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gorby
Looking good so far.

Neil
Thanks Gorby! 🙂 and others for liking also. Pretty much finished this one now, more images to come soon... 👍

Daniel
Looks pretty badass in the twilight? nice shading!

servalpe
Thanks guys for your nice comments and likes !!

Paul Moore
Awesome looking Hornet! Great weathering.

Patryk S.
Following!

Neil
Welcome Patryk! 🙂

Stefan Fraundorfer
I'll take a close look at your model. I have the same one in my stash and would like to build it myself in the near future. Have fun Neil!

J35J
Taking a chair👍🏻

Mark Sherwood
Parked the 360, watching. You should have prolific as your middle name, the amount of builds dude. It would make me more confused than I am. Hurrichurchspitwell anyone. 🤟😵‍💫🤘😵‍💫🖖😵‍💫👍🤣🥸

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat of course!

Chris
Che bello aereo!

Neil
Wow! Welcome all. Really great to have interest from such a talented bunch of fellow modellers. @stephan, looking forward to your version very much also 👍👍 @mark, I know, I'm a bit nuts! I love having lots of the go, takes a while to complete and I'm useless at doing reveal photos. But it keeps it all fresh for me! My job is all about multiple projects, so similar state of mind! 😂

John
I do NOT envy you your masking job but it should look amazing when you finish (or run out of tape). 👍

Neil
Hi John, thanks for your interest mate. I should be ok tbh as the kit comes with a superdecal (cheat) sheet! So although there's some stressful masking on a metallic finish, it's hopefully all doable 👍 I've added some more images today. Thanks for your likes also to all who've dropped by too 🙂

J35J
Looking great! 👍🏻

Donald Dickson II
I did this one as well. Those decals are actually pretty good.

I tried acrylic metallics for the first and last time on this one. When I removed the masking for the red, it pulled EVERYTHING, primer included, right up. The finish was awesome until then. Alclad and Metalizer for me from there out.
Diavoli Rossi F-84 | Album by smokeriderdon (1:48)

Neil
Hi J35J - thanks very much 👍 🙂

Hi Donald, Yes, I agree, the kit decals are nice - though they are on the thicker side. On application they hide a lot of the kits surface detail in my opinion. However subsequent passes with more (and more!) softening and setting solution is doing them justice - more pictures to follow. Sorry to hear of your paint issues when building. Yes. My version is painted solely with Vallejo acrylics: Vallejo primer, Vallejo colour and Metal Colour 👍 You rescued your version well, looks good 🙂

Donald Dickson II
Thank you. In person you can see the areas that pulled fairly clearly.

I used Solvaset on the decals. That managed to get them to settle down fairly well. But yeah, it did hide a bit. BUT, i liked the thickness as those large ones required a good bit of fiddling to get where they needed to be and they stood up to the handling perfectly.

Marco
Paypal habe ich. Wie eilig hast du es? Ich weiss noch nicht, wann ich wieder in Deutschland bin. Der Versand aus der Schweiz ist sonst zu teuer.

Robin (WhiteGlint)
I'm always down for stuff like that. Following. 👀

S M
More kit bashing Hawk 😄 I'm in!

Neil
Hi WhiteGlint & S M 🙂 Excellent! I've pretty much got it built already. I'll get some pictures loaded asap - hopefully tonight 👍

Robin (WhiteGlint)
You're fast, didn't you just start? 😄

Neil
Yeah, started it last night. I just set myself the task of using all the parts and building as I went. Whether you'll think it looks any good or not is a different matter of course! Think a bit 'Steam Punk' in style 😉 I'll get the card outta the camera and get the piccies on here 👍

Spanjaard
really curious about what you do with it.

Robert Podkoński
I am equally curious - following, of course 🙂

Neil
Hi Spanjaard and Robert 🙂 Great to have you here also 🙂 👍 Here's hoping it's any good!

Greg Baker
I LOVE this kinda stuff. Count me in~!

Robert Podkoński
Looks threatening, I must say, already at this stage... 😉

Neil
Ha-ha Robert. I get yer meaning... Yeah the threatening bit just sort of 'grew' out of the bits on the bench! Still a spaceship's gotta have a big gun, surely? I'll get the newer pics on tomorrow 👍

David Taylor
Curious.

JD
That's the spirit Neil!

David H
This should be fun, I've got my seat and popcorn ready

Bruce Huxtable
I'm enjoying your creative sculpting 👍

Neil
Thanks guys 🙂 You're all being very kind. I took some more pictures last night, so will get them on here later.

Neil
@David - I hope my finished product will be worthy of your curiosity 🙂 @JD - it could go either way, my spirit may be crushed or soar - who knows?! @David H - Cheers just be careful with that popcorn we're in zero gravity now and @Bruce - yeah that's one way of describing my 'efforts' 👍

Robin (WhiteGlint)
That vertical part sure is curious. I am very interested how it will look in the end. 👍

Neil
Hi WhiteGlint 👍 Thanks for dropping back again 🙂 Hopefully it'll work out? I figured as there's no real requirement for a spaceship to be aerodynamic or streamlined and as another lifeform could also potentially be any shape. I thought I'd go a little bit bonkers and just flip the habitat part. Of course it could end up looking terrible!

Thomas Espe
Oh, another one, this looks promising. Now I really regret selling my hawk a little while back... This is inspiring.

JD
Finally! Here's an aircraft build that I will actually follow. Lead on!

Neil
Thanks Thomas! 🙂 and great to hear that @JD also 👍 🙂

Torsten
That's exciting 👍

Neil
Thanks Torsten 🙂

Neil
Updated imagery added...

Robert Podkoński
I am not an expert at all, but in my eyes this looks a bit like some Transformer now 😉

Bruce Huxtable
I'm looking forward to seeing how you add colour and bring this ship to life 🙂

Neil
@Robert, well flattered with that as a suggestion 😊 I'll take that! 👍 @Bruce, thanks, I have actually gloss black primed it now. So likely a gunmetal paint job or a Red Dwarf red maybe? Not sure... Any thoughts? Course no matter what colour I choose it may still look rubbish!

JD
Perhaps imagining a backstory of this ship's purpose may indicate it's colors and markings? Looks like a combat vessel for sure, but maybe the missiles are actually weather vanes or something. Let's see that black primer..😁

Neil
Added in new colour scheme imagery and cockpit progress 👍

Sergej I
The build reminds me of this scene:
Youtube Video

😄

Neil
😂 Hahaha, agreed 👍 if I'm gonna mash it... Mash it good!

Bruce Huxtable
Building up the coloured details is making it more and more interesting 🙂

Neil
Thanks Bruce 👍

Rv
Hi Neil ! Just discovered your project, glad to follow that from now. Great job so far !

Neil
Thanks RV!

Neil
I'll likely do another (better) kit bash again sometime... For now I just wanted to get this album finished up and reveal imagery uploaded. I never use any image editing software on my albums (not even colour correction - as that's a large part of my day job, so I purposely try and avoid in my free time). However I did 'cheat' a little (not as much as I could!) And mocked up the front cover as obviously space travel photography would be a bit difficult for me!... That's all folks! 🙂 👍