Grumman F9F-2 Panther

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April 9, 2020
Looking forward to paint tho totally different colours, gray-white and navy blue... hope I don't mix them too much until painted
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April 9, 2020
PE... I said, let's do some cheapo kit from stash to relax from the Aggressor build...
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April 9, 2020
...boy was I in for a surprise...
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April 9, 2020
PE cut, filed, glued on a greenish interior. Interior study shows both green and gray interiors...
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April 9, 2020
rdy to prime with MrSurfacer 1500
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April 9, 2020
masked with putty, then white Mr Surfacer to make the dials visible... in a small cockpit of a 1/72 😄
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April 9, 2020
time to blacken the white halo around
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April 9, 2020
gluing with Micro Kristal Klear
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April 9, 2020
I was feeling suicidal today, so I painted the buttons instead 😄
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April 9, 2020
tools of the trade... if you are in 1/72 business and work with PE, get that white pencil! It's a lifesaver
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April 9, 2020
ta-da
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April 9, 2020
Not great, not terrible 🙂
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April 19, 2020
Scribing away plastic main gear door
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April 19, 2020
Then cutting it away part by part
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April 19, 2020
PE main gear compartment fitting
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April 19, 2020
Canopy space to get some lead wires 🙂
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April 19, 2020
PE main gear compartment installed
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April 19, 2020
Don't wantt a tail-sitter! Buckshots FTW!
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April 19, 2020
...
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April 19, 2020
Demarking aluminium from air intake colour with AK putty... geez, from close up it looks ugly.
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April 19, 2020
ATU bird is very different, all inside compartments are white while the original blue bird is blue/slime
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April 19, 2020
married wings with body
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April 19, 2020
belly up
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April 19, 2020
now to smaller parts... wheels and airbrakes
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April 19, 2020
Masks... not kibuki... not great, not terrible...
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April 19, 2020
overkill in filler
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April 19, 2020
with acryllic putty
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April 19, 2020
and breaks and doors painted and coated with Gauzy
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April 24, 2020
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April 24, 2020
ATU bird primed with MrSurfacer 1500 white then painted with AK white FS17875
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April 24, 2020
White protected, time for FS16440
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April 24, 2020
Curves masked with Tamiya/Nitto flexi tape
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April 24, 2020
VF-781 bird in the meantime first and only layer of Dark Sea Blue (ANA623) from Hataka lacquer
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April 24, 2020
bottom
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April 24, 2020
close-up, nice smooth finish,would be shame to gloss...
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April 24, 2020
Both birds painted in base
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April 24, 2020
Glazed!
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April 24, 2020
Why use decals when you can paint...
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April 24, 2020
Paint instead of decal, will be nicer I said... will be faster, I said... I forgot about the masking 😄
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April 24, 2020
When masked, first prime!
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April 24, 2020
Then make a parrot out of it 😄
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April 24, 2020
...at this point I was not sorry I used half of my tape stash...
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April 24, 2020
nice!
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April 24, 2020
still nice!
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April 24, 2020
mneeeeehhh
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April 24, 2020
its a close up!
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April 24, 2020
this was hard to mask
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April 24, 2020
but turned out semi OK....
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April 24, 2020
some under-spray happened
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April 24, 2020
fixed!
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April 24, 2020
Primed with black base for polished aluminium, before that, a full day of masking on both birds!! I don't want to see yellow tape for a while...
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April 24, 2020
ready for decaling weekend!
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May 10, 2020
So the ATU bird is done except the cannons, they are waiting for a calm day and steady hand 🙂

Comments

2 9 April 2020, 20:52

Dave Flitton
Watching with baited breath!!

9 April 2020, 21:32

Sergej I
Thanks Dave, I hope the watchmaking suffer is through, really looking forward to paint and weather both. I have Hataka lacquers to test, I've been neglecting them over AK and Gunze so far... 🙂

9 April 2020, 22:54

Thomas Bischoff
Great job on the cockpits 👍

10 April 2020, 05:49

Sergej I
Some update on little birds...

19 April 2020, 22:39

Sergej I
Seriously, I took these two on, to rest a bit, to ruin a 6 Euro kit... then found out both had PE, masks... and it turned out into serious build... Guess I'll rest on my 48th Tamiya Fw190 after these two are on the shelf.

24 April 2020, 21:24

Thomas Bischoff
Same here - it always starts small🙂
It was worth the masking effort! Great paintjob !

25 April 2020, 15:44

Bernd Korte
Coming along nicely!

25 April 2020, 16:29

Sergej I
Thanks Thomas and Bernd. Decaling under way. I am now happy I painted the ATU, decals on blue are bottom of the bottom 🙁 Let's see what Sunday brings, maybe I paint the blue one too...

25 April 2020, 19:21

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F9F-2 Panther Double Build

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