A couple of my aircraft models
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Here's 2 of my models I've completed over the past year or 2......
The 1/48th FGR.2 is one of the old Hasegawa kits with Eduard cockpit and someone's resin seats. The marking are from Airdoc's excellent sheets and the bomb dispenser is an add-on with scratch braces....weapon's fit is as seen on some 17sqrn machines at the time (and the gloss/full colour roundels scheme was short-lived but used....).
The 1/32nd D-9 has a new cockpit, belts, wheel and exhaust outlets (MDC) and the decals are from the kit with a spurious-ish scheme which is in-keeping with the time, if not Blue 10.
Cheers
coanda
The 1/48th FGR.2 is one of the old Hasegawa kits with Eduard cockpit and someone's resin seats. The marking are from Airdoc's excellent sheets and the bomb dispenser is an add-on with scratch braces....weapon's fit is as seen on some 17sqrn machines at the time (and the gloss/full colour roundels scheme was short-lived but used....).
The 1/32nd D-9 has a new cockpit, belts, wheel and exhaust outlets (MDC) and the decals are from the kit with a spurious-ish scheme which is in-keeping with the time, if not Blue 10.
Cheers
coanda
Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 6th October 23:31
Thankyou chaps.
The phantom was probably the last model I finished - over a year ago as free time has significantly reduced recently so I'll have a stab at remembering some particulars...
The Phantom kit is a classic and we can't thank Hasegawa enough for providing soo many variations on this particular theme! It's quite old - probably early 80's so my dad had built a number of these kits before I could hold a paintbrush! but it is pretty good - most of the series have recessed panel lines and, quite significantly, when looking at some of todays releases - its accurate. The eduard etch brass cockpit set is pretty good and makes a good representation of the cockpit. It takes some time as there's some fiddly bending and alteration of existing parts but it is well worth it. It's just a shame I didn't get any pics before it all disappeared into the fuselage! The seats are either Aires or Airwaves resin items and really reward careful painting. The Airdoc book and decal sheet on RAFG Phantoms were the inspiration for this build. I love all the RAFG stuff and also have their Lightning book/decals and they are all awesome! The kit itself falls together pretty well, it needs a bit of tidying at the joints but is very good for its age. I hate painting white so I did the minimum possible and hid the intakes behind some covers made of clingfilm, pva'd on and painted a light buff colour. The available FOD covers are all for American aircraft so you either make your own milliput cushion type covers, this type, or get busy with the filler and white paint (the only realy let down but there is a company that makes decent intake ducting that'll hide these issues). The airdoc book provided pictures of this aircraft in the gloss scheme and other aircraft from this squadron were seen with this stores fit. The model is painted with extracrylics thinned a bit with water as in its standard from it doesn't work that well in the airbrush. The greys are painted first and then the green was sprayed on free hand using blue-tac rolls to mark out the edges and soften them a bit. This gives the basic finish. From this I use water colour washes to accentuate panel lines and shapes. It is not as dirty as it could be (these aircraft were well known for being filthy) but decided that the gloss nature of the colourscheme and the age of the colourscheme (The picture I used is from the 1971 families day) I reckon this will do as they seemed to stop caring quite soo much about the state of these aircraft in the last few years of service. The heat shielding around the rear end is painted gunmetal and then has washes etc added. I have no idea as to how long it took. I think I remember having to sand the dark grey off once as I wasn't happy with the extracrylics finish from the airbrush. Time taken doesn't really matter to me though - especially when I consider how good my father is as a model maker and other people I look up to in this field (this chap is just awesome with an airbrush..... jamie haggo ) so I'm just trying to do the best I can!
