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Warplane Art / Sea Dart

« on: May 19, 2006, 09:28:01 PM »

Interesting project of fighter plane

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Let Let Let Announcment / Re: Ne site list

« on: May 16, 2006, 07:28:03 AM »

www.micro-wings.com   various items for sale

http://www.aumodelisme.com   plastic kits for sale

http://www.hm-sport.net   Croatian hobby shop, located in Zagreb

http://www.modellbu.de   modeling web site from Germany

http://www.launchpadspacecraft.com    spacecraft and how to built it

 

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Warplane Art / Blade over Pacific

« on: May 11, 2006, 09:07:37 PM »

My latest color art

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Let Let Let Announcment / New site list

« on: May 04, 2006, 08:58:35 AM »

http://tdmf.borg-collective.nl forum from Holland

http://www.modelshark.republika.pl Sci fi and airplanes model galleryes

http://spacecraftkits.com Spacecrafts

http://passion-helices.fr WW2 aircraft kit's

http://www.HistoricAviation.com Merchandise place with airplanes in focus

http://www.sundownermodels.com Die cast models and many more

http://www.hobbytown.com This is a chain of 129 hobby shops

http://www.semodels.com  Rare nad new scale kit

http://www.toymart.com Auction site with scale models included

http://www.plasticoymetal.com Detailed scale parts

http://www.aviationmegastore.com Aviation megastore located in Holland

http://mgdmodels.com.sapo.pt Scale modeles site from Portugal

http://www.vietnamhobby.com Hobby shop from Vietnam

http://www.Borima-Modellbau.de Sitte from Germany, conversion sets, airbrushes...

http://www.modellismo.com Shop from Italy with over 15000 of products

http://www.allmodelkit.com Aircrafts, tools, books...

http://www.model-shop24.com Models, tools, accesories, good prices

http://www.scalemodels-bg.com Bulgarian site, forum

http://www.tdmf.nl Discussion, news, sale, site from Holland

http://allmodelkit.com Online shop from Italy

http://www.orientalhobby.com  Online shop from China

http://www.jadar.com.pl  Manufacturer of etched parts and detail sets from Poland

http://davesbikespage.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk  Mail order shop from the UK

http://two.fsphost.com/TSMC Model club from Australia

http://www.macarthurscalemodellers.com  Model club from Australia

http://www.hobbyshed.co.uk  All about the modeling

http://www.modellpower.at  Austrian site with focus in WW2

http://www.resinrpd.com  Modelamaking materials, silicone, urethane...

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Combat Warplanes / Fractal F-16

« on: May 02, 2006, 01:17:15 AM »

In this moment on F-16 is evaulated new camouflage pattern.

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Red Dora 1/72

« on: April 28, 2006, 09:48:05 PM »

This was realy relaxing experience for my to built a model after long brake

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Warplane Art / Re: Red star Focke Wuld 190D

« on: April 27, 2006, 03:33:11 PM »

So some publication are very wrong!!! Nice add Eric, waiting for your book

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Aircraft Modeling / Red Dora 1/72

« on: April 27, 2006, 03:29:18 PM »

Fir a last nine years I did not make any plastic kit. In the meantime I have buy couple of them but keep it away from work bench. Some time ago I have search and got some very interesting photos of the famous German WW2 fighter Focke Wulf 190D and among them was few with this plane in Soviet markings. And I have a wish to make it as a scale model...

It was not easy for me to make a choice which one kit to choose. In my box I had an Airfix and Italeri one. Airfix is very correct in shape but have to be reingraved and maybe some detail to redesign. Italeri... better stay away. On internet I did not find anything which model in 1/72 scale is perfect so I get one Academy sample. Maybe not as good at all but it is good start for me. Interior of the kit is very simple and regard to the photos enough acurate. Most of the interior are black gey RLM66 and I have place on all areas and parts which going inside.

Cockpit hub I have paint with this color but also allpy two coat of very thinned mid grey and grey brown color which give some fading and wethering efect. Deatils are made in black and pale grey color.

Instrument panel is good work but to small and as well it is placed to deep inside I did not have any attempt to give' em high details. Anyway my goal was not to make superdetailed kit but just something new- kit with Soviet markings.

Hub is placed correct in place with all of this part. Parts are pilot seat and stick. In front coming instrument panel. One more interior paint I have used is the silver for the interior of air intake.

Assembled parts are not fit perfect so filler is important to cover of some places. I found it on the rear part of the cockpit, underside of the engine cowling and wing fit to the fuselage. I have a problem to fit wings so I have to cut rear part of the lower wing assembly to make it fit in place.

