diymirage

Pretty cool Growing up, one of the "cool kids" had an one of these (but a 50cc) Pretty cool bike but of course, my MTs always took him on the top end (This bike reminded me of that one)

I have not seen one of these in over 30 years Cool

I always liked how much "junk" that kit has, but simply never cared enough for the britts to model them

since some time past i figured it would make sense she would be in winter camo...if she hadnt been shot down by now this was my first time using chipping fluid and i think it came out allright (definitely did not flow from the airbrush as i would have liked)

Back to the plane I'm not totally happy with it, but it's starting to look like something (One of the complaints people have about this kit is that the scale is of...which doesn't become apparent untill you start to add properly scaled decals) This was my first time using a pinwash, and I did a light chalk detailing over top Not done yet, but she's got her feet under her again

Yeah, the starfix isn't the greatest kit, but I am not looking to build a 100% correct replica I have no idea how old this kit is, or where it falls in the production run, but it could be the molds were just getting old Perhaps what bothers me the most about is is the lack of swastikas on the decal sheet I guess if they had put an ace of spades on there I could pretend to be making a 9 staffel jg53 plane, but there don't seem to be any real markings on the decal sheet

Thanks! It is a starfix, 1:48 kit About the cheapest kit I could find, but since it was only going to be paint mule I didn't mind (It did take a little more sanding then I liked to get the two sides of the fuselage to line up)

I was able to get the second coat on Not happy with the overspray, but hopefully that will wash out during weathering

Found a few minutes to lay down the first of the top paints I was gonna go with grey, but found some "mud brown" and thought, that'll look cool I think I will detail some of the mottle with a brush later But I like the lines I put down

Got the base blue down, now it will probably be a week or so before I will get to it again

I need to put a second coat of paint on the driver, and I think I will add the machine gun to the sidecar

Got the primer down, and the yellow Not sure I like the yellow

figured id share this one with you guys perhaps i can get some tips i always loved the way the german planes looked so i bought this 1/48 109 kit it is a pretty basic kit, not a whole lot of detail and it require a LOT of sanding to make things line up not a big deal, i mostly bought this kit to try my hand at painting it, so we will see. i hope to have her in primer by the end of the day

Sorry for the late response I guess you could make it a 73, the main issue would be the stand, it has "PT 109" cast into it This is the decal sheet that comes with it

Got the top painted I used Vallejo paint, but had a heck of a time thinning it to flow through my airbrush Not sure if I want to paint the hull the same way

Got two coats of white primer on the top

Got the bottom primed The top will get show with an airbrush, base primer in white,accents, shades and depth in black That will be the first time trying that one a vehicle so im interested to see if it will be worth the effort

Thanks I bet when that thing is painted it will look like it belongs there I finished the small parts and all is glued in place, save the parts that will get different paint (guns, raft, floatation devices) Ill get some primer on tomorrow and the really need to decide on a color The wife likes green, so I'll probably go with that

Picked up this reissue of the old Lindberg kit, mostly because I build it once ages ago and thought I'd build it again This kit is marketed as the one JFK commanded, but I have no plans of building a replica of that one There is quite a bit of flash on here, and at some point it was an RC kit, so there were two holes that needed to be addressed I'm particularly pleased with the way I fixed the front hole, that post looks like it's part of the anchor windlass and it belongs on there I also drilled out the fresh air vents which were very crude My biggest issue now is, will I paint it Grey, as delivered l, or paint it green as they were painted in the field ? (Two different 109 kits, only put up for color comps)

Got a little bit of work done to her (crazy how bad my paint looks in the pictures) Most of this is mocked up

it is 1/35 scale it is a pretty cool kit, what really sold me on it was the crew you can build it with two soldiers in full battle array, or one slightly more laid back soldier, bringing home the bacon the odd thing is that one of the drivers has his hands molded to the handle bars, and one does not so im going to have to leave the handle bars loose if i want to be able to switch out between the two

Maybe he meant to say he scratches the build?

I painted that last soldier, I used the white over black primer and then added a glazing agent to my topcoatNot sure if it helped a lot, but I like it(On second thought, I should have done this with a standing figure)I got to say, I think I'm seeing an improvement in my overall figure painting

well, i decided on a lighter color, vallejo blue grey pale 70-905in part because i wanted something lighter, and mostly, because i have that paint and it allows me to paint parts in stages and not have to worry about mixing it right each timebecause of the way the engine sits in the frame, i decided to brush that(this is just a first coat, but at least the engine is home)so far, i am not impressed with the quality of this kitthe amount of flash is quite large, and i have broken two parts allreadyin my opinion, because of the way they were cast on the spruceso many parts have the little nubs on them, i would really have liked to have seen a few of those nubs on these little pieces to protect them(The fenders and front fork are just mocked up for a visual...kinda looks like a orange county chopper like this...don't worry, we'll fix that)

Got a little more work done on the soldiers These are all hand painted, I got one drying in black primer to try the other method on (And this is a progress shot, still needs a lot of detail)