Plastic Modelers in the IL-2 Community

[Arfsix]

   

 This is an example of art imitating life concerning some of my modeling experiences!   

 

[voncrapenhauser]

Glue on the canopy.....how many of us have had that?

I'm guessing all LOL.?

[STN]

Finally got myself to start another one. Gonna be a challenge. The plastic is very soft plus not a fan of vacu canopies.

[XQ_Lothar29]

Hello everyone!
-Many will already know me, others will not, because I have been 2 years, almost 3 disappeared.

-I have been a modeler for as long as I can remember, although I never wanted to take it to the level that I can take it today.

-Currently I only build models on request, and some for me if I do not have it in my collection.

-I present myself in this way, because I am fascinated both by the finished airplane and by the use of different construction techniques to improve a model. We are going to "Scratch building" any model, whether partial or almost total.

-I have been following the works in this section for a long time, but I have never been encouraged to share my work, for the time being basically.

-I see that here, we have very talented people.

-So today, I will start by teaching you jobs that are no longer with me.
But they are in the hands of collectors, many of them winners of some contest.

 

Here I show you the photos of the finished model.

 

BF109 F-2  -2ª Escuadrilla Azul "2nd Blue Squadron" Hasegawa 1/48

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-and here small details of how I make or manage to add details to the model.
-How to make seat belts
and other details that no 109 model brings.
-If you want more photos of the construction process, you just have to ask for it.

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I hope you like the tricks to make seat belts

 

Greetings and soon I will upload more

[40plus]

That 109 is gorgeous ?

[Blitzen]

In my youth( never mind you don't even have to guess how long ago that was..) the very first plastic models to fall into my tiny hands were these two Aurora Battle of Britain birds. They were highly inaccurate , had about 10 parts , a tiny tube of foul smelling glue ( just right for fingerprints all over the fuselage, clunky surface development with huge rivets & scored markings so you couldn't miss where the crummy decals were supposed to  go...but the good news was you could open the box and be playing in the backyard within oh say a half hour and yes the evil red Me-109 always lost to the sky blue Spitfire, sadly that time is long gone & now the kits can only be found on EBay for frankly outrageous prices.

But thanks to Great Battles digital models and the skinning abilities of Pierre64 we ( me) can relive those days of yesterday with new & improved versions  and the imaginary dogfights of our ( my) childhood begin again!

Just look!

And yes the bad guy still loses!

 

[sallee]

Very interesting, because I had never seen the Aurora Spitfire which Airfix shamelessly imitated in their first Spitfire along with all the errors, wrong shape and even the wrong markings! Lovely!

[Blitzen]

Oh no If you compared the 1/72nd scale Airfix with the who-knows-what-scale-it is  box scale Aurora you might have more appreciation for Airfix's earlier bagged efforts...maybe...

[voncrapenhauser]

16 hours ago, pfrances said:

That 109 is gorgeous ?

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10 hours ago, Blitzen said:

Oh no If you compared the 1/72nd scale Airfix with the who-knows-what-scale-it is  box scale Aurora you might have more appreciation for Airfix's earlier bagged efforts...maybe...

 

 

Nicely corrected Blitzen it has long been a bone of contention about the myth of the Aurora/ Airfix kits.

The proof is here ...Thanks mate.?

[sallee]

10 hours ago, Blitzen said:

Oh no If you compared the 1/72nd scale Airfix with the who-knows-what-scale-it is  box scale Aurora you might have more appreciation for Airfix's earlier bagged efforts...maybe...

I think that's the commemorative issue of a modern Airfix one with the old header on the top. I don't know if the original moulds still exist. The original is a bit more "primitive"!

[voncrapenhauser]

On 5/27/2020 at 8:44 PM, STN said:

Finally got myself to start another one. Gonna be a challenge. The plastic is very soft plus not a fan of vacu canopies.

 

Grumman Duck ?

7 minutes ago, sallee said:

I think that's the commemorative issue of a modern Airfix one with the old header on the top. I don't know if the original moulds still exist. The original is a bit more "primitive"!

 

Ooh ...intresting it is same kit well done Sallee.

 

Yes the top pic is the re bagged 1/72nd commemorative kit.

[HotWaffle]

Here are a few shots of my 1/32nd scale Pfalz D.IIIa from Jasta 46. I originally started making Pfalz skins for Flying Circus in order to decide which markings scheme I was going to use for this kit; I ended up using this skin.

