**** DONE: GB-63 1/48 Bf 108B-2 Taifun - Stormy Weather

[Kalakan]

Thanks guys. Getting ready for paint now. After I took the photo, I had to adjust the tail planes to remove the dihedral.

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Great Job my friend, good work with the details..........

 

[Gnomey]

Looks good so far George!

 

[T Bolt]

 

[fubar57]

Thank you. Fuselage band sprayed, a decal is not an option not that I would have used it

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nice.

 

[Crimea_River]

Nice to see the paint going on.

 

[Wayne Little]

Cool George...

 

[T Bolt]

Good start with the painting

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far George!

 

[Jock Tamson]

Looking good

 

[fubar57]

Thanks guys. Still puttering around with what needs to be installed before doing the bottom. Mass balances barely have attachment points so I glued them on and are resting. The landing gear light is a tear drop shaped clear part. It would be awkward to mask as the front needs to be clear and the rear needs to be RLM78, the bottom colour. I decided to paint it off the model as this would give me a chance to test my mix after I painted the rear of the light silver to try and represent the reflective back of the light. My mix was Tamiya XF-23, Light Blue and XF-50, Field Blue, 4:1. Hard to see on the light but pretty gosh darned close in the tray

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Well done George.

 

[fubar57]

Thanks Vic. RLM78 mix has been spritzed

 

[Vic Balshaw]

That looks to have gone well, nice.

 

[fubar57]

Thanks Vic. I wonder how long the mass balances and pitot tube will hang around for

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Hard to say. With me, always one balance gets dented or goes walkabout. Pitot is about the last thing I add for good reason.

 

[fubar57]

Agreed but the attachment points were less the ¼mm in length so I figured I get a stronger bond gluing without any paint in the way

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wayne Little]

Good stuff Geo, I always leave them bits off until the very end, that way they don't get ;knocked off or go missing in the final stages...

 

[fubar57]

I try as well Wayne but with limited gluing surface I felt this was my best option. Eduard is really starting to annoy me. While looking at the camo I saw this.Yes, this is one of their first forays in 1:48 but this is so prominent in the photos of KG✙EM

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For the last day or so I've been trying to figure out how to make one and what colour. I went through my plastic rods and it looked like I would have to stretch one down to size and then start carving. On a long shot I went through all my spares stash but I couldn't recall building an aircraft that had a venturi tube option.....ta dah

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I'm going to try and do a bell shape on the right side but this just deflated my mojo a bit