mustang1989

Ok fellas, I've got what I consider a major update. I've got the Tyson Chicken Legs (aka landing gear) installed on this thing. You know most times landing gear aint that big a deal to me and at first glance a Stuka, having no visible struts or oleos,let alone brake lines and all, wouldn't be that bad. It turned out to be harder than it looked. The wheel spats had a nasty seam line running down the middle and was CLEARLY visible from the front. It took alot of sanding and elbow grease to clean those things up to say the least. The tire and wheel assys weren't bad (although I forgot to prime them before I used acrylic MM paints and masked off) even though I had to paint em twice. But like I've heard and I like to say, "That's modeling folks!". I've moved on to the bombs , which have more seam lines than 10 pairs of blue jeans. The centerline bomb is 7 parts so there's plenty of opportunity for gaps and seam lines. After the wheel spats, it's all good. Here's the current progress, I've still got to install the small propeller/ siren on the wheel spat you see in the first pic here:

Wayne:Bring it bubba!! I can't wait to see this built outta you! Chris:Man you guys are giving me idea after idea!! Great technique!!!!! And results!!!!

This is absolutely fantastic!!!!! Man I'll tell you , this isn't ultimate photoetched, it's ultimate perserverance!

What do you have for us there Wayne? And yes.

I forgot about this one! Looks great Bob!

I've seen these kits around and have never seen one built! This is friggin cool, looks like a load of fun and is definitely something different for the 109 fans out there!

Suweeet! These things just look eerie and aggressive from almost any stance. Zoukei Mura has thier hand in the fire on these kits in 1/32 scale now. Check it out................... http://www.zoukeimura.co.jp/en/sentiment/oyajiblog_050.html

Those guys had a knack for technology and radical aircraft concepts and some, like this one, were flown. Another bird, the Ho-229, was also flown. Someday I'll get a 48th scale version of that plane to build.....................as soon as I find a place to display it. lol

Got your pic posted on the wall of fame Mark. Thank you again for being a part of this GB man. Looking forward to #2 outta you????

I'll be watching that video Chris and thanks for the additional tip Wayne!

Dude I'll be robbing that technique man! Thumbs up buddy!

Came in the mail yesterday. These Accurate Miniature kits are amazing OOB and I've been wanting one of these for YEARS!! These things usually go for a pretty penny but found it still sealed up in the plastic for 25 bucks.

So THATS how you do it. Good idea and thanks for the tip.

Lookin' good Wayne! How do you get your brush painting to look so smooth. It looks AB'd on!

Man I'll tell you Wayne, I just love seeing these armor builds of yours come together. Great paint and scratchwork man.

If there's one thing I like it's unusual aircraft like this one which is nicely represented here. Alot of the Luft 46 stuff was "out there" but there were some good ideas floating around in all of those concept planes and subsequently real planes such as this. Thumbs up on the build and something different Phillip!

Good to see you back Danny! Looking good so far buddy.

Well folks I managed to get the flat coat/ sunbleached effect going. I mixed up some MM flat acrylic with a few drops of light grey and cut it all with 70% ISO. It gives me the desired look I'm after. Here's the before coat shot and the after coat shot . Will be moving on to undercarraige and all the other stuff next. I hope to have her on wheels soon! Another after shot:

Awesome does not describe the good work here! Nice job!

Watching.................

I'll echo that Ray! Man that's alot of stuff packed onto the top of that bad boy Wayne! Thats all going to look great all painted up.

Chris:As Wayne said, that's going to work just fine. I use the same method on my aircraft interior builds and it works like a dream. Mark:Did you say novice???? That looks great. Automotive builds are something I'm working towards in getting as good as you guys here are. Thumbs up on this build!!!!!! Let me know when you are ready and which picture to use and I'll get you posted on the intro post dude. You know you gotta sign up for round two and show us how you pull some of this kind of good work off. Everybody:Thank you for the encouraging comments. I applied the flat coat this morning and noticed a little silvering in a couple of the decals. I'll have to weather those just a little more to hide some of that mess but other than that it aged/faded the paint nicely. The sun and weather in the Mediterranean theatre was never kind to aircraft.

Got the wash applied to the upper and lower surfaces as well as the elevators. Also been working on stuff like the landing gear assembly and painting. On the topside the panel lines were really brought out but on the bottom the effects of the wash are more apparent with staining and panel line definition I'm finally figuring out how to get the paint coats on thin enough to let the effects of the pre-shading to "bleed through" as clearly seen on the bottom and some of the areas on topside. Haven't gotten good enough yet to remember to pre-shade between the different colored coats of camo. Better luck next build though.

Good imagination Ira! Bravo buddy! Bravo.