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Re: F6F-5 Hellcat (Eduard 1/72)
« Reply #195 on: December 24, 2011, 12:29:19 AM »
You are close to finish line. :-tri

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Re: F6F-5 Hellcat (Eduard 1/72)
« Reply #196 on: December 24, 2011, 12:41:05 PM »
The finish line...  ;)

Today I've first used Tamiya pastels for the smoke fumes: black for the guns; and for the exhausts I first used black then what Tamiya names "Rust" and that is in fact a nice brown. The brown is very useful; he avoids the black to be too dark and too "hard". And gives a more realistic result...

After that I painted clear varnish on the position lights; then glued the rockets (simply with a drop of clear varnish!); the wheels; the canopy (mobile part); the propeller and finally the mobile panels of the ammo box.

My daughter Mathilde helped me grandly giving me one of her beautiful very dark hair, that served for the antenna...

... And yes, it's finished now!!!

Well. I LOVE it. Eduard realised a fabulous kit, easy to assemble, fun to build. I'm really impatient to see their release of the 1/72 FAA Hellcat; that will be another great moment.

Of course, an article will follow soon  :))

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Re: F6F-5 Hellcat (Eduard 1/72)
« Reply #197 on: December 24, 2011, 12:42:02 PM »
Last photos...

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Re: F6F-5 Hellcat (Eduard 1/72)
« Reply #198 on: December 24, 2011, 12:54:23 PM »
All I can say that it is honor and pleasure to have you for friend, author, moderator...  :-ok :-razz :-love :-flo :-clap :-clap

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Re: F6F-5 Hellcat (Eduard 1/72)
« Reply #199 on: December 24, 2011, 01:05:18 PM »
Thank you my friend!  :-red :-red :-red

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Re: F6F-5 Hellcat (Eduard 1/72)
« Reply #200 on: December 24, 2011, 01:51:20 PM »
All I can say that it is honor and pleasure to have you for friend, author, moderator...  :-ok :-razz :-love :-flo :-clap :-clap
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Re: F6F-5 Hellcat (Eduard 1/72)
« Reply #201 on: December 24, 2011, 01:57:42 PM »
Thank you Sall! ;)

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Re: F6F-5 Hellcat (Eduard 1/72)
« Reply #202 on: December 24, 2011, 02:18:18 PM »
Excellent! The finish, weathering, everything is superb! :-clap :-clap :-ok The chipping on the prop looks really great!
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Re: F6F-5 Hellcat (Eduard 1/72)
« Reply #203 on: December 24, 2011, 02:27:56 PM »
Thank you Ernie!

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Re: F6F-5 Hellcat (Eduard 1/72)
« Reply #204 on: December 24, 2011, 05:34:52 PM »

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Re: F6F-5 Hellcat (Eduard 1/72)
« Reply #205 on: December 24, 2011, 05:37:29 PM »
Very nice!! :-clap

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Re: F6F-5 Hellcat (Eduard 1/72)
« Reply #206 on: December 24, 2011, 05:43:49 PM »
Hi,

Excellent rendering at the end of an amazing work.
Only one detail : on many cases (look at the photos) very hot fumes rendered the Dark Sea Blue with white stains.

Cheers,

Jicehem  :-wave

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Re: F6F-5 Hellcat (Eduard 1/72)
« Reply #207 on: December 24, 2011, 05:46:42 PM »
Beautiful little Hellcat, Draken!  :-ok :-love :-jump :-cool :-tri


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Re: F6F-5 Hellcat (Eduard 1/72)
« Reply #208 on: December 25, 2011, 01:45:56 PM »
Thank you all!

Jicéhem, thanks for the tip, I will take it into account when I will build the FAA version...