lesthegringo Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Guys, my well meaning but slightly misguided wife has given me one of the Jasmine photo etch F6F-5 'kits' as a birthday present. She had seen me poring over a build of one over on Britmodeller and showing pictures of it to the kids and assumed that I would like one - without realising my utter fear of photo etch! However, it was a present and I wouldn't want to disappoint her by not making it or giving it away, so I will try my best to make it, although I'm not confident of a very good result. I intend to paint the structure in chromate primer, with cockpit green in the cockpit area and then paint the engine, visible and accessories in their representative colours - that's more traditional modelling where I feel I am on safer ground. Painting the photo etched structure may also allow me the chance to hide and screw-ups that I will almost inevitably make, plus using a scan of the frets may be able to replace any bits I destroy beyond recovery with sheet styrene replacements. I'm still very nervous about the whole thing though. Looking at the included resin (not sure if it is, but suspect so) parts that depict the engine and so forth, they are fairly poor quality. The nose cowl is also cast in resin, but again has a lot of casting inclusions. I suspect that the parts from the Aires F6F detailing set, and maybe even the Eduard engine may be useable to improve these areas, however the undercarriage and nose cowl parts are not included in any of these sets. I don't know which kit Jasmine used to base the parts on, other than to say they are definitely not Eduard parts (compared it with the one in my stash). I don't know if any of you guys are able to confirm which one it is? If I can identify it I may try and get aftermarket bits for that kit to substitute the originals. I would love to be confident enough to post a work in progress build, but alas I am really quite pessimistic about it due to all the photo etch. Still, I will give it a go and you never know, it may turn out half decent! In the meantime, any help and suggestions from you all would be warmly received Cheers Les Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mlicari Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Good luck, Les! The finished product of that kit sure looks impressive. Take your time and have fun! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lesthegringo Posted April 4, 2016 Author Share Posted April 4, 2016 Thanks milcari. In the end I decided it would help push me if I did make it a WIP thread so I started one over on BM. Hope I can do it justice. Still interested to know what kit they used for the bits Les Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lesthegringo Posted April 24, 2017 Author Share Posted April 24, 2017 Over a year on, and I'm happy to say that finally I have finished this The full WIP is on the Britmodeller site if you are interested in this rather masochistic model! Les Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Silenoz Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 looking really good, instead of fear of PE, you have overcome it... I'm busy tackling the same one, and hope to get it at least half as good as this one... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dekon70 Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 Wow! Outstanding build! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jester292 Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 That build is incredible. Nicely done! Surely I never would have seen it through. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Slartibartfast Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Congratulations for completing that beast. It indeed looks the part. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lesthegringo Posted April 25, 2017 Author Share Posted April 25, 2017 Thanks for all the nice comments! One thing that is not evident from the pictures is the size of it. It is 1/48th, so actually quite small - here's a picture with a Gunze paint jar for size comparison Cheers Les Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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