Hi Steffen!




No... I don't know what you mean. Could you explain a little more?

Happy Birthday! What day is it exactly?

Jean-Luc

27th = Siebenschläfer ... I was always held responsible for the weather for the following 7 weeks

and may I return the question ... IIRC you also have your birthday around this time of the year?!

cheers

Steffen

Errr... I think I dug my own tomb... July 6th... I will be 40!

Jean-Luc

33 is not much younger

and at least you have a wife, a child and a job ... besides a great hobby

Now you only have to plant a tree and write a book (maybe you have already?) ...

best wishes

Steffen

Hi again Steffen!

I already planted a cherry tree in our garden.

There is only the book left... or maybe a comic if it counts!

Jean-Luc

Herzlichen Gluckwunsch zum Geburtstag. I am coming up on 48 myself.

Many thanks Carl!

Hi Guys

this went pretty much over the last posts ... maybe we should focus on modelling again .. to bad I did not progress enough to justify such post

Apologies about the wheather .. hope this will not stay for the next 7 weeks and this year is an exception to the rule. (my thoughts go to the flooded people in England and the heavily sweating people in southern Europe)

all the best

Steffen

Just a short update . Yes i am still on this project (besides others)



RLM 76-75-74 in the order I put them on (76 from Vallejo, 74/75 from Jens Popp)

cheers

Steffen

Excellent Steffen
I await further progress, looking good so far

Hi Steffen!

Finally you found the way to the workbench again! I'm looking forward to see this one progress, it looks very good so far!

Jean-Luc

Hello Howard and Jean-Luc

Thanks for your kind comments!

this is just a short intermezzo as I will be away for two weeks where I cannot build anything ... also I have to add a few yellow areas (this model got no primer and thus I did not mask those areas) .. we'll see how it turns out.

the Lifelike decals are nice and should be no problem at all.

best wishes

Steffen

Well back after a 13 months break ....

I have just updated all posts containing pix, linking to the IPMS site now (could not find the very first pic though). If you want to see the uncensored pix, please have a look at the aeroscale building feature.

I started decaling shortly after my last update .. unfortunately I screwed one decal, the fuselage Balkenkreuz .. then I searched the whole decal stash for a replacement, but all were slightly different. So it went to the stack.

I ordered a 2nd set of Lifelike decals but I did not fell like I wanted to progress with this (I ruined the fuselage band when removing the wrecked decal) .. so it slumbered in the box.. until I lately began to work again on older projects (I also found the eduard Fw 190A-8 .. but damn I have JG 300 vol 1 home and not here ). So here it is as it looks today:





all the best

Steffen

Hi again

well not so much progress, but I built a base and added some parts to the kit (TD whels , prop/spinner)





Sorry, lighting is bad .. thus 2 tries. I'll take a better pic tomorrow

cheers

Steffen

Hi Steffen

Great to see this build really back up and running again! That's a nice looking base!

All the best

Rowan

Hi Steffen,

I'm glad you have started your butcher bird again

The mottling has come out great, may I ask if you blended it with a light overspray after?

Hope that makes sense.

Howard

Many thanks guys .. hope to finish it soon.




Thanks, Howard and yes

Steffen

Ah-ha

Brilliant, thanks mate I must try that technique on my 110

Cheers

Howard

Hi again

Pix updated





no tengo ganas to make my airgun dirty for just the wheel bay covers, so the progress will be slightly postponed ...

cheers

Steffen

Hi gang ..

now it is finished ... Instead of a gloss coat I used semi gloss .. it just looks better to my eye (I tried gloss) . .it was a pretty clean machine so weathering was kept restrained
























comments welcome

cheers

Steffen

Wow Steffen, that´s an excellent job you did. I like it a lot, a beautifull bird

Many thanks Daniel!

it is one of my better builds. Not premium, but o.k.

cheers

Steffen

Hi Steffen!

Very nice indeed!

I would only tone down the gloss of the tyres a bit. Even a new aircraft has some dirt on the wheels... Sorry if I missed that, but these are resin replacement parts, are they?

Jean-Luc

Hi Jean-Luc

Many thanks!




Honestly I played that back and forth and I could not decide if I should dirty them up or make them look polished .. if you think it is better to make them look dirty I will do that .. after all you are the artist

the Wheels are TD .. I do not like them much but I had them in stock ...

cheers

Steffen