What's on The Workbench (8 Viewers)

[A4K]

A wee painting session. My kids got their first shot at airbrushing too.

Blohm & Voss Bv 246 (Revell 1:72)
Dh Mosquito FB.VI (Airfix 1:72 - Noah's)
Sherman Firefly Vc (Airfix 1:72)
Spitfire Mk.Ia (x4, Airfix 1:72)
Spitfire cockpits (x9, Airfix, Eduard, Special Hobby, MPM, Pavla, Sword)
Willys MB jeep (Italeri 1:35 - Noah's)

 

[fubar57]

Beauty

 

[A4K]

Cheers Geo. Looks good on the shelf

 

[fubar57]

A very cool setup there, Evan

 

[Viking1066]

Very nice!

 

[A4K]

Cheers guys. Not much space, but we do what we can

 

[Vic Balshaw]

A wee painting session. My kids got their first shot at airbrushing too.

Blohm & Voss Bv 246 (Revell 1:72)
Dh Mosquito FB.VI (Airfix 1:72 - Noah's)
Sherman Firefly Vc (Airfix 1:72)
Spitfire Mk.Ia (x4, Airfix 1:72)
Spitfire cockpits (x9, Airfix, Eduard, Special Hobby, MPM, Pavla, Sword)
Willys MB jeep (Italeri 1:35 - Noah's)
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I thought you had missed a spec of dust on the mat!...............................It was dust on my glasses......

 

[pinehilljoe]

I get confused when I try two builds at the same time, well done!

 

[Airframes]

Yep, I do too. I ended up with a Supermarine 109F and a Messerfire Mk.Vb..................

 

[Crimea_River]

Great stuff A4K Evan and nice to see the kids invovled once again. Do make sure you take measures to protect those young lungs when airbrushing though.

 

[Bernhart]

Top wing struts applied

 

[Bernhart]

Finished except for minor touch ups

The Polish AF square should be on the rudder but not on the fin. Also the top wing checkerboards should be smaller. IMHO you could have interchanged these with those at the undersides. Anyway

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LWS “Czapla”, ZTS Plastyk 1/72 | IPMS Polska

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I went by instructions in the kit might be able to fix the top ones

 

[A4K]

That looks awkward Bernie! Hope you dry fitted the struts to their attachment points first to check positions!

Cheers guys, and yeah Andy, I do worry about the glue fumes aswell as the paint. We use the ventilator for the airbrush, and try to open the window as much as possible for the glue. (cold out though, takes the heat out of the room!)

This was Noah's first solo airbrush session today, by the way. He enjoyed it. (not enough to clean out the airbrush though! )

Kit is an Academy 1:35 M3A1 Stuart.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Vic Balshaw]

That's a good effort, nice and clean and even.

 

[A4K]

Yeah, not bad at all Vic. I personally would have given it a few more coats to build up the White, but he is happy enough with it as it is.
(He had airbrushed the ammo boxes and seats first on sunday, then masked them and painted the White yesterday)

 

[Vic Balshaw]

I figured there must have been some masking or placement of parts after the spray.

 

[Crimea_River]

A budding talent there.

 

[A4K]

Cheers guys, and well spotted Vic.

 

[PlasticHero]

Here is the transfer from workbench to display. I could not get all six struts to line up so the middle pair are gone. A fun build and the paint came out pretty good. There has been some recent posting about pictures taken with a DSLR or phone. I took some photo pairs and tried to get the captured image I would use to be 1600 pixels across. I had to do a slight resize, but these are the uncompressed images. I usually use Photoshop and compress them 10%. That cuts the image size a lot with no quality change. 

The phone image is sharper and more saturated than real life, but it does have better depth of field. This is an iPhone 14.

Watch this space (probably next winter) for the next one... a Camel by Roden.