 

 

Full Album here

 

WIP (exterior)

WIP 2 (interior)

 

 

Cheers!

[Feathered_IV]

My goodness that is spectacular.  I hope I can somehow get close to that with mine.  How did you achieve the Pfalz silver grey?  It looks very good indeed. 

[HotWaffle]

56 minutes ago, Feathered_IV said:

My goodness that is spectacular.  I hope I can somehow get close to that with mine.  How did you achieve the Pfalz silver grey?  It looks very good indeed. 

 

Thanks! The mix was with tamiya paints, XF16 (2 parts) : XF19 (1 part) sprayed over flat black primer. The final sealing coat was Mr hobby lacquer semi gloss.

[XQ_Lothar29]

2 hours ago, HotWaffle said:

Here are a few shots of my 1/32nd scale Pfalz D.IIIa from Jasta 46. I originally started making Pfalz skins for Flying Circus in order to decide which markings scheme I was going to use for this kit; I ended up using this skin.

 

 

Full Album here

 

WIP (exterior)

WIP 2 (interior)

 

 

Cheers!

nice Job! very nice! wonderful 

Wingnut wings or Eduard?

[HotWaffle]

3 hours ago, XQ_Lothar29 said:

nice Job! very nice! wonderful 

Wingnut wings or Eduard?

 

Thanks! It's the wingnut wings kit.

[voncrapenhauser]

fantastic Waffle just fantastic.

 

I like it ...a lot.

Really nice rigging too , simply awesome.

[csThor]

Nice Pfalz! ?

 

I spend lots of time today doing my first attempt at riveting an aircraft model. It's the Ta 152 C-11 from Hobby Boss (or rather the C-1/R11 - the C-11 would have been the recon version of the C with a big camera behind the cockpit) in 1/48 scale. It's tedious work and I think I may have fouled up the left underside of the wing (but that ought to be fixable with Mr Surfacer if need be), but it sure does produce results.

[XQ_Lothar29]

Hi all

Here I bring you, one of my test work.

It is a well-known model, from the Japanese manufacturer Hasegawa.

as is normal for me, when I want to test some new technique, I buy planes at scale 1.72

Well, here I leave you with the plane, and the base I painted for it.
the base is the typical wooden plate to eat "OCTOPUS Galician style". sold in stores for less than € 1

(The technique)

The technique that I wanted to try here was the skipping of the paint, with fixed hairs for women. Come on, hairspray

It is based on painting the entire plane, with some metallic paint, it is fixed with shiny varnish.
now comes the important step. the hairspray is used, throwing it in a pot of TAMIYA paint that is empty.
it is transferred to the airbrush, and the areas that we want the paint to come off later, we pass a coat of hairspray.

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As you can see, the model is very simple.
The good thing is that it has perfect lace.

Ki-43 II Hayabusa [1.72 Hasegawa]

  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

I will upload all the ones made to 1.72 completely finished, even though this one already is, but the photos are small.

I want to be understood well, since I have had to help myself as a translator.
sorry

[XQ_Lothar29]

Hi All

Today I show you the second plane at 1.72 scale that tries to continue improving the technique of hairspray.

as you can see! It is easy to see that I still did not control the technique well, since on one side it turned out perfect, but on the other side, I spent taking paint. Even if it's not bad, don't be satisfied.

I hope you like my models, even if they are for testing.
It is useful to learn a technique.

The Model is.. 

P40N Warhawk [1.72 Hasegawa]

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Edited June 8, 2020 by XQ_Lothar29

[Hoots]

OK so a second go at quarantine time killers, this lark was soooo much easier when my eyes worked, how you guys manage at 1/144 I do not know. This is the beginnings of a 1/72 Revell Lancaste r. Slowly getting the hang of acrylic paints.

 

Ignore the not particularly straight lines in places, I figure that as the canopy is going to make a lot of the detail disappear it'll be ok...

[hetstaine]

Just got back into modelling in the last two odd years since a weee young lad back and loving it, very zen and no rage quits! All the following are a small sample of finished 1/48 kits. You got to be careful though, it can be as addicting as flight sims...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and some more, 5mb limit killed them

 

 

[FTC_Snowy]

 Very nice work mate, and well presented too.? I’ll get back into it when time allows.

