Novinky

John
Turned out great. You nailed the SEA camo too.

Guy Rump
Lovely build. 👍

Renato Penafiel
Thank you guys! Glad you like it!

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Alberto
Great finish. You also nailed the typical exhaust stains!

tyu
Puzzled why red stripes and Miss Eileen graphics when the provided photo's show them in tan?

Renato Penafiel
Thank you guys! Glad you like it.

Hi Tyu, stripes and Miss Eileen are more brown than red, but still I think is an error from Revell. But in all honestly, I build the kit to try and improve some techniques so I was not going for full accuracy.

Mr James
Very nicely done. Nice camo and weathering

Andrew Horton
How was the replacement resin cowl?

Renato Penafiel
Hi Andrew. Quality wise, questionable as it is just a so so copy of the Tamiya kit parts (cowl and chin). Then trying to make it fit to the rest of the kit was way to much work, as you need to cut the kit chin add the tamiya copy and then extended it and blend it into the fuselage in order to match the cowl circunference. Otherwise you finish with a very strange look. In the end for me, not worth the trouble., much better to try and build the kit as is or just build the tamiya one.

George Williams
You've got to get some JPS markings for it.

Paulo Fonseca
I hadn't realized that yet... 🙁

Paulo Fonseca
But already ordered 😄

bossy122
Needs Goodyears as well. Good ol Tamiya and their lack of licenses.

Martin Oostrom
Can't you strip the sprues as a whole of the paint? Dip them in a bath of paint stripper? Might be a whole lot easier than sanding each piece

bossy122
Most of the pieces are under carriage, so they're not that visible......but I stay awake at night knowing there are seams and that they must be eliminated! I think I botched the body paint job and I hadn't noticed on its original project. I just went over the lint - think HAIR - with 600 to 2000 and that took care of it. Mostly, I just thought it was funny that whomever I bought this kit from had gone to that much trouble to paint pieces ON the sprues with a brush, only to be done over with a rattlecan OFF the sprues.

Martin Oostrom
I feel your pain. I'm currently sanding tanks on a truck. Tanks that will never be seen, yet I've spent a few hours already on them.

bossy122
The TS4 German Grey isn't nearly dark enough for the dash. Or, the actual color of the dash should be black, but the instructions called out for German Grey......I dunno, Tamiya.

George Williams
Buy cheap pay twice.

Bozzer
Sometimes, it's easier to use a thin Sharpie, for knobs and buttons. It dries fast, so if you make a mistake, you can touch up, more or less, straight away. I also use a Sharpie for window rubbers, etc

Spanjaard
lots of work, but it is looking nice now.
i got this one accidentally in my stash for a very, very long time.....

bossy122
Damn thing fought me at the end! I couldn't get the wheels to go into those wonderful gaskets and then the side mirrors refused to fit. I don't recall having had those issues before. Only TOO happy to finish. P.S. no harnesses, sorry. I can't see well enough to use PE buckles and the decals just look too fake, so......them Panizzis were brave!