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Hasgawa Ju-87G in 32nd Scale

315 Sqn P-51 Mustang III

Natural Metal on those 50's Jets Seem to fill my shelves, so when I looked at building some P-51 Mustangs I thought should be no hassle. NMF is what I do best. I have decals for all things NMF including the pony's so naturally my initial plan was to follow the same path. That was until I came across the RAF Mustang's in camo. Something really fascinated me about the schemes and to my eye look bloody fantastic on the Mustang. I scrapped my plans to do all metal after I had built and assembled and Painted with Alclad two of the P-51's I have on my bench. Im glad I did not start placing the decal's on when I changed my mind.

The Tamiya P-51B in 1/48th scale needs no introduction, much has been written about it web-wide. Simply
marvelous to build with very little problems. As both of the following models are out of the box builds I did not add or modify in any way. though a nice set of Eduard prepainted harness would have been nice.

The build was pretty straight forward after closing the fuselage halves with no incident and little filler. The fit of wing assembly to the fuse is spot on and really tight requiring very little gluing.

Painting as instructed using Model Master,I used Techmod Decals for the Invasion striped P-51 and kit decals for the other. I wanted a weary look for so I chipped the paint off to expose the metal underneath.Pretty straight forward and I like the result.I weathered the models using my usual system of an acrylic wash of black-brown for the panel lines and tamiya smoke sprayed on. various panels were picked out and sprayed a lighter base color to produce a worn effect. all topped with a flat clear to finish.

Final assembly of all the landing gear etc finished off both projects.

My 2012 Resume.

 2012 Modeling Resume.

Quick Build

Just knocked out this 1/48th Hasegawa F-16C. I used Two Bobs Decal sheet 48-012 and Chose the Aircraft F-16C 88-399, "The Crimson Tide Viper". I bought this Kit in 2005 along with a swag of other variants of the Hasegawa F-16 at a Swap and sell at the Australian Model Expo. This and many others sat in the stash until recently. It is the first F-16 I have built and I can say even for the age of the kit it goes together well.
The build process was straight forward and as usual began with the cockpit. I built this out of the box, other than decals.

Painting is in the usual colors using Model Master enamels. I hit the painted model with a coat of Future in readiness for Decals. The Two Bobs decals performed flawlesly and settled down with a light touch of Microsol.
Once all the decals settled down I gave a quick dust coat of future again in preperation to give a panel wash and weathering. I used a mixture of brown and black Gunze Acrylics, thinned with detergent and water.
I then usd a thinned tamiya smoke 90% thined to further bring out selected sections and lightened base color to highlight some areas. Finishing up I sprayed a final flat clear over the entire model. The result is fairly convincing in my eye.

Overall this model from start to finish was undertaken in five evenings. Next up in the HAsegawa F-16's will be a 'B+' model.

New release looking forward to.

Just posted from Eduard the Su-25K. 230 parts of excitement !

Will be building this on the release, 6th June. here is the scheme.
The Kit is limited edition and comes with a Tshirt.
Check the link to eduard 1/48th Su-25k Limited edition