Quote from: NARSES2 on October 28, 2023, 05:52:16 AMThat's looking very good sir 

Must admit with those bands I'm seeing her in Italian markings.

Nope.  She'll be Finnish but as an Air Sea Rescue bird will wear red crosses.
I've started on the engines, props and flaps.

Paint is almost finished on the FW.190.  Just need a touch more red on the nose.
Thats RLM84 and a green which isn't a Reichsluftfahrtministerium colour but is closer to what the three view shows than the prescribed RLM82.
FW190 WIP 29-10-1023 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

And more fun and games with the Pz iv.  The gear casings for the drive sprockets contain gears and other transmission parts.  I guess that is so one can build a maintenance diorama with them being stripped by a mechanic,  I left those parts out.
The armour which protects the gear casings required teeny tiny bolt heads gluing onto it.  That was fun.  I only lost two of them.
And in case I was thinking this kit had a lot of parts I dug out the MiniArt T-54 which is donating the dozer blade.  It's one of their interior kits and  wow!  There's a heck of a lot of plastic in that box.

Quote from: zenrat on October 29, 2023, 04:17:30 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on October 28, 2023, 05:52:16 AMThat's looking very good sir 

Must admit with those bands I'm seeing her in Italian markings.

Nope.  She'll be Finnish but as an Air Sea Rescue bird will wear red crosses.

Interesting    You don't see that many red cross marked types of any genre.

Quote from: zenrat on October 29, 2023, 04:17:30 AMThats RLM84 and a green which isn't a Reichsluftfahrtministerium colour but is closer to what the three view shows than the prescribed RLM82.

Looks very close to Hataka's RLM 82 in their Late Luftwaffe colours box.

Quote from: NARSES2 on October 29, 2023, 06:46:46 AM

Quote from: zenrat on October 29, 2023, 04:17:30 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on October 28, 2023, 05:52:16 AMThat's looking very good sir 

Must admit with those bands I'm seeing her in Italian markings.

Nope.  She'll be Finnish but as an Air Sea Rescue bird will wear red crosses.

Interesting    You don't see that many red cross marked types of any genre.

I was inspired to put red crosses on as I have a set of transfers for a Luftwaffe Ju.52 wearing them.  I am currently rethinking using the transfers as it will be a simple job to mask the crosses and paint them instead.

Quote from: NARSES2 on October 29, 2023, 06:46:46 AM

Quote from: zenrat on October 29, 2023, 04:17:30 AMThats RLM84 and a green which isn't a Reichsluftfahrtministerium colour but is closer to what the three view shows than the prescribed RLM82.

Looks very close to Hataka's RLM 82 in their Late Luftwaffe colours box.

I used the light green i used (70942 Light Green 75 Matt - my go to for Soviet wheels) because I didn't then have any Vallejo RLM82.  I have since acquired a bottle and it looks much darker although I have not actually painted anything with it.
I think I need to cut a strip of evergreen and make a Vallejo RLM paint sampler.

Quote from: zenrat on October 30, 2023, 02:33:28 AMI think I need to cut a strip of evergreen and make a Vallejo RLM paint sampler.

I did something similar for my Xtracrylic late war Luftwaffe shades, although I mainly use Hataka now. I've also done one for my metalic colours as it's amazing how many different shades of Gunmetal you can get 

I did one when I got a Vallejo WW2 RAF colours set years ago.
I'll need to do that one again because Vallejo have changed some of the colours.

I sat and looked at the Do.17 today, got out a roll of frisket, thought about cutting masks, and decided it'll be easier to use the transfers as any red that seeps under the masking would be a PitA to touch up over on the white band.  Have I mentioned lately that I hate masking?

Pushing forward on the Pz iv.  Today I glued all the suspension units onto the lower hull and started work on the upper.
I've almost finished page 2 of the destructions.

Thought about how to build a Jaguar with obviously bigger engines for the GB that starts tomorrow.  I may have come up with a cunning plan but I need to offer up some parts to see how feasible it will be.

