Olivier Well where I live, concern is growing about the LEDs mainly the blue light they can produce.
When located far from the eyes they are ok, but on a work bench I would not be so sure.

Frank J I personally use an Ikea ledstrip with color-changing functionality just for this reason as a worklight, it really helps being able to more the color more towards yellow-white or even into different colors to correctly verify coverage and shapes.

If you buy proper warm white LEDs you will also have much less of an issue with blue coloration (cold white).

Hans Robben I prefer daylight (5500K) light sources. I got two LED desk lamps and overhead 2 fluorecent tubes, all of them 5500K. Makes judging colors much easier. As far as the change: as long as you select the color temperature of the LED's to your liking there shouldn't be any difference between fluorecent and LED apart from price and reliability.

Spanjaard thanks for the info!

Rui S Thx for sharing

Nathan Dempsey I worked in a print shop for many years. The entire building including all the office areas was as lit in 5500K to make sure all printed material was viewed in the same light. Later they had to light a separate building this way too. The marketing dept kept saying the prints looked different than it did in the print shop.

Spanjaard thanks!

Spanjaard thanks a lot Bryn. I think you are right.... well the truth is that I forgot about that ladder!

R K looks awesome!

Spanjaard thanks daemion

Christian Ristits Fantastic Phantom - congrats!

Spanjaard thanks Christian, your compliment is greatly appreciated!

Kim Branders Spanjaard Nice Phantom this one is on my bucketlist. impressive

Spanjaard thanks Kim and go for it after doing the Academy and Hasegawa, i certainly suggest the Academy one. i do not know about the ZM.... resisted the temptation so far

Patrick Hagelstein The ZM is awesome! ...except for the aft fuselage... the shape is totally off.

Spanjaard not much time for modelling lately, in fact the last pictures were taken more than a month ago
i think I am over-complicating this project......

Martin Oostrom Not really serious: nyx.meccahosting.com/~a00083e7/me262swallofin1.htm
A bit more serious: nyx.meccahosting.com/~a0008aa9/me262a3.htm
More serious of the three: https://doogsmodels.com/2014..rumpeter-me-262a-2a-part-iv/

Can't wait for the end of this project....

Lode Schildermans Me neither

Greg Baker It's impossible to over complicate a build...

Spanjaard Thanks for the links Martin, I will keep the pictures of 111712 for future 262 builds (in bigger scale). The others,....well, colorful, true but 100%whatif
Thanks Lode. Unfortunately not having much modelling time lately, and none expected in the coming weeks
Greg, what can I say?

Spanjaard thanks all, and specially to Christian. who knows, maybe even before SCM 2019

Christian Bruer would be great

Lode Schildermans Antonio, Thank you for the honor. You, some others and I know why.

Lode Schildermans Stuart, it took about 7 months

Stuart Perry Incredible work.

Lode Schildermans Thank you, Stuart

andvkubar Nice pictures! Thank you!

Spanjaard thanks advkubar and bobinspokaloo

Bryn Crandell Did it work?

Spanjaard as expected, it is mostly for a conversation at SCM Newsfeed

Spanjaard thanks Martin and Ingo

JOHN THOMAS Very cool, Yippee

Neuling I fully agree with Lode and Martin.

Spanjaard thanks John and Neuling , really glad you also like it

Dutch Wow! Spanjaard, You definitely invested more time, effort and skill into your P-38J #5000 kit than I did, and your results are stunning. Your level of detail is outstanding for this crude kit. Just your cockpit canopy alone is worth learning from. I like the weathering and added detail, like gun barrels, wire aerials, etc. I still have to make my canopy frames, which I think I will do with silver stripe decal. I do not think I will add gun barrels or aerials. But I like your work! Great job! R/ Dutch

gorbygould That's pretty remarkable considering the scale. Well done Spanjaard!

Murad ÖZER Eyecandy

Spanjaard Thanks Dutch, gorbygould and Murad. this one is the first one finished of a special project, so stay tuned

JOHN THOMAS Great photos thanks

Greg Baker oh, you KNOW I'm watching this one... PE parts no less! Wow.

Spanjaard I was expecting you .
There is PE too in the 262 and the spitfire too, but there is more here....and six of them!

Greg Baker I'm keen to see what you do here. I barely started mine, so I want to steal all your good ideas. The sweet kits are... sweet, aren't they?

Spanjaard Very much. Only Platz can be considered better. Eduard ones are ok, although engraved detail is too deep for that scale.

