Cute F-35
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Fuselage painted, in real sun it looks bright.
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Different angle, I added Alclad Gold Titanium for a metal effect.
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In my daylight lamps. The base is MRP plus metal.
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This is "plug and play" with great fits.
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Some small parts. Gear white with a touch off white, outside the gray.
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The cute pilot with base colors accrding to the manual. Some detail painting follows.
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The canopy was clear, so I used MRP thinner, 3 drops clear yellow and 1 drop Alclad Copper. Tested on a sprue, but the canopy gets dull! Dipped in Future cleared it again.
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Nice decal option for prototype and two Aussie ones. I like it colorful, so I will do the prototype.
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If you pull that wooden stake out of my ass, I'm ready to go, Sir!
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The helmet is grey, only the sun blocker is orange.
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Trial sitting in the cockpit.
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I wanted to mask and airbrush the small lines, but they are to close together and too much lines, so I had to painted with brush by hand. Not easy, since I developed a tremor in my right hand the last weeks 🙁 All the decals added, very nice ones by the way!
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After the decals are dry the final layer of clear coat will be added. The last small parts can be added then and the next project is finished.
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The leg is corrected now 😉
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This model won a bronze medal in the Egg-Planes category at the Euro Model Expo 2024.
Opmerkingen
33 25 July 2020, 19:51
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Thx Daniel! Normally I'm doing old struts biplanes, but sometimes also modern stuff. And the eggs and cute planes are to funny😎 So this is a little side project. The manual says you don't need glue and the fit is great.
25 July 2020, 20:06
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After a lot of painting the decals are added. Only the final clear coat is missing 🙂
26 July 2020, 17:27
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Thank you Christoph and Jens! I wanted to know the magic of those "Weekend Editions"😉 I can say it works!
26 July 2020, 18:56
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The final pictures are added. The canopy is only plugged on so there is still a small gap.
Project finished! It is a nice kit and provide options to build it in flight. The decals are nice too.
26 July 2020, 20:21
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Eggs, we need more eggs😉 Thank you Roland and Alec! I have some more in my stash ...
28 July 2020, 19:00
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Thank you Gary! Let's see, how the F-22 will look beside this one one day.
29 July 2020, 15:50
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Hey, that's an F-35 even I admit to like! - somehow the "features" of the original indeed transfer into a really cute Egg... 🙂
I hope you had fun even without exposed mechanics, machine guns and rigging - the result is really cool, and good choice to make it colorful - well done 👍
@cloudy canopy - in my experience, keep MRP away from clear parts - varnish or clear colors, they all leave a perceivably matted & hard to polish surface...
29 July 2020, 16:31
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Hey, the jet expert Slavo has found my little side project 👍 I also think it's great how the original character is still in these caricatures! Most live viewers have recognized the type. A not so colorful grey Australian machine (4 are possible with the kit decals) would at least allow a representation in flight (the kit contains additionally closed landing gear doors and an adapter) over the Ayers Rock (in German Eier-Berg) in the form of half an egg, but that would have to be built during Easter😉
From modeling point of view it was fun, bring some variation to the bench and was mostly a paint exercise. Regarding the canopy thanks for the hint! For this egg it is good enough and the beloved future brings back some shine.
29 July 2020, 17:05
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Well it would be really hard to make an edition of the original that doesnt look like an egg😉
Looks awesome, guess it was maximum relaxation without the rigging, the radial engine and the fake wood parts - and also not needing to roll your giant 1 cent coin into the pics 😄
I would love to see that dio happening, maybe an all-out knife-fight with some evil russian eggs... some fried eggs added to the cliffs of ayers rock and so on 🙂
29 July 2020, 17:51
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Daniel, you know me and my models frighteningly well, but the fake wood parts are often real wood ones! If you need also such a giant coin you have to check magic supplies 😉
Regarding your "evil russian eggs" there is one: Su-33 Flanker D (Hasegawa 60131, 1:Egg)
@David Thank you!
29 July 2020, 20:50
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I just have to bring this out of retirement again! Why am I haunting Bughunter's albums? Well I was really looking for inspiration and I did find it, and this gem of a build!
13 June 2022, 09:31
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Thank you Peter for bringing this old work back to the surface! There are some more unbuilt eggs in my stash 😉 You are going start to setup a collection of eggs and cute planes?
Thank you mates! David, that rotary is called turbine 🤔
14 June 2022, 15:51
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Bugs, I have a few unbuilt eggs myself! And I have retrieved that Fokker DR1 from my stash. Now just trying to decide how "serious" to get with it!
15 June 2022, 01:08
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After I noticed that there is a new category "Egg-Planes" at the Euro Model Expo 2024, I thought that I had to participate here to fill it with life. So last week I quickly created an egg-shaped base.
The F-35 then won a bronze medal in Master 🙂
26 March, 17:29
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Excellent work on the egg plane and the egg base. I am about to embark on my first egg plane. So much fun!!
26 March, 19:57
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You leave your beloved 1/48 scale and are then immediately successful...that's a sign...😜
26 March, 20:20
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Thank you very much mates!
@Gladman It is a very nice kit! Also the decals works wonderful for me.
2 April, 16:41
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Plastic Fantastic ... the real one?