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Messerschmidt Me-262A-1a, 1/48t Tamyia


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10 hours ago, Joel_W said:

Janne,

   Looks great, as you work is up to your usual high standards. I'm still amazed at how fast you're going through this build. 

   Following builds like yours and my brother is keeping my aircraft modeling Mojo up as I'm planning on building a PBY-5A after the Lotus Type 72E crosses the finish line, but compared to you, I work at a true snail's pace.

Joel

Got this build up to speed now... we shall see what the clock stops at... lots of sanding and filling going down right now

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Not really much to show for todays update...I´ve been sanding and rescribing mostly.
A chore that has to be done none the less.

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Just to have something to show I glued on the wings, they took a little tweaking to get in place but once there they just snapped into place.

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Dry fitted the main gears and and engine nacells...haven´t really decided on wether to glue the nacells after painting or before painting....any thoughts on that?
Standing steady though.

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Cheers!

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 Janne,

  Personally, I'd glue on as much as I can before I paint. I'm always concerned about the once perfect dry fit is no longer perfect due to paint build up. Also, getting some excess glue where it doesn't belong, and worse, it shows up like a sore thumb.

Joel

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2 hours ago, Joel_W said:

 Janne,

  Personally, I'd glue on as much as I can before I paint. I'm always concerned about the once perfect dry fit is no longer perfect due to paint build up. Also, getting some excess glue where it doesn't belong, and worse, it shows up like a sore thumb.

Joel

Hmmm....good point

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Very well..

I glued on the nacells...needed a bit of convincing.

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And the exhausts...

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Going to be a closed canopy on this... I started with glueing on the windscreen.

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the rear.... 

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Now things look ready for masking for the primer.

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The foam plastic you get in eduard and Aires sets are perfect to cut into adaptable masks.

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There all ready for primer!

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Cheers!
 

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Back to the 262 after editing pictures for a while 😛


It is time for paint!


I started with painting the canopy frames in XF-63 or RLM66 if you wish.

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After a bit of podering since my grey primer was finished I decided to try out this fashionable black basing technique 😄
So I painted it black...well it is Alclad black primer.

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Mottled with RLM76

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The I put down thin thin layers of paint until I was happy with it.

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Then I decided to hand paint the splinter scheme using my Iwata Micron-B...I haven´t used it in a while so I thought we´d get reaquainted 😄
I shot the light green RLM83

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Now I´ll let it rest until tomorrow...

Cheers!
 

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Janne,

  I'm really impressed with your Black Basing. The results once the basic color coats went on really have that random fading & weathering effect. As for your Camo scheme, I'd say that your reacquaintance with your  Micron-B was well worth the effort.

 

Joel

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2 hours ago, Joel_W said:

Janne,

  I'm really impressed with your Black Basing. The results once the basic color coats went on really have that random fading & weathering effect. As for your Camo scheme, I'd say that your reacquaintance with your  Micron-B was well worth the effort.

 

Joel

Thanx Joel 😄

not that confident in black basing I prefer my preshade techniques to tell the truth 😄

 

 

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18 minutes ago, Mr.Happy said:

Aigore,

 

First : Great  job on your paint work camouflage 😲👍😎

 

Second : What brand of paint are you using for the RLM colors

 

It’s coming along very nicely.

 

Mr.Happy (In name only)

Thanx Mr.H 😄

I use Lifecolor acrylics.

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4 minutes ago, kurnass77 said:

Exquisite job my friend!

I like a lote the image with the mottled black primer...

 

Gianni

Thanx Gianni 🙂

I prefer my usual preshade....gray basing if you will 😛 took like forever to paint a thin paint on top of black.

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Just now, Aigore said:

Thanx Gianni 🙂

I prefer my usual preshade....gray basing if you will 😛 took like forever to paint a thin paint on top of black.

I undertand perfectly and subscribe your feel.

As you know,I'm also a figure painterr and many guys prefer,especially for the 28mm miniatures,use a black primer.But the painting process took almost double time to be finished.

And even worst with the airbrush;I'm currently painting a Sideshow Hulk,and after mistakenly using a too dark green for the base,i prefer respray the whole baby (!) with Tamiya rattlecan and start shadopwing with the airbrush,more simple and more quick!

 

 

Gianni

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Janne,

   Decaling looks great. From the little I know about Me262s, they really took a beating out in the field. Restores aircraft look brand new. So the decision is really up to you as to the type of aircraft you want to display.

Joel

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