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Jennifer Franklin
Very nice! Truly impressive.

Bozo
Belle maîtrise de la peinture que ce soit sur la maquette ou sur les figurines

Pierre Pierre
did again the painting with masking to have neater line betwen the colors. not perfect but better

Pierre Pierre
Starting painting details

Pierre Pierre
I am now in a very dark place... put some "decap four" the spray used for hoven cleaning. fingers crossed...

Jan Peters
That sucks.
Hope you are able to recover it 🤞🏻

Alexander Grivonev
I personally am strongly opposed to "improve" or redo a certain model you have built a long time ago. It is a time capsule, it depicts your skill level at a certain point in time and there are memories attached to it, please leave the old builds like they are! I actually myself did that several times what you suggest, I built the same kit many years apart just to see how much I improved. 👍

Pierre Pierre
Indeed yiu are right but some of them lost too many pieces or broken down afger an unscheduled flight over to the shelves. In this case choice is either the trash or reshuffle. As i am a bit holding on them i rebuild them or replace them with a new kit

Tom B.
Following this one 👍 Had been contemplating doing one of these boats... will you improve the kit using scratch details or such?

Pierre Pierre
@tom Thank you ! I started to complete the bridge, It is very small not sure I am able to improve without etch part, may be main antena that look very thick but I will concentraten to fill the gaps every each pieces.

Pierre Pierre
about to send the final pics.

Pierre Pierre
here the pictures of the final model. a lot of work far from perfect in particular in metallic shine but look like a Mig-19. Despite multitude of boxes, only 2 mold on the market all pre date 80s. I will definitively try another build. this time with brand new kit.

Pierre Pierre
@ Andy Ball : definitively !! @ Simon & PeterThank you very much.

Pierre Pierre
I split the collection into WWII plane (here) and Post WWII : Soviet plane Cold War 1/72 | Album by Naram

David R. Meizoso
I've never got rid of such an amount of raised detail, but given there are no complex curves on the surface of the SR-71 my approach would be to sand it away using flat files or, better, some DIY flat sticks. Just grab a piece of styrene bar and glue a strip of sand paper to it with CA. Evergreen 0,6x0,15 bar works well for me because it's broad and flexes a little so you can adjust the strenght of the sanding. I use 800 grit wet paper for a start, de-clogging it periodically with a hard bristle brush in a glass of water. Please see pic 31 in my CL 415 album:
CL-415 MP MMEA | Album by drmeizoso (1:144)
I think this way you could remove the lines pretty fast leaving no dents, as it usually happens when using scalpel blades or scribers. Then you just have to swipe a sanding sponge to smooth everything up.
If you want to keep track of the original panel lines you can first take pictures of the original lines as a precaution, then sand, and puncture the intersections of the lines with a needle when you are almost done but the remnants are still visible. This way you just have to scribe following the dots afterwards, checking the pics for reference if in doubt.
As for the scribing part, I can recommend Border's cemented carbide engraver 0'15mm for 1/72 and any scribing tape (HIQ parts, Dymo, cello tape...) as a guide.
Keep the good work! Of course I'll follow this, it's a personal favourite!

Cuajete
David, thank you for your advice. I'm sure it will be very useful 👍

Bozo
very nice painting work for an original subject.
The so particular german camo is perfectly realized.

Moreno Baruffini
Just found this, very convincing camo, and a very clean restoration. Bravo!

J35J
Taking a seat!👍🏻

Guy Rump
Following. 👍

Pierre Pierre
Thank you very much all, I enjoyed the build. you should try, there is plenty of version possible.

Ekki
Very nice work!