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Dirk's 1/72 Academy Shinden "The Magnificent Lightning"
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Coming along nicely!
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Benevolens Magister
This is looking good Dirk, possibly one of your best yet.
Time for more!
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dirkpitt289
Master Sergeant
It looks much better in natural light as opposed to the camera flash.
Nice..!!!
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Benevolens Magister
Me too. Never knew it had a six-blade prop until now either.
love it, always liked that one, might have to get a 1/48 version
A4K
Brigadier General
Great work Dirk! I'm a little surprised at how much you had to fill the joins though.
nagoya_triangle
Airman
Very nice. I'll need to look for "propeller color" before I start my 1/72 Tamiya kit.
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dirkpitt289
Master Sergeant
Interior, Phase 2 - The Bomb Bay
For those following you'll remember that the bomb bay in this kit is nothing more then a gaping hole. While I'm not trying to recreate the area down to the rivet I just want to have some similarity to one.
Here is what we started with
Work commences
First I applied the base color. There has been a lot of discussion over the correct color of the interior of a B-24 but I've yet to see it nailed down to a specific color. I've read the color also depended on which plant the aircraft was built at. To be completely honest I don't know which plant this particular aircraft was built at and even if I did I don' know what plants used what color. So I took some poetic licence and used Zinc Chromate Yellow. The main reason was because I've had this jar kicking around my desk for a long time and never used it. I figured it looked lonely and decided to give it a go. :ha:
Time for some Evergreen
Scratching some custom bulkheads
Opps, While I'm not going uber detailed I found out I had made a big mistake. I built the roof of the bomb bay facing the wrong way.
Back on track
Bomb racks installed
There will be some more touch up work to be done later on after the fuselage is attached. I realized this angle doesn't show off some of the support braces that I put in. I'll post these later.
Perfect? Not a chance. Passable? Should be.
Thanks for looking.
For those following you'll remember that the bomb bay in this kit is nothing more then a gaping hole. While I'm not trying to recreate the area down to the rivet I just want to have some similarity to one.
Here is what we started with
Work commences
First I applied the base color. There has been a lot of discussion over the correct color of the interior of a B-24 but I've yet to see it nailed down to a specific color. I've read the color also depended on which plant the aircraft was built at. To be completely honest I don't know which plant this particular aircraft was built at and even if I did I don' know what plants used what color. So I took some poetic licence and used Zinc Chromate Yellow. The main reason was because I've had this jar kicking around my desk for a long time and never used it. I figured it looked lonely and decided to give it a go. :ha:
Time for some Evergreen
Scratching some custom bulkheads
Opps, While I'm not going uber detailed I found out I had made a big mistake. I built the roof of the bomb bay facing the wrong way.
Back on track
Bomb racks installed
There will be some more touch up work to be done later on after the fuselage is attached. I realized this angle doesn't show off some of the support braces that I put in. I'll post these later.
Perfect? Not a chance. Passable? Should be.
Thanks for looking.
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Benevolens Magister
Great work Dirk, it's looking very good. But it looks very like a B-24 to me, rather than a Shinden !
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dirkpitt289
Master Sergeant
Well that's a bit embarrassing
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Benevolens Magister
No problem, it happens !
Still, it looks awesome!
Crimea_River
Marshal
Shinden happens.
nice one Andy !
your not the first and i bet your not the last to get their threads mixed up Dirk !
looks good though
