PanzerWomble

Fanks It's titled "Courtney's Love " U Boat optional .........

Has she been forgotten ?

That is a pretty awesome build !

Or the twins GB ?

Ok squirrelling sideways .... Foam is cut with a hot wire cutter, sanded smoother by a DA sander to get some swells into it . Then the fun starts. For this you need Liquitex gloss medium And also for some micro texture , use it to glue some kitchen roll over the surface, this sounds nutz but trust me , oh and you can obviously mix paint into the medium , I'm just covering with colour at this point See that mostly flat but rippled ? Thats where we are headed And so we reach here - all the white is hidden under a layer of unfeasably blue . Now I need to paint the surface colours appropriately , and fix correct waves ...then about 10 layers of medium to build up the sea gloss. If you get brush marks ....sponge them out , as any straight line is clearly a no no . Zats all for now folks ......

Flogger .....built the Airfix 1/72 back when it came out (1980) this looks 40 years in advance. Sadly one engine means I can't 'twin build' it unlike the ol' Tomcat or MRCA FUN FACT - Back in the 70's MRCA ( Tornado) was jokingly referred to as Must Replace Canberra Again ...following the TSR2 cancellation and the F111 purchase failure . Odd how two English Electric products seem to have lasted far beyond their expected lifespans 🙄

A black flory wash often makes NMF pop in my opinion , gives it a real grimy look . Just a thought

That canopy is shocking , also concur the solution is probably build it up with styrene and sand it back .

So say we all

Great IP Peter , you've far more patience & skill than me at this scale . 👍

Looks like it's coming together well .

The paintwork is looking delightfully rustic , and the stars overpainting the stars and bars is a great touch . Starting to look very much like an aircraft maintained by monkeys glorious Soviet mechanics Binned a few airbrushes in the past ,reckon it's a game of reducing returns after a while . ............when you've cleaned them for the 500th time and they still frack up .......it's time for ..

I felt I needed to finish up the Mossie , then Martin kept pestering me to start the Lighting 😆...and then i was ill for a bit and couldn't do anything . This needed a trip to a hardware store for some board to strengthen the sea scape & I couldn't drive . Wife is being nice with it sat on a dining table for now, but need to wrap up the Lightning and then finish this one off .

Or maybe even a Flakvierling ....4 flak ..."Meine Flakerling" is what Adolf whispered in Hanna Reitsch's ear.......probably 😂

Sounds like some quality time was had 😀

Thats superb Ralph , love the colour scheme is that a pre war one ?

A Sleek lil so n so