Been making it for months - taking my time. It's eventually ready to be painted.

It's a Tamiya 1:48

I have to say, I'm very impressed with the quality of the kit and may well be alternating between Tamiya and Hasagawa

Very cool! I also like Tamiya. I build a lot of Soviet 1/48, so I often have to go to other manufacturers and when I do, I really miss that "falls together" quality of Tamiya models.

Thank you.

Tamiya is a nice "fit together" model - and as I said, Hasagawa are another make that seems complete.

Looking pretty nice.


Wheels

Nice...now what should I spend my Euro millions on ...
(If/When I win!!)

Drop dead georgous!

Nice!

Well - I'm filled with trepidation now.

Someone mentioned masking and sanding the joins (which never occurred to me) and then I found a website (Hyperscale) that shows some incredible paint jobs on models...several of which I have and whilst I wouldn't expect my paint jobs to turn out like theirs, I am now very disappointed with my work :-(

These are photos of an Academy Ju87 (the top images of each pair are Chris Wauchop's work I found at Hyperscale - THEY ARE NOT MINE! - the top one of each pair is Chris Wauchop's and next images of each pair are mine (mine are the crap looking ones!)- and to think I was quite pleased with the result on my version!

*edited above to be clear. I don't want people thinking I'm taking images of their work and pretending it's mine









I mean - a whole different league. I just asked my wife if I could look at getting a small compressor and airbrush set and she said "No - that's nerdy!" - mmm. Support for ones hobby is always welcome. To be fair though, even I'm not sure I would have the patience to go to anywhere near the lengths that these people go to. I have shaky hands and not great eyesight which makes detail stuff quite difficult.

Anyway - if anyone has good tips or knows a website with good tips for making and painting, I'd be very interested - I'd love to find out some techniques - especially for brush painting as it seems unlikely I'd ever go to spray painting - though I do love the effect.

Hi Billy,
The Mosquito is looking neat and tidy so far, and the figures look great. Don't be disheartened by other's builds. You're on a learning curve like everyone else, and at times it incredibly steep, others almost like freewheeling downhill!

If you can wangle an airbrush you'll have access to a new library of techniques that will help you improve no end, but you can achieve great results with brushes alone.

I've found massive amounts of help, encouragement and inspiration over at [url=www.britmodeller.co.uk]Britmodeller[/url]. If you don't mind paying a small fee then Flory Models has dozens of hours of video builds in which you can see the techniques being demonstrated. (I think there is one of that Tamiya Mosquito in fact.)

I use the same username as here over at both, so say 'Hi' if you do join up.

Have fun!

Gareth

Thanks goon.

I wonder if you know one thing I'm interested in finding out for the Mossie...someone mentioned Sludge painting for doing the panel joins. It's basically (in case you don't know) using a watered down water based acrylic and going over the lines and then wiping down with a wet cloth to remove the excess, leaving a nice dark line where the panels meet.

But they mentioned after painting your aircraft you seal it with a clear product. Do you know what I should use? IS it a varnish? Would that not give a terrible shiny look? Someone mentioned some sort of kitchen floor cleaner or something...how would that work?

Thanks

Oh - and I will be all over that website soon. Thanks for the link