recently finished!

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Hi all

At last I seem to have worked out how to upload pics, so here are a couple of pics of two recently finished 1/48 planes

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The Hurri is the Hasegawa Mk. 1 with a resin prop from Hannants and mixing and matching decals to make a pre 1940 Mk. 1. I think the colours are accurate but they might not be.Painted with Humbrol 150ml spray cans

The Fw-190A-5 is the Eduard Weekend Edition, around 10 quid a bloody bargain you get a very decent bmw 801 engine, choice of tyres and loads of other details. I scratch built some details in the open wing gun bays and the nose guns. I weathered the aircraft using tamiya sets. All handpainted, no hairbrushing. This is my favourite kit, but it would be cos it's the last one i finished!

Well lets hope the picture attachment work. If they do I'll be boring you all with more!!

Saul

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[Guest]

Hi all At last I seem to have worked out how to upload pics, so here are a couple of pics of two recently finished 1/48 planes

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The Hurri is the Hasegawa Mk. 1 with a resin prop from Hannants and mixing and matching decals to make a pre 1940 Mk. 1. I think the colours are accurate but they might not be.Painted with Humbrol 150ml spray cans

The Fw-190A-5 is the Eduard Weekend Edition, around 10 quid a bloody bargain you get a very decent bmw 801 engine, choice of tyres and loads of other details. I scratch built some details in the open wing gun bays and the nose guns. I weathered the aircraft using tamiya sets. All handpainted, no hairbrushing. This is my favourite kit, but it would be cos it's the last one i finished!

Well lets hope the picture attachment work. If they do I'll be boring you all with more!!

Saul

Nice work mate, well done. Lets see some more.

Andy

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Right then here are some more pics

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The Seahawk is the Trumpeter 1/48

cheers all, Saul

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[John]

Nice models, and great detailing, I've not done aircraft for ages but I'm off work next week and got nothing planned so might have a wander down to the local model shop

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The Seahawk is the Trumpeter 1/48

cheers all, Saul

Outstanding mate. Well done, im very impressed.

Andy

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outstanding ,really like the Focke Wulf details

[stona]

Nice jobs there Saul. Like the scheme on the 190, I'm guessing it's one of those strange field applied Eastern ones!

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

That's extremely impressive, well done. I'll never be that good.

Did you make the seatbelts? They look like real leather in the pictures.

[Guest]

All thumbs way up Saul!

I also use the tape technique for seatbelts, but just paint on the buckles, my eyes may be good enough to pass my PPL flight medical, but fall way short of this kind of detail!!

Now for a realy dumb question re the paint on the FW 190. The edges of the paint does'nt look like the airbrushing edge I am use to seeing.Was it aplied using drybrushing?

The reason I ask is that I have tended to stay away from Luftwaffe WW2 planes as I could never get the "mottle" cammo spots on the fuselarge right :-(, an airbrushed spot just does'nt look like the pix of full size Me 109 or 262's.

If it was drybrushud it openes up a whole new range of planes I can build as I do'nt own a good airbrush for fine work.Just a cheapy to do larce base collours.

Your imput is eagerly awaited.

Regards

Theuns

Sout Africa

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Hi Theuns

Yes you are right, I dry-brushed it on. What you can do is cut a small brush down so that the bristles are maybe 3 or 4 millimetres long, and use that to sort of blob on and blur the paint edges. It works a treat for that old Luftwaffe mottling! It just needs a little practice, like everything!

It means, like you say, that you can attempt many more planes than you thought...Happy Days!

I agree with you about the airbrush not looking quite right on the Luftwaffe mottling. I saw a 1/48 He-219 at a model show in RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset a few years ago, a really lovely made kit and all, but let down a bit, I felt , by the airbrushed mottle spots, you could see where the paont had first hit and then spread out. It did have feathered edges, but the middle bit of each mottle did not look consistent...(at this point I wish I had a picture to illustrate my point!

Anyway, I have made the same kit and just did a hard edge mottle as a result of that traumatic Yeovilton experience

Glad to be of help, good luck with it all, looking forward to some pics

Cheers, Saul

[stona]

I agree with you about the airbrush not looking quite right on the Luftwaffe mottling. I saw a 1/48 He-219 at a model show in RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset a few years ago, a really lovely made kit and all, but let down a bit, I felt , by the airbrushed mottle spots, you could see where the paont had first hit and then spread out. It did have feathered edges, but the middle bit of each mottle did not look consistent...(at this point I wish I had a picture to illustrate my point!

Cheers, Saul

Hi chaps, at 1/48 or larger you can achieve a convincing mottle with an airbrush. You do need a good brush capable of fine work. I build the mottle spots or lines up gradually with well thinned paint, this should avoid the problem described above. Remember you can also tidy up around the mottling with the base colour to "tighten" everything up. It takes practice, I had to crack it as Luftwaffe was (and still is) very much my thing!

Your Fw 190 shows that there is more than one way of skinning a cat. Early in the war as demarcation lines between upper and lower colours were lowered many units applied their own "mottling". This was sometimes sprayed but also stippled by brush (or broom) and even applied with rags- a technique popular with interior decorators in the 90s!

On many aircraft, particularly later in the war, the mottles or streaks vary widely from one machine to another. I think there are as many variations as there were spray guns and sprayers. Sometimes there is so much overspray that there is little differentiation between the colours whereas on another machine you may see quite hard edged "blobs".

The good thing is that there is no right or wrong - unless you have a good reference for a particular aircraft to work from.

For me it makes for a more interesting paint job than your standard (fairly) British A/B schemes or similar. Doesn't stop me doing them though!

Cheers

Steve

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Thanx Saul, I was "offline" for a week due to poor internet service delivery!

I will most definately try a ME 109 or so in 1/48 in the near future and try your idea.

I am now busy with a 1/72 PBY 5 Catalina in the Dutch Indies Collours of WW2 that operated from South Africa as part of the RAF long range maratime patroll.

Theuns