First strokes of paint I have add to the rear of the cockpit as well inside of the cockpit canopy and the windscreen. Interior paint used is RLM66. I use White Esign color which is perfect match of this color.

Maybe this could be old fashioned to all of you but I still prefer a coat of dense paint over the areas of the parts connection. This give to me nice overview about possible gaps or surface omisions. I have found some and I have fill the place, sand it and after few more attempt surface was flat an clean. Also I noted that Academy proposed wrong position of the pito tube so I remove it. On the photo it is on oposite side.

Now coming the party- final finishing of the model.  Original camouflage is consisted of the RLM 82 and RLM 83 color but the same camouflage on the sample plane is more then worn out, fad and very very dirt. In this way I decide to coat areas of this paints with other paints as first coat. Base for the RLM 83 I use RLM 62 and base for the RLM 82 I use Olive Drab. When dry I have overpaint with the regular colors RLM 83 and RLM 82. Photo show the kit with this colors and still wearing Olive Drab on the cowling which is sprayed in RLM 82 few minutes later.

So it is the time for the intro to the dirt and fade. Plane is spayed on the underside in the RLM 76 paint and some paint had remained. I mx this color with gloss lacquer and spray over the green areas. When this mixture was on the bottom I add white and spary again. Result is in the bottom image... look ugly isn't it ?

It's show time. With pencil I have draw all of the panel lines on the kit. When finished I took sanding paper 1500 grit and sand all surface of the kit.

... and result is bellow. Nice dirt area and bleached color on some sufaces. What is the point- 1500 anding paper is too fine to damege plasic surface but very good to penetrate on the top coat of the color. I have removed and damaged top surface gloss coat and penetrate throgh lower colors. Result is very authentic.

Sovie had by my personal opinion overapainted German national insignia with their own paint. So I use White Ensign colors to cover all of the insignia. Regard to the photo on the all of the places with German insignia was covered with underside color and on the fuselage side was add topside grey.

Final fittings include placing back of the front engine cowling with propeller and placing of the Soviet markings in place. I use large star with thin white and red border.



Same process of the fading and adding of dirt was apply on the lower suface. Note that the lower surface was finished in the W3 German standard which include that the lower surface have to be painted with RLM 75 front part, central panels remained in the natural color of metal and the rest is in the RLM 76 light blue. I add some more dirt line on ocer the kit and repeat sanding with fine grit sand paper.

One detail is of interest- in Soviet service some planes had been maybe converted to use Soviet type of radio equipment and this result in the different position of the aerial wire. Not on the top of the canopy but on the rear side.

Final touch is the add of the dirt and the stain whenever I have to do with special attention to the some are. Here it is cowling underside. it feature except of amount of dirst damaged color with few different color visible. I use silver, RLM 75 and red primer in traces and dirt over it.

and the final images is the impression of the finished model

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Warplane Art / Re: Red star Focke Wuld 190D

« on: April 27, 2006, 08:23:52 AM »

After this brief explanation I could see better on photos of Dora. So does it mean that camouflage of RLM 81 and RLM 82 bellong to the early production machine only?

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Warplane Art / Re: Red star Focke Wuld 190D

« on: April 26, 2006, 04:49:15 PM »

Yes I inform crew here as well I start topic on this forum. And must say that I have xchange couple of mail with info with Erica Larger before I have done this. He had provide me some of very vital info.

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Warplane Art / Red star Focke Wuld 190D

« on: April 26, 2006, 03:14:50 PM »

This is one of the captured Focke Wulf 190D which was used for some time in the Soviet VVS. It could be that this sample was taken in the Marienburg, where was repair and maintenance facility. Plane wear standard camouflage of RLM 82 and RLM 83 colors and the underside is finished in the W3 standard. This include RLM 75 front part of the lower wing surface, central section is the natural metal and the rest of the underside is in the RLM 76. Interesting that the plane had not service labels on it. German national insignia was overapainted with Soviet camouflage colors and standard red stars was placed over it.

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Combat Warplanes / Re: These Big Boeing Bombers!!

« on: April 22, 2006, 04:43:48 PM »

Photo of the prototype of famous B-52 is more then interesting. Long time ago I had hear that this was based on some of the German project but never hear anything more about this. Interesting that B-47 was treated as a top secret project and USAF hesitate it's use in the combat to avoid lost and possible capture and test by enemy.

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Combat Warplanes / Doolittle Tokyo Raiders

« on: April 19, 2006, 07:26:05 PM »

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio, April 19, 2006  - Eight of the surviving 16 "Doolittle Tokyo Raiders" gathered at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force here yesterday for their 64th annual reunion and to remember those who have gone before them.
 
