Hi Felipe. Never too many pics of such a beautiful build. Well done, your Passion Wagon is a great addition to the Pin-Ups Gallery.

Justin, don't panic mate, "Lady in the Dark" is still progressing. The glass gave me hell and I had to cut and re-fit some, but she's masked up now and ready for paint. Pics soon.

Cheers, D

BlackAce very nice finish dont forget to put a pic. in the gallery.
@Aussie-i know the auss man will pull through

Some progress on Rozzie Geth/Boch Buster.


Nige

Whoa, Felipe, THAT's a nice one!!! What clear cotes did you use? Really, awesome...

@Nigel: nice one, lokking forward to the decal stage!!

This is my contribution, started yesterday:



That's how far I got til now:



The Mustang you see in the background is for Terri's P-51-Campaign.

Hope to close the fuselages this evening!!

Greetings

WOW!!! So many great builds! So many beautiful Mustangs too!!!

I just got home from Cozumel ( late honeymoon taken on our one year anniversary... keep your wives happy guys, they are more forgiving when your " fiddling around with your toys" ) and I've got a break from the hurling matches until autumn league, so I'm back at my build.

I "fiddled" around with some detail painting tonight, and i hope to close up the canopy and start getting the metal finish down this week.

I'll post some pics when I get into the first stages of paint!

Slainte!!!

Wow Rab looks like we got a new speed builder.Did you sleep at all

Mis respetos Felipe, te quedo precioso el Mustang, Felicitaciones.

Byron

Felipe-
That's a great-looking Mustang. I have those decals, and will someday get around to using them. Very inspirational!

Hey, realy realy thanks for all the answers, im glad you liked it, the level of modelling over here is realy good, so im glad to be amongst you

hey nigel, that painting job on the thunderbolt is looking great, looking forward to see it.

regards for everybody.

Hi all, a progress report FINALLY on my "Lady in the Dark" and I apologise for the poor photo quality, still no camera and using the mobile phone.




I used the "Q" method of post-shading for the first time on this build. For those of you who haven't seen the article, take a look here POST SHADING .
The base coat is a 50/50 mix of Tamiya Red Brown (XF-64) and Flat Black (XF-1) acrylics, and the panel lines were done with a heavily thinned (70% Thinner : 30% Paint ) straight XF-1 Flat Black.

Next step is clear coat, then decals.

Cheers, D

Damian, just a quick question, how come one engine has it's cowl flaps open and the others are closed??

'Coz that's how they came i the box Warren, and I wasn't up for that degree of rectification just now. The inspection panels on the port engine are just tacked in place for painting as well, that's why there's gaps there (just in case you were wondering).

Cheers, D

Hi all!

Time to get the colors out and paint the interior, Bell Green was the “official” name, but that was a Medium Greem, and that´s what I used.





All the tiny boxes, levers and other details were painted black.

The breaches of the cannons were painted a metallic black (Hu201), red details and finally a silver drybrush to suggest some wear-n-tear.
Some other small details were picked out in different colors.
















The instrument panel is supplied in the kit and it comes from eduard, and looks faboulous!







Seatbelts have been made and added to the seat.
You actually get two different instrument panels and two sets of different seat belts, plus several smaller details are supplied in two versions, wherever the prototypes differ!

That´s attention to detail, full mark to Special Hobby (and eduard), wonderful!







More to come soon!

Cheers!

Stefan E

...just spent 30 mins going through this thread ...what a super campaign ! Aeroscale at its best ..kudos to all the great builders & builds completed so far .I've just enlisted - no idea what I'll build though!

Good to hear you join.Everybody is doing a great job keep them coming

Justin: I'm working hard to finish up my first armor build for the Miniart Diorama campaign on Armorama. If things go well I can start my first two aircraft builds for this campaign and the Dressed to Kill campaign on P-47 Heaven. I joined all of these campaigns quite late, but with some luck things should work out.

My plan for this campaign is to build the Eduard F6F-5n Hellcat.

great sir thanks for joining.Look forward to your build

I noticed theres quite a few planes missing from the gallery.You will need to put one there if you wish to recieve a ribbon.I also noticed that there are 44 enlisties and only a small amount of finished builds.You all should be modeling in your sleep
In case you need to get to the gallery here is link.
Pin-up gallery

Well, then you'll like this:



ready for priming. I'll start painting this afternoon maybe.

BTW, who knows this: which one is the early C.E., what are the others:



Thanks for watching.

From left to right,,
Hamilton standard "paddle blade"
Curtiss Electric . "Paddle blade"
Curtiss Electric "toothpick" ( C.E "early")

Nige

A very common mistake by decal manufacturers is incorrect colours for noseart and BocheBuster/Rozzie Geth is no exception.
While the PinUp cowling art is close as makes no difference to the proper colours the name "Rozzie Goth" is offered on the Eagle Strike sheet as a yellow decal but was actually white.
Step forward,,Mal Mayfield ( Holdfast) and his Miracle Masks.....
Mal had already produced masks for another subject on this sheet for me ( "Tony", and I asked him if he could do anything with the Rozzie Geth artwork.
A few days later, postie delivered the masks.

So..this morning, deciding that its "now or never",,on goes the mask....



Weed out the mask slowly and carefully,, no problems here...............some extra masking and some very thin misty coats of Humbrol Matt white enamel.



A few hours later, very carefully remove the mask.

And breath a sigh of relief!!!

There are a couple of very small areas where the white paint has run into the panel lines but that will be covered by the Pro Modeller wash at a later stage.


Plan B....( not required today thankfully)
The reason I used enamel instead of acrylics for painting this is that if I had messed it up I would have been able to carefully remove the enamel paint using a cotton bud and white spirit and the coats of Klear would have protected the acrylic finish underneath.

Going for a lie down now

Nige

Man, this is awesome!!!!!!
You got a few or other of those kits under ye belt, huh?!!

How many coats of white did you do? Misted very thin? I really hate airbrushing white. Takes me mostly six coats to do the job. If I can help it i try to do it before everything else and use Valejo which dries a little thicker but is really opaque.

Is there a better way to spray acrylic white?

Thanks for the tip on the props, mate. Helps me a lot!!

Got my underside, try to finish painting tomorrow!

Huzzah! I'm making fine progress myself! After destroying a canopy or 2 and nearly flinging everything into the corner I've hunkered down and gotten some more work done... I really want that ribbon!!!

looking good sell most worthy of a ribbon for sure

Hello kids.

What I've done till now:




I am grotesquely behind my scedule. I'm down with flu, got the mother the brother and the father of a headache and my back hurts like a sonoffa.

But I hope to spray the recog-bands tomorrow, repair some overspray in the wastegate-area (or is it the bleed-air-ducts?), put on some fashy gloss and slap on the decals.
Well...
That's the plan.
Now I'm off to a beer and bed (Agony!!)....