only gets a comrade with a steering wheel...   but a Tamiya Gaz 67 Jeep comes with it.

 

I had to mill out the seat with my Dremel to make him sit in a closer-to-human-normal fashion.  I wanted to get him situated before I added detail to the Gaz.

And then I had an inspiration to mill out the seats a little and add some texture.  I'll do more, later.  The plastic fuzzies really obscure your idea of what you've actually done looks like.  So I knock them down with a bit of Tamaiy extra thin.  I love a glue that has more than one purpose!

Now...   I have to go research Soviet uniforms of the period.  I know that in the 80's they had different colored shoulder boards for different types of units.  I'm not so sure about the 50's, tho.  Martin?

[ANIMALS IN OUR LIVES :)]

Kaiser is home!

Gypsy says "Welcome back!"

 

On the good stuff...   until Saturday.

 

bone

Zonked out.  Our dogs love these beds.  I allowed him to have his "bone time" bone inside the house.  Once a day we have "bone time".  Usually right after I get home from work.  But on my days off, they seem to see 9AM as "bone time".

[Tamiya Spitfire MK XVIe]

Sorry to hear about your decal problems, Peter.  Hopefully you can get some replacements quickly.  I have found the best way to remove decals is to mask over them and then lift the tape.  Much safer than scraping.

[Tamiya's !/48 scale MiG 15 bis]

16 hours ago, Peterpools said:

Gaz

Outstanding, simply a beautiful finish - the polished aluminum is surely the Real McCoy and I'm right with Mark - need my Ray Bans.

Is this as far as you're going with the Mig? Fingers crossed you will take it to completion. 

 

 

Thank you Peter.  It's nowhere near done.  When finished it will be in a small dio hopefully looking like an operational machine.

[Tamiya's !/48 scale MiG 15 bis]

So...   anyway.

    Weathering the aluminum actually happens all through the process.  And I didn't want my MiG to look like a patchwork quilt.  So, to help it along, we polish the aluminum with aluminum polish(found at the local car parts and accessories store).  After polishing we clean any residue off with acetone.

After that I painted all of the non-foiled parts.  

I took some inside and outside photos to give you a better idea about it's current state.

Now, it needs to dry for a bit.  Pretty much over this kit for now.  Gonna play with something else.

Happy modelling!

[Tamiya's !/48 scale MiG 15 bis]

8 hours ago, Peterpools said:

Gaz

Foiling on the Mig from my end looks awesome and so well done. Terrific work for sure

 

 

 

5 hours ago, mark31 said:

Just wonderfull

Mark

 

5 hours ago, Martinnfb said:

mega shine

Thank you, fellas.

[RCAF Liberator GR Mk VI]

Well done!

 

[Tamiya's !/48 scale MiG 15 bis]

Hello friends. 

   I finally got hold of some real thin foil.  Thinner than I've ever used.  But...   I feel like I've lost my touch.  These panels just don't work out as well as they did a few years ago when I did the last one.  Tiny errors.  More slips of the hand.  My vision, not what it was.

 

Here is the new bling...  in the sun.

Weathering....   Will tone it down a bit I reckon.

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5 hours ago, Clunkmeister said:

Yep.  Once, back in the day, single seater Wingnut kits were less than $60 shipped right to your door. That’s half what a Tamiya kit was selling for. 

I was gonna comment on the 150....  But decided not to do it.  But 60 bucks?  When I first learned of them the single seaters were already $90 plus postage.  How long ago were the 60?

 

[Trumpeter F4U-4 from SOD]

Nice fade on that pretty green cowling, John.  Gonna do some hairspray chipping?