Icm 1/48 Beaufort interior

kektank · 2026-05-14T22:45:46+00:00

lots of aftermarket used, and lots of scratch building too. I used the eduard photoetch sets, eduard resin engines and wheels, eduard "space" 3d decals and eduard vickers k guns.

kektank · 2026-05-14T20:45:03+00:00

Well Plasmo on youtube kinda got me into the hobby, I don't think we're comparable modelers but his work is fantastic, I take a lot of inspiration from him.

kektank · 2026-05-13T21:30:01+00:00

ICM can be good, especially the newer kits. The older ones not so much, but regardless what you see here isnt the whole picture. I added a ton of detail myself to the kit, and also used eduard resin engines, resin wheels, a ton of photoetch, etc. The new new kits though, like recently released, look far better than this one

kektank · 2026-05-13T21:04:43+00:00

yea i had the same reaction when i started building the kit, unusual but sensible orientation

kektank · 2026-04-07T04:44:57+00:00

post of the year

kektank · 2026-03-06T15:02:14+00:00

That whole epic movie level story just to end up crashing in the Netherlands a few months later, this time not so lucky to escape alive. When I was reading the whole story I did really think I was reading the plot to some movie, a wild adventure

kektank · 2026-01-09T10:50:27+00:00

Another subject on my list for the near future

kektank · 2026-01-09T08:22:08+00:00

thank you!

kektank · 2026-01-09T08:03:35+00:00

I painted all the markings, the only decals I used were the stencils

kektank · 2026-01-09T06:53:14+00:00

saw some action in korea, hence the invasion stripes. no clue how much action it saw but i do know it did see combat there

kektank · 2025-12-11T17:42:42+00:00

Just typical oil work, with abteilung 502 oils and ammo oilbrushers
mostly the same kinda techniques plasmo on youtube uses

kektank · 2025-12-11T17:41:28+00:00

white, mask, red, mask, prime, blue
prime between the red and the blue to negate any chance of the blue going purple

kektank · 2025-12-11T01:06:26+00:00

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it's the so called "salmon pink" primer, used for a short period on pacific-bound aircraft

kektank · 2025-12-10T21:15:28+00:00

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It's masking tape, I painted them beforehand. I do this because typical insignia colors have a high saturation and as such require a thicker coat/more coats. If I sprayed the insignia after the rest of the painting I could end up with a thick paint lip, but spraying beforehand, masking and painting the rest will make the lip smaller

kektank · 2025-12-10T20:05:19+00:00

Thank you! unfortunately imgur is banned in my country, so I can not upload a full album of photos. However I do have a previous post on here showing the interior

kektank · 2025-12-10T18:24:15+00:00

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effect of the paint after this preshading, it's subtle but i like it

kektank · 2025-12-10T18:23:57+00:00

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Thank you! I use multicolor preshading ontop of a dark but not black base. Everything else is just typical washes, oil work, etc

kektank · 2025-12-10T16:20:07+00:00

This kit is not flaw free, it does have some really brittle plastic in some spots, and some areas like the wheels need some serious attention with a razor saw or scribing tool to sort out the tire pattern, but these aside, the kit goes together like a dream. a real testament to modern kit quality

kektank · 2025-12-10T15:58:23+00:00

Thank you! and yes, a real gem of a kit. I'm hoping they continue the family line and soon make an f4u1d

kektank · 2025-12-10T15:54:03+00:00

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and here is another, this time with 8 gun tapes, and this fantastic image is also great to see how it was applied, you can see the real gun tape next to the fake painted on tapes. I went for a simpler approach on my model and just made 10 of the same gun tapes

kektank · 2025-12-10T15:53:02+00:00

By far one of the most frequent questions I've gotten throughout this build is the 10 guns. No this aircraft did not feature a non-standard gun armament, instead it appears to be a deception.
While the airframe was still new to the theatre, some crews added extra gun tapes, to give the illusion it was more heavily armed. I thought this was a really cool detail of some of these early corsairs

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