Quote from: zenrat on October 31, 2023, 04:47:08 AMThought about how to build a Jaguar with obviously bigger engines for the GB that starts tomorrow.  I may have come up with a cunning plan but I need to offer up some parts to see how feasible it will be.

Any particular deity ? 

Make sure they're the alternate ones that won't be used for the project - and aren't wanted for the spares box... 

Quote from: NARSES2 on October 31, 2023, 07:31:41 AM

Quote from: zenrat on October 31, 2023, 04:47:08 AMThought about how to build a Jaguar with obviously bigger engines for the GB that starts tomorrow.  I may have come up with a cunning plan but I need to offer up some parts to see how feasible it will be.

Any particular deity ? 

Styrene! ... It's always Styrene!

Quote from: Old Wombat on November 01, 2023, 04:19:58 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on October 31, 2023, 07:31:41 AM

Quote from: zenrat on October 31, 2023, 04:47:08 AMThought about how to build a Jaguar with obviously bigger engines for the GB that starts tomorrow.  I may have come up with a cunning plan but I need to offer up some parts to see how feasible it will be.

Any particular deity ? 

Styrene! ... It's always Styrene!

I now have visions of some 24th Century tv archeological special on the 20th/21st Century world wide worship of the Goddess Styrene 

FW.190 has all it stickers on and has been cleared.  Now comes removing the windscreen mask and the fiddley bits.

Do.17 stickers are 3/4 done.  I have to finish the stencilling and then clear it.  I've started on the fiddley bits.  This one has a complete set of canopy masks on it which are going to be fun to remove...

Pz iv is starting to look more like a tank than a pile of parts.  I'm building the upper hull.  Fit is pretty good as long as you read ahead and use the next part you'll be adding to positively locate the parts you are adding now.  I've also begun painting the wheels.

Quote from: zenrat on November 09, 2023, 03:21:32 AMas long as you read ahead and use the next part you'll be adding to positively locate the parts you are adding now. 

That sounds almost Zen 

FW.190 should be finished tomorrow.

I removed the masking from the canopy parts of the Do.17.  No paint seepage under the tape but as happened with the Airfix B-25 on some of the areas the masks appeared to have reacted with the clear injection moulded plastic.
In both cases the models were new mould Airfix, in both cases the masks were in place for a relatively long period, in both cases the masks were Eduard, and in both cases it was the area directly above the pilots that was affected.
I think the Mitchell masks were in place longer and the damage on its canopy was worse.  But why just in that area?  In both cases all the other areas were fine.
Odd.
Next time I use canopy masks on something where they could be in place for a while I shall try coating the parts with a Future/Clear equivalent first.
Anyhoo, after removing the masking I touched up where required on the canopy framing.  Completion is close.

Some of you may remember i started a 1/25 AMT Subaru Brat intending to build it as an Australian market Brumby.  Well I finally got round to doing some research and have discovered that it wasn't until the second generation of the vehicle that they were sold here.  And the kit body is first generation.
Which makes it a whiff.  Which is good.  I have already converted the dash to RHD, built the engine and the interior and am close to painting the body.

Quote from: zenrat on November 18, 2023, 04:51:10 AMNext time I use canopy masks on something where they could be in place for a while I shall try coating the parts with a Future/Clear equivalent first.
Anyhoo, after removing the masking I touched up where required on the canopy framing.  Completion is close.

I used to dip my transparencies in Future during build, even before a lick of paint went on them.  Always seemed to work well.

Very odd regarding the masks    Must admit I always dip my clear parts in Klear prior to doing anything with them.

Have you thought of popping an email off to Eduard to let them know ?

FW 190 is finished.  I'm waiting until i've also finished the Do17 before taking pictures.  Shouldn't be long.  I've made some UC bay doors and just have to paint them and finish scratching and attaching a pair of water rudders.

I've started building the dozer blade for the Panzer 4.  Its an IDF blade from a Miniart SLA T54 APC.  First Miniart armour i've built.
First impressions are good fit, better parts breakdown than Takom, greasy feeing soft plastic, slightly soft detail, and a heck of a lot of sprue attachment points (albeit small ones).
The rest of the T54 is slated for conversion into a SPAAG armed with a big arse Soviet flak gun.