Cockpit fun!
Okay, the seat is in and the controls are set to what I’m hoping to reflect on the control surfaces. Sorry about the poor pic quality 🙁 Now to lock all the detail away where it can’t be seen without a dental tool. Ha! View
Last work in progress pics before the end! Da da Daaaaa
A wing and a prayer! Have the gun and ammo panels finished. The ammo belt is for a 20mm german gun. I had to cut them to size as the Japanese 20mm rounds were shorter than the German ones. I didn’t put the ammo belt in its compartment. Partly because it still wouldn’t quite fit and…[Read more]
Stretched sprew glued in place and painted black. The antenna is really the wire that comes from the plane body and heads back towards the tail. Before it reaches the tail there is a glass bead looking thing. That’s actually a transition to another line that keeps the antenna up. To model this I used a bit of whilte glue…[Read more]
I have only had paint go crackie like that once. It was Tamiya acrylic over a clear coat. For me I think it was that something else was in the mix too. Be it soap from cleaning the bottle that I later mixed in. maybe another type of thinner. I had also tried thinning with isopropyl alcohol just to see how it worked. I ended up dumping the…[Read more]
been watching this..love the build
Thank you, Mbp!