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My 1/72 scale aircraft

Dean, this is turning out to be a beautiful plane. Love the color scheme. I'm curious how you did the picture of your mom. Is it a printed waterslide?
 
g8rfan99 said:
Dean, this is turning out to be a beautiful plane. Love the color scheme. I'm curious how you did the picture of your mom. Is it a printed waterslide?
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Thank you! I printed it on my printer. I scaled the original down to 25% and it barely fit! I didn’t want to scale again and make a copy of a copy, because it’s pretty much downhill at that point. I then put some Weldbond on the back and spread with a brush very thin and then placed it on the airplane and carefully pressed down. After that dried I put clear coat on. So it’s printed paper. I didn’t have a lot of faith in the printed waterslide paper giving as good of an image.
 
On a side note…I found an antique kit of a Brewster Buffalo. So now I will have an example of that aircraft soon.
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Decals look like they are useless, but I have extras I can use. So I will make do. I also plan on using a grey paint scheme and weathering it some.

My mess when working…lol
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I have shelves with supplies on them where I keep my paints. So I put them on my desk as I use them. Surprising how many colors I will end up using on an airplane.
 
Final update for the day. I’m working every spare minute I have towards making progress, but now I’m tired and calling it a day.

First I changed the tail on the “y” in Kathy because I wasn’t happy with it. The text is so small that it’s very hard to get it exact. In person it actually looks very nice.
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That done I concentrated on the nose gear and door. I also added the glass in the three holes on the fuselage towards the rear. They tell you to do it prior to joining the wings and fuselage. But I completely missed it…sigh. But no worries, I just used some Micro Krystal Clear and I had glass. ;)
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Then I realized the bad instructions did not show to add the exhaust turbo outlet pipe. But I found it on the sprue and I knew where it went. So that was added and painted.
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Then I added antennas and pitot tube…
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Coming up, I am going to be adding the main gear and the doors and cylinders for them. Then I can decide if I want to add any additional stripes or color prior to doing a clear coat on the entire aircraft. Then some final weathering on everything will be the last task.
 
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Dean62 said:
On a side note…I found an antique kit of a Brewster Buffalo. So now I will have an example of that aircraft soon.
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Decals look like they are useless, but I have extras I can use. So I will make do. I also plan on using a grey paint scheme and weathering it some.

My mess when working…lol
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I have shelves with supplies on them where I keep my paints. So I put them on my desk as I use them. Surprising how many colors I will end up using on an airplane.
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The Dutch also flew the Buffalo, mainly in the Dutch East Indies. It wasn't a decisive success at any rate.
A replica of the Brewster is on exhibition in the National Military Museum at Soesterberg.
 
Dean62 said:
Landing gear and doors are on…getting close to being finished!
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A side note, there are 9 kill flags on the fuselage to indicate number of aircraft shot down. That is significant because her birthday was Sept 9th. ;)
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The P38 shares the twin boom design and the heavy armament in the nose with the Fokker G1. Their design requirements 't were different though, so the P38 isn't an improved copy of the Fokker G1. Still, they're both good looking planes.
(The picture has been colored by Grok and the original isn't mine either.)

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RDN1954 said:
The P38 shares the twin boom design and the heavy armament in the nose with the Fokker G1. Their design requirements 't were different though, so the P38 isn't an improved copy of the Fokker G1. Still, they're both good looking planes.
(The picture has been colored by Grok and the original isn't mine either.)

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Nice! I wonder if they make a kit for it in 1/72 scale? ;)
 
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