>no group build

>>11697872
One fucking job you dork. Also last thread isn't even autosage'ing yet.

>>11697987
Thread was on Page 10, so I created a new one. I guess that I should wait longer.
>>11697980
Fuck, you are right...

THE JAPANESE GROUP BUILD IS A GO 02/03/2026-08/03/2026
>All subjects welcome so long as the tie to Japan

As an excuse, I have not slept since Sunday.

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>>11698015
What is group build? Like, we all try to build the topic at hand?
If so then, this is my zero. I rate it: "just ok".
Canopy is objectively atrocious. I know the reasons why it is like this, I don't need to explain much.
To be continued in other pics.

>>11698109
I think you're supposed to begin something new

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>>11698150
Fuck! I only got a arado and a typhon in backlog.

But here, have some more mediocre zero. The Vallejo IJN ash grey is a bit too green though.

>>11698185
Well anon you've got six months to get something tangentially Nipponese put together

>>11698359
Awww shieeet, here we go again.

>>11697987
>Also last thread isn't even autosage'ing yet.
nta but I think the last bread was auto baked, I noticed my responses to an anon didn't bump
>>11698015
>japanese group build
how many chi ha's can we expect to see?

>>11698529
Nobody to my knowledge, some people have yet to disclose what they will build, while others are building aircraft or cars. I am sure there will be one, though.

>>11698529
i know, i'll do a type 1 spg, that doesn't count as a chi ha, right?
in all seriousness i wish nip armour was more popular/ common, i know fine molds does them but the only non import ones i can find are both kinds of type 89, and i've already done a t89 go

>>11698529
The only chi-ha that isn't based on the ancient Tamiya one is the dragon one and it has it's own share of issues
The chi-ha is one of those tanks that desperately needs a kit refresh

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>>11697872
eduard 1:144 mig 15, very pleasant build so far. think i'll go with the red top alu bottom airshow livery.

>>11698745
>The only chi-ha that isn't based on the ancient Tamiya one is the dragon one
Fine Molds has the most extensive range of Type 97s

>>11698750
>Can't into masking canopies at 1/72.
That is a both impressive and immensely annoying.

>>11698754
the canopy mask was included in the kit, zero chance i could have done that

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working on two models at the same time. did all the construction together, the airbrushing together, and now it's the brush work. still have a lot of detail painting, touching up, and chipping/weathering to do before I move on to oils. honestly it's kinda fun doing two kits at the same time. still not sure if I wanna continue on with the blue lenses or just paint over them with black.

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>>11698791
also it's my first time trying post shading I think it's kinda sloppy but I like it. I'm going to try the black and white pre shading next time.

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>>11698150
no

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>>11698185
if the army can bum some primer from the air force?

>>11698752
I have been looking for one across shops in yurup, I wasn't able to find one that wouldn't had its price tripled by shipping
This kit doesn't exist to me

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>>11698817
I'm not sure how real was all the excessive paint-chipping we see from Jap builds.

My guess is it's a misconception stemming from most of the high-quality photos were taken of derelict planes after the surrender, by Americans. I don't know if it's because the Japanese only had potato cameras back then, or because of tight censorship, and restricting photography during the war.

Still, I'm gonna keep making 'em chipped as hell. Artistic license.

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>>11698831
army got planes in alu finish
navy got em factory painted
army had ground crews do it in field shops
ground crews didnt give too many fucks it seems

still think they painted a plane called shoki brown for lulz

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>>11698831
>>11698849
ooopsie wrong pic

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My entry for the Japan groupbuild will be this Suzuki Cappuccino, which I'll start on once I finish the Daihatsu Move, hopefully tomorrow.

>>11698875
Nice work on the Move.

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The struts look terrible because it's an Italeri kit and I decided to glue them after painting.

Cr.42 of the Pesci Volanti Squadron.

>>11698970
love that metallic green, looks almost fish-like

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>90% done on hasegawa fw190d
>somehow lost the nose cone
>none of the other fw kits I have fit
>now have to buy $50 replacement
Mfw I find the fucking piece 3 months from now when cleaning the desk

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>>11698015
jappo action it is?
finally.
my stache full of old kits from the 80s and brainrot impulse buys includes:
hasegawa 1/32 sabre
hasegawa 1/32 zero (the one kit which was made in supervision by the constructor of the original zero, i love hasegawa for this gem)
trumpeter 1/35 type 89
hasegawa 1/350 yukikaze
hasegawa 1/350 jappo arsehole bug Myoko
Zvezda 1/350 Varyarg. was sunk by the japs at Tsushima, raised and flew the rising sun as I.J.N. Sōya.
1/72 airfix zero
1/72 hasegawa Tracker
1/72 tamiya Seiran
what to build as contribution for the group build /smg/?

>>11698529
>>11698150
I've almost finished this Chi-Ha so sadly cant contribute it to the group build inside the group build

>>11699427
Bro, you're not gonna believe what Pesci Volanti means in english.

>>11699580
So, clean the desk now?

>>11699755
I like the color saturation, but I don't think mayo comes in that shade of yellow

>>11699755
>hasegawa 1/32 zero (the one kit which was made in supervision by the constructor of the original zero, i love hasegawa for this gem)
the company or an actual person?

>>11699755
We have yet to have someone claim a ship, but the choice is yours.

Should I do a collage once the group build is finished and make it the OP picture of the first thread after this concludes?

