Beyond The Sprues
Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Aero-space => Topic started by: raafif on December 24, 2024, 06:59:46 AM
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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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fudge! Use whatever decals you have that may fit, bend reality to match.
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Paint it all yellow perhaps as a equivalent to the Grumman G-22 Gulfhawk II (see below):
(https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NASM-NASM2019-07792&max=900)
Perhaps as a advertising mechanism for something like Yellow Cabs:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Yellow_Taxi_Cab_1930.jpg/2880px-Yellow_Taxi_Cab_1930.jpg)
Or if you want a darker tone, perhaps something tied to the Taxi Wars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Cab_Company).
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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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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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Wait!!!
Doesn't that look like a mean vintage racing car?
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Wait!!!
Doesn't that look like a mean vintage racing car?
YES ! the struts would support Spandau machine-guns ! :D
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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:
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61fSPGAUVNL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)
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A little progress ...
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My build progress is glacial, yours is faster.
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Basically done. Boeing’s biplanes all seem to have double rigging for some reason & I’m just waiting on some EZ-Line to finish it off.
A few problems with mounting the port N-strut & the angles of some of the exhaust pipes.
After having two sets of Hobbycraft decals fail, I switched to a spare Cartograph sheet for Greek F-104s. The roundels aren’t as large as I wanted but look good, I added the fin-flash to the roundel to represent a whif South American country. I offset the R.H. one as, like dazzle painting, it somewhat misdirects the enemy as to the true height & direction of the aircraft.
This kit pissed me off a bit having gone to great lengths to get such a beautiful finish painting the upper wing & engine face in yellow only to have to change the subject matter & cover it all in beige. But Hey, I will NEVER paint anything yellow EVER again !!
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I like it! The offset roundels are a great idea.
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I like it! The offset roundels are a great idea.
Ditto :smiley:
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Delightfully different. Lovely job!