The Fw-190D9 is one of my favourite aircraft of all time and I'd quite happily build one after another (there's little to no white on german ww2 aircraft for a start!). Hasegawa/Revell have once again jumped to our rescue here in producing an excellent kit in 1/32nd scale (I think this size works best for single engined ww2 aircraft while 1/48th works best for large or more modern aircraft). For those that don't know, Luftwaffe fans can be some of the harshest critics of work by manufacturers out there so this kit has had a bit of criticism for virtually nothing but there are a couple of 'correction sets' out there for things like the shape of the spinner. It is accepted that no major manufacturers are going to do super detailed cockpits, undercarriage bays, gun bays and engine bays so there are some worthwhile aftermarket sets out there. I used some of the MDC stuff because it is relatively cheap and nicely made. I also have this set to go into another kit. The cockpit sets are well worth having as they are easy to paint and the extra added detail mean that a simply wash will give a very nice finish. The kit flies together with no issues at all. The colour schemes for german aircraft of this era are a wholly different matter. I do not enter into discussion about colours around this time because it is absolutely pointless! Unless you have lots of reference photo's you can't even make a call about what the camouflage looks like because the mottling was unique to each aircraft. So you can pretty much do what you like. I like these greens and browns. There were allot more green/grey aircraft but they don't really float my boat. The base grey colour had a number of variations from pale blue to very pale grey to a blue grey and this sort of green-grey. I like this green grey as its quite unusual and I think it works better with the brown/green colours used on the wings and fuselage top. It has been suggested that it is sort of like RAF Sky so I started with a humbrol sky colour and added a bit of green and a bit of grey. In fact I did that a couple of times after spraying the aircraft and then stripping it again (fairy power spray is an excellent paint stripper for models as it will not mess with the plastics or resins but the paint comes off incredibly easily with a toothbrush - follow precautions though! ). I enjoy the mottling the most as you really don't have any rules to stick to. I think I hand painted the brown on the wing upper surfaces with a large flat brush to get the sharp demarcation I was after (period photo's of various luftwaffe aircraft seem to show a sharp demarcation between colours more often than not - apart from mottling). The base was made with newspaper and plaster of paris sheets. This was dried and then painted dark brown. A PVA solution was used to coat the brown base, then, clumps of railway modelling grass (not the paper backed sheets) were put on top of the solution, in fact just poured over, shaken around a bit and allowed to dry. The excess was shaken off, which gives a much better representation of grass than the paper backed stuff - and it seems to suit the scale. I 'borrowed' some wood from a J-Class sailing yacht model I have to build for the plancking and that was stuck down and washed with water colour blacks and browns to weather it up a bit. There was a lot of this sort of plancking used towards the end of the war where the luftwaffe were forced to operate from widened forest tracks for cover.
Thats it - a huge amount of ramble....if you have any questions just shout....
The phantom was probably the last model I finished - over a year ago as free time has significantly reduced recently so I'll have a stab at remembering some particulars...
The Phantom kit is a classic and we can't thank Hasegawa enough for providing soo many variations on this particular theme! It's quite old - probably early 80's so my dad had built a number of these kits before I could hold a paintbrush! but it is pretty good - most of the series have recessed panel lines and, quite significantly, when looking at some of todays releases - its accurate. The eduard etch brass cockpit set is pretty good and makes a good representation of the cockpit. It takes some time as there's some fiddly bending and alteration of existing parts but it is well worth it. It's just a shame I didn't get any pics before it all disappeared into the fuselage! The seats are either Aires or Airwaves resin items and really reward careful painting. The Airdoc book and decal sheet on RAFG Phantoms were the inspiration for this build. I love all the RAFG stuff and also have their Lightning book/decals and they are all awesome! The kit itself falls together pretty well, it needs a bit of tidying at the joints but is very good for its age. I hate painting white so I did the minimum possible and hid the intakes behind some covers made of clingfilm, pva'd on and painted a light buff colour. The available FOD covers are all for American aircraft so you either make your own milliput cushion type covers, this type, or get busy with the filler and white paint (the only realy let down but there is a company that makes decent intake ducting that'll hide these issues). The airdoc book provided pictures of this aircraft in the gloss scheme and other aircraft from this squadron were seen with this stores fit. The model is painted with extracrylics thinned a bit with water as in its standard from it doesn't work that well in the airbrush. The greys are painted first and then the green was sprayed on free hand using blue-tac rolls to mark out the edges and soften them a bit. This gives the basic finish. From this I use water colour washes to accentuate panel lines and shapes. It is not as dirty as it could be (these aircraft were well known for being filthy) but decided that the gloss nature of the colourscheme and the age of the colourscheme (The picture I used is from the 1971 families day) I reckon this will do as they seemed to stop caring quite soo much about the state of these aircraft in the last few years of service. The heat shielding around the rear end is painted gunmetal and then has washes etc added. I have no idea as to how long it took. I think I remember having to sand the dark grey off once as I wasn't happy with the extracrylics finish from the airbrush. Time taken doesn't really matter to me though - especially when I consider how good my father is as a model maker and other people I look up to in this field (this chap is just awesome with an airbrush..... jamie haggo ) so I'm just trying to do the best I can!
