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Michael Kohl
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Dominik Weitzer
great start. you make excellent work

Martin Oostrom
Two Beemers at the same time? Love it

MS K
Painting the shell requires drying time, so I started working on something else in the meantime, and it happened to be a BMW again. 😉

Carlos Proença
Following. Nice job!!!!!

Treehugger
Presumably a good-enough decal softener will help against silvering, where silvering is air tapped under the decal because of the rough texture of the painted surface.
Solvaset = stronger decal softener
MicroSol = default decal softener?

After applying a decal softener, the decals MUST NOT be touched, even if it starts looking wrinkly. The wrinkles all disappear after a while.

One thing I like to do after airbrushing on primer and also paint, is to gently go over with sanding sponge, but never over edges as that will surely removed paint off the plastic, but large flat surfaces are typically safe to sand down very gently, to create a more flat surface. For this to work, it is important that the base layer, the primer paint, is sanded flat first, else the uneven primer paint will show through the paint layer, if you only sand the paint layer on top.

schecter87
I'm using Tamiya Mark Fit Super Strong. Just apply the softener to the surface of the decal and after a couple of minutes, gently press it onto the surface with a cotton swab. If the decal is not welded, then it may fall off in pieces along with the varnish 🙁 .

Sy Bar
Love the use of UV resin on the logo badges, an idea I'll use from now on many thanks

MS K
You're welcome~ 😉

Maurits van der Aa
Nice progress my friend. A lot of improvements you made

D P
That's awesome! But how did you fix silvering? The end result looks perfect.

MS K
@D P - It's simple. I painted leveling thinner with a paint brush. 😉

nikfrost
very nice indeed

Maurits van der Aa
But why did you copy the grille in transparant?

Michael Kohl
Great. Love quality and color and the small bumpers.
Are the rear lights upside down?

scaleffect
Probably, I don't know anything about the real car so followed the instructions blindly. That is an unfortunate and glaring error I will forever be ashamed of. Thank you for pointing it out. I will do better next time 🙁

Rui S
Beautiful work 👍
I would never 😉 be embarrassed by this level of work

Christian W
Sorry for the rear lights. But you could easyly paint the lower part with red and that will fit perfectly to the California license plate. In the US the rear lights were also available in red only (at least through a car parts store) 😉 That is what I would do. The Beetle looks georgeous.

scaleffect
Thanks Rui.

Christian, I will live with the reminder of my mistake instead of risking making things worse by trying to either remove the lenses or paint the exterior of them. It's unfortunate, but inevitable being only a few years into the hobby I will suffer these pitfalls. That is the only way I can learn.

Spanjaard
it looks fantastic, the finish is just awesome

Mr James
Lovely colour and beautiful finish

Chris Reimann
Gorgeous build and perfect pictures!

Maurits van der Aa
Wauw what a great build my man

Jan Peters
Having owned a bug for years I still have a soft spot for anything air-cooled.
Your model look absolutely great 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Christian Bruer
Klasse geworden 👍

Marc .
Stunning build!

Dieter Bihlmaier
Christian and Marc . I appreciate your comments. Thanks !

Rui S
That's a Beauty, indeed 👍

Curatorm
Very smart!

CaptGPF
A real stunner! Love the wear on that bird!

Mr James
CaptGPF has got it spot on 👍

Jan Peters
Very nice indeed 👍🏻👍🏻

NLAWScametovisit
this is really really impressive finish and texture

Igor Zhuravlev
Oh, it's just the start. Looking at the references, I think I'll have to use a lot of oils

Cristian A
Watching

Alec K
Very cool build, love those worn effects.

Igor Zhuravlev
These are so far coming from the airbrush only. I hope to achieve some more with oils, reference photos show some stains on the primer

Michael Kohl
I gotta follow this

Spanjaard
me too

Michael Kohl
I really like the paint effects you achieved so far. Anxious for more.

Vincent
This looks impressive! Lets see where this is going!

Robin (WhiteGlint)
👀 👍

Marc .
Great looking Stug!

grappa_0_0_0
I reckon no such flag ever existed

sebfischer
No swastika flags allowed in Germany

Mr James
Great foliage and lovely additions to this old kit. A great build, beautifully weathered. I'd leave the flag out if not allowed to display an accurate account. Or hide the offending portion of it 🤔

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Heavily weathered StuG. All these little details, this looks great.

