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Don Flynn

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  1. Myself, I like the Badger line (100G and Sotar 20/20) and started using a Grex pistol grip after this years Nats.

     

    I'll also suggest a gravity feeder over a bottom feed. The Grex I bought has interchangible cups...something I wish others did. You'll find you get smoother flow and can get closer with a gravity feeder

  2. Don,

     

    That is a nice looking bird.

     

     

    Thanks.... I just noticed the shield over the port side exhuasts was lose in the photos, must have worked lose when I was moving it around. I'm too lazy to reshoot the pics so when I send them to the Journal I'll delete that angle :P

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    I used this photo I saw posted on Hyperscale over the summer as a guide

     

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    Couple things are a WAG (that's Wild A----d Guess :P ), color of the prop spinner and yellow cowling...I based it off what other JG 53 planes were from a Jadgwaffe I've got

     

     

  4. Don't mask it, CrazyD...just kick it freestyle, Yo!

     

    I want to do the masks for 2 reasons....my freehand that scale I need more work on and I want to try and get every frigging donut matched right.

     

    What I want to do is the masking then "freehand" inside of the masks with my brand new Grex airbrush (I normally use a Badger 100G or Sotart 20/20). I'm only going to try this guy once and figure go for broke

  5. That is a fantastic looking plane! I just night have to pic a few of these up.

     

     

    Its the sweetest little kit I've ever built. Problem is the damn things are hard to find here in the US. I'd gotten a couple of the Bf 109F-4's at the VB Nats then bite the bullet and ordered a bunch from Rainbow 10, they seem to be the only shop worldwide that had a stash and decent selection.

     

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    I'm glosscoating the one on the right now..should be ready for a dry wash this week....plus these 2 here

     

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    Need to paint the wheel wells tonite then their ready for camo. One of those might take awhile, I'm doing this pattern and it'll take time to mask

     

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    3rd one will be Aircraft 7 on that sheet

  6. Hi Don.........Interesting Scheme.......nice work.........I couldn't help myself :)

     

    Forums have been funky all day :P

     

    [forum sluggishness noted, Don, please delete this post as it's off topic, thanks]

  7. F's rule! I like the scheme because ti shows how they simply adapted the desert scheme to a later environment. Are those the kit markings? Thanks for posting!

     

    Gil :smiley16:

     

    Eagle Strike sheet "Augsburg Flyers Pt 2". I wanted something simple for the 1st one of those I do, 3 more on the table plus their G-6

  8. That's pretty cool, Don. I've never built a Finemolds kit, how was it to build?

     

    Glenn

     

     

    Hi Glenn,

     

    The F was the best fitting Bf 109 kit I've ever done. The biggest problem is the engine cowling 1/2s, since the kit has a basic engine their designed to be posed open so you have to canter sand the edges to get them flush in the closed position.

     

    Tailplanes were very tight fitting also, I had to sand and file the holes out a tad so I could get the alignment right ....never thought I'd bitch about a good fitting kit :P

     

    I've 3 more F's on the bench plus the Bf 109G-6 from them. The later seems to be a tad "looser" in fit...so far nothing major but compared to the F's it suprised me I had to tape the fuselage 1/2's together :)

  9. :smiley17: Sorry Don, but that drawing (for some reason) made me flash back to my very first model, the cherry red 1/48 Aurora Me-109! It only had about a dozen parts, with SOLID wings, no gear wells, gear and gear covers molded as one, no cockpit-just a "half a pilot" molded with each fuselage half! BUT, they didn't forget those ever important tailplane supports! I'm not sure that I didn't forget them when I built it, but they were in there!

     

    As the ad used to say....we've come a l-o-n-g way baby! Those Tamigawa Bf-109E's are da bomb, and you guys are doin' 'em right! Show us some more! Cheers!

     

    GIL :smiley16:

     

     

    I never had that one as a kid, my 1st Emil was in the Revell 1/72nd scale Battle of Britian set, loved to find one of those someday in decent shape just to hang on the hobby room wall :P

  10. Looking good. Keep a eye on those tailplanes and the supports, Tamiya molded the support struts a bit to short since theres a leather boot there that the museum plane they copied didn't have so if you use them for alignment you'll get a downward cant on them, I always use this as a guide

     

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  11. Thanks Don.

    I will be using a SKG-210 (S9+CD)

     

    Javier

     

     

    I remember now, you posted that allready

     

     

    My 2 OOB Tamiya Emil's that scale is on the bench now

     

     

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    Just finished decaling that tonite, need to seal the decals with gloss then wash through what needs it then flatcoat and some exhaust staining,

     

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    That one I'm waiting on decals on from this sheet to get here

     

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    Bottom "White 5"..if they don't show up soon I'm going to start another kit (I've a bunch in the stash :P ) and do that one in a 7/JG 53 pattern that doesn't have the swastika on the rudder. JG 53 flew for a time with them painted out and I've pictures of a plane I've wanted to do for awhile. I'll have to bash the decals but not a problem with the stash I have

  12. Thanks Don, I used RLM-66 for the cockpit... What is the "rack"?

    I'm using Eduard sets 48-445 and 49220

    I'll post pictures soon.

     

     

    Bomb rack if your doing a Jabo (fighterbomber) since SKG-210 would have been a ground attack unit IIRR. You can always say the rack ain't installed IIRR.....I've never researched SKG-210 since if I ever do a Jabo Emil I have aftermarket for those parts 1/48th scale and 1/72nd scale Tamiya included the parts for some reason but never on any 1/48th scale release

  13. Like Gil said, kitwise you need the pointed spinner, plus since your wanting to do a Jabo from the sounds of it you'll need the rack...which isn't offered in the kit.

     

    A E-7 I would also paint the entire cockpit RLM 66 if I was doing one

  14. Kits got more issues than the E-4 canopy..see Lynns review thread on it.

     

    I've slowly been fighting my E-1 into shape and I'll wait and see what the Trumpeter Emil looks like that scale before I get anymore Eduard versions.

     

    Eduard honked me off with that statement, I used to buy their kits sight unseen....now I wait and see how bad it is 1st

  15. Modelmasters RLM 70 and 71 SUCK for accuracy, their no where near close.

     

    Since you use enamels I would suggest looking at the Floquil Railroad line of paints.

     

    "Pullman Green" is a dead match for RLM 71, I use it myself, I also have a stash of the old Aeromaster enamels and have compared the 2. Their are so close I did a 1/72nd Emil years ago and won around R-4 with 1 wing using the aeromaster and the other using the Pullman Green :D

     

    RLM 70 the closest match in Floquils railroad line is "Brunswick Green". this isn't a dead on match but it was going to be workable with some tinting.....till Roll Models found a stash of Aeromaster on the shelfs and I bought 20 bottles of the stuff :D

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