Looks great, tt!
Thanks Guy!
And your sig line always makes me smile.
Wicked! :) Love the adapted tail art!
Thanks Moritz!
:)
Don't be lazy Greg
Just when I couldn't imagine it getting better, ziiiingggggg!
The hornet on the tail is a real show-stopper!
Brian da Basher
Much Appreciated, The Hornet seemed to work out pretty well, and I'm lucky It cooperated. Some decals are "make or break" and this was one of them.
Fantastic work! I love the way you used the hornet decals. They seem designed for your model!
The trick was cutting them up enough!
I love your model more and more...
Thank you Tophe. Its so great to feedback from everyone, these models take a lot of time to build and have a lot of steps, and although they always leave me satisfied, its nice to hear that others enjoy them as much as I do. I'm going to expand this thread a wee bit, and include some other stuff.
I normally hesitate on this because I start side projects dabble with them and then never work on them again, but its looking like I am making enough progress on this one that its worth showing. I also caught Voodoo fever, and started working on an already built but busted model finished by someone else from evil bay:
Lastly I came up with a concept I'm calling "A Blank Canvas" or (ABC!) I have bought a lot of previously built and finished models from Evilbay. I bought these with the idea that they can be restored which indeed they can... but it will take more time than just starting a new kit. Since I tend to stick to my favorites, I usually have plenty of fresh unstarted ones in the stash so using extra time restoring doesn't make sense. If I want something super detailed I will simply go to the stash and start it right from the finish. So I am resisting the urge to "fix these" and instead just build them up, and hit them with primer so I have a "Blank Canvas" for any tips or techniques I want to try. Most of these cockpits are nothing to write home about, I'm not a fan of working on cockpits, and since practicing that is not the goal, most of these ABC models are going to have covered and painted clear parts, I can paint windows on later. So I look forward to posting some pictures in the future, and having these models on Hand to work on tips and techniques and weathering, without having to use a new kit, that would take weeks.
Thank you all again