Loog great, Jose. Fast and beautiful work.

Looking forward to see more.

Yes, Jesper I agree. Beautiful Betty, You are building there Jose. I like Your decent shading of the panels very much.

The Revell kit of the Dornier 335 is quite nice. I think, it is the old Dragon kit.

Meanwhile paint is on

and the parts are glued together.


Oliver

Great detail work Oliver, that cockpit has more parts than most of my entire builds!

Jose, those markings are striking against the dark paintwork, looking really good now.

Roll Call/Build Status updated once again. We currently have 10 builds in progress and 1 completed, a bit over 2 months still to run.

Cheers, D

EDIT: Check out the updates on Joel's B-25 build HERE

So there is my update on my Henschel 129 . I am actually close to be done. As of the model it is a typical Hasegawa product. You are not going to have much of problems building it. It falls in to one piece almost perfect. There is few places which have to be done very carefully. Do not spend a lot of time in the cockpit area, since it will be almost invisible after the build.
And some pictures now:




I am pretty happy about the paint job. I am usually not patient enough but slowly I am learning to get it done slowly.


Pictures were taken are not the best, but in a real life it looks even batter.
Now I need your help guys. I have to make dark green “patches” on the top camo. I did try spray the free hand but I get into trouble with overspraying. I did try to use masking fluids – did not give me a result I wanted. So I decided to buy a new airbrush – so far I am using a Badger 200, which is a great single stage airbrush – double stage Badger Patriot hoping that I will be able to control overspraing. If that will not help – does anyone share with me her/his way of spraying “patches” as a top layer? I know that I can mask the whole model – but that is something which I want not to do.

Hi Tom, I know there are photo etched templates available in 1/72 1/48 & 1/32. See this link for a 1/32 scale mask which might just provide the size of mottle you require. Other than that a double action airbrush does give much greater control over your paint stream. My advice is to thin the paint quite a bit and to spray with as little pressure as is necessary to get it to spray. I pass onto you Joel Willsteins advice to me when I was painting my S.M. 81 Pipistrello and wanted to get a fine a line as possible.

"You need to really thin your paint out, drop the psi to as low as your AB and compressor will let you paint a fine line, and keep the tip only a inch or two from the aircraft surface. The smaller the dia. of the cone opening, the better. .2mm would be ideal. Having a lightly pre-drawn scheme in which to paint over makes it that much easier."

Hi Tom,
very nice paint job on Your bird. I like the decent visible pre-shading. As Chris pointed out very well, a thin paint and a low pressure for brushing will work. Chris did an exceptional job on a 1/72 plane with a steady hand. 1/48 should hopefully be easier to start with.

Looking forward to see more!

Oliver

Here is an update on my build for this campaign:-


This model has a big wing fit issue which will require lots of filler:-

Nice work Richard! I remember those gaps from when I built this kit way back in the early 80's!

A little progress to report on the twin twins I'm building. After damaging the canopy beyond use when attaching it to the Me328. I used the kit part as a replacement as I'd damaged it when I glued it in place with extra thin cement. Fortunately I had two kits of the Me328 so I could rob the replacement.

The Do215 is almost painted just got a few touch ups to do and then it's onto the Me328.

Thanks for your comments Oliver and Jester.
Oliver the cockpit of the 335 is beautiful!!!!
Chris I will follow your 328, thats is a kit wich I want...!!

Near to finish





I will go to Chile for a week.... more advances when I return to home

Excellent progress reports coming in from lots of builds, wonderful to see!

Tom, great job on the pre-shading. Trust the advice of the experienced folks here as I have over the years, they always steer you in the right direction.

Richard, really good to see some work on the big Beau, I'm sure that you will overcome the fit issues.

Chris, sorry to hear about the canopy damage mate, but having a spare kit to raid is always a bonus! Good job on the splinter camo on the Do215, this is going to be a really attractive combination to have on display ate the end.

Jose, that little Ohka looks striking, I love the colour. What paint did you use there?

Roll Call/Build Status has just had a very nice revision, keep up the awesome work folks.

Cheers, D

I have a couple of twins I got for christmas. Not sure which one I'll build first, either Italeris Dakota, or Airfix Beaufighter. I'll decide and post some sprue shots hen I get back from the Easter holiday.

Thanks for joining in Eirik, great to have you on board.

Cheers, D

@Damian

Thanks for your kindly comments Damian.
For the Okka I used Tamiya XF-6

José

Richard, I agree with Chris .Your build reminds me of bigger sanding actions, when I build my kit, too! But Your sanding looks much better than my efforts!

Chris,nice finish on the dornier! What color will you choose for the Me?

Jose , thank You for Your reply. You did a really fine paint job on the Okha! The Betty reminds me, how small this thing was!

Oliver

Hi Oliver
I try to reduce the filler/sanding area by reducing the area with masking tape and multi layers of filler.

@Damian: Thanks D it was my own fault for underestimating the effects of capillary action. But the second time round I used Airfix's crystal clear canopy/clear part glue so it wouldn't mark the canopy if I was a little to liberal with it. (Love this stuff!)

@Jose: Encores little Me328 kit is a great improvement over the original offering from Pioneer, however I would recommend deepening the panel lines before assembly as the kit is quite small and fragile once the resin undercarriage is attached. I will have to rescribe mine very carefully.

@Oliver: I'll go with the combat colour scheme for yellow 4 I think it'll provide an excellent contrast to the splinter on the Dornier. The scheme is purely a what if as the airframe was only flight tested in a RLM70 green over RLM 76 (RLM65?) and I've found a photo of the Me328 and the motors are attached to the Fuselage not the wing. They gave up on the combination as they had great difficulty isolating the vibration from the pulse jets from the airframe and it quite literally was shaking itself apart.

Hello and Happy Easter

I am joining in on this campaing with Meng's ME410A-1









Cheers Linus

Hi Linus,
Always been interested in the 410... Will watch with interest,

Gaz

Richard, thank You for the tip. I will try this on my Do 335. It seems to me, the putty won't stay home this time!

Chris, very nice scheme with the shark mouth. It will sure look great!

Linus, welcome on board. Nice kit You chose for this campaign. Looking forward to Your build.

Oliver

Linus, welcome to the Kitmaker network, great to have another Aussie on the boards. Where are you located?

Excellent choice of build for this Campaign as well, I'm looking forward to watching this one come together.

Cheers, D

So I did received the airbrush



Now I will just have to learn how to use it, and I will take Chris and Oliver advise and will free-hand dark green mottles on the top of the Henschel


Wish me a good luck!

Looks very nice Tom, it will be great to see what you can achieve with it!

Cheers, D

Tom, nice new brush. I wish You good luck and a steady hand with this!

Yesterday I did some small work on the wings and applied some position lights out of old sprue. I drilled a small hole into it and filled it with paint.


After fixing the light, the sprue was shaped by sanding. I have to polish the surface a bit more, but so far, I am quite pleased with the result.


Not pleasing are the major sink areas onto the wing.

As Richard said, I masked the area first and applied the putty subsequently, trying to keep the putty as flat as possible to reduce the sanding-work. Hopefully, this will work.


Oliver

Wow! Really great work and activity here
Looks like all of the shown kits have their more or less issues

Oliver, nice work on the wings, hope the filler will help.
Styrene looks quite soft and difficult to sand.

Nice Airbrush, Tom! Hope you can effort yout plans on the painting.

As for my Lockheed Hudson I'm still cleaning parts and sub-assemble the office that have a lot of of parts spread over 3 floors and a turret. Never seen so many interior parts on a 1/72! Though moldings are not very nice, separating a bit difficult and the plastic is very soft
Thomas