Joe,

I am really sorry about your accident, I hope you get better soon.

Carlos

"DITTO" Best wishes and a speedy recovery.

Bob

Joe:
This is really sad to hear. I hope You will recover well and fast. Best wishes!

Oliver

Stage 2 of the paint process with RLM65 on the underside (using Gunze Aqueous Hobby Colour H67 thinned with MLT).



I built it up slowly from the black primer base with some heavier and some lighter areas to simulate a light bit of fading.

Cheers, D

Good work, Damian but your turntable looks far too clean!

Thanks Torsten. The crew chief has severe OCD!

Cheers, D

Carlos:
Excellent built and painted model. Congratulation!

Damian:
The amount of fading looks spot on.

I finished my Schwalbe so far




and put it in its blister



next to the bird of swallow campaign 1


Have fun.

Oliver

Lovely build Oliver, and a really nice little scene inside the workshop. Well done and congratulations on getting finished!

Cheers, D

Here is my entry, Dragon 1/48 Me 262A-2a/U2 Jet Bomber.

D,
Great to see the underside looking clean and neat.

EMan,
Thank you for your submitted start photos. Looking forward to seeing some Dragon plastic.

Gaz

Oliver,
Congratulations on your completion! She is a fine looking Schwalbe, and I'm glad she's not alone in that fantastic hangar.

Das is der Hammer!

Gaz

Stage 3 of the paint process, the light green. I used Tamiya XF-5 acrylic, thinned about 50/50 with MLT and sprayed lightly over the black primer to build the opacity slowly.




I sprayed a light random pattern on the areas where the darker green will go to give some variety to the undercoat and will use the same process to build up the colour and hopefully give a nice varied finish.

Cheers, D

Interesting looking technique, D. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

Gaz

Some fantastic finishes here

Raj Super clean work

Carlos a nice result, even if it was a difficult gestation period

Joe really sorry to hear of your accident-best wishes for a speedy recovery!

Oliver great work on that green

Damian that colour looks great

So, over to my build of Airfix's 1/72 effort... Ready for paint... let's hope I don't knock off any pointy bits...



I've used the landing gear doors to mask off the bays... these will be removed and discarded later on to allow the landing gear to be added



Let's see if I'm any good at painting Luftwaffe mottle

Russel,

Really neat build, enjoy the painting.

(I broke the antenna in mine twice, I had to replace it by stretched sprue.)

Carlos.

Thank you Carlos This is always the most exciting, but also the most stressful part of the build... No doubt I'll find some way to break off one of those pointy bits

Looking good, Russell! I look forward to seeing your mottle.

Nice progress Russ, can't wait to see the paint job!

Cheers, D

Gaz, D Thanks guys...

I'm somewhat apprehensive I'll do as half a decent job as the ones done here so far fingers crossed

Main paint work is complete! I used Gunze Aqueous Hobby Color H423 (RLM83) for the Dark Green, again thinned with about 50% MLT. The fuselage was sprayed freehand, the splinter on the wings I used an old business card held loosely in place to get a harder edge.
The difference in sheen level is interesting between the Tamiya and Gunze products.




Next up is decals.

Cheers, D

fantastic work D

Now, it seems in all the excitement, that I don't actually have the correct colours on hand to paint my Schwalbe!

Oh dear, the dilemma!

I've been meaning to slowly transition away from enamels to acrylics and now find myself staring down the barrel of whether or not to spray acrylics over the enamels that have already gone down for pre-shading...

Has anyone else done this?

Russ, if you spray it in light layers and build it up you should be ok. If you go on wet you risk lifting the enamel.

Cheers, D

It's a bit of a minefield out there with all the different types of Acrylics on offer... what do folks use for thinners? Does any generic acrylic thinner work for any brand of paint? sorry if this is

Progress update.

Hi guys. thank you for all your well wishes and concern. i am going home tomorrow from my rehab facility.

i am really impressed with the builds here raj, carlos, oliver you cammo looks great. damian very nice work so far, i like the subtleness of you paint scheme.
wish i could finish mine but right now even though i am missing working at my bench at the same time i don't really feel like it. but i am enjoying seeing all the builds going on here. this has been a very good campaign.