**** DONE: 1/72 LA-5FN VVS Group build

[Wayne Little]

Good work Lewis, doin' a great job mate...

 

[rochie]

nice work Lewis

 

[dirkpitt289]

Great save, its coming out great!

 

[magnu]

I decided the underside colour wasn't right so redid that then dd the metal exhaust panels, front part in mithril silver (citadel colours) and the main plate in boltgun metal,also drybrushed some paint chips at the wing roots. Penciled in the hinge lines on the flaps aelerons and elevators. Then applied some pastels to the underside and exhausts. Put the rudder and spinner on, gave it two coats of future. Although I gave it a thourgh clean beforehand it picked up a lot of dust in the drying stage so I am now going over the whole thing with a worn out piece of 1000 wet and dry which has smoothed it down and got rid of the lumps and bumps.

 

[magnu]

Made some more progress along with a bit of a disaster last night. Got the decals on and the undercart and put the sealing coat of future on all OK. Then decied to have a go at masking the canopy , wasn't happy with the result so peeled the tape off and cleaned the sticky residue off with white spirit. The canopy insantly turned milky white so out with the tothpaste and scrub away just starting to get to a resonable finish more transparent than opaque and SNAP it breaks. The only upside was the break occured along the lines of the frame so glued it and when dry dipped it in future. The end result is not perfect but is far better than the milky white mess that I started with.

 

[Wurger]

Looking good.

 

[Wayne Little]

Like it Lewis, despite you're hickup!

 

[vikingBerserker]

Shaping up well!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

You have been zipping along nicely here Lewis despite all the mishaps. It looks good mate.

 

[Lucky13]

Nice work mate!

 

[magnu]

Thanks alll Took some shots of the finished article this am.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wayne Little]

NICE!

 

[Airframes]

That was a quick one ! Looking good though.

 

[Crimea_River]

 

[dirkpitt289]

That was a quick build but you couldn't tell by the results. Fantastic job.

 

[imalko]

Very nice indeed. We have our first finished entry in VVS/Eastern front GB.

 

[magnu]

Thanks for the kind words folks.
I'm pretty happy with this overall considering what went wrong during the build, but I think I'll redo the top ariel wire before I put a finished thread up.

 

[Lucky13]

Saweet!

 

[rochie]

looks pretty good to me