Thadeus
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Hornets, Hornets everywhere!
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So, the paint is on! I chose the boxart Italeri scheme as a first one, thinking it would be easier. Luckilly for me, the 114 is quite well photographed, so I was able to check wheter Italeri painting diagram was any good. And it was quite good. I did a few mistakes, along the way, especially on the paint demarcation on the fins and right wing. There still is a slight mismatch by the right upper intake. And with metallics on. I'm quite happy with the bottle of H305 36118 that I bought. It looked almost spot on, apart from the lack of blueish tint which I ach
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1/48th Hasegawa F-16DM, 89-2178, Blk 40, 510th FS, circa 2022
Thadeus replied to A-10 LOADER's topic in In-Progress Pics
Looks great with a touch of colour 😉 -
Apparently, these are the best shots I took of the cockpit in Italeri MiG. The Part PE pieces were quite nice, with some fine relief and details. I just couldn't make heads or tails with their instructions. The front IP panel was the hardest for me and I evetually just cut them up a bit and glued them to the plastic panel. And didn't add the radar screen untill much later. Some filler was needed at the fins, but this is basicly normal procedure here. On the inside and outside. This time I chose to install the wings to make the joint line
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Hello there! My next project is something I've been thinking for about a few months. I've been really wanting do build something with polish checkerboards on wings and tail. And while a Viper would be nice (considering my dual 1/48 Viper build), I do have one in 1/48, and for my previous build I did not really plan to build the old Kinetic block 52 Viper. Or convert Tamiya kit. But a MiG-29 in Polish colours does sound quite lovelly. Plus I kind of need some quicker builds to meet the 12 kits/year quota. Italeri was an obvious choice, as I've not had an "NATO" schemed MiG-29 f
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1/48 RAAF BAE Systems Hawk 127 - HobbyBoss (First build in 8 years!)
Thadeus replied to Freakneek's topic in In-Progress Pics
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Whoooa this looks nice. +1 on the Gypsy 210. This scheme is just lovelly. Lo-vis but still a bit flashy. And kind of a contrast to most "boring" MiG Killers VF-32 jets (like the one I'm going to build one day 😉 ). Can't wait for some more.
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Thank You very much. As I've said before, Norwegian Vipers are my second favourite. It's just that I've never though I'd have the blue adversary Viper. It was never in the plans. The brown one was. Interesting. And since I'm on the Kinetic Old topic. I managed to glue the HUD. And during first (actually a second?) attempt it went flying across the room. That Viper did not want to have it's HUD part.
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Thank You very much! Thank You very much! If I could only get that guy that keeps putting these bumps there. Oh, wait. That's me. Don't You just love self imposed trouble? I'm surprised this post worked too. And I've been posting it for about two hours. In the meantime I washed the kids, cleaned the house, all the fun stuff. Perhaps that had something to do with the post working 😉 Thank You very much Gianni! I'm starting to get a bit full of myself, as I'm really happy with how the Tamiya and Kinetic Gold ones came out. As in they came o
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Camo came out amazing. Love the little details You add to the build, both in painting and in plastic.
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Apparently, the nose of A-10 is pretty hard to get right. The Trumpeter always reminded me of Italeri's 1/72 scale nose. Nice work.
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Nice work. There is a lot of it as I can see. For the intakes, You could try miliput or some other similar stuff. And if it doesn't meet the intake front parts You could perhaps push them into the still curing miliput, and remove them after a while.
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1/48th Hasegawa F-16DM, 89-2178, Blk 40, 510th FS, circa 2022
Thadeus replied to A-10 LOADER's topic in In-Progress Pics
Nice! Very nice! Can't wait for some decals. -
Part two Couple of notes, then some pics, then a quick summary. I'll see if Server Gods will allow this post 😉 Overall, I'm quite happy with all three kits. The biggest headache was... You know... I can't really tell. I don't think I've been doing a single project for this long in several years. I didn't have anything on the bench in the meantime (apart from a 1/144 Tomcat that just sits primed and a 1/72 F-22 that... sits primed for a long time). I tried really hard not to rush things, but I failed in a few places. I added nothing to the gear bays. I made a lot o
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Hello there. As planned here is the ejection seat comparison. As it turned out, my planned ejection seat (quickboost) did not fit in the Kinetic Old kit. It was too wide. A very quick backup plan was set in motion, and Kinetic Old kit got Kinetic Gold seat. Luckilly that one fit like a glove! Only problem I encountered was that I must have thrown out, or otherwise misplaced the PE fret from my Eduard 3d printed cockpit set. There was additional set of PE seatbelts and other ejection seat stuff. So I had to do with what I had. Luckilly, Eduards 3d printed seat for the Kinetic G
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1/48th Hasegawa F-16DM, 89-2178, Blk 40, 510th FS, circa 2022
Thadeus replied to A-10 LOADER's topic in In-Progress Pics
Nice progress. Keep up the great work. It somehow feels weird to see the HGV paint so brownish. Most modellers I've seen were doing some variation of blueish grays.