Italeri P-38J Night Intruder
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Robert PodkońskiIf it is really your third model assembled, and you've painted it with a brush - you really have a big potential. Looks really good. Congrats!
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Third attemt at model making.
It was a good learning experience, I learnt such things as "don't use photoetch as a complete beginner in 1/72 scale" and "always pay attention not to swap the two landing gear bays".
Jokes aside, I'm kinda pleased with the results.
There is still a lot of room for improvements of course, mainly in brushpainting, but I'm getting there by each model.
Since I swapped the landing gear bays like I said in the beginning, I had to glue the gearlegs without the help of guiding pins and holes, and that's propably why the whole thing wants to sit on it's tail fins despite the 3 screw nuts I glued into the nose and engine covers: the angles are bad and the nose looks up too much (or maybe the model is wrong itself, but I doubt it). But it's beyond repair with my current skills, so this is what it is. Maybe I'll make a base for it and glue the front gear to it.
(Edit: I made a base and solved the problem without glueing, I made a separate post about it)
I once messed up the cockpit windows, but luckly I could make it 80% good as new with 1000 grit sandpaper and toothpaste (as polishing paste). Yes, you heard it right, toothpaste. If it works, then it's not a stupid idea, is it? I made a separate post about the results.
Masking is still a little problematic as you can see on the cockpit glass edges, but it's fine for me right now. I tried out the two-side painting I saw on youtube from MM Scale Models (Youtube Video), it kind of worked out, this way the inner side is interior green and the outside is the main color.
I found a pretty handy argument on britmodeler.com exactly about this paint sceme, I had some concerns about this "flight blue" color mayself too so it came really handy. In the end I used british Medium Seagray for the upper color (in short, prussian-/sky blue is very unlikely for a night intruder, and since it was on a british airbase for night intruder training, MSG made more sense).
You can read the argument here: britmodeller.com/for..p-38-night-intruder/
Paints used:
-Revell Enamels (main colors)
-Italeri clear acrylics (before weathering)