>>11699921
I posted that I bought the 1/350 Soya last thead so I'll attempt that in the time frame.

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And finished. Fujimi 1/24 1995 Daihatsu Move CX
I think it's glossy, but I'm not sure how accurately that comes through in the picture.
>>11698889
Thanks

>>11700024
Good with, but why do the side windows look frosted?

>>11700052
>with
Work

>>11700052
It's just the picture. Irl they are clear

how do you guys take good pictures of your models? I feel like my picks kinda suck.

>>11700082
That's a huge rabbithole. You get a used mirrorless camera, the kit lens is usually good enough, tripod, set white balance and exposure, aperture priority...

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I feel that this semovente kit is cursing me with dementia
I swear to God I had thinned the yellow paint to the perfect point where it is sprayed out without sputtering or being too watered down
Better finish the ha-go before I get institutionosed

>>11697872
>>11698015
how does one submit stuff to the group build thing? I've never done one before.

Step 1 (won) get a kit that is on topic
Step B build said kit
Optional step: post images

>>11700110
I like to figure out and guess how some things are done before looking up techniques online.
For the vehicle on the right I guess you did the green and brown parts first, with a clear edge between them, and then sprayed the yellow buffer zone between them.
I suppose you did it with an airbrush, of course. But since I only every airbrushed once in my life I don't know how thin lines airbrush can do, referring to the yellow parts. Does the airbrush have a special tip for fine brushes, or do you just hold it close? Do you have to change pressure or consistency for smaller areas?

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Takom 1/16th Renault FT that I built over the month,

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>>11700627
plus interior

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>>11699785
both

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>>11699785
>>11700654

any cheap 1/12 brand?

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>>11697872
mixed results from using the airbrush on a production model. setting everything up for small needle opening for preshading was challenging. i had troubles with inconsistent delivery even when using the trigger limiter. flow improver and cleaning the needle tip frequently helped but i still had to test it on paper before every stroke. i wonder if i should stop the air faster after stopping paint so shit doesn't dry out as fast. i am definitely noticing degraded performance right before the compressor starts. maybe i can adjust the pressure at which it does to alleviate the problem. the red topcoat was a breeze and i was extremely happy with finish and how it worked with the preshade. this is where i should have gone to bed because working with the gloss varnish was a (admittedly self inflicted) nightmare.

>>11700628
the fuel tank is immaculate, what color?

>>11700656
Incredible. That's an old ass rare kit too how long have you had it?

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Has Japan operated any slavshit outside of those JAL/Aeroflot airliners?

>>11700709
vallejo liquid silver

>>11700800
just 2-3 years. my entire 80s stach is from a boomer selling his 40 year old stuff in the 2nd hand section of my local hobby store for cheap. mostly crap with some kits in between.

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>>11700853
Militarily they haven't, they've only used burgertech since the bombs dropped. I looked it up and as far as I can tell they once used a Soviet ship design for one of their patrol boats/icebreakers. picrel

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>>11700853
Otherwise they have used Ka-32s for disaster relief

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>>11701032
>plural
I didn't read far enough, my bad

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>>11700853
(ex Varyarg) IJN Sōya

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>>11698015
my entry is this plane
it looks like the love child
of unicorn and whale

grumman tracker
you ugly little fucker

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>>11701098
funniest shit i've ever seen
>captured soviet cruiser
>look inside
>burgertech

>>11701172
Yeah? More than a half of jap navy was built by burgers and brits, Russians had Us, british, french ships aswell

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Gonna use this for rubber part of the wheel on my chi ha

>>11700210
The process was actually to base coat it yellow, then do the green and brown, the overspray is to be corrected and stripe tips sharpened and edges softened with the base color

The airbrush I use when fine work is needed is a €30 chinesium 0.2mm thing, but you are very dependant on mixing the paint right
I normally spray at 1.5 bar for very fine work with the trigger barely pulled back maybe 8 to 15 millimeters away from the surface
I use another Chinese one with 0.3mm needle for basecoats and clear coats or when I'm not too lazy to mask

lads, regarding chipping
people don't often seem to show an undercoat or primer colour, from what I've seen. were most common subjects not painted like that in reality?

>>11701279
You don't always need a primer depending on what the surface is and what colours you use

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>>11701213
Report on your findings, I'd chop my dick off to find a way to make painting rubber rims less tedious.

>>11701397
just use epoxy glue to turn interwoven wheel hell into a single assembly
then just paint the exposed parts of the wheel

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>>11701435
>interwoven wheel hell
Was pic related even worth it, as opposed to just developing a simple gun stabilizer like on the Sherman?

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>>11701476
You vill use my patent or I vill reject your design.

>>11701491
>develop a breakthrough tank that has an elaborate suspension to keep the gun relatively stable while rolling through the steppes in battalion-level armored attacks
>tank arrives too late, and is mostly used piecemeal in static defense, where the running-gear barely makes a difference, but is a massive maintenance headache
The Germans don't get pointed and laughed at nearly enough.