Ekki
Wow! A beauty indeed!
Awesome work!

Bruce Huxtable
Very nice indeed - inspirational work.

Marius
Great model here! I am interested in the topic as well, but I had chosen the Kimetic kit instead.
You should take more pictures!

CaptGPF
Thanks everyone! Like Marius, I have the kinetic on my to do list as well - I think Roland's in good company about that ever growing backlog!

Kyriakos Vafiadis
Beautiful model!

CaptGPF
Ευχάριστο Kyriakos!

Mr James
Lovely camo scheme 👍 lovely build

Ignacio von Braun
Following!

Ben M
👀

Doubtingmango
Great idea!

Gary Curling
May be a bit of tamiya buff on the top of grass?still looks 👍

Dietmar Bogatzki
Nice diorama Marc 👍

Alexander Witte
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence! 😉 I like the Panzer grey though, a nice faded touch, thank you.

Marc .
Thanks gary for your idea to use buff. I can see a difference but it's barely noticeable in the photos.
Maybe I should use more buff but I'll wait and see what the whole scene looks like with resin water and water lilies.

Thanks Dietmar.

Thanks Alexander.

Rui S
Looking good 👍

Mspi101
O panzer of the lake, what is your wisdom?

Robert Podkoński
Looks great already. I can't wait to see the final effect 🙂

Marc .
Thanks Rui.

Thank you Robert.

Dear Mspi101 finish the models that you have before buying new ones ...
- The Panzer of the lake has spoken😉

Shar Dipree
Looks fanstastic ao far.
The embankment just looks great.

Marc .
Thanks Shar Dipree.

Mr James
The embankment and roots are very well done 👏

gorby
Very impressive work so far!

Marc .
Thanks Mr James and Gorby.

J35J
Following with intrest!

David Taylor
Looks brill.

Rui S
Great, 👍 keep it coming

Ben M
Blub.

Spanjaard
really impressive, looking forward the following steps

Harald Besold
Great models - very well done!

Giannis Kaltapanidis
Great work. Did you use smoke on the canopy?

CaptGPF
Thank you everyone for your likes. 😀

Harald. I put the two side by side to show the differences in the paint. It was an eye opener to see how there was so much variation on such a color!

Giannis, I used X-19 + X-24 using a 5:1 ratio. Perhaps a 4:1 would have worked better. I'll note this in the pictures for reference.

RichardL from this forum deserves the credit for the Have Glass mixture I based the new build off of - arcforums.com/forums..70-who-got-it-right/

gorby
Very nice work!

CaptGPF
Thanks Gorby!

Mr James
A great pair. Lovely finish on these great looking fly birds😄

CaptGPF
Very beautiful build - subtle shading on the camo - down to the subtle heat staining on the nozzle!

Nathan Dempsey
Wow, that looks great!

Neuling
Top work and presentation!

Nathan Dempsey
What decals did you use?

dawei xu
Nathan Dempsey：Patchwork，

Mr James
CaptGPF says it all. 👌

B777VN
It won't break unless the decal is too old and brittle before immersion. However the decal glue is gone and you need to apply Microset or equivalent before placing the decal.

Rando
Been cooking up this idea since I got the 1/72 RF-8. My original plan was to build the plane in the cover of the Osprey RF-8 book, flown by Lt Andre Coltrin over Vietnam. With a little help from a 1/72 version of the Furball MiG Master sheet, I will rearrange the nose and tail numbers to make BuNo 146871 as it flew in Vietnam during its 1966 cruise off the USS Oriskany.

I also found an Academy F-8E, which has decals for a VF-111 jet that flew on the same cruise, so decided I will build it as the RF-8's escort, which they often had during their photo runs. I also figured, why not build them together? They will be displayed in flight.

Oleg Bogolei
Nice idea and intersiting projeact. Also have two of them in a stash)

Freak
Great idea for a double build. Following!

Rando
Good to have you gents, looking to start this one soon! I like researching and adding reference photos, so I just added some in the meantime.

Urban Gardini
Now this seems like a build that I've to follow!

Rando
Welcome Urban, happy to have you! "It's only a model!"

Sergej I
Following 🙂 👍

Rando
Hi Sergej! I'm very very excited to get started on this one

Casey Beckett
Following - got 3 of those nice new Sword RF's in the stash.

Jos Jansen
Normally I don't follow 1:72 scale models...for this one I'll make an exception...😅😉, grab myself a seat here! Love those Crusaders...

