Buffalo progress

Cockpit is finished with Eduard PE. 

Engine detail in kit is actually really good. 

Landing light reflector made with milliput. Following in David Dameks footsteps 😉 

A little detailing in the wheel well added, also following David Damek's video. 

All puttied up and waiting for sanding. 

All the small parts are painted and the canopy is attached. As this canopy is a single piece, I've decided to leave it un-glued when the model is finished, so I can take it off and look into the cockpit. At the moment it is glued with micro crystal clear. 

The Montex mask for the canopy is applied. 

In the instruction, it says to paint the underside for this paint scheme and not have the window, but I chose to mask it anyway, as I like the look of it. 

An experiment with pre-shading with both black and white. 

The basic camoflage is finished. Just a few reparations to be made before starting to mask and paint the markings. 

I like this split camo for the underside. It is not visible in the picture, but the black is XF-69 (Nato Black) sprayed over the pre-shading so there is a bit of definition to it. I will work more on that in the weathering stage to make it less uniform. 

Masking for the walkways on the wings. 

I used Tamiya XF-1 for this. 

Masking for the roundelles on the top of the wings. 

I painted Tamiya XF-7 for the red. 

For the blue I mixed Tamiya XF-8 with XF-1 to get a dark blue color. 

Masking for the roundelles on the bottom of the wings. 

I used Tamiya XF-3 for the yellow. The bottom layer is Tamiya XF-2. 

The blue has been sprayed and masking for the red center point. 

A misalignment between the masks that has to be fixed. 

The alignment is better on this side. 

Masking for the stripe around the fuselage. 

THe best color match I found for the color of the stripe was Tamiya XF-71. 

Masking for the insignia on the vertical tail plane. 

Again the base is Tamiya XF-2. 

A bit of leakage in the mask, but the panel liner will take care of it. 

Masking for the roundelles on the fuselage. 

Masking the squadron markings. 

I used Tamiya XF-66 for the lettering. Also masking for the plane identification tag. 

Tamiya XF-1 was used for the identification lettering. 

The only decals I will use will be the Lizards on the sides of the fuselage. 

The Buffalo is finished! 🙂 

I used 0.03 mm AMMO of mig Rigging line for the rigging. 

I used 1 mm styrene rod that I drilled for all of the machine guns. 

I scratch built the mirror holder from some spare photo etch and used tin foil for the mirror.