Hi
It's one of planes I'm working on: Eduard's Hellcat. It's profipack- box included injection parts, some resin (wheels), masks and pe parts. Cockpit metal details are coloured- in my opinion they are not looking very good. But whole interior will by not very visible. All interior and fuselage parts fits excellent

Nice cockpit Kamil. I really like your work because of weathering and all those washes.

Little update. There were no putty necessary, only some sanding at lower fuselage.






Engine with first coat of paint (gunze's dark iron metalizer)

ready to paint:






masks and resin wheels are from the kit

Paint in progress. At first base coat of aluminium, after that basic tone, and highlights of base tone with bit of light blue at last

WOW, that shades are looking just PERFECT (speechless)



Cheers Nick

thanks a lot
Regards
~kamil

Very, very nice start on the paint!

Is the blue from Tamiya as well?

-YL

No, it's Gunze C365 (FS-15042) from 'US Navy color' set

Decals applied






it's almost redy for wash and weathering

Love it! Very well photographed too. I bet the faded panels are going to look even better when the weathering blends everything together a little. How do you mask for the panel fading? How many times did you have to mask it- I guess at least three stages of masking, to prevent overspray on the adjacent panels.

You have right- all highlights are going to be faded with wash, weathering, dirt etc.
Highligts are paited with tamiya's 10mm masking tape and piece of paper/styrene

washed and ready for weathering

I think that the dark brown wash in the blue-black color looks a bit muddy

But I like the whole build very much


Cheers Nick

it's finished












comments are welcome
regards
~kamil

Looks really good!

This looks so real! Excellent work Kamil. What paint do you use for the metal showing through, and what technique due you use to apply it?


It is depressing that this build took you just two weeks- I've not completed a model yet this year!

Again- very well done, and thanks for sharing the build with us! What is next? I'd love to see an RAF type!

Thanks a lot




as you can see whole plane was paint with silver at first. It was covered with coat of clear varnish, and after that paint with camouflage. Paint chips are scrathed with sandpaper and knife. And some bigger one are paint with brush wit tamiya's aluminium.






you should built something just OOB, something painless- like most of tamiya's kits.. One finished project often gives 'speed' for other buildings
BTW, it could be finished faster, but was building simultaneously with this one:







maybe in a future. I have some aircrafts in my storage, but no RAF planes. Now i'm thinking about PZL.23 Karas

That's Awesome

But too dirty for my tastes


Cheers Nick

I like your shading on the panel lines. Will definitely try it in the future. The Skyraider is also very nice.

Well done! You have really taken your time painting this bird, I'm impressed!

thanks a lot my friens!
I'm really glad you like it
regards
~kamil