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Offline uncle les

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CAC FW PDQ
« on: October 27, 2014, 08:30:39 PM »
Saturday, One box of 1/32 FW bits and a spare Beaufighter.

Sunday, some masking and some serious Tamiya putty huffing

and having been called out on Sunday after the obligatory visit to Pt Cook for a Corsair viewing making Sunday night a bust...
Monday night ( now)


Note the inspirational sideviews... thanks Apophenia

Bring on Tuesday night after work ( not on standby.. yessss)
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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2014, 02:08:59 AM »
Oh yeah!
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Offline FAAMAN

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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2014, 11:55:52 AM »
Whoa!! Awesome!! 8)
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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2014, 12:09:56 PM »
Got an Airfix Foche-Wulf Fw190A-8 to do something similar, the difference being you have actually built something and, as usual,  it's superb. :)
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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2014, 07:07:07 AM »
Wow, interesting build with such a simple modification it looks quite right.

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Offline uncle les

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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2014, 09:04:30 PM »
Nearly there...

After the decals dry I'll do a little matting down and touch ups..   


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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2014, 02:16:11 AM »
Damn!  You make it look so easy...
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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2014, 04:53:07 PM »
Wot E said!!! 8) 8)
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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2014, 12:41:13 AM »
Nice one, Les! :)

I'm going to be having a shot at building this variant of the Sea Wallaby;



It'll probably be the next job after I finish the M41AS & HMBLT (so, in 3 to 6 months, if I'm lucky).

I have the kits to be bashed, courtesy of the SAPMA Expo, & this build has encouraged me to build it sooner than I intended. :D
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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2014, 11:47:04 AM »
Quote from: Old Wombat on October 31, 2014, 12:41:13 AM

I have the kits to be bashed, courtesy of the SAPMA Expo, & this build has encouraged me to build it sooner than I intended. :D

Nice - glad to be of service !
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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #10 on: November 02, 2014, 11:42:18 AM »
Last pics - now I really should fashion a pitot tube so the pilot knows when he's about to stall....




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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2014, 05:34:56 AM »
Artistry, well done! 8)
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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2014, 11:31:34 AM »
What a brute! I love it  :)
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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #13 on: November 03, 2014, 12:54:34 PM »
Just great.

I can see Fred H harumphing now.

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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #14 on: November 03, 2014, 06:18:25 PM »
A real winner and looks like a million bucks in that lovely RAAF green!

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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #15 on: November 03, 2014, 11:24:11 PM »
On the green, what did you use to match the RAAF Foliage Green?
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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #16 on: November 04, 2014, 02:11:53 AM »
Amazing how the canopy and cowling job changes the look of the 190: I really had to look twice before I got it. Very well done!
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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #17 on: November 04, 2014, 02:14:48 AM »
It looks so right!!!!!!  Top notch job sir  :) 8) :)
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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #18 on: November 04, 2014, 07:24:54 AM »
Quote from: Volkodav on November 03, 2014, 11:24:11 PM
On the green, what did you use to match the RAAF Foliage Green?
Funny thing that.  I rarely trust what's written on the tin and use my FS chart as a guide not a bible. I just mix until I see (in my opinion) the right mix for the amount of scale colour and fading etc.  In this case I mixed Humbrol 21, 30, 101, 149 which is basically black and a bunch of greens tending to the blue part of the spectrum until I got the shade I wanted. I mix as I go in the airbrush pot correcting along the way. Highlights achieved by adding Testors dullcote to the mix with a little black or mid green depending on whether I want lighter or darker. The dullcote makes the coat a bit transparent and you just build on it.
I don't profess this to be actual foliage green, it's just my interpretation.  This is how I approach all my paint jobs, lob some paint into an airbrush pot and keep spraying until the fat lady sings.
HTH
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Offline Volkodav

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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #19 on: November 04, 2014, 12:20:07 PM »
Thanks for that, so the answer is artistic license, or in my case probably more like autistic license
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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #20 on: November 04, 2014, 01:45:59 PM »
Quote from: Volkodav on November 04, 2014, 12:20:07 PM
Thanks for that, so the answer is artistic license, or in my case probably more like autistic license

 ;)   Yep.   [chuckle]
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Offline uncle les

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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #21 on: November 08, 2014, 07:20:42 PM »
Took the green bird out for a sortie today..


I'd say it was a successful mission


 ;)
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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #22 on: November 08, 2014, 09:20:16 PM »
Congrats and well done, Les!

Those beauties are some real show-stoppers!

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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #23 on: November 09, 2014, 08:50:09 AM »
Cool! 8)
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Re: CAC FW PDQ
« Reply #24 on: June 24, 2016, 08:17:15 AM »
I see the links on my pics broke (serves me right for using facebook as storage ! )  So here are some of them again but from my website instead.








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