LetLetLet ~ Warplanes
Let Let Let - Warplanes => Aircraft Modeling => Topic started by: No.1 on April 08, 2011, 08:40:00 PM
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Greetings all,
must relax somehow and good way is to take kit and do it with minimum brain use. Best choice is the Airmodel (Frank-Modellbau) kit of Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg in 1/48 scale. This is full resin kit with minimum number of parts but as well through canopy could be seen something I have decided to add some minimum details. From the available images I have find inside nice red brown color which is used as primer and left in this state. First thing I have to do is to sand all parts with 320 grit sanding paper and then spray it with black paint as primer. Obviously even my spray can don't want to work today so it blown a strong coat of paint... but did not make any problem.
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wow!nice,nice,nice :-love
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Thank you ;) Some more images from cockpit progress
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More work on this simple kit :-razz
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Extra!!!
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Thank you :) Kit get powerplant at the top :))
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Very interesting topic,and fast work! :)) :-clap :-clap
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Thank you, here it is with cockpit on ;)
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This day is dedicated for the painting. Source machine is Fieseler Fi-103R photographed in summer 1945 outside Continental hotel, Antwerp (SHAEF display). Other two images show protection work on canopy and first coat of RLM83 color. No idea what color could be, even options with early greens are possible.
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Splendid...
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I like to do all with archive images as background ;)
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Great,great! :-clap :-clap :-clap
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This is completed in the moment, in the morning I will take an images of the completed kit. This in attach is the final steps in camouflage painting ;)
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Great effect!Great,great job!! :-clap :-clap :-clap
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Thank you :)) Will see better images in the morning ;)
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I really like it!!!
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Me too. It's looking great!
I'm in the middle of reading an excellent book titled Thunder Gods about the Ohka program and pilots in Japan. This build sort of fits into that reading assignment, though I realize the Luftwaffe pilots were supposed to have the option of jumping out of the Fi-103 from what I've been told.
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With engine above their heads I hardly believe that they could be able to do that. Anyway kit is somehow completed, I did not find any image to complete bomb head color and I am a little low of concentration to paint metal panel under cockpit. Thanks to Nico for this beautiful kit :-razz
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Not evident to jump due to the engine position, but it was effectively a possibility given to the pilot to jump just before the explosion of the Reichenberg. The pilot have to wait until the engine shut off (out of fuel) and then there were less risks...
Congratulations for the build, mate!
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Nice opinion about engine operation... who knows. Thanks for comment ;)
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Not evident to jump due to the engine position, but it was effectively a possibility given to the pilot to jump just before the explosion of the Reichenberg. The pilot have to wait until the engine shut off (out of fuel) and then there were less risks...
Congratulations for the build, mate!
Yes, that is essentially what I remember reading about the procedure.
Nicely done, No.1!
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Thank you :)
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Great airbrushing.Was this done using acrylics?
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Thank you :)) Yes, I use acrylic paints so job was done in less then two hours
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I must learn how to use them.So far I tried gunze and MM.I must have done something wrong but they did not flow easy trough the AB.I have 0.2mm veda 180 airbrush so I think there must be something that I don't do like it should be done.I thinned them with alcohol but with no succes.
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I'm still learning acrylics also. I have had the same problems with the airbrush flow on both the Badger and Paasche brushes. When I get the paint thin enough to spray evenly it is too thin for coverage. Practice makes perfect, I suppose!
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Add just 25% of alcohol and they will work well.
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Good work Srecko!! :-clap :-clap
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Thank you ;)
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Hey,hey, hey! This is something I like. :-ok :-ok :-ok Wonderful work :-clap :-clap :-clap :-clap :-clap :-clap :-wave
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Thank you :))