Just recently finished this one. I've learned a lot from my other 1/48 scale aeroplane kit.
This time I've done a much better job hiding the seam on the wings (and most other seams between plastic pieces) and I've made the plane look a lot more grimy using pigments.
The kit itself is excellent and It's nearly OOB. The only parts where I've deviated from the instructions and kit-provided pieces are the pitot tube, which I've made out of an aluminium tube and the red stars. The stars are almost always provided as a red star on a white background with a red border.
I've decided to cut out only the red star and paint a silver background instead, based on this picture.
There's clearly no thin red border and I believe the background is silver, because it appears darker on this picture than the white '15'.
The biggest error I made while building is when I drilled a hole for the pitot tube, the seam between the upper and lower piece of the wing cracked and is now quite visible. I'll make sure to be more careful next time I do something like that.
My camera doesn't handle close ups very well, but at least it's a peek at the many PE parts in the cockpit. :P
This time I've done a much better job hiding the seam on the wings (and most other seams between plastic pieces) and I've made the plane look a lot more grimy using pigments.
The kit itself is excellent and It's nearly OOB. The only parts where I've deviated from the instructions and kit-provided pieces are the pitot tube, which I've made out of an aluminium tube and the red stars. The stars are almost always provided as a red star on a white background with a red border.
I've decided to cut out only the red star and paint a silver background instead, based on this picture.
There's clearly no thin red border and I believe the background is silver, because it appears darker on this picture than the white '15'.
The biggest error I made while building is when I drilled a hole for the pitot tube, the seam between the upper and lower piece of the wing cracked and is now quite visible. I'll make sure to be more careful next time I do something like that.
My camera doesn't handle close ups very well, but at least it's a peek at the many PE parts in the cockpit. :P
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