Buffalo progress
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Cockpit is finished with Eduard PE.
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Engine detail in kit is actually really good.
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Landing light reflector made with milliput. Following in David Dameks footsteps 😉
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A little detailing in the wheel well added, also following David Damek's video.
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All puttied up and waiting for sanding.
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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.
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The Montex mask for the canopy is applied.
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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.
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An experiment with pre-shading with both black and white.
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The basic camoflage is finished. Just a few reparations to be made before starting to mask and paint the markings.
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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.
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Masking for the walkways on the wings.
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I used Tamiya XF-1 for this.
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Masking for the roundelles on the top of the wings.
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I painted Tamiya XF-7 for the red.
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For the blue I mixed Tamiya XF-8 with XF-1 to get a dark blue color.
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Masking for the roundelles on the bottom of the wings.
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I used Tamiya XF-3 for the yellow. The bottom layer is Tamiya XF-2.
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The blue has been sprayed and masking for the red center point.
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A misalignment between the masks that has to be fixed.
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The alignment is better on this side.
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Masking for the stripe around the fuselage.
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THe best color match I found for the color of the stripe was Tamiya XF-71.
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Masking for the insignia on the vertical tail plane.
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Again the base is Tamiya XF-2.
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A bit of leakage in the mask, but the panel liner will take care of it.
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Masking for the roundelles on the fuselage.
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Masking the squadron markings.
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I used Tamiya XF-66 for the lettering. Also masking for the plane identification tag.
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Tamiya XF-1 was used for the identification lettering.
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The only decals I will use will be the Lizards on the sides of the fuselage.
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The Buffalo is finished! 🙂
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I used 0.03 mm AMMO of mig Rigging line for the rigging.
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I used 1 mm styrene rod that I drilled for all of the machine guns.
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I scratch built the mirror holder from some spare photo etch and used tin foil for the mirror.
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Comentarii
1 11 December 2018, 13:09
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I've started the build of the Buffalo. As David Damek (PLASMO-plastic models) has made a build video of this plane on YouTube, I have followed along and made some of the additions from his video on my model.
11 December 2018, 13:15
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Thanks Mates! 🙂 You are all welcome! I'm going for the markings on the box cover.
11 December 2018, 20:55
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Another update, the base camoflage is now finished. As I have the Montex Maxi Mask set for the plane, I have decided to paint all the markings also, so that is the next step.
20 December 2018, 20:21
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I've spent all day, masking and painting all the insignias and markings. It was fun, but I'm pretty happy that it is over with 🙂.
21 December 2018, 15:59
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Thanks bobinspokaloo! 🙂
My name is a swedish secret😉 The easiest way is probably the copy-paste method, that's what I usually do when I can't find the letters on the keyboard or if someone has a loooong name😉.
21 December 2018, 16:21
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Looking very good Bjorn! I really like the barrel like look of the Buffalo and the fact that the Dutch also flew them in the East Indies helps.....Yours is looking splendid
21 December 2018, 17:24
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The painted markings look better than decals. Haven't seen that done before.
22 December 2018, 00:25
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Quick question, which fonts did you use for the markings? I need to make my own for a buffalo project too
23 December 2018, 09:41
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Thanks mates! I'm happy that you like it! 🙂
@Wim, I used the masks that came with the Montex-kit. Finding the right font is always a problem, sorry I can't shed any light on that.
23 December 2018, 12:22
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So the Buffalo soldier is finished, finally! 🙂 I even did the rigging this time😉, and I scratch built the mirror holder from some spare photo etch.
23 December 2018, 22:40
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Thank you mates for all of your nice feedback! 🙂 And Happy Christmas all!
24 December 2018, 13:02
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excellent result! it is just weathered enough to be interesting.....
24 December 2018, 13:10
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Congratulations, very nice work Björn. I like your Buffalo.
28 December 2018, 14:23
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Since I remember Saburo Sakai's rendewous with Buffalos over Surabaja, I like the obsolete plane.
28 December 2018, 18:18
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Thanks Stephan! 🙂
It's actually an old build (from December), I just replaced a few pictures that had been corrupted in the build log.
28 April 2019, 16:49
Album info
Progress pictures of my build of the Tamiya 1:48-scale Brewster Buffalo.