B-25 Painting / Completed
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July 24, 2022You can notice ammo belt coming out from machine guns to ammo boxes. Small but nice detail by Eduards photoetched set. Interiot completed so lets cover it with clear parts!2
July 24, 2022While waiting to glue to dry up, I moved to completing wheels and propellers.3
July 24, 2022Kitchen sponge is fast and effective way to cover open places. Anyway, for sure, some touch with brush application of interior color would be necesssary due the oversprays on the edges.4
July 24, 2022So we’re all on its place! Tommorow I’ll finish priming the plane with white surface primer.5
July 24, 2022The build was really enjoyable, Im positively surprised with quality of Airifix kit. That much that I wondering about Airfix’s B-17 in 1/72 scale as my future project instead of Revell 2010’ kit.6
July 26, 2022After thick layer of white Tamiya surface primer, I wanted to try something new and different that “panel line freehand preshading”. I tried my new airbrush stencils from 77proppeller and sprayed some stains with german gray color. It turned out like a mistake - proceed to next picture.7
July 26, 2022This is the down part of plane and I had a serious problem to cover it with white tamiya color. After 5 layers the stains was too bright, i’l need to soften it with some more layers of white. This photo shows down side of plane just after airbrush stencils, next picture will be after painting white.8
July 27, 2022I was succesful at covering not so good looking stains on the down side.9
July 27, 2022Tamiya’s Olive drab looks much darker than it should as in painting guide.10
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July 27, 202212
July 27, 2022I really need to buy some plane holder - building jig 😄13
July 30, 2022Decal placement time, hooray! Its one of my favourit modeling work. Luckily, decals packed to this Airfix kit are really good and working with them was problemless.14
July 30, 2022Little bit of chipping was added with diluted tamiya color and old kitchen sponge, also to propellers.15
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July 30, 2022Bottom before panel line washing.17
July 31, 2022We’re getting to the finish line, decals covered in clear gloss varnish, then panel lines washed, propellers and wheels mounted with superglue.18
August 5, 2022And the big question from the beggining - if the plane will sit down thanks to 25g weight in nose - yes it works! I did it well, model has no stability problems. Next step - overall finish clear coat and unmasking windows.19
August 2, 2022Finished B-25. Decal of US insignia is kinda transparent and shows border between white and olive drab camo…20
August 2, 2022Finished model.21
August 2, 2022Finished model. See second project’s gallery - B-25 interior for more pictures from inside of the plane.22
August 3, 2022Finished model. See second project’s gallery - B-25 interior for more pictures from inside of the plane.23
August 5, 2022I forgot to unmask some clear parts and put on an antenna rigging wire, so now it’s completed and ready to display.24
August 5, 2022Undercariage with eduard’s PE : bomb bay and ladders for crew25
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August 5, 2022Finished model. See second project’s gallery - B-25 interior for more pictures from inside of the plane.
Komentarzy
17 24 July 2022, 21:01
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Very impressive kit. Thanks for the warning on the Decals being a bit too translucent. I will have to do something when I do my version of this Airfix model.
5 August 2022, 13:29
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