Erik De Smet This one looks nice too

Ricardo Reis Yes!

david Nice built. Love these funny planes

Roberto Rocat Very good work

Ricardo Reis Thanks. They are great to build and excellent to play with weathering!

Erik De Smet Enjoy your next "egg" plane

Ricardo Reis I love them, very relaxed builds.

Nathan Dempsey I was just checking this kit out on one of my web-shops. Yours looks really cool! Does it come with a pilot?

Ricardo Reis Yes, it does, although I am not using it.

Roland Revolvermann かわいい ! I love egg planes, too. this looks beautiful

Roberto Rocat Cute!

Ricardo Reis Thanks!

david Well done. Love these planes, but this is not an egg plane. This is a cartoon plane.

Ricardo Reis Yes, but they are very nice to build and test some extreme weathering techniques.

Cuajete Well done so far.

Ricardo Reis Thanks mates, it did take me some time with the putty and sanding sticks, but nothing extremely bad, I should say. Let's see how this progresses now.

Alec K Nice job Ricardo. Following

Roberto Rocat Great progress, I'm following

Clifford Keesler Looking very nice sir.

Ricardo Reis Thank you. Hope I get a few more hour of bench time next week - mottling, highlighs and shades to follow

Stefan Schacht very nice so far, I take a seat.

Ricardo Reis Thank you. It really is a nice kit to build.

Bart Goesaert Nice start, I think for the manufacturers it's not always easy to choose the attachment points on a part. A lot of factors come into play that determine the quality of the mold (I sometimes design molded parts IRL, and it's sometimes a bit of giving and taking to get it right...)

Hugo Oliveira Vou acompanhar. O kit parece muito bom a julgar pelas imagens.

Ricardo Reis @Bart, for sure, but, nevertheless, in this case it generates points where cleanup is very difficult, if not impossible; @Hugo, sim, estou a gostar, à parte da limpeza de alguns seam lines e sprue gates, mas é um modelo lindíssimo.

Dave Flitton Watching!!!

Rui S Um kit sem linhas de molde não é um kit. Pelo menos eu não conheço.
Finalmente um blindado 1/35 que embora não seja de minha época preferida, tenho a certeza que vamos ter um belo modelo para apreciar Ricardo.

James C Looking very good.

Katya Hodgson Ooh a T-10, lovely! I'll be keeping an eye on this one.

Ricardo Reis Thanks Mates.

@Rui S, obrigado. De facto são comuns, mas no Mark I da Takom não me lembro de ter nem metade do trabalho de limpeza.

Rui S Pois, entendo, os moldes mais antigos (o que não sera o caso) são normalmente piores.

PliciPlici Wow! They bent so much downward?

Ricardo Reis No. In the kit, they are slightly bent upwards. When I tried to correct them to stay straight, I ruined them...

KlausH Very nice work Ricardo! Excellent paint job!

Ricardo Reis Thank you @KlausH.

Leszek Cader I like the weathering, especially the upper side - subtle and convincing. And the chipping of propeller excellent. Great job !

Daniel Klink Very nicely done, the scene and the Rata! Well done Ricardo

Neuling I agree with Daniel!

Ricardo Reis Thanks mates!

Enrico Chiambalero Really nice! Bravo!

Treehugger Btw, if you find the Tamiya putty to be disgusting, I can recommend the Vallejo putty. The one with an applicator tip on tube, but not the putty-in-a-paint-bottle variant. Best sanded with coarse + fine sanding stick, or a fine metal file. A fine Tamiya metal file actually makes the surface smooth I have noticed. Vallejo putty can also be smeared out and cleaned up with a moist cotton bud. Sometimes, cutting into dried putty with a scalpel blade is better than sanding, as it is easier and take less time, especially when having excess putty to sand down.

Ricardo Reis Thank you for the tips @Treehugger. I hate the Tamiya putty, because it sometimes flakes under the sanding paper or stick, but it does bond very firmly in place. I also use (and love) Tamiya Primer, but it only works for very small gaps or depressions because it is liquid. For acrylic putty I use the Perfect Plastic Putty, from Deluxe Materials, generaly in areas where I just have to insert putty and then swipe with a wet (water) cotton bud. I'll have to try Vallejo on of these days...

Holger Kranich Well i recommend this stuff for puttying. Just apply with a moist brush. No sanding, no crying. Excess stuff can easily removed with a wet finger. Let it dry for a couple of minutes and that Task is completed.

Liquid Green Stuff (Games Workshop 99189956004, No)

Daniel Klink aha very interesting Holger! Didn't knew this before. I use the Vallejo 401 Plastic putty.
Could be an alternative

Holger Kranich I always hated puttying. With LGS its a pleasure now...

Daniel Klink Ok, i will give it a try thanks

Sören Reifert LGS sounds interesting and I have to check it.
But this stuff sounds a lot like Vallejo putty in the tubem which you can also easily remove with water and dont need to sand it.

Ricardo Reis @Holger, yes, I have that one and will use it now on this build. Love it.

Martin Oostrom Incredible paintwork Ricardo, very good.
I don't know if it's possible, but I think the black decals on the fuselage could use a bit of fading. The whole plane is (perfectly?) shaded and faded around the panels, and the black looks too uniform on the pictures.

Wish I could paint like that…..

Michael Hickey I think she looks sweeet, you could always say that the markings are fresh, they don't repaint the whole plane when putting on new markings, but Martin does have a point, your call of course Ricardo. Well done

Ricardo Reis Yes, I think you are both correct. The thing is these CAG planes are always clean. I would say the markings are OK, but the gray color got a bit too beaten...

JOHN THOMAS Nice work

Roge Lamas Fantastic job with this nightmare! Today I worked with the air intakes and I used a lot of glue and putty . I like so much your work with the joins. I can't see any imperfection on it.

Spanjaard excellent job Ricardo!

Neuling Yes!!!

Sören Reifert Fantastic job Ricardo.
What do you think about the kit itself?
Can you recommend it to buy?

Ricardo Reis Thanks all. @Roge, I did loose a lot of detail on the grids that exist on the intakes, they can now barely be seen; @Sören, the parts are beautifully detailed, but I did not enjoy building this kit, because of awful fit throughout. Worse parts were the intakes and the nose (including windshield and HUD), they are not good at all. I can not recommend this kit.

Sören Reifert Thx a lot for the honest answer Ricardo.
Then it is again waiting for a better F/A-18 A/B/C kit....