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Scuff
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Kit manufacture: Tamiya
Scale: 1/48
Type: Me262 A1a
Extras used: Sweat and tears, oh and plenty of torn out hair
Paints and colours used: Vallejo matt clear coat. Lakeland clear floor polish.
Other info: Full build is here : *Full build click here.
Wow, what a mix of emotions. This is my first kit for 35 years, some frustration yet lots of enjoyment have ended with this Tamiya Me262 A1a.
I watched many of the tutorials and builds on this site, before I started. I was truly impressed with what you guys have done, and wanted to try and produce a kit worthy of showing.
Anyway, here are some details. This was an out of the box build. I used Tamiya paints and thinners, Tamiya extra thin glue as well as PVA for the clear parts. Filling and finishing was carried out with Mr Dissolved Putty and thick SuperGlue. Lakeland clear floor polish was used or the clear parts and sealing for decals and weathering. I used a cheap airbrush from eBay (£20) which was dual action with adjustment for line thickness and pressure regulation on the brush itself.
I made many basic errors during the build, learning new techniques, equipment and materials was always going to be taxing though. I must admit that I enjoyed the whole process thoroughly.
I have tried to follow fairly closely, the instructions for the particular aircraft, but there are obviously some errors there. I am greatly looking forward to my next build, I will hopefully will produce a better result with my newly learned basic skills.
For the photographers out there, the images were taken with a Canon 1Ds2 slr fitted with a 90mm Tilt-Shift lens. A large softbox was fitted to a single studio flash unit, the exposure was set at 1/125sec. at f32. The images were shot in raw and processed with Adobe Lightroom and output to jpeg for this post through Mogrify.
Thanks for looking, and thanks for being an inspiration.
__________________
Regards
Scuff
GTMedia Services
FlickrR: Flickr: GTMedia's Photostream
Scale: 1/48
Type: Me262 A1a
Extras used: Sweat and tears, oh and plenty of torn out hair
Paints and colours used: Vallejo matt clear coat. Lakeland clear floor polish.
Other info: Full build is here : *Full build click here.
Wow, what a mix of emotions. This is my first kit for 35 years, some frustration yet lots of enjoyment have ended with this Tamiya Me262 A1a.
I watched many of the tutorials and builds on this site, before I started. I was truly impressed with what you guys have done, and wanted to try and produce a kit worthy of showing.
Anyway, here are some details. This was an out of the box build. I used Tamiya paints and thinners, Tamiya extra thin glue as well as PVA for the clear parts. Filling and finishing was carried out with Mr Dissolved Putty and thick SuperGlue. Lakeland clear floor polish was used or the clear parts and sealing for decals and weathering. I used a cheap airbrush from eBay (£20) which was dual action with adjustment for line thickness and pressure regulation on the brush itself.
I made many basic errors during the build, learning new techniques, equipment and materials was always going to be taxing though. I must admit that I enjoyed the whole process thoroughly.
I have tried to follow fairly closely, the instructions for the particular aircraft, but there are obviously some errors there. I am greatly looking forward to my next build, I will hopefully will produce a better result with my newly learned basic skills.
For the photographers out there, the images were taken with a Canon 1Ds2 slr fitted with a 90mm Tilt-Shift lens. A large softbox was fitted to a single studio flash unit, the exposure was set at 1/125sec. at f32. The images were shot in raw and processed with Adobe Lightroom and output to jpeg for this post through Mogrify.
Thanks for looking, and thanks for being an inspiration.
__________________
Regards
Scuff
GTMedia Services
FlickrR: Flickr: GTMedia's Photostream
