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Offline raafif

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Boeing F4B4 biplane
« on: December 24, 2024, 06:59:46 AM »
I've got the old Hasegawa 1/32nd kit started but the decals are totally shot, not even Microscale's decal solution has saved them.

So what do I do ?  As Yellow Wings don't have any F4B4 decals in stock, do I fudge another country & use up some of my decal bank (have Dominican & Manchurian) or do a civilian one ?
I've already painted the top wing yellow  ???

Any ideas for a crazy (but easy to apply) civil scheme ?
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Re: Boeing F4B4 biplane
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2024, 11:18:31 AM »
fudge! Use whatever decals you have that may fit, bend reality to match.
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Re: Boeing F4B4 biplane
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2024, 01:42:46 AM »
Paint it all yellow perhaps as a equivalent to the Grumman G-22 Gulfhawk II (see below):



Perhaps as a advertising mechanism for something like Yellow Cabs:



Or if you want a darker tone, perhaps something tied to the Taxi Wars.
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Re: Boeing F4B4 biplane
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2024, 05:30:03 AM »
I did google the Gulfhawk but not much else came up - other than a pic of an Aurora F4B4 in overall red.

Fudge it is !  As a fan of Latin American wars, I think it will be a Gran Chaco participant.  Now whose markings will it be in - Peru, Uruguay, Bolivia or something else  ;)

I do have markings for all those countries but maybe not big enough for 1/32nd.
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Re: Boeing F4B4 biplane
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2024, 06:55:28 AM »
Just like any Hasegawa, the build is progressing fairly smoothly.  Considering its a 1960’s kit, interior is basic & accurate just a bit crude for this scale today.  Fit of the cockpit needed some hacking of the floor mountings – eventually managed to get it & the instrument/gun panel glued inside the fuselage but broke the pedals & stick off so it was tricky to add them again.  I’ve had to shim the area in front of the windscreen as the instrument-panel held the fuselage apart here and had to deeply scribe the inside of the front deck/strut panel in order to make it easier to spread it to fit the fuselage.
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Re: Boeing F4B4 biplane
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2024, 02:06:23 AM »
Wait!!!
Doesn't that look like a mean vintage racing car?
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Re: Boeing F4B4 biplane
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2024, 06:08:42 AM »
Quote from: perttime on December 28, 2024, 02:06:23 AM
Wait!!!
Doesn't that look like a mean vintage racing car?

YES ! the struts would support Spandau machine-guns ! :D
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Re: Boeing F4B4 biplane
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2025, 06:10:32 AM »
Cam under way .... Gran Chako War

The decals I chose were from Hobbycraft but they disintegrated as I lifted them out of the water too so its back to finding something else  :icon_nif:

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Re: Boeing F4B4 biplane
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2025, 06:12:08 AM »
A little progress ...
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Re: Boeing F4B4 biplane
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2025, 07:24:29 AM »
My build progress is glacial, yours is faster.
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