>>11701476
no, iirc the weight of all the interwoven wheels mitigated any theoretical advantages they had when it came to distribution
i think it worked better with the panther because it had less wheels in general, but simply due to how much of a pain it was to repair, along with it not actually doing much of anything, it's pretty safe to say that the interwoven wheels were a mistake and should've been scrapped

>>11701520
considering that german armour was underpowered for what it was pretty much the entire war, it's not too surprising
still managed to cause enemy combatants to shit their pants whenever they saw them though

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>>11701527
>the weight of all the interwoven wheels mitigated any theoretical advantages they had when it came to distribution
Not sure if it did, the Tiger had ridiculous climbing capability and in general rough-terrain mobility. And the ground pressure was I believe indeed lower than other tanks, heavy or medium. If a Tiger was bogged down in soft terrain, it was terrain any other tank would have bogged down sooner.

The question is whether it was all worth it.

>>11701537
IF they saw one though. And IF the enemy that saw them was a tank, and not a P-47, Typhoon, or Il-2.

>apply microset/sol over a decal
>let it sit for a while, sporadically apply microsol again over the course of two days
>go to apply the varnish over it, half the decal lifts off the surface
what the actual fuck, is my shit expired or something or am i not pressing down on the decal hard enough when applying?

>>11701590
microsol dissolves the film and allows you to fix the decals into position
microset fixes the decals to the surface
your doing it backwards, also you only need to add microsol once and slightly tap the decals into the surface with a stiff brush and then apply microset on top of it when your happy with the placement. the microset will slightly bubble the surface of the decal but this is normal. let it dry and you will be good to varnish.

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>>11700853
Ka-27s as >>11701032 stated, Aum Shinrikyo had a Mi-8 for dispersing sarin gas that they never got to use. Additionally, Hayao Miyazaki and Hideaki Anno charted an An-2 as a personal aircraft to serve as a transport and (mainly) to advertise for a film. NHK made a documentary about the aircraft, where it was then flown to France and North Africa. It seems like the aircraft was Czech registered as OK-KID.

The image title should help you find more images.

>>11701213
these markers are great for wheels, but if there is a raised rim, the felt tip is too unpredictable, I paint those with a brush

>>11701397
The bearing on one of the innermost wheels explodes. what do?

>>11701356
I'm asking whether it was done in reality so I can expose that layer by chipping. I see wehraboos showing a red primer layer on tanks, but nobody else doing anything similar on other tanks, or on any planes.
also whether multi colour schemes overlapped underneath

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>>11697872
Great wall hobby sisters...

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>>11701796
You only have to take off 12-14 roadwheels to get to an inside one, no biggie.

>>11701818
Yeah, but what about the smoother ride? Freude am Fahren, and all.

>>11701397
>I'd chop my dick off to find a way to make painting rubber rims less tedious.
A circular stencil? Report how it feels to chop your dick off.

>>11701806
who gives a fuck, christ
this is why nazi's should've won, the world would've been purged of spergs

>>11701662
ok kid

>>11701908
actually
the tiger had a steering wheel like a car and was easy to drive as a manual/stick

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>>11702211
Kek. I learned that I was wrong and it was OK-KIB, not OK-KID. Picrel was at the Sendai Airport, probably for the airshow held there.

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>>11702514
i love red planes so much

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>>11701806
Serves them right, launching their Falcon line with an Israhelli variant lmao.

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Been busy the past few weeks but finally got some time to continue the Hornet. Crazy complicated masking just for a few smudges of green camo but I like the subtlety of this, it's very nice. Also for the people asking about photos in the thread, look at the difference between artificial (even good) LED and natural here, the difference is astounding and arguably the biggest upgrade you can make in photo quality is just taking photos with natural light

>>11703472
god damn, that is nice

>>11703472
Apparently the photographers from the Japanese model magazines not only favor natural light but are prepared to travel over night to photograph under, naturally, the rising sun.

>>11703554
I'd do a lot of autistic sounding things too if I were getting paid for it. But seriously though, every photo looks better in natural sunlight.

This is just a matter of CRI.

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ni hao, fellow weebs. which scheme?

>>11703748
konnichiwa, dude, and the blessings of tight sideways pussy be upon you

Pearl Harbour Shokaku

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>>11703763
arigatou senpai. should I chip the fuck out of it? it doesn't seem right to be in shit condition so early
the box implies that my torpedo bomber should be dropping bombs instead, which is a bit lame, oh well

>>11703748
Are you going to get that humbrol 168 for the base color? I'm really interested how others' recommended color for the zero beige turns out..

>>11703472
Not arguing your point but wouldn’t it made more sense to take the same subject in both types of light? Taking one picture with putty all over the thing on a messy bench and the second painted against a single color background seems a little disingenuous.

>>11704013
I think the japs were still using primer that early so it shouldn't have much chipping. It might have wear typical of other nations' service aircraft, but probably not as bad as you see in 1943+ jap aircraft where the paint flakes off if you so much as show it a rice cake.

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>>11704388
Sure? Here's the post underside+tip paint work from last night. Compare the colors of the camo to the daylight photo and it's very obvious how "wrong" the artificial light photo really is. Daylight is always the best option unless you have a fantastic studio setup and even then having that setup in a way where daylight is used along with the studio light improves the result significantly

>>11704428
thanks anon, that makes sense. I guess the 'full retard' build can wait

>>11704152
I doubt it. I have mr aqueous hemp somewhere, which looks similar, but I don't know if humbrol 168 is a good match anyway. I think they had different varieties of this colour, and I just don't know shit about jap colours

>>11697872
what's the recommended airbrush gloss varnish? the vallejo waterbased one is giving me a hard time to get an even finish.