Patrick Hagelstein
Got intrigued by Rando's comment on Jos' build, so I popped over here. Looks like a very interesting build as well!

Rando
Happy to have you gents here, I'll be getting to this one just as soon as my elaborate P-51 build is done...

Rando
Here we go, double Crusader build. Gonna be comparing the short-run Sword RF-8 with Academy's F-8, which has been the go-to in 1/72. I have extra Academy kits so I'm swapping out the RF-8 kit's nice resin seat, I'll use it for a future open canopy build. The pilots will be obscuring seat detail in a closed canopy anyway.

David Fuller
Following

Rando
Welcome David!

I assembled the PJ pilots and started nipping off parts to assemble the fuselage. Getting the pilots to fit in their seats is tricky so far. Fit on the Academy kit parts is pretty nice. Sword kit is not as easy since there's no locator pins but they align well

Rando
Pilots are fully painted now. The F-8E pilot is based on Dick Schaffert, who was a pilot on this 1966 cruise. While I don't know of any specific plane he flew, F-8 pilots often flew jets that were assigned to others, so he's flying 149180 on this escort mission. In order to accommodate them, I had to remove the rudder pedals and front of the cockpit tub on the F-8E. It won't really be visible when the cockpit is buttoned up anyway.

Rando
I didn't like how the Sundowner helmet turned out so I stripped the paint and airbrushed it this time with tiny wedges of tape, then shaped and touched up everything. Just need to add a black stripe for the visor groove.

J35J
Great attention to details Rando! Following👍🏻

Rando
Thanks and glad to have you J35J! Pilots, seats, ejection handles, and joysticks are all in place. Time soon to start putting the jets together.

Rando
All the interior parts are in, soon time to put the fuselages together 👍

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Rando
Hello Guy, welcome 😊

Fuselages are together. Now getting all the panels and gear bay doors to sit flush.

Calvin Gifford
Very nice! How is the Sword kit so far??

Rando
Thanks Calvin! It's quite nice if you remember it's a short run kit and you prep and test fit parts a lot before gluing anything. Has been a far from perfect first effort by me but I like how it goes together. It's shape is pretty accurate too. The Academy kit is very plug-n-play in comparison

Calvin Gifford
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S M
Double build! Following!

Rando
Welcome S M! I have been painstakingly installing the gear doors closed. Stuffing blutack in the wheel wells helps with frustration. Both F-8s have tiny aft gear doors on the main bays that took a lot of time to line up. The RF-8's nose doors were also very tricky. Happy to say I'm done getting the gear doors on.

Casey Beckett
Backup RF-8 inbound Rando ! Shipped Friday!

Rando
You the man Casey! Did some scratchbuilding tonight

Casey Beckett
Me too - Bonanza gear struts. God bless Albion Alloys. Great stuff if you've not used any of their items.

Rando
I have not but am always looking to add new things in this hobby, I'll check them out! I actually have an old Minicraft 1/48 Bonanza that I might do something with one of these days.

Rando
Took a big long tour on the clear parts struggle bus this past week. Got glue smudges on a camera window, the windscreen, and canopy on the RF-8, which all had to be buffed out. Hopefully I get the canopies attached snug without issues tomorrow night. Finding that carefully lining the attachment point with Revell Contacta on a toothpick is less risky than TET.

Calvin Gifford
👍

S M
Clear parts look good 👍

Michael Kohl
Like the planes. Like to see them in flighr. Like the effort you put in.
Feel you when putting pilots properly in and closing wheel well doors.
Anxious for the paint job.

Rando
Thanks all, getting closer to painting. A ton of work has gone into smooth out and scribe the lines around the gear bays on both jets, not to mention persistent seams. Also turned my attention to sanding down and rescribing the fictitious bumps on the folding joints, which the RF-8 has as well. The RF-8 also has wedge-shaped plates on the droops, which were only present much later, so those were sanded down as well. There's still a few things I want to try to perfect before I begin painting. I also have to decide if I want to paint the wings separately, in all likelihood I'm going to glue them on first because I want the fuselage section to be flush.

Rando
Alright, wings are on. I feel like this will make masking more complicated, but better for making sure they conform to the fuselage. I am so ready to paint these jets

Calvin Gifford
Whoot!

Nicolas
I missed this one, following. I love these side by side builds.
Great progress so far. 👍