Great work David and Carlos! From here your models look the bomb indeed!

Slow progress is being made on the 1/48 Tamiya F-14A. The bottom is white, so that's something!

Michael

Carlos, Do not worry about making mistakes, they help the learning process. BTW: Nice F-14...

Looking at 'David's' finished F/A-18F, I am changing my Decal theme... The sheet I purchased also had the 70th Anniversary of the 'Jolly Rogers' squadron, So I am going with that representation of the VFA-103 (2013)

I've just started applying decals and here is a teaser....

Nice Thomas! I plan on using that very sheet to do the 75th anniversary markings on a 1/48 F/A-18F in the 4th Gen. campaign. Can't get enough of them bones!

Michael

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Carlos: I like Your work very much! This is another jolly part of this campaign. Congrats !

Oliver

ok well better late than never. i'm going to give it a shot and see if i can make the deadline.
here is my entry- tamiya 1/48 f4u-1 birdcage

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This is the first campaign that I have participated in and enjoyed being part of it and watching other builds. With that said mine has finally been completed. I have Learned much and tested new techniques as I've gone along.

Untitled by Jeff, on Flickr

Untitled by Jeff, on Flickr

Looks really good, Jeff.

I'm couple of weeks behind, but will finish this month:


Different carrier (USS Independence) and plane (1492).

great job jeff, nice build. didn't know they had pilotless planes back then-lol -seriously nice job
pasi looking good so far-looking forward to seeing it finished.your going to make the deadline, don't know if i will.
here's where i am at with my f4-U birdcage.

giving it a shot on painting the pilot. looks ok from this photo but up close a little rough. can't seem to get a good system for doing faces.

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Hi mates,

here is my finished build for this really interesting campaign.


Many fine builds here and still some on their way to the campaign gallery, keep going!

here is another photo with skull & bones...

Hi,
Unfortunately (or better luckily) I got a hint that it takes a lot more to call that baby an F-4N than mounting the AN/ALQ-126 fairings on the intakes...
So it's back to the bench, remove them and clean up the mess!
Then new photos will be put into the gallery, too.

Well Dangit Peter! Bummer. It looked great. Personally I don't concern myself with all the items that may be incorrect since I've never entered a contest with a model. I enjoy modeling for pleasure and give myself plenty of visual and artistic leeway
I'm sure it will recover nicely though!

ha.... No pilots and not even any seats. I think they were abducted by aliens....

I ran into several (probably self induced) issues as I started the build so I thought I'd save all the fancy cockpit items for a later build since I have another exact kit and just build it and try new stuff.

smart move jeff. always need to maintain the parts box-lol. i do the same thing with the interior radio parts for the 262's and 109's since nobody will see them. they ended up in my val and devastator builds. don't know if their radio operators can speak german though-lol

joe

Couple of good looking Phantoms there!

Here's where I am with the 1/48 Tamiya F-14A:





It's gonna be close, but I'm not giving up!

Michael

hi everyone ,nice job guys
finally i found some time to work on my kit ,( this kit is horrible ,lots of fitting problem, lots of putty....)
i hope finish this soon.






Majid

Looking great Majid with the added detail and regardless of the kit issues! I'm looking forward to seeing more as you proceed.

Tinted Canopy's !!!!!
Good idea but I've always had a hard time myself with a good finish.

In this experiment, I used two canopy's and two different processes to achieve a 'LOOK'.
My colors of choice are these 3 Alclad Transparent: Yellow, Smoke, Clear Medium and Tamiya Lacquer Thinner.
I can't give an exact recipe here because it's a personal preference (eye) and some continual mixing of transparents... But for me, I continually mixed ratio's with each other color to get an acceptable 'Tint'. Then when that was done, I cut the final color with a 60% thinner to 40% color ratio to airbrush on.
Here, Left canopy has been sprayed on the 'inside' with nice wet strokes across long ways. (est. 20psi and about 4" off surface)
On the Right, same color with not as much thinning and applying the tint on the 'outside' of canopy.



In my eye, the left canopy process is my winner!!
This process was easier, coats were applied long ways and in the end, because the exterior surface of the canopy was first polished with 'novus scratch remover', it gives off a smooth sheen finish in the end.

I'll be using this canopy for my build and this process with future tinting...

Completion date?...................... Soon!

Hi mates,
at last my F-4J is finished, after removing the wrong parts on the intakes...
Pictures in the gallery will be changed now.

hi majid. nice work on that corsair. i like your work on the engine. thought you might like to know though, if you want to be accurate the landing gear and bay should be white unless your doing an overall gloss sea blue. and then i'm not sure but they may be blue also. i'm doing a birdcage corsair, got the white down having trouble nailing down the correct blues. which paints are you planing on using?
joe

Very nice work here, everyone!

I have come to the conclusion that I can't get the Tamiya 1/48 F-14A done in time. I have the decals on both sides of the fuselage and tail and the tops of both wings and stabs. But I don't have the bottom and top of the fuselage done nor the landing gear built or gear door edges painted red. And I have to travel on business next weekend, which I'd forgotten about. It's a drag, but there it is. It's great to see everyone else's progress though!

Michael

I think I have third F-4 to finish:


Two more pictures are in the gallery, and try to spot three very obvious errors...

Fun campaign and very enjoyable kit to build. Had pleasure following other builds.

Nice work, Pasi, congrats!

Tiny progress, got the plane primed.

working hard to get this birdcage done in time. just about ready for paint. need to prime and check for seams. already hit the wing fold area with primer, looks good. don'y know what the fuss some had with gluing the wings unfolded, i had no issues.

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