>>11704640
Are you like doing it as a painting stage for decals and pinwashing or high gloss like on a car? If its the latter you need something more serious that can take polishing.

>>11704654
mostly the former with the odd gloss aircraft livery

>>11704640
I like tamiya x-22. I found vallejo varnishes to be extremely shit

>>11704640
Vallejo sucks ass for orange peel. I should know I basically only use that. I had poor experiences with Ammo Lucky Varnishes they are even worse than Vallejo. I see most YouTube dudes swear by Mr Super Clear but I have not tried it myself

>>11704640
Haven't had any issues with AK acrylic gloss varnish

>mfw i go to a local store that's 50 years in model business
>could aswell just order stuff online it'd be more convenient
>still like picking stuff off the shelf
20 years old btw

>>11704676
>>11704685
>>11704699
thanks anons

>>11703748
Hello, I'd go with the 553rd one due to fixation on 44-45 axis nonfighters, the white stripes on the horizontal stabilizer look awesome on each aircraft I ever put them on. 553rd was operting from the kurile islands so this one would likely have 6*60kg or 2*250kg for use against submarines.
Note for the Shokaku one, if you pick it, that none of the 5th carrier divisions B5Ns used torpedos during this, iirc all had the 6*60kg since they were part of the second wave, you should watch the pearl harbor video by channel montemayor on Youtube. Also they didn't have these white rims on the upperwing hinomarus

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>>11704013
This is an image of the real one, E-311, there is no chipping visible. The Kido Butai's aviators during the start of the war were one of the most well trained units overall and the best pilots in the world at this point, the carrier personel had to keep these aircraft in best possible condition which they succeeded in if you look at any image of these from 1941. Probably no chipping at all, or as close to none as you can get on a service aircraft.
However by 1942 these had seen much service with little downtime (this was the reason Akagi still had beige D3A1 during the battle of Midway, all other carriers had changed theirs to green upper surfaces/Soryu and Hiryu already in time for Wake Island), so you could use the same camo for E-311 with some chipping and torpedo for the battle of the coral sea in May 1942 (or with bigger bombs for the Darwin raid, idk specifics for that tho)

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Primed the body. I think it needs one more go of sand->prime before I can put the actual colour on.
The mirrors are currently just pegged on, I will only glue them after painting.

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>>11704864
>>11704874
based. this is much better information than I had found, and I'll check out that channel. thanks for taking the time
>D3A1
new tooling when

I'm curious how you guys manipulate smaller pieces when you airbrush them. I just started out in the hobby and I thought I would be fine just using my tweezers, but the stream of air makes them pivot or fly away. I've seen people use wooden sticks with small jaws or even with some sort of putty at the end.

>>11705330
I brush paint my smaller pieces.

>>11705330
I stick them to tooth picks with blue tack, or to something larger like a jar lid to handle more easily. same as with brush painting. it does mean sometimes having to come back and paint again to cover the bit that was stuck to the tack though
the best is when they have a sprue attachment in an area that'll be hidden, like the bottom of an antenna. that way you can paint on sprue

>>11704905
I'm a noob. Why do you also sand the primer, is it because no matter how evenly you spray the primer on, it is always a bit rough? Why do another layer of primer after sanding?

>>11704817
i prefer going into an actual store because i hate waiting for shipping, where i live the prices are the same as online anyways
i've also found that physical stores also will sometimes have things that aren't sold online anymore as well

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have you ever bought a kit for the box art alone?

>>11705441
holy SOVL

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>>11705441
old Tamiyas with the Takani artwork

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>>11705245
>new tooling when
Wingsy Kits is on it

>>11705414
The sanding I mentioned in that post is to fix up areas where I was sloppy with the seam line removal. Another layer of primer after that will be needed because I will sand down to the plastic.
I will also slightly polish the final layer of primer before painting because the primer surface ends up a bit rough. I also polish the paint layer before the clearcoat. It might be possible to spray them perfectly smooth but I can't do it.

>>11705330
Depends really
If they are a part of an assembly that will be obscured, I make the assembly and paint it
Otherwise I hold them with the needle point tweezers using a gator clip

>>11705330
Assuming first off that it makes sense to paint the part on its own here because I've seen a lot of retards painting things individually that are the same color as what you're gluing them into -bassemble as much as possible THEN paint, do not paint parts individually unless they really desperately need it.

Reverse (springy/self locking) tweezers if there's a way to hold them with that. If I'm out of those I use clothespins to make regular tweezers self-locking. If the parts are too small for that, I put a loop (and O) of cheap painters tape together with the sticky side outwards and put it on my table to make dirt cheap double sided tape, then place the parts on this to paint them. Examples of parts for this would be eg. Ejection seats, control columns, gear shifter sticks, machine guns mounted on top of tanks and such things.

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>>11705441
yes

>>11705812
does that come with the ducky figure?

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>>11705585

I have many in stash for a Jap groupbuild but only two are possible to build soon, Hasegawas P1Y1-S (nightfighter with Schräger Musik) and a Ki-49 heavy bomber from the army(have interesting schemes for it), both 1:72, is there any interest for one of these?
>>11705245
Glad to hear
>D3A1
Idk about any, there's a fujimi kit but that's practically nonexistent in Yurop, I have a Hasegawa 1/48 laying dormant along with the rest of the pearl harbor set, looks decent tho and Hasegawas B6N and A6M5 were pleasant builds. There's a cheap 1/72 kit which was reissued by mistercraft (or similiar) a few years ago and could be ordered from the Polish for less than 5. Some Australian or Chinese company is developing a new tool D3A2 in 1:48 but idk if that went anywhere.
>>11705591
Ah, that's them, didn't know they were making a D3A1 as well. I don't understand why Hasegawa never put in the effort to give us an A2.

