Steph glad to hear you haven't forgotten about your nice SdKfz 222 build . I'm sure looking forward to that one too

Sal you must be as busy as hell in the real world I haven't seen any of your speed builds for quite awhile now .
I'm looking forward to you joining us, you'll sure bring some movement in here .

Jessica Sure hope you don't lose to much detail redoing that paint job
What do you use the invisible thread for, antenna wires?



Paul

Rigging!

never thought of that.

Paul

Yes I have been very busy with Schuetzen fest, Oktober fest School work and I have actually been back to working a real job too But if all goes according to plan I should be joining in on the fun around here some time in the beginning of November
Everyone is doing some great work

With the canopies in place and masked off it's a little easier to see why the two seat version was nicknamed the Anteater. Luckily, most of the frames are straight lines. Even so, putting all the masking in place took most of an hour.

I also closed up the gaping hole in the wing where the landing light is supposed to go.

Once the glue dries I'll sand that all back to the shape of the leading edge.

Here's a quick update, not much further to go now

Some water cans, which are tied to the turret and not the magical hover thingys , a shovel and crow bar:




and here's the boss, I still have to do the head:








keep em coming folks





Paul

RLM 76 on the undersides

Hi there everyone, I'm calling this done , got the commander
finished this afternoon and he is now in charge of his "borrowed" Crusader Mk 1

I hope you like it, look and enjoy


































Keep up the good work, maybe I'll do a second one for in here



Paul

A quick update on the Aerosan. I'm calling the vehicle done I'm still going to make a base for it and provide some figures. Then there's the Kettenkrad tow vehicle. To be honest, I'm not sure what I'll actually do for a base. I've been thinking about scaling it back some and keeping it very simple.

A nice coat of RLM 83 and I'm almost back to the colour of the bare plastic!

With the RLM 81 in place it begins to look more serious. I'll need to do some touching up here and there to correct things and make them look right. Then paint the olive drab patches where the German markings were covered over.

And now the anteater sits on its wheels for the first time

Still much more to do.

Basic painting is complete


When the USAAF commandeered the aircraft, they painted out the German national markings. Logic states that they'd use Olive Drab and Neutral Grey given that they wouldn't have had stocks of German paint on-hand. I simply painted over the markings on the decal sheet which will allow some of the marking to show through, and the shape of the decal film will get a better shape than simple masking would have achieved.

Paul,
Nice looking Crusader.

Jessica,
She's coming along nicely. I'd never thought about painting the decals like that.

Could not have said it better Alex, and Alex great job on the Areosan That dio for it you were working on looked interesting would really like to see it finished

Now it's time for the decals. First the painted-out German markings. I discovered that the radio call signs were for the single-seater, so they got left off


On top of them go the USAAF stars'n bars

And on top of that, the RAF roundels

Models produced in Germany are not allowed to include the swastika, so there was no decal to paint over, I made a mask for the tail instead

US Olive Drab is almost, but not quite exactly the same shade as RLM 81. The painted out diamond is there, but not very visible unless you look for it


Construction is basically finished. I'll get a coat of matte finish overall once everything has finished curing


This scheme is definitely more colourful than the standard German markings.

And done

@Jessica: I love the Do-335, including in this markings

A few advances..... to many campaigns....

Nice model Jessica!

Thankyou all for the positive critic, it's well appreciated

Alex, the Aerosan looks great , and whatever base you'll do it will look fine I'm sure

Jessie, fine finish there, that's one cool looking anteater .
I specially like how you coloured out the decals in drab, I may try that out one day myself

Jose, the KV is coming on good, your doing a fine job in your new scale of 1/35






Paul

@Paul: Thanks a lot!!!!

Great work Jessica !
I really liked the German covered markings and over layered US & British decals.

Congrats !!

Hola Jose, I hope you are liking your new scale builds !
It's looking good so far !

Thanks for the compliments, everyone. I like the way the layered markings tell a story while it's just sitting there

Ok I have changed my build I'm gonna go with this kit that has been in the stash way to long

And I will try and make it look like this

I hope to get started this weekend and I will try Jessica method of painting over the decals but my question is Is this a multi colored tank or 1 color

@John: You are right my friend!!!!!!!!

@Sal: I think its only a colour