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This will be my first sig.
there may be an extra item or 2 in the post!!
Anyone doing a 1/48 hasegawa i mistakenly ordered some quickboost early type resin exhaust.

Wow, looks to be a huge kit! Can't wait to see what you do with it!

Nice one Coops

Wow!

Lot off big birds beeing build in this Sig

Coops wrote:Anyone doing a 1/48 hasegawa i mistakenly ordered some quickboost early type resin exhaust.

I'm doing one, but I'm not really into resin... Maybe Avgas/Dave..

yay so the kit finally arrived. Here is my plan and my reason for following this path

I decided to do the D variant, the reference book is somewhere between LAX and Sydney... I'm ex RAAF ex RAF ATC ex Scotland...and had always been a Battle of Britain admirer and what those chaps did for the country BUT the story of one German Ace had always fascinated me for the sheer workload he put in during the conflict. Bordering one may say on madness but touted as a future fuhrer his record is unmatched.

"Rudel's most balls-out accomplishment actually came pretty early in his reign of terror across the blood-streaked skies of Eastern Europe. On 23 September 1941, Rudel's squadron was tea-bagging the Soviet Baltic Fleet as they sat helpless in port near Leningrad, and Rudel decided, what the boing boing, he was going to set his bomb sights on the huge-ass battleship Marat, which was currently in the process of hammering the German aircraft with a huge battery of anti-aircraft firepower. Rudel cranked the throttle, came in high, then lurched his plane into a ninety-degree dive, pointing the nose of his machine directly at the top of the Marat. Then, just at the last second, he cranked back on the stick, released the bombs, and flew out of there in front of a gigantic explosion – his bomb had gone right into the battleship's donkey and ignited the ammunition stores, causing a ridiculously-tremendor explosion that cracked the hull of the 600-foot-long warship in half and sending her to the bottom of the Baltic Sea.

That's right, folks – Hans-Ulrich Rudel killed a battleship with a two-man aircraft, and he only needed one shot to do it.

Rudel flew 500 missions on the Eastern Front between 1940 and 1942, which is god damned impressive, especially when you consider that U.S. bomber pilots were usually allowed to go home after completing 25 missions without dying (an incredibly rare achievement in its own right). The German hurricane of bombicide was awarded the Knight's Cross a couple times (including once when he was given the award by The Red Baron's cousin), and returned home with enough awards and honors to snap a camel in half. He was made an instructor at a German flight school, and asked to train new recruits in how to be awesome at flying Stukas, but Rudel got bored of that Brad Pitt pretty quickly and requested to return to the battlefield. He was made squadron commander, flew 500 more missions between 1942 and '43, killed twelve T-34 tanks in one day during the Battle of Kursk, and made such a name for himself as a destroyer of Russian Brad Pitt that Stalin himself put a huge bounty out on Rudel's head.

All in all, Hans-Ulrich Rudel flew 2,500 combat missions -- more than any pilot ever, for any country, in any period of time. His stats speak for themselves – 11 airplanes, 519 tanks, 4 trains, 70 landing craft, two cruisers, a destroyer, a battleship, and over 1,000 enemy trucks and transport vehicles met their ends at his hands. He received the Knight's Cross (Germany's answer to the Victoria Cross or the Medal of Honor) five times – they seriously had to invent Brad Pitt to add to his Knight's Cross, because there wasn't anything in the book for what you give a guy who already has the Cross with oak leaves, swords, diamonds, bells, whistles, etc."

taken from "http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rudel.html". if you have never heard of this dude I urge you to read the whole article.
He was shot down over 30 times, including losing a lower leg and returned soon after with a prosthetic leg, he flew behind enemy lines a half dozen times to rescue fallen pilots and of course was substantially involved in the conversion of the D variant into the G as it seemed a more "accurate way" of tank busting.

Yes one MOFO badass.... if time avails, ahahaha. I might even have a crack at this...if I win the ebay bid!
Another excellent more accurate article on his baddassery. "https://carolynyeager.net/book/export/html/93"

And now.. Where is the glue....

Wow.. This will be a challenge...

Some Stuka mail callin today... including my first Ultimate product ( bought locally sorry Paul)
bit of styrene for a lil scratch building and some washes n pigments for my first crack at a bit of weathering and stuff like that!!!
Amazingly my reference book (and some resin bits) from Sprue brothers is in town already, hopefully for a pickup locally Monday.
Missouri to Perth via the land of the long white sheepshaggers in 7 days inc New Years is pretty ok.
While waiting for the book and some other bits i have started the not frustrating at all PE internal bits

Impressively from Sprue Brothers Missouri to Perth WestOz in a week..
Tho I need to take a break for a few days due to my almost year old back injury as working on the PE is painful... which is why its going so slow...so small updates and relax...

really going to dress up the ugly duckling....

digger303 wrote:really going to dress up the ugly duckling....

I decided to go all out as its going to be my first completed build since I started and thought it would be a good learning experience to try a bit of everything...

Hope your build is coming along well! You seemed to show that PE who's boss so I'm anxious to see the end result!

Those gun barrels look ace.

LM951 wrote:Hope your build is coming along well! You seemed to show that PE who's boss so I'm anxious to see the end result!

