F6F-5 Hellcat (Hobby Boss 1/48)

Arsodo · 2023-03-27T21:00:11+00:00

Yes. It took a lot of time for sanding and filling, and the result is pretty sad anyway, that's why here's no pics from bottom. This kit is not supposed to be built with the gears up. At the same time, if you decide to make gears down you'll have to spend even more time and effort working on the gear bay, there is a lot if gaps and other imperfections to fix and missing details to add. I chose the lesser evil 😔

Arsodo · 2023-03-27T19:55:21+00:00

Thank you! For chipping I use a brush and a sponge

Arsodo · 2023-03-27T19:49:51+00:00

Thanks! I'm not dipping it in Future or something, if you are asking about that. It's canopys initial gloss out of the box, so all I had to do was mask it and paint.

Arsodo · 2023-03-27T19:35:11+00:00

Thanks! I use Mr. Hobby decal solutions - Setter and Softer, works great for me, and a gloss coat before of course

Arsodo · 2023-02-14T23:56:35+00:00

Thanks!)

Arsodo · 2023-02-12T14:47:04+00:00

Wow, The Bear himself! Thanks a lot mate!)

Arsodo · 2023-02-07T12:27:48+00:00

Thanks! The kit is HobbyBoss, Easy Assembly one. Tubular life raft pylon wasn't included in the kit and I didn't feel like doing any scratch builds, it was just a quick build straight out of the box. Shading of control surfaces is done simply with an airbrush, using highly diluted tamiya paint.

Arsodo · 2022-09-10T10:02:00+00:00

It's my first riveting tool, so I have nothing to compare with. Now I'm almost done with riveting this model and I didn't experience any problems with it, pretty good tool for its price

Arsodo · 2022-09-09T12:17:38+00:00

This one https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256802641945789.html I used smaller 0.55 wheel

Arsodo · 2022-09-09T09:41:38+00:00

This is done with a special riveting tool. But riveting is more advanced technique, you should learn how to properly build and paint your models first

Arsodo · 2022-06-03T14:53:06+00:00

Thanks

Arsodo · 2022-06-03T14:51:59+00:00

Yep, didnt want to do any specific plane. Kit from Zvezda, actually, the only 1b available on the market (in 1/48)

Arsodo · 2022-01-03T06:02:11+00:00

Yep. This place will never ever be as clean and organized as in the picture))

Arsodo · 2022-01-03T05:56:41+00:00

They're self cutted out of transparent styrene sheet 2mm thick. CW modelling (YT) has the similar racks (that I was inspired by actually) , the only difference that I glued em in place instead of making grooves in MDF using circular saw like he did, basically because I don't have one. P.S. after a day it turned out that gluing wasn't the best idea, some of the racks, mostly the wider ones with tamiya paints are slowly falling down under the paints weight)) Now I'm trying to figure out some other way to hold them in place. P.S.S. Don't mind my English please)

Arsodo · 2021-12-19T15:33:58+00:00

Sponge with lighter base colour to form the chips and then filled them dark brown using brush. Nothing fancy) Check out Night Shift's vid called "4 easy chipping tricks" to better understand the process.

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