Gambler Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 Nuno, your 109 is looking superb so far!! Absolutetly beautiful paintwork. Excellent! Cheers, Jeff. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nuno Andresen Posted April 5, 2009 Author Share Posted April 5, 2009 Guys! Thank you, many thanks indeed for your kind words! Just go now to do some spray pattern over the fuselage sides. Still have to decide whether I shall stencil the aircraft or not. wish me luck! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nuno Andresen Posted April 5, 2009 Author Share Posted April 5, 2009 Decal time Main markings in place: And main wing colours blended together: Yellow is quite fragile, so I will do the blending in the end. Main markings will be faded later. For now, time to do some mottling spray around the markings. Have an excellent week folks! Cheers! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BrianB Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Terrific job so far Nuno! The paint job is superb and I've gotten a bunch of ideas for dealing with the engine. Thank you for sharing your build. Very Best Regards...BB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FrankC Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Terrific paint job Nuno - you are well on your way to done! Great looking model - I can't wait to see it finished. Regards, Frank Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jack-Swiss Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Fantastic I really like also the different way you approach the paintjob...you mottle after decals have been applied, very interesting!!! Well, I can only wait for the next update!!! Cheers Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nuno Andresen Posted April 16, 2009 Author Share Posted April 16, 2009 Guys, you are all fantastic! Many thanks for your supperb feedback. Time for an update now, but please, if your heart is weak, don't read and move along. Sometimes, the path from place "A" to place "B" is not a straight line as we wish Time to do some mottling now, and by the way, why did I placed the decals first? Well, Lynn Ritger presented me this photograph of the real subject, also visible in the book Jagdwaffe - Strike in the Balkans but not as large: Clearly the mottling was done AFTER the main markings were in place. Therefore I decided to do the same way. A little masking fluid and a steady hand are all that is needed: And then the mottling: Also some light stains already in place: Pretty easy to do, right? :-) Well, by the time I lifted the masks, one of the decals was pulled away. Probably my fault, I may not have sprayed localized varnish in that marking as I did in the others: So, I printed some decals with bars. My friends like to call these "Andresen Decals" :lol: Each time an issue occurs, these decals arrive to save messes. You may note an unusual number of bars to replace a single one. All these bars seem identical but they are not. Each pair is 0,1mm bigger both in length and height than the previous one. I made this to match completely the original decal, as measurements with a 0,1mm are hard to get: By these moments, a long time friend asked me: "Why did you choose so ugly markings?" And I replied "Ugly?, for me they are pretty beautiful". And then he told me again "Have you ever seen the starboard side of this same plane? Check the previous volume of the Jagdwaffe Series" So I did! I almost collapsed when I saw the photograph: An awful paintjob! And I thought mine was so good looking: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nuno Andresen Posted April 16, 2009 Author Share Posted April 16, 2009 So!!! What could I do now! I don't have the guts to do such the mess they did in my own model! Simultaneously this guy and others alerted me there was the missing squadron insignia in both sides just bellow the cockpit. Even if there is a photograph in the mentioned "Strike in the Balkans" showing the aircraft without this insignia. Well ... I waited some days until I decided what to do next! I really wanted a yellow nosed Emil ... but I didn't want a messy painted Emil. Therefore (and I warned you!!!) I disassembled the model and I sanded away the fuselage: All detail was gone too: Why no oven cleaner? Simply because I didn't wanted to paint once again the engine, the cockpit and the complete wing :lol: So ... old fashioned coarse sandpaper did the job! After hand scribing, fuselage was attached once again to ... a painted wing! And everything was ready again to the painting job: Priming for the second time: But some truly nasty areas to blend completely: Now the basic coat is in place once again, and the wing tips completely restored: And a second mottling pattern was created. This time, the scheme I chose, it is clearly once again in the book "Strike in the Balkans" that this mottling job does not contour the main markings. So this second time it was a conventional painting task: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nuno Andresen Posted April 16, 2009 Author Share Posted April 16, 2009 Now the main decals in place: Coincidently, these were the markings I wanted to do first. I only chose the first ones because this "Yellow 12" will need a later windscreen. And this is a part not available in this box of the Eduard Emil. Dang! A Yellow nosed Emil is so pretty good looking: and this one with a yellow tail looks stunningly good! At last! Ready to do the final steps! :lol: And ready to fly! I ordered an inexpensive vacuum formed Squadron Canopy designed for the Hasegawa kit. I'll wait a little to see if it fits this Eduard Model. If not, I'll wait until the appearance of the Eduard E7. But for now, time to weather a little bit this model and time too to finish everything ... except that late canopy windscreen! Cheers friends! Isn’t modelling wonderful: You buy one kit ... you build it twice! :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nesher Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Wow, a real act of courage what you did Simply stunning, m8... well worth the effort Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulo Jose Simas Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 B-E-A-U-TIFUL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jack-Swiss Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Maaaan...you're out of mind indeed!!!!!! amazing recovery...this is one of the best recovery I've ever seen...I would never have the courage to do such thing!!!! Cheers Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Se7en Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Amazing Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gambler Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 WOW Nuno!!! That is some amazing work.What a re-work, there is no way I could have put myself through that! Absolutetly top notch work mate!....it is a stunning model Cheers, Jeff. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kasatka Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 niiiiiice friends =) Beautiful paintjob, Nuno! Looks very realistic! The only thing which strucks me is the ailerons. The imitation of fabric looks absolutely awful! I know this is not your fault but Eduard's, so no blame on you =) But, may be .. although it might be too late.. you could have at least sand those "ribs" done. Looks unrealistic and makes overall impression of the model less attractive. Cheers! Sergey Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LaNdStOrM Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Out of your mind! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nuno Andresen Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 Guys, really thanks for your astonishing motivation! You are really remarkable! Thank you, thank you for your feed back! May I just give Sergey my thoughts too: niiiiiice friends =) Beautiful paintjob, Nuno! Looks very realistic! The only thing which strucks me is the ailerons. The imitation of fabric looks absolutely awful! I know this is not your fault but Eduard's, so no blame on you =) But, may be .. although it might be too late.. you could have at least sand those "ribs" done. Looks unrealistic and makes overall impression of the model less attractive. Cheers! Sergey You are right Sergey. I placed several coats of thick primmer to minimize the engravings of the ailerons to tone down the effect. But I'm still not completely happy with them. I may cut them and make new pieces myself. I have several Eduard kits in my bench to do, so it may be now the right time. Thanks for your words! In the meantime, as I chose to do an E1 version with an E4 frontal canopy fitted, I purchased a Squadron Signal clear vacuum canopy. It fits: Frontal gun cover ARC doesn’t shape well, but who cares! I have mine ready to place there! It’s time now to chop this canopy in four pieces. See you guys! And trully many thanks for your inspiring words! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cemical Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 nice camo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kagemusha Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Beautiful, much nicer scheme you've ended up with, looking forward to more! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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