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building this oldsmobile cutlass as a rusty project car, and I need ideas on what to do with the interior, namely the tan parts. I want it to look old and used but still USED so not completely rotten.
I just took a big chunk out of the edge of one of the seats and I plan on making it look like the seat is torn as best as I can.

also anything else you can think of that the interior could use

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heres the engine on it so far, needs an oily wash and some extra grime in spots. ill probably do some basic detailing like spark plug wires and hoses but not going crazy

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Filled my diorama quota for this year early.
Based around the HH-60H (1:350)

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>>11707092

>>11707090
>>11707092
>>11707093
badass dude, nice work

>>11698970
How did you get the black details on the camo so well defined? Masking tape or brush work?

>>11705735
Thank you so muc for the clarification!

>>11707145
AK black paint marker! It was really good at doing the wheels too. Covers nicely.

>>11707090
Very nice

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I DROPPED MY RESIN FIGURE WHEN I WAS ABOUT TO VARNISH IT AND THE FUCKING ARM BROKE OFF!!!!
assessing the damage it's not too bad but I'm fucking pissed and need to repaint some stuff

>>11707939
just be glad you didn't drop it in prison

>>11707093
Very cool, needs more Hideo Kojima though

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just varnish, I tried getting side picks before varnishing but everything came out blurry

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>>11709287
I like the very subtle weathering. Did you apply both some highlights and shadows to the tank or just some darker colors and rust?

>>11709469
yeah I tried post shading for the first time and it was a bit sloppy, but I did some oil blending and rust effects that helped with the contrast

>>11709287
Nice job anon.

>>11709598
thank you :)

Are any chances to find 1/24 kits for Nissan's Pike cars (Be-1, Figaro, Pao, S-Cargo) that doesn't cost an arm and a leg?

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I forgot to clean my parts before priming them and now there's bumps under the paint

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*sigh*

>>11709287
That is a very nice indeed.
You've got an eye for colour I just don't have.

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>My hobby lobby isn't selling vallejo german fieldgrey anymore

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>>11710478
I just bought XF-65 today
>mfw realising it's a colour for uniforms, so I'll be brush painting it, which it's shit for

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This took over 2hrs

>>11710525
just basecoat it with an airbrush and make zero mistakes when brush painting the rest of the uniform
ez

>>11710594
in all fairness it looks really nice

>>11709287
The figure is exceptional. The face holds so much expression. Really cool!

>>11710594
Gott strafe PE

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>>11697872
mig15 got a black panel line wash. really disappointed by the orange peeled gloss coat, made working over it very messy especially on the bare metal belly where i applied different tones over the gloss. also i broke the nose wheel. the 31 was my second attempt at preshading. went for blue marbling and black panel lines. probably gonna add another layer of light grey as the blue is still quite pronounced in some areas. the light grey overcoat also got a bit rough. i believe the error here was working with too thin of a paint too far away from the model. really happy with the progress i'm making in airbrushing in general though.

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Spent Saturday morning figuring out how to paint the squadron emblem for the Hornet, going with the larger one of the two. This is getting easier than it was on the Draken and Rafale I did last year, only a couple of attempts to be satisfied

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>>11711078
I had to realize halfway through the bigger one that my masking kept pulling off paint so the grey layers inside the circle (the crescent moon) got molested hard but putting the masking on my hand a couple of times before re-applying it to the plastic. pic related is the layers of ideal masking

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>>11698791
I finished him

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>>11710900
I actually do like PE, when it cooperates. Especially when it's soldered, I could bounce these fuckers off the wall and they'll be fine. Got them in place, as well as some other PE work. Build is Trumpeter's Bereg coastal artillery.

>>11711330
pe looks really nice but yeah that cooperation issue is definitely a deterrent. nice work so far tho anon, post more when you get further along.

boats would be fun if it wasn't for PE

how often do you guys get high off of glue?

>>11711283
what a handsome fella
nice work

>>11711447
the took the toluene out of it years ago so you just get a headache instead.

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>>11711078
>>11711087
>>11704529
Gonna do all the complex stuff tomorrow I think, squadron and ID numbers are all done now, it's so satisfying to have it all painted rather than on as decals

>>11711330
Bruh. You bought the bending tools I assume?

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Just finished this 1/72 MAC Distribution (no idea what company this is, I found the kit for $18 at my local model shop). It was a miserable build, all the parts were covered in flash and nothing fit together well. Oh well, at least it's done. Planning on building a 1/48 Hasegawa Mitsubishi T-2 for the group build.

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Tried the salt chipping technique first. It didn't work out at all and I'm not sure why. The salt crystals didn't dissolve at all so the chipping paint was incredibly ugly and granular. I redid everything but used hairspray this time instead. It works a lot better but the paint comes off super aggressively and I ended up with much bigger patches than I wanted, especially on the back quarter panel. Regardless, I think it looks pretty good and I'll be adding rust streaks and dirtiness before its totally finished to blend it all in some more hopefully.

