And finally at home (top center) with the others!
Looks great Dean!
Thank you Daniel! Contemplating getting an airbrush for my plastic models.
With your painting skills Dean, you would absolutely love an airbrush. I have been using a Paasche siphon feed on and off for a few years and this last Christmas I purchased a Harder & Steenbeck gravity feed brush. The H&S brush is capable of doing much finer work, so they say. If the weather ever gets right around here, I will start practicing with it in the garage.Thank you Daniel! Contemplating getting an airbrush for my plastic models.
I find an airbrush is an absolute essential for plastic modeling. Of course you then need a decent quiet compressor (or a CO2 or nitrogen tank) and a spray booth. The list never ends!Thank you Daniel! Contemplating getting an airbrush for my plastic models.
Yes…it’s the same airplane.
Cool, I used to have a Paasche VL many years ago. I need to see what’s out there now. Will look into the H&S.
On small scale stuff, I can use a brush for almost everything. If you thin the paint properly you will not have brush marks and all the fine detail is done with a brush. And of course washes and dry brushing are with a brush.
So I only need an airbrush for large surfaces that would be problematic with a brush. Also for doing panel lines and camouflage, you can’t beat an airbrush.
I know how one thing leads to another…lol, and I have avoided getting one recently. But I have some 1/48 and 1/32 scale airplanes that I will need an airbrush for. So it’s inevitable!
I have iwata airbrushes which I find great to use. A decent size spray booth is a must. You can construct one if you are handy. There are probably only a million you tube videos on airbrushing.
Paul Budzik has an extensive series covering a lot of modeling especially airbrushing.
Paul Budzik has an extensive series covering a lot of modeling especially airbrushing.
Hi DeanWell, I have two options really… I can use their “cardboard cutout” as a template (because I am not using it) and scratch build the cockpit…or I can paint the inside of the canopy grey and do nothing!
I most likely will scratch build the cockpit, which requires a lot of research and scratch building of parts. I believe the required cockpit area will fit above the wing and not require me to cut out any of the upper main wing. But I won’t know for sure until I start on it. It’s certainly not shown in the instructions.
I have the same dilemma for the landing gear bays.
I am new here. I have been building models for the last 45 years though so not a newbie to the hobby. I am from South Africa where we do not have access to the model resources available in Europe and the USA. I got used to a lot of scratchbuilding.
I converted a Guillows Giant Scale Stuka to R/C towards the end of last year and also covered it in balsa before using heat shrink covering.
We have one proper hby shop here is Cape Town(don't laugh!) and they had an opened Guillows Giant Scale P38 tucked away in the back of the store. So I purchased it for the equivalent of $54 during November last year. Having started on the framesIi started searching the internet for build of the model and came across your build. You mastery is quite evident and shows years of dedication.
I saw the comments about the interior and put aside the frames and using the cardboard mock-up template and did a scratch built cockpit that would pass casual scutiny. The photo was hastily taken with the laptop camera, but I will take a proper one later.
I will eagerly follow your build updates...
I also add a pic of the Stuka I built.
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That looks fantastic! Great job!