The Fw-190D9 is one of my favourite aircraft of all time and I'd quite happily build one after another (there's little to no white on german ww2 aircraft for a start!). Hasegawa/Revell have once again jumped to our rescue here in producing an excellent kit in 1/32nd scale (I think this size works best for single engined ww2 aircraft while 1/48th works best for large or more modern aircraft). For those that don't know, Luftwaffe fans can be some of the harshest critics of work by manufacturers out there so this kit has had a bit of criticism for virtually nothing but there are a couple of 'correction sets' out there for things like the shape of the spinner. It is accepted that no major manufacturers are going to do super detailed cockpits, undercarriage bays, gun bays and engine bays so there are some worthwhile aftermarket sets out there. I used some of the MDC stuff because it is relatively cheap and nicely made. I also have this set to go into another kit. The cockpit sets are well worth having as they are easy to paint and the extra added detail mean that a simply wash will give a very nice finish. The kit flies together with no issues at all. The colour schemes for german aircraft of this era are a wholly different matter. I do not enter into discussion about colours around this time because it is absolutely pointless! Unless you have lots of reference photo's you can't even make a call about what the camouflage looks like because the mottling was unique to each aircraft. So you can pretty much do what you like. I like these greens and browns. There were allot more green/grey aircraft but they don't really float my boat. The base grey colour had a number of variations from pale blue to very pale grey to a blue grey and this sort of green-grey. I like this green grey as its quite unusual and I think it works better with the brown/green colours used on the wings and fuselage top. It has been suggested that it is sort of like RAF Sky so I started with a humbrol sky colour and added a bit of green and a bit of grey. In fact I did that a couple of times after spraying the aircraft and then stripping it again (fairy power spray is an excellent paint stripper for models as it will not mess with the plastics or resins but the paint comes off incredibly easily with a toothbrush - follow precautions though! ). I enjoy the mottling the most as you really don't have any rules to stick to. I think I hand painted the brown on the wing upper surfaces with a large flat brush to get the sharp demarcation I was after (period photo's of various luftwaffe aircraft seem to show a sharp demarcation between colours more often than not - apart from mottling). The base was made with newspaper and plaster of paris sheets. This was dried and then painted dark brown. A PVA solution was used to coat the brown base, then, clumps of railway modelling grass (not the paper backed sheets) were put on top of the solution, in fact just poured over, shaken around a bit and allowed to dry. The excess was shaken off, which gives a much better representation of grass than the paper backed stuff - and it seems to suit the scale. I 'borrowed' some wood from a J-Class sailing yacht model I have to build for the plancking and that was stuck down and washed with water colour blacks and browns to weather it up a bit. There was a lot of this sort of plancking used towards the end of the war where the luftwaffe were forced to operate from widened forest tracks for cover.
Thats it - a huge amount of ramble....if you have any questions just shout....
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