SteveK Posted March 17, 2009 Report Posted March 17, 2009 Greetings gents, this is my first post of a completed kit on this site, Thanks for looking SteveK
JayMesawitz Posted March 17, 2009 Report Posted March 17, 2009 welcome to the group. Great looking kit you have there. Really fantastic!
ghodges Posted March 17, 2009 Report Posted March 17, 2009 Looks great! Your canopy framework looks pretty sharp. What method did you use for masking...tape it yourself, a set of adhesive masks? Thanks for sharing! GIL
Wulf Posted March 18, 2009 Report Posted March 18, 2009 Very well done. The detail work is well executed too. The only issue I see is the overall green. Looks a little too bright. Andy
David M. Knights Posted March 18, 2009 Report Posted March 18, 2009 Very nice. What did you think of the kit?
SteveK Posted March 18, 2009 Author Report Posted March 18, 2009 Very well done. The detail work is well executed too. The only issue I see is the overall green. Looks a little too bright. Andy The color is still something that is up in the air for me, although the pics do show it some what brighter that real life. Thanks for the comments! SteveK
SteveK Posted March 18, 2009 Author Report Posted March 18, 2009 Very nice. What did you think of the kit? I loved the kit, it was a joy to build, very little clean up and everything fell together. Only thing I would do different, would be to install P.E. gun sights, they are more blobs of plastics than "steel" rims...... Thanks SteveK
SteveK Posted March 18, 2009 Author Report Posted March 18, 2009 Looks great! Your canopy framework looks pretty sharp. What method did you use for masking...tape it yourself, a set of adhesive masks? Thanks for sharing! GIL LOL the canopy is what I'm most disappointed in. I used a new technique of scotch tape and didn't like it. Very hard to removed and I marked up the "glass" Thanks SteveK
Guest Bun E. Carlos Posted March 18, 2009 Report Posted March 18, 2009 Ya make me wanna Bomb something :) Nice work!!!!!!!
Glynyrd Posted March 19, 2009 Report Posted March 19, 2009 Very nice build, Steve. I see what you mean about the cowl flaps, those look great. Thanks Glenn
Dreamsof51 Posted March 19, 2009 Report Posted March 19, 2009 Steve, I'm with the others in that its a great looking aircraft you've built. Any details on what unit/time period the markings represent?
SteveK Posted March 19, 2009 Author Report Posted March 19, 2009 Time of the markings to "my understanding" were prewar, and at Pearl Habor, as far as to what unit, sorry I'm to lazy and or not inquisitive enough to dig that deep.... Thanks again for the welcome and comments ~S~ SteveK
Dick Montgomery Posted March 19, 2009 Report Posted March 19, 2009 Steve, I also found "scotch" tape to be less than adequate. I use bits of masking material for the carriers sheets from Cutting Edge, Gator Masks or any other brand of vinyal masking material. I also use blue "painter's tape". It comes in different widths and behaves like masking tape...much less "stick" but sufficient for modeling.
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