**** DONE: GB-56 1/48 P-38G - Thunderbolts and Lightnings

[F-104nut]

Looking really great !!

 

[N4521U]

Because I do my Twins in 1/72nd, room constraints.
My P-38 was in 1/72nd and I found the interior difficult to do.
You're lookin good!

 

[Davecww1]

Not much to show, started painting the Ultracast seat, still need to add a lot of details. And cleaned up the guns and ammo boxes and gave them a layer of Alclad stainless steel mixed with chrome to give them the bright metal look. On the guns only the shrouds over the barrels will stay this color, the guns themselves are parkerized steel so will be a darker gray color.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Coming along nicely Dave.

 

[Wayne Little]

Good stuff Dave.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Totalize]

Liking this one.

 

[fubar57]

With all

 

[Davecww1]

A little detail painting added, not sure if I like the black stitching looks a little over scale. But maybe better than plain white straps...

 

[le_steph40]

Very nice

 

[Wurger]

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nothing wrong with this.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice work so far!

 

[Crimea_River]

Nice detailing Dave.

 

[Davecww1]

Worked a lot on the gun bay, got all of the stencil decals applied and filed all of the lumps off of the inner fuselage to get it to fit well. Here are a couple of photos showing how it all fits together, nothing glued so far as I need to figure out how to mask and paint everything, probably will build several sub assemblies and paint and weather before final assembly.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Truly wonderful work and I apreciate your dilemma of masking, having similar problems at the moment.

 

[Wurger]

 

[CATCH 22]

A little detail painting added, not sure if I like the black stitching looks a little over scale. But maybe better than plain white straps...

Probably nobody will see it without a magnifier when the model's ready. I can give you an idea I've tried already: little dots (like rivets or in your case stitching) are easy to apply in 2 ways:
1. With a mechanical pencil 0.3 (use B or 2B leads, softer ones, real graphite, not the plastic chipos). Very easy to control and no need of adding more paint every other dot or so. If you go over the graphite with varnish it becomes darker at the end.
2. With a drafting tool from my past (pre-computer times) called rapidograph (German for technical pen). With a 0.2-0.25 or even 0.18-0.13 nib (never used 0.1 in my life!) one can do very small dots or narrow lines in the same manner as with a pencil. Ink is mostly black though. The colored inks for a normal pen are not to be used with technical pens but I've tried them and they work. One must only clean the tool after every use, what's not the case with drafting ink.
I've tried the above tools mostly for panel lines and riveting or for belts, ammunition, shadows on figures, never for stitching.
Cheers!

 

[Davecww1]

Got the nose together, fit some extra lead weight in the nose and around the forward landing gear bay, have to replace the 4oz steel ball with some lead...

 

[fubar57]

Coming along nicely