Jump to content

blackwidowmaker

Members
  • Content Count

    10
  • Joined

  • Last visited

About blackwidowmaker

  • Rank
    Snap-Together

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

  1. One more question: what is the rational of using a coffee filter for the buffing instead of say kitchen towel or some soft cloth?
  2. I have recently become a big fan of "Kit sprues dissolved in Tamiya extra thin cement" as a filler. At the beginning of a build I take a small glass jar, put in some pieces of the sprues together with some liquid cement and then put a lid on it and let it dissolve over night. The advantages: 1.) you can apply it with a brush and control viscosity by the amount of cement you add. 2.) It literally melts with the plastic and has the same hardness which makes it perfect for sanding/scribing 3.) I found it to cure faster than other puttys except for super glue. It can be sanded within an
  3. Amazing work! Just a heads up, if you want to build a plane after the 2012ish time frame (could also be 15, can't remember right now from the top of my hat) there were two rather visible oxygen bottles installed behind the seat. Oh and I would strongly recommend getting some aftermarket decals - the lighter grey on the Hasegawa markings is very off. Either you manage to find some old Two Bobs (long out of print) sheets somewhere or you wait for the upcoming Caracal Decals sheet (I asked them late April about the potential release date and the answer was "at least 3 months away").
  4. Yupp dark gull grey is the right one. Got the two mixed up
  5. The metallic blue green is completely off - that used to be the color of the avionics bay of A model eagles. By now that bay is white in all fighter eagle. For the mudhen this color was never used in the pit. There you got your standard dark ghost grey interior up til the canopy sill, from there everything is flat black (or even better some version of scale black) The color of the cushion changes and fades very frequently and you can commonly see different colors on the seat and on the back cushion. Everything between olive to a sand color. In the recent years black sheep skin cushions have be
×
×
  • Create New...