Noticias

Rainer
This is the first model that I paint with airbrush. To get as much practice as possible out of it I painted the invasion stripes instead of using decals and used two different shades of olive drab on the wings. (Afaik invasion stripes were painted over once the planes operated from airfields in France)

Decals are applied by now and the first stage of weathering (discoloration mostly on the darker OD and chipping) is done.

John Mulhall
Well done indeed.

Mamat79
Bonjour il est toujours à vendre ?

A L
Bonjour,
oui il l'est toujours.
Par contre je dois vérifier l'état de la boîte, pour des raisons de places j'avais mutualité des boitages.
Par contre les grappes sont complètes.
Cordialement.

Bruce Huxtable
Welcome, Matti. This is going to be an interesting journey....

Nicolas
Following

Bruce Huxtable
Welcome, Nicolas. This kit has raised panel lines, and I have no idea how they will enhance or detract... Some might re-scribe, but I'm going to work with it, as is.

Bruce Huxtable
Progress on the painting is progressing today.

Bruce Huxtable
Welcome, Mirko. I've moved onto the decals, so more photos later in the week. Lots of small parts to add, plus the canopy too, of course.

Alex K
I'm in - of course...

Michael Kohl
I only and sincerely hope that you quadruple checked your references that the original plane didn't have an "Airfix" molded on the cockpit side walls - lest you have to scratch new ones. 😉

Łukasz Gliński
My heart broke when I had to do it 😁

Nicolas
I'm in. Got the Airfix kit and the Pavla detail set in my stash, but I'm thinking about replacing it with the AVI kit. I think your report will be a big help there.

Cuajete
Great! The Bird Dog Society has begun. I have felt a great disturbance in the Force, but I remembered that Łukasz is a great tamer of hard plastics 😉

It looks like those photo-etches are doing a good job 👌

Alex K
So... if the AVI kit is destined for the representation of Major Buang-Ly's plane... I'm also eager to see what the Airfix kit will be...

Łukasz Gliński
You're absolutely right Alex - AVI's going to be Major's BirdDog and Airfix is destined to be boxart DJ-coded one.
I was thinking of Maltese markings for it, but there are none available.
Cuajete, the PE are quite good, but the Airwaves set has quite unclear hand-drawn instructions, which is challenging sometimes.
Nicolas, wish I could fetch the Pavla tail set, I need to try restoring the raised lines after having to remove the injection marks.