N4521U
Colonel
Have you stopped shaking after all that back and forth for the Pattern?????
Well done.
Well done.
**** DONE: GB-42 1/48 Fieseler Fi156 Storch - MTO II
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- #102
Crimea_River
Marshal
Not quite Bill. Soon as it stops, I will do another session!
Please enjoy round 2 Andy....
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Well hopefully I won't need to dig myself out!
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Crimea_River
Marshal
The redo is done. Here are two pics with the wings temporarily press fit into place. Next step will be a gloss coat and decals which I will do before final assembly of the struts that will get in the way of everything.
N4521U
Colonel
Gad Zooks!
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Thanks guys. You can see the variation in the squiggle densities owing to different batches of paints between sessions. I went by feel for thinner addition so some of the worms are shinier than others. This should all even out with the various gloss coats.
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Benevolens Magister
A lot of effort, but very well worth it - looks the dog's dangly bits !!
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Thanks Terry. Even more effort expended as I found a few spots that warranted some tight touchup work with all 3 colours. Got the gloss coat on now and have set it aside to dry.
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Benevolens Magister
I remember doing the 'welle' on my Me110 night fighter - it took about a year for my eyes, and fingers, to recover !!!
Great work so far Andy!
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Terry I thought that was the reason you are driving a mobility scooter now. 
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Hugh, thanks man.
.Hugh, thanks man.
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Benevolens Magister
Nah, I'm just to bl**dy lazy to walk !!!
fubar57
General
Fantastic Andy. Probably a pain in the keester doing it 1:1 as well; maybe it was some sort of punishment detail
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Thanks Geo and yes, I've always thought that the sh!t to pay ratio of painting aircraft like that must have been pretty poor but, hey, they look pretty cool.
Some more progress to report. I started applying decals since the ID letters on the wing underside need to miss the wing struts and I just kept going. I think that I will go so far as to weather and flat coat the whole model before adding the wings. It helps that the fit is so incredibly precise. Here are the wing undersides with decals on and a little bit of Tamiya panel accent which I'm still trying to get accustomed with.
Fuselage side:
On the top of the landing strut fairing, this aircraft had a canvass boot to prevent dust from getting inside. Tamiya just want you to paint the top white but I took it to the next level and made the boots out of tissue paper dabbed with Future.
After painting the boots, they looked like this:
Amazing what one can get done when it's pi$$ing rain outside.....
Thanks for looking in.
Some more progress to report. I started applying decals since the ID letters on the wing underside need to miss the wing struts and I just kept going. I think that I will go so far as to weather and flat coat the whole model before adding the wings. It helps that the fit is so incredibly precise. Here are the wing undersides with decals on and a little bit of Tamiya panel accent which I'm still trying to get accustomed with.
Fuselage side:
On the top of the landing strut fairing, this aircraft had a canvass boot to prevent dust from getting inside. Tamiya just want you to paint the top white but I took it to the next level and made the boots out of tissue paper dabbed with Future.
After painting the boots, they looked like this:
Amazing what one can get done when it's pi$$ing rain outside.....
Thanks for looking in.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Top banana !
Do have a sherry.
Do have a sherry.
