Good work so far!
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wow - I'm surprised that the Guru's havent heard of these products. They're not entirely new. HGW produce full sets for the 109F; 109G; Fw190A; Fw190D; and the P-47. I know these are available in 1/48th but I'm sure I've seen them in 1/32 too. 1/48 sets cost about £15 GBP, not sure about the 1/32. They also do sets of free lines too, but the sets also include plenty of free lines. I got mine off eBay but you can order from HGW direct.
Thanks for comments
Adam
Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees!
Can anyone give me some advice or help with the RV band?
If I was to do a three stripe RV band on the fuselage, how wide would each stripe have to be in 1/48??
Thanks in advance
Adam
Pearls of wisdom Mr Little!!Wayne Little said:Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees!
6.25mm each, for a 3 stripe Rumpfband...
The TOTAL width of the band in 900mm, applicable for solid, two- and three-colour bands. In the case of the three-colour variety, **normally** they will be based off one of the fuselage insert joins (either front or rear) and all stripes are parallel; two-colour bands will align off the rear edge of the insert, with the first 450mm being parallel - the fwd half however, is often seen following the fuselage frame rivets and going through the rear fuselage jacking point. BUT in both cases, this can differ from a/c to a/c within the same Gruppe and Staffel.
Moral of the story, check ref's for specific a/c.
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@Wayne : I like to think that we're saving the best for last mateI just need this primer to fully dry, then I can refinish the 3-4 area's that have Tamiya Surface Primer on them (to fill the minor imperfections). I think the second coat of primer must have been a little too heavy, OR I didn't allow the first coat to properly dry first. All the area's that got one coat (on the first coat) are fine; in fact the thing looks awesome in Grey Primer (I intentionally left the lower wings area that will be metal MOSTLY in black primer/microfiller to save time later). Coating the thing in ONE COLOUR has really brought it together and got me excited about it again.
Once these small flaws are sorted out, I'l do a final prime (I'm trying something different again, me thinks) and paint. The 'something different' plan is to keep the overall grey, then hit all the RLM76 areas with black, as well as pre shade the darker area's (that will be left grey) with black; just another experiement as I really like priming in black, but that obviously makes pre-shading hard - but BLACK under metallic and light colours, just looks so good! Either way, this thing is going to be shot in 8+ colours - Dural-metal, RLM70 Prop, RLM22 Spinner, RLM76 Lower, RLM81/82 Upper (601-series (late) standard layout), then two or three RAL colours on the power egg, windscreen and fwd-upper fuselage (as the evidence seems to suggest Roland was using RAL colours at the time) - undercarriage will be a mix of RLM02 and Metal components... Fun!
Yes, really looking fwd to painting it in a fairly unique, dark scheme.
BTW Wayne - I know you've painted some lower tail-plane surfaces in metal also; is that based upon JUST the capture photo's of H-1 150168 or a more broader sample of D-series a/c as well?
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Oh and Wayne, didn't you do a 1/72 Ta 152H-0/H-1 with NMF under the tails? One of the Aoshima kits or something? Its about time I started looking at 601-series a/c in more detail, for things like Flaps, Doors, Mottle Patterns, Wing Spar, etc... Time to put this D-15 in front of the warm-air blower again for a few hours...
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