HeyHo.. Going slow and steady... first time using all this so its been a learning curve, not having great luck with the zap ca thin glue...
tbh im new to airbrushing so i have been practicing on a trashy old airfix kit.. then i will have a rush of catch up..heheheh

Avgas wrote:Those gun barrels look ace.

Thanks Dave...
the other side is less pretty hahaha but those bits will be hidden ...

That looks awesome, good luck with the build

Slow progress.. my back has been bugging me and i have to wait maybe 2 months for the next procedure to be done... but I think its going to be a mad rash jump ahead once all the little bits are painted and detailed into place.

started the canopy mask... bit of a challenge as there is some variations in the inner and outer frames across the same model. just need to decide on how to tackle the inner and the rivets... Belts r assembled barring the rear gunners that require attaching to the pit walls assembly of the pit begins.. hopefully cool enough to start painting but still waiting for some weathering supplies to arrive before I will button it all up Not sure about what to use for the dial glass... ive seen x22 and cockpit glue used.. both with good results.. any advice?

Love those belts, good job so far!

ElCapitan wrote:Love those belts, good job so far!

Cheers... PE Belts may cause madness....hopefully they wont fall apart getting bent into place...

This is starting to look awesome, agree the gun barrels are the biz good luck mate

Les

OK so finally a coolish day.. started priming bits
in my hitech booth ( on top of the stove with the extractor extracting )
Well at least were moving forward

coming along nicely coops.
love the aussie way of thinking.... "need a spray booth with an exhaust fan...... hang on i have a range hood in the kitchen!"

Update Update Update..

A few arrivals for the build
And this is the paint station... I'm Fully portable I have a twin cabinet that has all the build items and tools in a different room

Fridgy wrote:coming along nicely coops.
love the aussie way of thinking.... "need a spray booth with an exhaust fan...... hang on i have a range hood in the kitchen!"

Too hot to do it outside, smells rank without it.. what are ya gonna do... spray booth is in the next round of purchasing...

Thanks hopefully my back will hang in and i can get the pit a little further along by end of week.. just internally fighting over the colours as the black and whites I have of the D I am doing are different from the usual look... maybe it was a Rudel trial bird or just an early completion.. but im gonna go with my gut n make it a little different n see

gotta love the ingenuity

Had a good chuckle at the header title for your cardboard spray booth
I am expecting just as flamboyant a name for the new extractor from the group buy!!

Sooo been a while...
had to stop working the kit due to my back injury, then had a small surgical on it and took a while to recover, finally managed to get some work and then the internet got frazzed, buy a new modem, still bad very slow sync, finally tadaa were back so heres where i got to...




Some external PE details


Glued the lower wings


dry fitted the fuselage and glued the upper wings


fitted the interior wing sections n glued the tips


little pre shade rlm 66


Painted the pit walls RLM02 and masked to detail RLM66 equipment


rlm2/66 pit. I went this way because of some reference of the D model and the Luftwaffe scheme changes


1st attempt at scratchin/chippin and PE detailing


PE pitwall Port


PE pitwall Starboard


Gunners Seat and PE belt


Pilot Seat and PE belt


Dash and PE pedals

Pit and some clear gloss to glass the instruments


PE detailing and 1st try at some chipping


Detailing bits n bobs

Detailing pit with some wires n a wash of dark brown


Rear pit, boy were the belt feeds for the ammo a challenge to bend n shape, with a winter white wash.


front pit


!st time weathering n dirting up a pit


Front n Weathered


Rear n Weathered


view from above


weathering stuff


putting the pit together


Fuselage Buttoned up


Wings and Fuselage fused


Horizontal Stabalisers, Engine bay and Flapsnbrakes on

So thats it... next finish some PE detailing and start painting. yes 1st time with an airbrush. pray for me or drink for me..
Hopefully i might get close to finishing it.
Then Ill be ready for the FAA build....

Sooo hers my attempt at my first airbrush paint job. Its definitely going to be my first complete model since the 80s, I have been doing some construction while this has been drying.
Opps seems I forgot to get flat while in the paint stash , so my crack at fading will have to wait till tomorrow now...



1st experiment preshading with neo trn1next time ill try black base/redoxide base for armour.



Top base coat



lower base coat



drop tanks



1st crack @ splinter camo or any camo or any airbrush job....

Beautiful work.

The cockpit is stunning. I love the PE details - both the bare stuff and the coloured placards - but the weathering is awesome too.

Cant wait to see what you do with the exterior. You're off to a sweet start with the base camo colours

Cockpit looks phenomenal, paint job is great too!

Appreciate it Stokesy... I was just writing down what is left to do and its a bit daunting... last time i made a model it was make it as shiny new as you could ... now its mud it up.. i have to say its been enjoyable.. i really frustratingly enjoyed doing the pe stuff... not sure how much i can get done in 4 days but thats the challenge now...

Stokesy44 wrote: Mon Mar 27, 2017 10:45 am Beautiful work.

The cockpit is stunning. I love the PE details - both the bare stuff and the coloured placards - but the weathering is awesome too.

Cant wait to see what you do with the exterior. You're off to a sweet start with the base camo colours

Thanks Capitano...appreciate your kind words.

ElCapitan wrote: Mon Mar 27, 2017 10:47 am Cockpit looks phenomenal, paint job is great too!