This is far as I've got with the 1/72nd Special Hobby He P1078A.







The kit went together well except for the usual Special Hobby feature of cockpit assembly being 2mm or so too wide....
and the cockpit sides slope down from front and rear to make a shallow "v", whereas the canopy bottom is flat...looks like a bodge job coming up.

Cheers
Peter
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Peter,
Know how you feel as I was starting my "Pogo" from KP, I thought "Would it kill them to include a couple locator pins". Then I realized the molded in surface detail didn't even line up so just as well they didn't.

looking good Peter I'll post some pics of mine this weekend had some problems with the apint and A/B almost sorted got the 1st colour on will do a bit more this weekend

I finally acquired all the aftermarket doo-dads for the 1/72 scale Attack Hobbies Schwimmkorper 38t. If any of you are familiar with limited run Attack Hobbies kits, you realize these things are virtually unbuildable without photoetch.

I held off doing any real construction since the build has not officially started yet and I also had some other group builds to work on.

Hi Peter

That's looking really good.

Don' t you just love it when you realise it'll take some serious surgery to get all that lovely resin detail to actually fit inside the fuselage!

What camouflage scheme will you do for this one?




Hi Rob,

Feel free to start whenever you like - don't worry about the official date! Tricky projects may well need te extra time.

All the best

Rowan

Hi...



Its funny you should ask this Rowan...lol







Basically I thought I'd give a little test to one of the examples from Luft 46 Colours Part 4.
The underside was sprayed with a can and the base top colour was airbrushed. Everything else is brush painted....I tried to make look it a little weathered this way...hence the patchy appearance, especially on the blue-grey. I blurred the edges of the thin RLM 76 wavy lines by blending with neat thinners before the paint was completely dry....(after base coat blue-grey and green completely dry)
Its a little rough around the edges at the moment. The canopy seating needs further attention...but it's ready for the chalks to tone down a little.
I chose to do it by brush just to re-visit old pre-airbrush methods...

I do have a help question though....I masked off the jet nozzle and hand applied the steel Humbrol metalcote and it polished up quite nicely...but I ask should I have waited and done this last? Or...will future degrade the finish? I realise I'll have to mask it off again for the dull/matt finish coat.

Cheers
Peter
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Hi Peter

Spectacular! It's great to see one of your Luft '46 schemes brought to life in 3-D!




That's a neat trick - it could work well for "mirror-wave" schemes, which need incredible care to airbrush.

Re- the jet outlet... Future / Klear doesn't really effect metal finishes much, so you should be fine.

If I have time, I'm hoping to get started on my entry this weekend...

All the best

Rowan

Hi ...and thanks Rowan...



I can imagine the difficulties doing mirror wave with airbrush.
As my airbrush here is the crappy basic Humbrol one, I'm forced to do these kind of things by hand anyway.

For all over mirror-wave I've done it by hand and when its dry but not completely hardened I've airbrushed thinners or a tinted thinners wash in a very light coat over the top and leave it to do its work...its a little hit and miss but if the paint is at the right "dryness" it softens the whole effect.....but don't blame me if it makes a mess...lol...
Basically its sort of a version of an artists water colour method when doing skies etc.

Cheers and thanks for the tip on the future over metalcote.
Peter
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Pissed off had to take the paint right of with oven cleaner was all gritty so back to the start think I'll just use enamels for painting it sadly some othe oven cleaner creep behind the canopy and cused a bit of reaction with the paint on the cockpit easy to fix though

Bad luck Davy...
your little bird was looking nice.
Still there's plenty of time to fix it.

What scheme are you doing?
Love to see.....

I've got as far as the first coats of Future. The Blue-grey has absorbed the future more than the other colours...not quite as shiny as the rest. But I think it'll be ok luckily...we'll see when I do the decals....

Cheers
Peter
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