Nice build, Jiang Liu. I have used Vallejo Panzer aces colors. Not exactly the perfect shades, but look right for me. I will post a picture of the paint later.

Here is my progress. Next are the decals followed by some light weathering.

More to follow

These little things build up pretty quick!!


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There are a couple of 1/144 scale planes I am working on. One is the Wildcat and the other is a Hurricane.

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Not sure the the deal is, but....

Let's try this AGAIN!!

A little more progress on my Phantom II. The decals are now on.

Jiang Liu, as promised I have posted a picture of the paint as well.

More to follow.

lookin good everyone
my little update...slow progress, next a gloss coat and decals and paint all the little bits like wheels etc


paul

Here's my Tiffy painted and oiled:





Thanks for watching.

I scratched up a nosewheel compartment and then decided to add a cockpit which I had in the spare parts department.

that means cutting out the windows instead of painting them black. Ive done the side windows but will leave the windscreen until after Ive glued the halves together. I am going to fill in the passenger windows and apply decals for those.

The dry fit of a vacuform fuselage is quite good, sanded to perfection! also, the Welsh model master has a high degree of precision.

Thanks Jasper! I think I'll just mix my Tamiya paints to approximate those grays. Why didn't my box come with the stand?

It's an Airfix stand. Those of us of a cetain age remember them fondly. They are now available from Airfix without needing to buy a model to get one.

Jessica is correct. It is an old stand I had in my stash. I just added a magnet to the bottom and it works great. See my review of flying stands HERE for an better alternative than the pure plastic displays.

I have finished my build yesterday so pictures will follow soon.

Here are the pictures of my finished Academy 1/144 F-4F Phantom II in German colors. It was an enjoyable little build.

Comments welcome.

Howdy. I'm a newbie to all this, but might as well join the fun! Just palaced an order for some 1/144 kits. I think I might do a Kfir or a "Firebird" Tornado. Very cool paint job.I guess I need to go buy something to shoot photos. Sounds like a good enough reason to me. Anyway, let's all have some fun!
Happy Gluing, JT

Hi JT, good to have another 144 enthusiast on board.

Ive gotten this HS748 together this weekend, and have started on wing root fairing.

The vertical fin went on fine, but the horizontal ones will be a challenge as there is no indication on the fuselage sides where they should go, so Im going to have to try to make some location marks based on drawings, that kind of precision isnt my strong suit.

The drawings in the kit are 1/144 so you can get your placement information by laying the drawing right on the model.

Since the last time I posted, I managed to get some decent progress done on my F-15J. I cleaned up the seems and poor panel lines (at least the worse ones!) and went through the usual sand, wash, prime, sand, etc. cycle. When I was happy with the way it looked, I gave it the overall light gull gray color seen on the Eagles with the Compass Ghost scheme. I then let it dry for a week as I am using Xtracolor gloss paints for the gray parts of the scheme. I was a bit nervous on getting the darker ghost or cloud part of the scheme. Trying to get the subtle dark patchy look is tough in 1/144 for me! I masked the darker gray ares off using medical tape and 3 M tape.



I then shot the dark gull gray Xtracolor paint and voila! It does not look too bad to my eyes. Whew!




I am now letting the gloss paint fully dry, and then I'll lightly sand the scheme to give it a more patchy or hazy look. While I am waiting, I have masked off the wheel wells and inlets and will give them a coat of flat white followed by gloss white.
Have fun modeling!
Mike

Assembly of the 748 is complete, as is most of the fairing. I put it on its wheels only to find I had not put nearly enough lead in the nose. No choice but to cut a hole.
Fortunately the 748 has a large cargo door at the front, so that came out and the lead went in. looks good.


I welded in some .010 backing strips so the door will go back in flush, but it got me thinking, in future I might want to do an open cargo door scene. might make a good campaign theme.

White nose masked.


And silver on.




Stay tuned for our next thrilling installment: decals!

As promised.



The anti glare panel didn't fit at all. I had to do some radical trimming because the V for the windscreen was much too acute to fit around the base of the actual windscreen.

Roden supplies a swatch of dark blue decal to patch the cabin roof where the cheatline decals do not line up. Much of it will be needed. I'm beginning to suspect that the person who drew the decals didn't have an actual kit to test fit them on.

I'm also not too thrilled about the colour of the windows. They're too light to show up well against the silver background.

The patching is done and she's up on her wheels at last.







I'm not very happy with the patching. The blue is transparent, which means that whenever the decal is doubled up it's darker. Every patch job can be seen plain as day.

Now I'm having tons of fun persuading 24 propeller tip decals to stay in one place. I put the first side on without trimming down the carrier film, which caused the capillary effect of the setting solution to pull them down the blade until the edge of the film was lined up with the tip of the blade. I had to keep shifting them back up and they kept shifting back down like they were alive. They also didn't react to the Solvaset. They're so armour plated that at one point I lost one right into the bottom of the Solvaset bottle. Instead of instantly becomming a tiny ball of ex decal, it just sat there on the bottom until I fished it out with my tweezers and put it firmly back into place on the propeller. It took the boiling water trick to keep them in their place. Roden didn't include the very prominent propeller de-icing boots, so I'm resorting to decal strips for them. The propellers will end up with more decals than the whole rest of the model.

that's poor that the decal didnt fit well- right up front in the most eye drawing place too..
Otherwise, glorious model!

Ive made a terrible mistake on the 748. last thing I did last night was pack a bunch of putty into the engine nacelles so I would have something to drill into today for the air intakes and props. Well the solvent in the putty ate the plastic.

that wrinkly area is soft as taffy. I hope itll solidify in a few days, and I can do some more fairing. if not, I'll have to saw the ends off and fabricate some sort of replacement engines. damit, I was going to start painting this tonight.

Hi Jessica; I had similar problems with the Piedmont decals for the Airfix 737. I had to use the extra decals which were for the 727 version to cover up some ill fitting places.
You have done a very good job with a difficult subject. I know all of us modelers want to do the very best we can, with the skill set we have, we are often are own worst critics. You've done the best you can, that's the important thing. Good work. Russell

P.S. Sometimes you can do everything right and things just don't quite work out, some things are just beyond our control. I am sure you know that just wanted to reiterate it.

Miliput is your friend. It doesn't eat styrene, dries rock hard and can be drilled just like wood. Best yet, it can be sculpted when it's wet using plain water to shape it. I use it to pack out all my vacuforms where they're thin. You can likely make up new engine fronts from miliput very easily.

Finished.