Revell P51B
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This is my son's P51B by Revell. The kit is cheap and has really bad fit issues. He is actually doing a good job with how difficult the kit is. He seems to be enjoying building it.
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I think he did a good job on the cockpit.
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I had to take off a bunch of the Vallejo paint. It was spitting and shooting big globs of paint all over. We learned to never use anything by Vallejo thinner with Vallejo paints.
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Learned a lesson about how to use Vallejo paints. Never thin Vallejo paint with Mr. Hobby leveling thinner, or X20A. It turned the paint to gel in the airbrush. It took me a whole night to clean out the brush. I thought the airbrush was a goner.
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Was able to save the model, and resprayed it with Tamiya gloss black, then sprayed it with Vallejo Metal Color airbrush paint. I love these metal colors. They are so easy to use ad have no smell.
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Painted the top olive drab using Tamiya XF-62. I felt that it was too dark, so I mixed a little buff XF-57 in with the XF-62 and highlighted some of the top surfaces. You cannot tell in this photo though.
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This is my first time painting invasion strips.
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The flat white came out ok. I had a little bleeding under the masking on the right bottom side, but all and all, I am ok with this. Maybe I can wear the bleeding out during the weathering phase?
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This was very tedious making sure all the strips were strait, and the same size.
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Well, its not prefect. The raised detail and rivets of this old Revell kit make it hard to mask off and get solid lines without bleeding, or overspray. I think its ok, and my son thought it looked awesome, so if he's happy with it, I can be happy with it. I know I could do better, but I am getting sick of working on these strips. I still need to do the strips on the middle of the fuselage, and I am not looking forward to those.
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The bottom strips look better than the top. I wish it was the other way around. haha.
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This was as much as I wanted to do today. Tomorrow I will see if I can get the fuselage invasion strips done.
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Now I need to install the landing gear. The landing gear are horrible. Now of the parts fit correctly, and they lean inwards. I have become very frustrated with them and haven't touched the model in over a week. I just need to get it done so I can move on.
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2 1 December 2020, 08:57