"We're gathered to remember a historic event that changed the hearts of the American people," Lloyd Bryant, a Dayton, Ohio, radio announcer and former U.S. Air Force officer, said at the memorial ceremony. "We are here to pay tribute to those brave men, whose courageous action gave Americans their first glimpse of victory during the darkest days of World War II."
 
The Doolittle Raiders were a group of 80 volunteer airmen from the U.S. Army Air Forces who on April 18, 1942, flew 16 B-25 Mitchell airplanes from the deck of the USS Hornet on a daring mission to bomb Japan. Their name is derived from the man who led the air raid, Army Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle.
 
The raiders' objective was to bomb multiple Japanese cities and then land at an airstrip in China for refueling. Unfortunately, a Japanese patrol boat spotted the Hornet, forcing the Americans to launch the attack hundreds of miles before the intended launch point. After dropping their payloads, the raiders continued on toward China, but a combination of bad weather and low fuel forced the crewmembers to either bail out or crash land in a Japanese-occupied portion of China. One plane landed safely in Russia, where its crew was interned.
 
"We were on empty and flew about 500 miles inside the coast of China before we ran out of fuel and had to bail out in Japanese-occupied territory," co-pilot retired Lt. Col. Bob Hite said. The Japanese captured Hite along with his crew. He was held as a prisoner of war until Japan surrendered in August 1945.
 
The raid achieved little in terms of damage inflicted on Japan, but was a huge morale booster to the American people, coming just four months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
 
Navigator retired Lt. Col. Chase Nielson, who also was held as a prisoner of war, said he hoped the actions of the Doolittle Raiders would always serve as an inspiration to all Americans. "I learned a few lessons, especially how to appreciate mankind, our democracy and the beautiful wonderful world we live in," he said. "I hope others do too."
 
Nielson said the greatest satisfaction he got from participating in the raid was the fact that he helped defend the ideals of the United States. "We are all honored that we had a part in protecting the freedoms and the democracy that we call the United States," Nielson said. "There isn't a better place in the world to live, believe me."
 
The surviving members of the raid cite the leadership of Jimmy Doolittle as the biggest factor in enabling them to undertake their perilous mission. "We had a great leader in Jimmy Doolittle," Tom Griffin, who was a 25-year-old lieutenant at the time of the raid, said. "He was the kind of leader who made us believe we could do this job."
 
"We all felt that Jimmy Doolittle was No. 1," Hite added. "He had it all -- intelligence, bravery and great leadership qualities."
 
Also attending the reunion was Tung Sheng Liu, a Chinese citizen who at age 24 helped one of the Doolittle crews escape the clutches of the Japanese. Liu, who spoke some English at the time, acted as a translator between the raiders and other sympathetic Chinese citizens. After some intense planning and daring maneuvering, Liu and his cohorts delivered the crew safely to Chungking, a city in southwestern China that was not occupied by Japan.
 
"It took us 10 days to travel a short distance, because it was occupied territory. Japanese units constantly patrolled," Liu said. "Then we traveled two more days by bus, eventually making it to Chunking."
 
In 1946, Liu moved to Minneapolis to attend graduate school and was stunned two years later when he learned that the Doolittle reunion was scheduled to be held there. "I read this in the paper and went to join them," he said. "They welcomed me as an honorary raider. I've been coming to the reunion ever since."
 
The bond among the Doolittle Raiders has remained tight over the years. "They're a great bunch of guys. We all know each other's children and grandchildren," Griffin said. "We're like a big family."
 
"This is a pretty fine group of guys," Hite said. "I don't know anybody better."
 
The first 10 Doolittle Raiders reunions were attended by the crewmembers only and, Griffin said, were somewhat raucous affairs. But when their wives began attending, things began to calm down a bit, he said. "From then on, the whole tenor of the reunions changed," Griffin said. "We calmed down and got to bed like civilized people. But the first 10 were some pretty wild reunions."
 
Other Doolittle Raiders in attendance were Bill Bower, Ed Horton, Frank Kappeler, Dick Cole and David Thatcher.

USAF press service

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Warplane Art / Re: Napad!

« on: April 07, 2006, 06:35:31 PM »

Za Korel ovo i nije lose. Mozes jos malo da ga retusiras u Fotosopu... recimo probaj sa Filterima na nebu iz umetnicke palete.

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Warplane Art / Nakajima Shoki

« on: April 05, 2006, 04:09:16 PM »

Here it is sample from Akeno Air base