I still haven't got a clue what I'm gonna do with the interior though.

>>11712015
yeah it's a little hard to regulate but I would leave the paint to set up for a bit instead of chipping it immediately. that looks really cool though.

>>11711880
>>11711903
>>11711909
nice!

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>>11711783
A mini bending tool that I can't remember the brand (with OG razor), and some flat jawed xuron pliers. Handles 98% of PE. I think the only situation I ran into that this wasn't enough was my ST-26

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>>11711373
I have the chassis mostly done. Doing a lot of subassemblies and piecemeal painting, so it's slow going.

>>11712318
he's a big guy

>>11707093
Very cool. How did you do the trees and the rocks?

>>11712015
Result is very good regardless, believable for me at least. If the idea is barn find /unloved car you can always break a window and leave some leaves inside and a few bits of other cars inside as if it's been used for storage?

>>11712312
Gotcha. I tried making a bending tool of my own from some bits of aluminium sheet but it didn't really work out

>>11711880
Neat job. I am currently building the 1/48 AMK kit.

>>11711283
Very nice. Those old Verlinden things still hold up pretty well. But I think you should stencil the "U.S." on the pouches as this is very prominent. Also, you forgot to pick out the belt buckle clip in olive green?

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>>11711783
Extremely satisfied with the results on the plane, this method just lets you do literally anything you want. Vinyl cutters are so worth the money.

Now to get the ordnance and landing gear up to scratch...

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>>11713026
Also serves as a pretty good reference for the skill gap over the past 8 or so years when I built this 1/72 scale Italeri Hornet (what a dogshit kit, genuinely terrible) which is in a slightly paler livery using decals from one of the Hasegawa kits. I vastly prefer the new one, but the old camo has some charm too (didn't know about the poster gum method back then)

>>11712979
>Those old Verlinden things still hold up pretty well
lol yeah the sculpt is really good but the kit was old. I forget the date on the box but it was from the 90s, the aluminum storm it came with was completely deteriorated. I will probably add some usa decals later on but I'm calling him done for now.
>>11713026
damn that's nice

>>11712976
How's that kit going? I want to build a 1/48 one too and I'm not sure whether to buy it.

>>11707073
How did you do the wood grain?

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the PE fun never ends

>>11713913
I don't know who made it but there's a truck "plastic" model out there whose chassis is made entirely out of folded PE beams.

are there any limits on the group build? as long as it's japanese anything goes?

>>11714006
This isn't reddit or a hysterical boomer club and most things are fine but if you're retarded enough to ask this without explaining what you have in mind it's probably not right

>>11713954
incredibly based, I want it

>>11710594
Looks nice.
>>11711330
>Trumpeter
I wish you the best. I still have nightmares about that MT-LB

>>11711283
Looks pretty nice, but the ground could probably do with some more wash or maybe a matte varnish or something. Looks kind of plasticy right now. And put some gloss varnish on the flashlight and gas mask lenses. Picking bits out with different varnishes really made some of my figures pop a lot better.

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>>11712633
Rocks are a mixture of actual sand/gravel and sculpted milliput.
For the trees I took some sea foam bits for the trunks and then started layering on foliage foam bits with PVA. Took a few days to build up a nice puffy canopy. The last layer got some of that fine railroading turf. Then I just airbrushed it all and gave it some drybrushing finish. The colors aren't exactly what I was aiming for, but as it was supposed to be a quick one and done project, I didn't feel like going back in.

>>11713037
>Burmese F/A-18
What is the story behind this?

>>11713954
there is a lot of that stuff floating around for 1/700 diorama accessories

>finish spraying in booth
>have some lacquer paint left
what the hell am I supposed to do with this I don't want to leave it to evaporate and stink up my room.

>>11714347
Drink it

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>>11714277
iirc you had the version with the 3 piece tracks, for whatever reason mine had single piece. So far the kits not bad, which is good since I've got like 17 versions based on this chassis in the stash

>>11713954
I've had half a mind to make some PE & 3D printed armored trains for years now. Might happen one of these days.

>>11714350
Delicious. I just sprayed the rest of it through my airbrush into the booth even though I cleaned it before like an idiot. Wow lacquer thinner cleans my airbrush like nothing else.

>>11714353
>Wow lacquer thinner cleans my airbrush like nothing else.
I can wager that airbrush cleaner will clean it better.

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>>11713119
It is very good. The only little gap appeared when I merged the forward fuselage onto the main fuselage. Here I had to use some force which was iffy because I decided to do that after all the painting and decalling. I would not do that if I built the kid again. Otherwise I think it is also the best in general shape. HobbyBoss has some issues.

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What am I doing wrong and why does my stuff always looks so shit

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>>11714319
Kek, no not a Burmese. It's Belkan, from Ace Combat Zero. I've been building all the planes from that game slow and steady and with no decals available in the scale I need them in I'm doing it all by airbrush. Screenshot isn't quite correct to the one I'm making as the roundels and insignia get replaced if you get access to a livery yourself.

>>11714199
>but if you're retarded enough to ask this without explaining what you have in mind it's probably not right
a bit rude, but I'm currently working on a 1/12th scale samurai. I know in the past I've posted some of my ma.k models here but the response was mostly negative; in regards to the subject, and I was told to go to /m/. /smg/ seems to be focused explicitly on armor, aviation, and car models. sorry for the ambiguity of my initial post I guess.

