mustang1989

Ok guys. Back at it again here. The first pic is of the corrected paint job with the sharp demarcation lines between colors: and the second and third pics close up with the soft/ blended demarcation lines: (the gap at the lower part of the tail plane was fixed right after snapping this pic! Thats as close as I can get to the reference picture. If there's one thing that I like about these old Monogram aircraft kits , it's the rivet detail on the exterior of the aircraft. The insides and all the other stuff leave a lot to be desired but who and where else puts rivet detail on the outside of an aircraft model anymore. Anyway, I feel a lot better about the accuracy of the paint job now!

That's a very suitable color for this build. A wash will definitely set that off! All that detail is practically begging for it!

You know Johann I've not built any WWI aircraft kits yet. I have a high respect for the builders because of all the rigging and the wood replication but haven't tried one. At this point I'm sticking mainly with Luftwaffe stuff but do jog it up every once in a while with a Pacific plane build. I've got an SBD Dauntless I'm working on right now but its a Monogram with a lot of parts from the Hasegawa kit to spice it up a bit. Maybe one day I'll tackle a WWI build but for now I'll hold out for that Eduard 109 G-6 that's supposed to be released in 14.

Thank you Ira! I've got some more to do in the morning in correcting what I painted in the pictures posted above. I have the entire upper surface painted in dark blue and the bottom of the nose in dark blue also. The reference below shows the vertical fin to be intermediate blue, not dark blue and the edges are soft and blended. This will be corrected in the morning. Be back then, same bat time, same bat channel!!

Now this is raw talent!!! This is modeling at its best right here! Figure painting takes a lot of skill to get the shades and blending of paint, shadows and make it all look realistic. I'm Liking the paint, the theme, the imagination and skill required to put something like this together and make it look this good. Awesome work Wayne!!! You da man!!!

I'll be checking this out when I get home and can view pics. This stupid Barracuda web filter here at work won't let me view anything. I don't know how I'm even able to view avatars!!

Thanks Wayne. I'm going to treat the border like the German mottle pattern when I repaint. I usually mix the paint super thin, crank the air pressure up to about 30-35 psi and barely open the needle AND keep the air brush moving!!! and that'll give me that soft demarcation line between colors instead of a hard edge. ..............and it's better I find this all out about the color now instead of after decaling!!! lol

You know , looking at the references sometimes a little closer AFTER the painting is done is painful sometimes. The vertical fin should be painted the lighter intermediate blue and the lower part of the nose should be the lighter color as well. Will post pics of the references and the corrected paint tomorrow. WOW!!!

Thanks the comments Wayne! You know part of building these old warbirds is a constant learning experience. I get a blast out of building them because I do ALOT of reading when I build each subject. It's as much fun learning about them as it is building. I used Vallejo acrylics on this build and was not happy that the "intermediate blue" was actually a dark color. I used this for the top coat and then mixed some "intermediate blue" with some "sky blue", which was ALOT lighter and came up with the middle color which intermediate blue is SUPPOSED to look like. Here's the latest: and the canopy frames got a Tamiya tape masking after being dipped in future. No pre-cut masks here. . I painted them a coat of zinc chromate first so the interior color could be seen from the inside of the canopy and then a coat of "intermediate blue". The canopy came as two pieces: the windscreen through intermediate section and then the gunners canopy. I cut the sections apart to display the pilots sliding piece in the open position. The windscreen turned out like BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH for this painting segment so I dipped it into Windex and will start over on that part tomorrow.

That right there has been my motto for a while when building scale models(its also a reason it takes me in the upwards of 6-9 months to build one model!!! lol).

I've been checking in to that ever since that post was made here. There's a Johan thread here that I've been following and noticed some good builds to include the Turbine. The more I build and hang around places like this I'm seeing that pure skill and and bold persistence play large parts in a successful build. I'm building a Monogram SBD Dauntless right now and it's nice to have an "easy" one for a change!

Thanks Wayne! Well I glued both fuselage halves together and managed to get the top part of the fuselage painted. I went with intermediate blue because the dark sea blue was just WAY too dark I think. Any how here's the before and after pics. (I don't know why some photos come out grainy...erks me to pieces!!) Here's before: and after

Not bad at all! I used to work on these things when they were still coming into my GM dealer in Dallas. Good detail!

Man I haven't seen a JOHAN kit in years!! Probably 30 or so I think. All I can remember is trying to build one of those things when I was 14. It didn't work out too good. It would be a different story today but haven't even thought of JOHAN until I saw it on this forum.

I got a laugh out of it myself but hey, it fits!! lol

...........and its kit bashing time!! Looks like they were practically made for this kit!!

1989 Mustang LX 5.0 coupe. I don't have her any more but man that car was a lot of fun!!

Me too. must have had every 1/48 scale plane they had.

At first I thought I DID go a little heavy with the wash until I looked at my references again:

In sub-assemblies for painting but what color(s) How about High Gloss Camouflage!!!! Looking good by the way!!

Well I'm going to focus my attention for now to the lower wing and dive flaps. First off the dive flaps had a NASTY bow in them. For instance: So a pot of boiling water was in order. I ran out of tea yesterday so this is the perfect opportunity to go ahead and boil the water for that too. Any how this is the results after dunking the part for about three seconds and reshaping: It has a small twist in it, which is really easy to correct, but no bow. Now onto the wings: After a "rattle can" primer coat of Tamiya gray, I painted the wing flat white, allowed to dry and cure out, and then shot the gloss coat. After that came the insignia on the wings. First off, I forgot how old these Hasegawa decals were and after about 3 minutes under water they still didn't want to slide off the backing. They literally "broke free". I don't know how they didn't tear but they made it. Secondly it took ALOT of Microsol to get these things to conform fully into the stall slots at the end of the wing. The one on the right had a small puncture and shrunk up in the inboard slot. Guess I'll be using a little paint in that! and then another coat of gloss and the MIG productions oil based wash. I was careful not to go too overboard with it because, like I was saying a couple of posts earlier, carrier based aircraft have a really tough time getting dirty. And I moved to a better , more well lit area because taking photos at my bench just don't turn out as well. A little unorthodox approach to painting the aircraft but it'll fall together in the end. I've got my son helping me a little on this one so I'm breaking the build up into sections for his sake. I forgot to mention that I drilled out the dive flap holes. I think there were about 260 or so of these!

If its cars then Revells gonna get my vote for availability and relative ease of building. Planes....................well that's just all Eduard for me! Its just that simple for accuracy and detail. I will say, as Chillyb1 did, that Tamiya is in there too. They are fairly accurate and generally easy to build(at least with the kits that I've seen).

Whats funny is my vendors name is Patrick Ball. Man that guy must have had it rough as a kid!! LOL

I like being able to pay it out too. It's rare for me to have 100 bones laying around in my slush fund!

Youre not gonna be able to get one right off of the truck but if your vendor is cool like mine is, he'll see if Paashe is on his vendor list from Matco. I've gotten my Badger 150 and my Badger Renegade Velocity through him already. I saw this Paasche job and had to get it.