[hetstaine]

Cheers, and yes, it can be time consuming for sure. One thing i got out of it is patience is a virtue, as a kid it was whack em together as quick as you could and on to the next one! Now each kit can be a four week build or 3 months if it's a ship.

[ZachariasX]

Impressive!! Love the resin work as well. 

[Feathered_IV]

Fantastic work.  That 410 in particular is a beauty!

[hetstaine]

Thanks! i'm glad i was merged into this thread, how ridiculous of me to think there would not already be a modellers thread in a flight sim forum! Looks like i have some 40 pages of perusing to do tonight lol.

 

Here's another, one i completed a few months back, Tamiyas Skyraider. Since the Dauntless i project i've found salt is a great weathering effect to get a nice layered look for certain areas or objects, so many techniques to try out after 35 years away. The Skyraider allows for a ton of weathering as well as she was a leaky old bird and it's hard to go overboard on her really.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 28, 2020 by hetstaine

[DD_Arthur]

7 hours ago, hetstaine said:

 

 

Beautiful!  What is this ship?

[hetstaine]

The mighty Warspite

 

She was quite the build i must say. I thought it would have looked rather boring on the supplied stand so i made a base out of foam, paint, toilet paper mixed with wood glue, more paint and a clear gel product.

 

 

 

 

Edited July 1, 2020 by hetstaine

[DD_Arthur]

5 hours ago, hetstaine said:

The mighty Warspite

 

She looks fantastic.  I think your sea is a bit of a work of art too.

 

Part of Warspite's main mast set into the cliff top at Prussia Cove in west Cornwall.

[hetstaine]

Thanks Arthur, she was a good looking  rugged girl. Iirc there is another piece of her that survived as well, maybe her bell.

[DD_Arthur]

Sorry for more OT but if you go to the beach at Marazion on a low spring tide you still find parts of her keel embedded in the sand.  She didn’t give up without a fight.

[voncrapenhauser]

ME 163 finished.

 

Meng 1/32nd scale ME 163 B Komet.

 

This has been a terrible kit to assemble,....anyone remember the old Fujimi kits?

This kit reminded me of them IE, They look great in the box but almost every part is well detailed but  ill fitting.

 

I could not recommend this kit unless you have great patience.

Every part needed some kind of fetteling.

I am not thoroughly happy with the outcome,but here it is anyways.

 

Over all a not pleasurable experience ,..still you cannot win them all I guess LOL.?

[Feathered_IV]

Looks very nice to me despite your struggles.  You've just reminded me that I have a Hasegawa one that has been waiting it's turn for more than 25 years. 

[voncrapenhauser]

36 minutes ago, Feathered_IV said:

Looks very nice to me despite your struggles.  You've just reminded me that I have a Hasegawa one that has been waiting it's turn for more than 25 years. 

 

I have built both the Hassagawa and this one in 1/32nd,TBH I am not sure which one is best as they both have faults.

Meng has engraved pnel lines which are superbly done but as said is a bitch to get bits to fit.

Hassagawa has raised detail but an easier build except the wing joints are a bit iffy and not sure wing incidence is correct..

Meng has better cockpit but at least Hassagawa fits.

 

Swings and roundabouts.Lol.

[Gavrick]

MiG-15 UTI from KP, 1:72.

 

[hetstaine]

Speaking of average kits, i'm just about to drop an order on the three 'cheapest kits i could find on a site' for shi#s and giggles.

 

A 1/48 Albatross by Mistercraft who i have never heard of. A 109G6 by a company whose name i can't even see on the box and another WWII job i am now struggling to find on my wish list.

 

After Eduards fairly terrible 190D9 and Academys F -111 i figure it can't get much worse...or can it.

[Tyberan]

What's the issue with eduards fw190 dora, generally curious as I was thinking buying one over the tamiya kit. Don t tell me the got the gun cowl wrong as well

[Feathered_IV]

I've taken a little break from the other things I was making to take part in a group build.  The online club to which I belong is dedicated o 1/144 scale and is doing a 1940 theme to mark the 80th anniversary.  I thought I would do a Miles Magister from scratch.

 

Got to start somewhere. 

 

[Buglord]

Great work everyone...

hetstaine... wow Great models m8 Love the skyraider....

Von... That looks cool... i`ve been looking at some meng tanks but i`m not familiar with them , your comments have put me off them ..lol.