>>11714347
I usually get a dropper and suck it out of the cup to put back in the jar of paint if its not mixed with any other colors

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Got a bunch of AK markers which I'm generally happy with, except the wh*te one
It absolutely refuses to deposit paint, shaking it does nothing
Anyone encountered something like this?

>>11714491
>and I was told to go to /m/.
There's like a couple of anons that get their panties in a twist whenever anyone posts cars or figures. Learn to not give a shit.

>>11714559
Write to AK or the reseller, mine works fine.

Why is the carrier film on eduard decals so fucking garbage?

>>11714559
>white doesn't cover well
I have the whole set of these and I also noticed some colours cover better than others. I noticed if you paint with the side of the head you get more paint ot of it than from the tip. Do one swift motion and let dry, then another. But yeah, it sucks that you can't use the pointy tip.

>>11714608
Because it's not meant to be that, it's a "happy accident" that it sometimes works that way

>>11714608
shit's gay. I notice you can sort of dissolve the film with white spirit. I had the same thing happen with academy

>>11714724
>>11714755
I'm building a 1/48 mig 21 and trying to do the cockpit decals. The film extends like an inch around the edge of the decal making it fucking so hard to set right.

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>>11697872
Just finished up this beast this evening. I wish the body fit over the chassis a little cleaner, very surprising to see any imperfect fitment from a Tamiya kit. But overall im very happy with it.

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>>11715103
yes im aware the mirrors are missing I put them on after.

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pic spam concluded

>>11715103
window trim is hard

>>11697872
what's the general recommendation for decal softener?

i've tried the one from vallejo but it builds up material, clogging detail and changes the finish quite drastically. but soften the decal it did not. i had better result when using vinegar.

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>>11715103
Nice and clean and straightforward. Good build anon.

>>11715318
I use the strong one Tamiya makes and it's very good you just need patience with it. I tend to cover every decal with it after application and come back 6 hours or so later and repeat and the decals look painted on. Don't have a ton of good pics of the result but see the rivets on this 1/48 Hurricane I made last year

>>11715327
Juuuust to explain what I wrote: Generally I put on ALL decals on a model and THEN use it and let it sit for 6 hours between layers. I don't wait 6 hours per decal applied that would be retarded

>>11715327
>>11715332
thanks for the recommendation. i really struggle to understand why vallejo chose to call it softener when it behaves like a medium.

>>11715318
micro sol works well enough. the bottle was clearly designed to fall over though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBYdzLrnqI8

what a suspiciously well-timed video for this discussion

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>>11715503
Watched it this morning

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I'm well on with the group build with this Airfix 1:72 zero, going well so far

>>11715503
kek. i saw the video release after i asked the question. i wish i was as good as plasmo but i am this anon
>>11711046

>>11715327
is a hamilfax?

Does the gruipbuild have to be started in this thread or can an entry be started later

>>11715816
it goes until 08/03/2026 so you got a few months

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>mfw have no idea how to weather riveted armor, since all the interwar shit are blurry B&W photos
Fuck me, what's the most recent rivetshit in service? Something that has color footage?

>>11715882
Kamaz Typhoon truck?

>>11715890
Hardly similar.

>>11715903
Well fuck you then.

>>11715882
they were made from riveted steel and used oxide primer. photos show signs of streaking and paint chipping. just do some basic chipping, streaking, and oil blending. it's not complicated dude, your not some historically accurate autistic boomer that argues about olive drab are you?

>>11714427
Looks fine to me, you could look up some reference pictures for a Bf 109 engine if you wanted to add wiring and etc. but the paint and weathering you've done aren't bad by any means.

>>11715318
Micro sol and micro set are the default and they are good for quality decals but I have some Walthers SolvaSet for kits with old, thick decals. It's a "hotter" chemical that softens them out nicely.

>>11714491
>>11715816
/smg/ groupbuilds are incredibly informal, do what sounds fun to you whenever. hobbies are for fun, not making yourself miserable.

>>11716097
No, but I hate shit-looking end-results.

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>dropped my car keys on the Ha-Go and both hatch halves broke off
As if I wanted to have a worse day at work, fuck me

>>11715813
>post states it's a Hurricane
>still ask what plane

Anon, I.....

When will mr color put out their 2026 catalogue? I read they discontinued mr metal colour and were supposed to launch the new line in august last year.

>>11716097
real autism is trying to figure out which shade of brown ww1 british tanks were
pro hint: it was dependent on the local soil so all of them looked slightly different

sigh...
my current project isn't going well I'm going to have to strip it and start over. that's fine I've done it before with other models, but man it's a bit discouraging.

can't find a good reference for the interiors for late war nip tanks
some places say white, others say cream or very light green

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always use a mask when spraying, my right side nasal sinuses are inflamed and full of liquid that has to be surgically drained
We will see in Wednesday if the liquid is XF-61

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scratched the paint while packing my model for a show that is tomorrow

>>11718355
why would you forgo wearing a respirator?

>>11718592
damn that sucks dude, did you forget to varnish it?

>>11718677
okay fine, *scratched the varnish, smartass.

