Andrés Fernández Lucena Thank you! It is indeed and an adventure and somewhat masochistic, for sure. As you see the kit was pretty banged up and I could have easily bought any other of the Tomcat kits out there which are leaps and bounds above this one... Nevertheless I enjoy improving mediocre kits more than anything else. And I couldn't really bear to throw in the bin the kit which I had bought as a kid with the little money I had back then. So we're in for the challenge!
25 October 2023, 21:43
Alberto Wow, that is some serious scratch work, well done! The cockpit looks great already
S M That looks brilliant even when considering the premise of the old frog kit. I'm also working on this kit and it is awful. Also the topic "Le Grand Duc" is nice 🙂 it is very well drawn comic.
24 March 2021, 16:02
Andrés Fernández Lucena Thank yoy for your kind comment! It is indeed an old kit, with some serious shape issues around the nose... too thin and taperes spinner, heat exchanger ring not bulged at all particularly (fixed with some milliput). And I agree, "Le Grand Duc" is an awesome comic! I tried to follow Romain's painting as close as possible but missed terribly with the camouflage lines in the fuselage sides...but I like it a lot sitting on my desk 🙂
25 March 2021, 06:53
Bozo nice result with this very old kit and excellent reading
Andrés Fernández Lucena Thank you! I'm rather chuffed with it as it was my first foray into brush painting after years of airbrushing, and came out better than I expected. Sure the result would be better with the airbrush, but having children I can only afford little modeling time and space.. Rigging the airbrush is now out of the question. So I am more than happy to see that, with some acceptable limitations, brush painting can work decently. Or decently enough if you adapt your standards 🙂
Oleg Smilyk Great work, Andrés! It looks fascinating.
25 October 2023, 18:11
Andrés Fernández Lucena Thank you all for your compliments! I will get one day around to take some more pictures of it, with a proper background and lighting...right now I don't really have a good setup and this bird is huuuge 🙂
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