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Alonzo Fonzo

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  1. Great Plane, and very good painting! Love your desk too, looks exactly like mine :) So little place to work...
  2. Your P-38 looks great (both of them)! Thanks for the link!
  3. Thanks! To get good results its important to use strips equal in width (I found a 2,5mm wide Tamyia-like tape at my hobby store). Cover the whole surface you want to paint with strips next to each other and then remove every 2nd to get equal distances between the squares. The rest is shown in my photos...
  4. Today I painted a lot of little blue squares :unsure: The blue is a little bit darker than it appears on these photos.
  5. I built an A6 of the Nightfighter Dual Combo boxing. The assembly of the nose with the engine is a little bit difficult, its really important to work exact in that area. The gun bays also need some putty if you choose to close it.
  6. I also used acrylic colors for washing (Vallejo Color) until I found at the local hobby shop water thinnable oil colors (Lukas). They work great and don´t smell (no terpentine needed)! The color also don´t need much time to dry. My normally used mixture is burnt umber and black in various quantities of both colors. One strange thing tough you need terpentine to clean the brush
  7. Here are two pictures of the completed multi-shade aluminium finish: I used various Alclad II Colors, next step will be the difficult part: airbrushing the checkerboard pattern on the radiator intakes!
  8. A small update: After a lot of filling and sanding i sprayed a gloss dark grey basecoat on the model: Now its time to cover the P-38 in Alclad colors:
  9. No I don´t spray it. It is quite a thick fluid. I brush it in one stroke with a big soft brush (only a very thin layer). It seems that the liquid decal film doesn´t affect my ink (Canon original ink). With brushing an acrylic clear coat i had indeed problems. I don´t have experience with the Testors sealant, Testors stuff is nearly impossible to get here in austria
  10. I am also a beginner in terms of using self made decals! I use for decal making my old inkjet printer (at least 10 years old!) and clear or white decal paper. I usually make a test print on plain paper (I use a text writer program for positioning and resizing of the images) and as the next step I attach a small piece of decal paper over the test print and put the paper back again into the printer. I always print with the highest quality setting. With inkjet printers it is important to seal the water-soluble ink. I tried Future, Clear acrylic paint and microscale decal film. The first two d
  11. Looks great! ;) I am working on a F4F too. Always good to get some inspiration!
  12. Yes, the Decal is home made. It was printed on clear inkjet decal paper and sealed with microscale liquid decal film.
  13. I finished the assembly of the main parts, a lot of filling and sanding will be required I also made an decal test of the nose art decal on my old Brewster Buffalo test platform:
  14. Today I painted the wheel wells: (The picture looks a little bit dark, the color is zinc chromate yellow)
  15. Thanks! I used Gunze (Acrylics) H58 Interior Green as base color, applied a washing as above stated and for drybrushing i used Vallejo Color Japan Uniform and Tamyia flat aluminium.
  16. Yesterday i applied a washing of Vallejo black, burnt umbra pigment some drops of soap (to destroy the surface tension) and a lot of water mixture: After drybrushing with Tamiya and Vallejo colors i finished the cockpit. I really like those tiny eduard Photoetched parts
  17. Greetings from Austria! I discovered the Entries Thread today. I joined the Group Build two days ago with a Hasegawa 1/48 P-38 Lightning. I will build an USAAF Lightning in natural metal finish with selfmade decals/painted on markings. hope you like it :)
  18. A small update: I started with the cockpit assembly
  19. Hi! This is my first Group Build ever (and my first post in this Forum too!). I started my Hasegawa 1/48 Lockheed P-38 Lightning today. I am not sure yet, but I think I will build The P-38L Billy´s Filly from 12th FS. I started painting the Cocpit area in Interior Green (Gunze Color):
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