>>11718676
I will die like a real man
If I can, I would do a line of asbestos

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>>11710478
>vallejo paint is on clearance on the hobby lobby website
Fuck, why aren't they axing testors instead

>>11718835
who the fuck uses testors? how many 70+ year olds are still alive

I have decided I want to add magnets to my mig-21 so I can swap all the weapon loadouts onto it

I'm really struggling to find 1/35 scale sheridan tank crew figures

>>11718956
What differentiates them from other us cold war tank crews?

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>>11718956
The lack of late Cold-War US tankers is baffling. I tried to find crew for the Takom M60A3 I have in stash, but nothing.

Almost two decades ago I built Dragon's Gulf War crew for the Academy M60A1 RISE, but good luck finding it now. I know I'm trying.

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>>11719251
Cold War, outside of Vietnam and bit of Afghanistan, seriously lack any kind of figures. It's even hard to find 3d printed ones.

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>>11719270
Dragon made a bunch of sets when the subjects were contemporary, but it's getting really hard to find them now.

They even made a Vietnam line during that time.

>>11719270
This is correct. There are some Desert storm ones, you can paint them differently.

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>>11697872
visited the museum in dübendorf switzerland today. good stuff. learned of this domestic jet prototype and the yellow trainer built for it. i think the two hunters on display were my favourites but there were a lot of really cool aircraft. i can post some pictures if there is interest

>>11718592
you better post pics

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ok you glue sniffing epoxy inhalers
I am the Daimyō from Dainippon
and picrel is my entry for the group build

>>11719354
I would like to see pictures from your trip anon. I love Air and Space museums

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>>11719358
I will, just wait a little. I took 400+ pictures and I need to curate them a bit and figure out how to share them.

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>>11718956
if you have a burning hatred for your wallet bravo6 has vietnam tankers like this or with relaxed poses

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>>11719354
>>11719435
here is a vampire and its goblin engine in front. was surprised to learn that they were made from wood. the aircraft on the top left is another swiss jet prototype

>>11719358
I just put everything into google drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jsnfuij1SANkhssxlzKOX6dso7Y1v2cH?usp=sharing
No medals for me this time, which I am not exactly surprised by, but many of the judges' choices seemed bizarre to me.

>>11719379
hello grandad from instagram building 2 trackers at once.

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>>11719354
one of the 2 hunters on display

>>11719515
good stuff

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>>11719354
NA P51 acquired after the war

>>11719515
Tell me that diver in the coffee cup won something.

>>11719354
I went there in August on a spare afternoon traveling for work and it was an excellent museum all round. I really liked the extensive weapons and ordnance collection up on the catwalk you took the pics from too, often skipped in many aviation museums. The Mirage III and F-5E are particular favs of mine and it's probably the best examples I've seen in any museum

>>11719173
>>11719251
>cold war
I'm specifically looking for vietnam war usmc tank crew figures
>>11719465
I saw those, they don't fit for what I'm doing. primary because they are outside of the tank in a very specific pose. also like everything else the only figures I can find are chinese recast of bad ancient sculpts. I saw the alpine figures that suit my needs but I can't order from their store front, I don't know if it's an issue in their end but it won't allow me to set up an account or put in any credit card information.

>>11719845
>usmc tank crew
anon the marines didn't adopt the sheridan

>>11719880
ment to put us, phone autocorrected

>>11719676
He got a special acknowledgement.
The proper medals in the larger figure category were: Gold - the SS-man in winter gear, Silver - the naked lady with a black background, Bronze - Rommel.
I thought the Rommel was a weird pick for a medalist. The face was bad, I would have rather picked the Frenchie bust.

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Just letting everything cure properly maybe until tonight, then it's time for the non-painted decals for the Hornet. Overall I think this is a quite good kit (the Hobby Boss 1/48 Hornet C, this one is the CAG bird set but those decals go straight into storage), but the landing gear especially suffer from very bad ejector pin marks. Also if you wanna build the crew access ladder folded up, good luck, it simply can't be done without making your own little bit of plastic to cover it. Also captcha is fucked up today huh had to open 4ch in incognito to post this

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The body of the Cappuccino is ready for clearcoating.
I should be able to make the roof interchangeable, so I can switch between the hardtop or the top down.

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>>11719711
aah yes the tiger. really cool to see this one in a weathered state. the mirages were impressive too.

>>11720286
I find the stains on the wings a bit overdone.

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Revell's 1971 Oldsmobile 442 W30.
Actually a pretty good kit, especially for Revell. It having been tooled in 2009 makes it miles ahead of their usual 60 year old boomerslop. The detail is pretty good, and the fit on everything was as well. Its of course still not even close to something from Tamiya or Hasegawa but its good to see that newer Revell stuff isn't complete trash.

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>>11720572
Pretty much all of the problems I had when building this were self caused. After I took off the color layer I put it in front of my small space heater a few feet away and then totally forgot about it so the body warped quite a bit. With plenty of clamps and super glue I was mostly able to reign it all back in. There are however still many obvious bad parts. The tarp was an attempt to cover some of it, and especially the rear bumper not fitting because the corner had shrunk a huge amount

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>>11720576
if not for the body warping this would definitely be my best car yet.

>>11712922
I dont have space for a full diorama but if I did I'd build a barn around it. I already covered it in dust for just such a thing in the future
>>11713717
they were decals

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>>11720576
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Looks like shit….in an awesome way. Great weathering and the tarp was an ingenious way to cover the damage. Excellent work anon.

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based thank you anon