Quote from: Steel Penguin on August 07, 2023, 01:01:18 AM1:72 people in a 1:48 model?

Looking at that ..1/72 people in a 1/32 model .. or hell 24th scale.
It's stupidity over scale to the point it makes the 388 to the size of a 747.

OFFS, it's not a converted Ju 288, it's an air transportable luxury camping cabin that just
looks like a Ju 288. Kaplicky was having fun.

I posted it as a bit of fun, how ironic that it
prompted such JMNish reactions.
 

But that was BECAUSE it looked like a Ju 288 that people thought that way.

I'll have a look at my Huma kit when I get home next week, I recall it was quite impressive, both in size and quality.

Quote from: kerick on August 06, 2023, 09:39:36 PM

Quote from: jcf on August 06, 2023, 01:57:48 PMMake a holiday house out of your Ju 288.
Czech architect Jan Kaplicky, Vehicle 1980.


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I'm not sure what is under that canopy but it's not a cockpit!
Makes me think of some sort of moon buggy.

I thought about grafting a rotor and a tail to it for an early helicopter design. (Retro) Moon buggy is a good thought, too. 

Fighting my way back to the Bv 148..................... 

The planned decal sheet for this, the Karaya 'Captured Butcher Bird' sheet, is EXCEPTIONAL!

Two of the Ta 152s had their RAF roundels fairly obviously hand painted in the field, and the decals show exactly that. 

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Quote from: Dizzyfugu on August 07, 2023, 10:56:56 AM

Quote from: kerick on August 06, 2023, 09:39:36 PM

Quote from: jcf on August 06, 2023, 01:57:48 PMMake a holiday house out of your Ju 288.
Czech architect Jan Kaplicky, Vehicle 1980.


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I'm not sure what is under that canopy but it's not a cockpit!
Makes me think of some sort of moon buggy.

I thought about grafting a rotor and a tail to it for an early helicopter design. (Retro) Moon buggy is a good thought, too. 

Now you've got my kitbash chopper brainwaves going again! Although the moon buggy is very tempting.

Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 07, 2023, 11:17:13 AMFighting my way back to the Bv 148..................... 

The planned decal sheet for this, the Karaya 'Captured Butcher Bird' sheet, is EXCEPTIONAL!

Two of the Ta 152s had their RAF roundels fairly obviously hand painted in the field, and the decals show exactly that. 

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Of course for realism Kit you would paint them by hand yourself and not use transfers...   

Quote from: zenrat on August 08, 2023, 04:01:42 AMOf course for realism Kit you would paint them by hand yourself and not use transfers...   

Yeah, right! 

I'd never get that close to how good they look, even with a single bristle brush! One of those two sets of wonky roundels are DEFINITELY going on the Bv 148.

I've started PSR on the chunk of fuselage that's already assembled, and there's a LOT of it! You can hardly see any styrene on there now.

Some of those roundels are very World War One'ish

If ya look at alot of captured machines from WW2 you'll easily find some absolutely terrible roundels..stars and crosses ..painted by blokes with zero artistic skills and I myself hate painting circles.
So decals it is 

Quote from: Wardukw on August 08, 2023, 10:15:49 AMIf ya look at alot of captured machines from WW2 you'll easily find some absolutely terrible roundels..stars and crosses .

D-Day invasion stripes...  

Quote from: scooter on August 08, 2023, 10:30:11 AM

Quote from: Wardukw on August 08, 2023, 10:15:49 AMIf ya look at alot of captured machines from WW2 you'll easily find some absolutely terrible roundels..stars and crosses .

D-Day invasion stripes...  

Oh yes ..very ture..forgot about those 

Quote from: Wardukw on August 08, 2023, 11:42:30 AM

Quote from: scooter on August 08, 2023, 10:30:11 AM

Quote from: Wardukw on August 08, 2023, 10:15:49 AMIf ya look at alot of captured machines from WW2 you'll easily find some absolutely terrible roundels..stars and crosses .

D-Day invasion stripes...  

Oh yes ..very ture..forgot about those 

There's a pic in a Squadron book, either P-51 or P-40, with a close up of a quite wonky Checkertail scheme... IIRC the caption reads 'Modellers take note and be encouraged.'!!

Quote from: Rick Lowe on August 08, 2023, 10:27:29 PM

Quote from: Wardukw on August 08, 2023, 11:42:30 AM

Quote from: scooter on August 08, 2023, 10:30:11 AM

Quote from: Wardukw on August 08, 2023, 10:15:49 AMIf ya look at alot of captured machines from WW2 you'll easily find some absolutely terrible roundels..stars and crosses .

D-Day invasion stripes...  

Oh yes ..very ture..forgot about those 

There's a pic in a Squadron book, either P-51 or P-40, with a close up of a quite wonky Checkertail scheme... IIRC the caption reads 'Modellers take note and be encouraged.'!!

That's the thing ain't it..so many builders try to paint free hand and get it perfect but in the RW it's not like that at all.

The archtypal RAF D-Day stripes pic is one of a Spitfire Mk IX having them painted on with a couple of yard brushes! My Dad said they had less than 24 hrs notice to apply them and everyone was rushing around trying to find paint and brushes!

The Bv 148 WON'T have stripes though, D-Day or otherwise.