GazzaS

ICM...here is the box art... The cockpit is a tiny thing... I dunno how I'll do justice to all of those controls and switches. Gaz

Thank you, Fellas!

Thank you, Fellas! Gaz

HI everyone, Special thanks to all of you who shared this voyage with me. A couple of days ago I began to feel that whatever questions I had had been answered, and whatever need I had had been fulfilled. Despite the inaccuracies of the kit, I had a great time building it and expanding my skill set. There are a few more photos at the completed LSM section: Thank you! Gaz

Hi Everyone, I've decided to call this one done, and take a few photos in some muted light. I'm quite happy with the result. Thank you for looking! Gaz

Brilliant!

Ssshhh! Don't tell Vladimir I tell you. Is newest Sovie... I mean...heh.... Russian interceptor... Is big secret in Russia! Gaz

HI everyone, I haven't built anything modern in years. And the last modern jet I built was so long ago that I was still getting a report card. Anyway.... So now I've got my first cold war Russian fighter started and I'm not sure what kind of washes to do inside the cockpit. I've painted the interior of the cockpit a bluish turquoise that would make a Cosmonaut wince. What color of wash should I use to make the detail pop without it looking like I used sewer water. Thanks for your thoughts! Gaz

Oh Lord...

Thank you, Peter! All I can figure is that the areas where the paint didn't lift were sanded during the building process. Before painting, everything was given a thorough rub down with isopropyl. Because of nice (though incorrect) surface details made by Monogram/Revell I avoided sanding wherever possible. I always thought the Alclad primers would bite into the bare plastic... but apparently I was wrong. Gaz

Wow, Peter, sorry for your bad luck! I hope you're able to fix it to your satisfaction. Gaz

I always wonder about oil-canning and the end of the Reich. How long did things like Me-262's and V-2's sit baking in the sun before they were photographed? We all know about expansion and contraction. I just wonder how much is construction related. Keep up the good work! Gaz

Great looking figs! I like crew for a number of reasons. One is scale. Another is it brings a model to life. the third, is they hide detail I may not want to build. Keep rocking! Gaz

I see at least three 109's and a P-40B... Nice!

HI everyone! I applied four masks today and had four areas of paint lift. Live and learn, I guess. There really are white borders on the underwing crosses. You also may notice some differences in my yellows. The oil cooler had huge paint lift today, and whenever I needed yellow, I used three colors from Tamiya to brown it up a bit which I mixed in the paint cup of the airbrush. I didn't always get all of the previous color out of the paint cup. I wanted the wing walk lines to be low vis./faded looking. I used 5 parts XF-7 flat red and 3 parts XF-66 light grey. Because I have recently added the gloss coat prior to decaling, they look darker than with the eye. Did a little detail painting, too. The MG 131's, tailwheel, main wheels and LG, heat stained exhaust as well as the exhaust stain which is mostly hidden by the black motif on the fuselage sides. Even did a little minor chipping on the wing root which you can barely see. The gloss coat seemed to blend everything together a bit. The main camo colors have a sheen, where all of the Tamiya paints used for markings were matte. Thanks for looking! Gaz

Your color looks good. Many shades of RLM paint colors look alot like earlier chips any time you have more than one chip to use for comparison. There are chips of 76 that look like chips of 65 and on and on it goes. I've got to the point where I don't worry about the exactness of the color, but more on how it relates to the other colors. Gaz

Yeah...wow! Looking dirty. Gaz

So nice to see Aotake! Nice work! Martin should get his car painted that color.

Yessir, I gave it a rubdown with alcohol. Just seems that any tiny spot not sanded, the paint lifts. More this morning... Still, I'm going on. Thanks, mate! Though it's still putting up a fight! Gaz

I received a gift card for Christmas. Got this with it today:

Hi everyone! I think I've been though a mile and a half of masking tape today... all of it de-tacked on my arm. I ended up sanding all of the paint away from aft of the cockpit to the empennage. That cured most of my paint lift. I still had a little today, but not enough to cause me to go through hoops again. The lower rad flaps, antenna, and rudder all got knocked off in the process. I've re-attached the antenna and the rudder is held on by blutack. The prop is dry fitted for aesthetic purposes. I think the port fuselage cross is a bit high... but it's staying there. The only direction to go is forward. Thanks for looking! Gaz

EEk! Too much work, there!

Guys, Thanks for your helpful posts! Here's where I am, now: A crash course in masks for me. Gaz

Thank you!! Well... that's something else to figure out. The profile I'm using doesn't have anything camo-specific to either Erla or Regensburg about it. And the earliest set of serials is for MTT. And mine has to be from the earliest set of serials as only a few hundred were completed with the earlier style hub for the main wheels. Got a good paint guide for the early MTT machines? I'm gonna go look at the Marc Andre Haldimann site and see if I can find something useful. Gaz

HI everyone! Building an old kit with wheels that would have to make it a very early G6. Don't have a W.Nr for it, and don't want to make one up that is too far from the truth. Anybody know of a place with 109 types by block numbers, or something similar? Thanks for your thoughts! Gaz