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I Allen
Very nice Mustang

Miguel Vaquero
Starting stronger since the A350 catastrophe. Cockpit sub assembled with the Eduard Detail set, painted and weathered. Couldnt take more pictures of the progress due to the details being so small 🥴🥴

Michael Kohl
Nice cockpit

Thomas Kolb
My goodness, that cockpit looks stunning! Are you sure it's not 48 scale?

Miguel Vaquero
Thanks Michael!

I could have hoped Thomas😅😅. It would have made my life way easier. Though the PE details helped a lot

CaptGPF
Agree with everyone - the cockpit looks great! Chipping at this scale is impressive

Nicolas
Nice progress so far.

Miguel Vaquero
Thanks guys, waiting to get free from work this week to star painting the fuselage and engine. Let's see how that turns out

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Miguel Vaquero
Engine almost done, except for the PE parts. I'm amazed of how it's all turning out tbh, didn't expect this great finish on such small parts

Mr D
Looking good 👍 the instrument's look good, did you get the clocks to sink in with softener ??
I have this one to build next after my lAR-80.
Thanks for uploading 😁👍

Miguel Vaquero
Hey MrD thanks! Well Im sorry I can't help you with that because I used the photo etched and plastic instrumentation provided by the kit from Eduard. Sure someone with more experience with Tamiya decals can help you with that in here.

Looking forward to see how yours turns out!

Mr D
Thanks 👍👍
May look into the PE kit.
Belts come out nice, do you glue PE direct to plastic or do you have to prep first ?
Coming on nicely 👌

Miguel Vaquero
I use cyanoacrylate for the PE parts, just a little amount sticks okay, although at this scale there's some parts that are way to hard to make them stick and my not so skilled application of the glue leaves a lot of residue on the model. I try to clean up the best I can but it's quite challenging sometimes

If you want to build a good looking cockpit with the extra detail I recommend you the PE for sure. But if your main goal is the exterior and not to focus so much on the interior the PE kit doesn't include a lot of things for the exterior, and the tamiya kit I think gives a really nice looking base cockpit

Miguel Vaquero
With half the plane chipped, I'm leaving for the week. There's still a lot of work to do regarding chipping and weathering to blend the paints. I'm having so much fun, and applying new technics for me that I'm sure I'll use in future models.

Mr D
Thanks Miguel 😃👍
I've only been building again as an adult for just over a year, so the advice helps me improve.
And as l said will probably be my next build.
Good luck with everything Miguel.. enjoy 👍👍👍

Miguel Vaquero
Chipping and decals done. I'm sure this chipping is not going to be of the liking of many, but I wanted to try different techniques and achieve a heavy worked on plane who could not get a paint job in a lot of time. I really like the result I achieved, even though it may seem extreme, I think it adds a lot of personality to the model, and also adds some history to it. Let me know your opinions on this and what would you have done differently with this chipping process

Mr D
It fine, I've seen much heavier worked model than this..?
In reality they looked beat up from war n work... Especially the Corsair.
Best to build a model to how you like it.
I put all my models on a stand with wheels down , some people will cringe at that.🤣 But l like it personally, as l see more of the work I've done.
I'm yet to start wearing.... As quiet new to the game and learnt.
I think you done nice job, well done 👌 👍👍👍

Miguel Vaquero
Thanks Mr D. I'm with you in this one. The best thing about this hobby is to do things as one likes. At the end of the day, the one who's going to be looking at them is us 😁😁

1_72
at present, the engine covers have been removed because I would be completely dissatisfied with both paintings and tragic fitting.
Soon to be update

William Joel
Oh, I see I didn't scroll down far enough to see this entry. Still a nice addition to your collection.

J35J
Wow! You did an excellent job on this one👍🏻
Please more pictures!😊

1_72
Thanks a lot for kind word..I'll provide some more pictures as soon as the project is completely done.

Mr D
Like it 👍👍

1_72
Pretty standard paint job I guess. I started with two coats of Vallejo flat black primer, then add some light touch of panel (and not dividing lines) shading, using only Vallejo flat grey primer. After base colours sat on its place I lightened up some and darkened down (🙂) the other panels with bit random mixes of sea blue, dark sea blue and internediate blue ( all water acrylic Vallejo stuff). Then I made some dry and wet weathering mainly using Tamiya stuff and voila. Currently I' m changing some details as they didnt turned out 100% satysfaing.

DerMattes
Following.

Ekki
Watching too.

CaptGPF
Same! Want to see how this turns out!

Nicolas
Following too.

Patrick Hagelstein
Interesting! 👍

Łukasz Gliński
Joining the party 👍

Mid Franconian
➡️🍿🛋️‼️

Thomas Kolb
Very nice cockpit! How do you find the 3D decals, are they worth the extra cost?

Falk Röllig
Welcome mates. In 1:72 scale 3D decals are a way better than pe and my hands are to shaky to paint. I use them for most of the models with open canopies. For inflight models and with pilots i think it's not necessary. With Kelik and Eduard 3D i'm not always happy, but Quinta for me it's the first choice.

Gergő Takács
Nice! I take a seat. I have a same project right now.

Finn
Following

Martin
Good Start!

Skyhiker
Falk maybe it is the lighting but that blue on the fuselage spine looks too dark for the color of a Bavarian flag. You might want to add a bit of white to the mix.

Falk Röllig
It's not as dark as it seems on the pic but you're right. It will need a lighter shade at the end.