Category: Aircraft
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Airbrushing Vallejo Acrylics
How to make them work — sort of I had been reading about challenges airbrushing Vallejo and came into nearly a hundred bottles of Model Color and Model Air, plus some primers. As I’m always looking for better solutions I decided I’d learn how to airbrush them. The first thing I did was mix…
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F-4J Phantom Cockpit
Finemolds work in progress, part 1 I started the kit this weekend. I decided to try my hand at painting the raised instrument details instead of using decals. The kit is engineered to support more than one variant. After a little study I clipped the major bits off and cleaned the sprue nibs. The bigger…
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Upgrading an older kit
Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver, 3-B-11, VB-3, USS Saratoga (CV-3), 1941 This is the old Matchbox kit, tarted up quite a bit with the Starfighter resin cockpit set and a set of Startfighter decals. I’d started (-ish) this kit a few years ago with the intent of making a quick build just to improve my biplane rigging…