Spanjaard Zero may take a while to be started, though. Need to finish Mustang, mosca and seagladiator first

Daniel Klink I'm in

Spanjaard Welcome Daniel, but it may take a while.... The others (started already in this project) will be finished before I can start the zeros

Martin Oostrom Great work on the twins! I like the red one

Spanjaard thanks Martin.
the truth is that most of the boxes in this project have two planes, so more twins coming

Spanjaard i discovered too late that Brengun has a PE set for this box... it could have made a nice interior. well, maybe i can use it with the 4 "spare" Komets i still have

Lode Schildermans You're as mad as I am on microscopic details. Very nice done, Spanjaard

Spanjaard thanks, that is a great compliment

Greg Baker Wow... very nice indeed. I know what it takes to make these little suckers look like that too...

Spanjaard Indeed

Spanjaard And thanks

Erik Leijdens Amazing work in this tiny scale Antonio

Stefan Schacht Hallo Spanjaard, nice start, count me in. Cheers Stefan

Spanjaard welcome Stefan. happy to see you here i hope you will like it

Lode Schildermans Man, this is so tiny. Nice start, Spanjaard

Martin Oostrom You Sneaky Spaniard!
1/144 huh? Inspired by Greg? She does look nice

Spanjaard thanks, actually the project "airgroup"was started about 6 months ago... there are a few more planes on it. some not yet started

Gordon Sørensen And adding rigging in 1/144th? Very impressive, Spanjaard!

Spanjaard Thanks Gordon

Martin Oostrom Petie 2 times 2?

Spanjaard it is an option.... thanks

Lode Schildermans Spanjaard, a question. What paint do you use?

Spanjaard interior is tamiya acrylics, outside is Alclad airframe aluminium. i should have polished more the plastic, and it would have been even better.

Lode Schildermans Not easy to polish on such small surfaces. I am very satisfied with MrPaint. Comparable with alclad

Spanjaard not easy, but possible.... like doing the rigging of certain ship i have just seen... with flags and all, for sure not easy either
never used Mr Paint, but i will have it in mind, Alclad does give good result, but it is not exactly healthy stuff

Lode Schildermans Lol, MrPaint neither. As for rigging, you could a biplane

Spanjaard Well, there is 3 in this project sea gladiator, I-15 Chato and Nieuport, the last one is not WWII, but I was asked to add some biplanes to the project

Cuajete Coincidentally I have read this now, many months later. It's exactly what I was looking for.

Thank you very much, Spanjaard!

Spanjaard you are very welcome Cuajete. a mandar

Ingo F That was me Spanjaard.
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Spanjaard great!!!!! finally thanks

Ingo F Thank you!

Cuajete My apologies to Ingo F. I should have confused this thread with another one.
However, I am glad that my answer has been useful so that the right person could have seen the Spanjaard's help. And thanks to Spanjaard I have also found these figures that I was looking for a long time ago

Ingo F Nah, you dont need to apologise, everything is alright.

Spanjaard i am happy i could help two people instead of one
I probably mixed both conversations in one in my mind

Cuajete

Peter Hardy Choppa? Were you offering them directions? They were obviously lost!

Choppa Nutta haha no, I was just leaning against them pretending they were mine lol

Spanjaard thanks a lot Choppa, really appreciated

Djordje Nikolic Nice Ferrari! Wasnt one recently sold for $50mil or something?

Spanjaard thanks. I think i could part ways with my model for that price
yes, i think i have seen something in the news about that.... it is one of the most beautiful cars ever build. i think i will need to do another one one day

Djordje Nikolic I think the owner of the real one should buy your model for 1/10th of the price, just to keep it inside of the house!

Choppa Nutta I think 1'24th of the price would be more appropriate
Still though one of the best looking Ferraris around

Funny how the best things in life begin with F ....
Fun, funk, Floyd, flamenco, fudge, Ferrari, fire, among other things

Spanjaard friends of course among other things.....
yes, 1/24th of the price of the real one would be welcome

Spanjaard thanks Ingo, Tom and Choppa. this is a two years old build... almost a total disaster, but still one of my favorite builds.... i intend to do it again one day!!!

Peter Hardy Still a beautiful build Spanjaard, I'll confess to looking it over from time to time.

Spanjaard thanks a lot Peter, glad you like it so much

Mike Grant That's REALLY nice.

Daniel Klink Looks great Spanjaard...Absolutely authentic look

Spanjaard thanks a lot Daniel!

Maurizio Pessina wow Spanjaard, great work, very realistic, beautiful the wheels and the weathering!

Spanjaard thanks Maurizio, very glad you like it