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Spanjaard
nice tomcat

Roy McKay Autor
Thanks Spanjaard

Spanjaard
very nicely done!

Robert Podkoński
Great job!

Roy McKay Autor
Thanks mates

Martin Oostrom
Good start!

George Williams
Some very good work on display here.

Jean-Daniel Aebischer Autor
👍

Nick N
Looks very promising!

Dom SAVE Autor
Thanks a lot, it might be a long ride !

Rui S
I'm in too 😎

Guy Rump
Interesting build, following. 👍

John Hughes
gruppofalchi.com/fil..7---Boeing-F4B-4.pdf

naval-encyclopedia.c..w2/us/boeing-f4b.php

fiddlersgreen.net/mo..raft/Boeing-F4B.html

These should give you a good start. Google is your friend in cases like this.

Bart L Autor
those are pretty good resources, from what I can tell the Box art and decals are not portraying an actual plane, Every photo that depicts the felix the cat has a different color stripe, red, black, the decal sheet comes with white? I think the problem is there is no "famous" version of this plane, LIke the Butch Ohare wildcat or the flying tigers p40. this was a non famous plane. I might just have to make something non historically accurate because I already painted

plus I should have put the rigging on while I was building, It needs to be tight, like it is under stress. thread will look floppy

John Hughes
If you think you've got it bad, I also have the P-12E, BF2C-1 & P-26A in the same series. Must be a glutton for punishment.

Bart L Autor
oh no, I have those on my shelf, at least I know where I stand. I just have to roll with it.

Xu Ho Autor
Note for Mig-21:
The first problem I faced was deciding how to deal with the decals after checking the history of MiG-21 No. 5121. The real aircraft in the museum is well preserved, but it's hard to tell which markings were really there during the war and which were added or removed later. In the end, I chose to use all the decals from the instruction sheet.
The next question was: which version should I build?
If I want to show the jet on the day it shot down the B-52, then it shouldn't have any kill marks yet.
If I want to copy how it looked during outdoor display years ago, I should add 8 kill marks.
If I want to match how it looks now in the museum, then only 5 kill marks should be used.
Finally, I chose to build the version from the day it shot down the B-52, with the right weapons load. But I still added 8 kill marks on the nose to honor this great aircraft.
The last issue was the silver paint. When I put decals on top, the finish looked uneven and shiny. To fix this, I lightly sprayed some silver paint over the decals to make everything look smoother.
Next time, for large decals on silver surfaces, I might use masking and paint the markings instead of using decals, to get a better result.

PS：The incorrect title in the image has been corrected.

Xu Ho Autor
Hi Makariel, Thanks for your kind words! I made a custom three-view camo reference to help with the painting. The right side of the fuselage is based on historical photos, but since there weren't clear views of the other angles, I had to follow the camo shapes and proportions of the colors based on the photo, and fill in the rest myself. I scaled the image to match the model's size and printed it out to guide my painting.

Anthony lfk
Beautiful and sexy this plane is...i thought of Spitfire at first look lol

J35J Autor
Thanks Anthony, actually my first build coming back to the modeling world after 30 years away.

Mr James
Great metal paintwork and beautifully presented again. Great work

Rui S
I agree 👍

Anthony lfk Autor
Thank you James & Rui, the paint did the job itself, AK Xtreme Polished Alum, good stuff but it doesn't take masking well, no it does not peel but the masking adhesive stick stubbornly to it. luckily i found out it can be removed with rolling blue tack over it !!!

J35J
Great build and photos!👏🏼

Anthony lfk Autor
Thank you James, i always wanted to make a good first impression even with a mediocre build & painted kit, it does enhance the viewer's visual experience.

J35J
The build looks great to me! Congrats👍🏻

Martin Oostrom
Nice start Ray. Good use of using the aluminium tape.

Rui S
Looking great 👍

Spanjaard
great paint job. and very nice tape use, as Martin said.

Karlos221
Congratulations for such a beauty 🙂

Spanjaard
beautiful!

Maciej T. Autor
Old Cinema 🙂 -> drive.google.com/fil../view?usp=drive_link

Alex K
Lovely! 👍

Rui S
Great small scale work 👍

Robert Podkoński
Lovely indeed!

Spanjaard
very nice!

Neuling
Very appealing indeed!

Spanjaard
very nice!

Zbynek Honzik
It's nice to see airliner here again. Nice job. 👍🙋🏼‍♂️

Robert Podkoński
Beautiful!

Guy Rump
Great job! 👍

Spanjaard
very nice!

Rui S
Great paintjob 👍

Spanjaard
awesome job!!!

Rui S
Excellent work 👍 What a Beauty.

Spanjaard
when i saw the teaser i was wondering why you were using a reference picture as teaser for the album..... holy moly, amazing paint job!

Rui S
Beautiful work. Very well done, indeed 👍

S B Autor
@Arif and @Rui: Thank you very much for your support and your kind comments. 👍👍👍

George Williams
Coming along great.

Peter G Autor
Does anyone else here wash their parts before painting or am I just wasting my time?

René (Lord Bilbo) Bartholemy
Taking a seat.
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Michael Kohl
I cherish the later Special Hobby kits and I am anxious about your build report.

Finn
I'm in

István Szücs
Watching!

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat here!

Olivier
Any seat left ?
Ok, I'll take this one.
Thank you.

Rui S Autor
@ Mark, thank you for your nice words, I'm glad you think so. I think so too;
@ Olivier, Always space for the mates, You are more than welcome and if you see something incorrect, please alert me 😉
At the moment I'm inventing some PE for the exhaust muffler protections (non-existent in this kit) and next, I will Try to scratch the Nebelkerzenabwurfvorrichtung, seen in the photo reference, also non-existent in this kit.

Martin Oostrom
Excellent painting

István Szücs
Great work so far!

gorby
Nice.
More photos would be good.

Rui S
Nice collection 👍

Daniele Riavini
WOW! 😯

Steven Van Dyck Autor
With the finishing of the base this project is done. The base was sprayed with white primer and hot orange from opposite directions, creating a nice optical effect. I glued the tank to the base, it will be in the KMK contest on 1 june.

S M
Well done! With that base it is like a set from a Polish Stargate 😄 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Neil Autor
Hi @Edouard and @Nick, thank you both for your extremely kind and encouraging comments 🙂 Yes, I do love to build these old kits too straight out of the box. Accepting I'm cheating somewhat and avoiding complication by not utilising aftermarket or similar. I will be chuffed to bits if my build album offers any other modeller a tip or two - that would make me very proud. I've painted a few kits using a 'hairy stick' now, with a variety of manufacturers of paint, my advice, thin it well and use multiple coats 👍 I built this one a few years back now and could do better if I attempted again - I did enjoy the scheme for sure. @nick I'll definitely take a perusal through your builds also. Thank you both again and thanks to all who've recently liked too 🙂 👍

Rui S
Neil, sorry, but I do not think, not utilising aftermarket it's cheating, I think it's it's quite completely the opposite 😄 😉 So You must be very proud of your achivemments, of course. 👍 But hey that's just my too cent...
It would be bad for us all if, on a second attempt, we did a worse job than we did on the first.🤔 it could happen, but it would be bad.
Keep on with the great modelling Mate 🙂

Stephan Fässler Autor
Finally got some acceptable pre-shading done, after one year in 🙂 cheers