Helldiver

Geoff Murphy
Watching with interest

AndreasK Autore
Made a little bit of progress in the last two days. At least the fuselage is assembled. Next, I will cut out the dive breaks to show them in extended position.

Thomas Bischoff
Nice work 👍

Kyle DeHart
Looking good

Hanno Kleinecke
Watching 👍

Ofer Cohen
Following with great interest.

AndreasK Autore
Finally I can share some progress. Attached the improved dive breaks and prepared for the priming.

Guy Rump
Looking good. 👍

AndreasK Autore
I want to try out the new Mr. Hobby Aqueous Surfacer white Aqueous White Surfacer.. Hobby - AQUEOUS HOBBY COLOR Satin, Acrylic, 40ml

Can anyone share some experience with it? Does it work with Mr. Leveling Thinner? Any colour types to avoid on top of it?

AndreasK Autore
Brought on the above-mentioned primer, but I was not really pleased with the coverage. Used it 1:1 with MLT.

Intermediate blue is also already on. Will share pictures once I sprayed the rest in Navy blue.

AndreasK Autore
Did the major part of the paint job and overall I am pleased with the result. Some touch-ups are needed as can be seen on the photos

Thomas Bischoff
Cool - factory fresh paintjob 🙂

AndreasK Autore
Some progress
- gloss varnish
- decals
- gloss varnish

Thomas Bischoff
Zur Haftung auf den Aetzteilen: hast du die mit Mr Metal Primer oder ähnlichem vorher grundiert?

AndreasK Autore
Ich habe sie mit Mr. Hobby Surfacer 1500 grundiert. Das war aber nicht optimal. An den Klappen habe ich mit Tamiya Tape teilweise die Farbe wieder abgezogen. Zum Maskieren bei den anschließenden Korrekturen habe ich die kleinen bunten Post-Its benutzt, die nur minimale Klebekraft haben.

Es ist mein erstes Modell mit Ätzteilen. Nach dieser Erfahrung werde ich nächstes Mal Metal Primer verwenden 😉

Gerald
Nice 👍

Nathan Dempsey
Looking great!

Rui S
I agree 👍

AndreasK Autore
Thanks for your compliments. I applied some wash and will continue with detail work tomorrow like paint chips and oil stains. Then I will post some updated pictures!

AndreasK Autore
Decided to have only light wear. Some alu chips around panels, bit exhaust smoke, but no oil leaks. Most planes in reference photos looked rather clean.

Also finished the engine and bombs but all the detail work kept me from applying a matte varnish so far.

AndreasK Autore
It is done!

Guy Rump
Excellent build, your detailing is sublime Andreas. Congrats! 👍

Erik Leijdens
Fantastic result Andreas, great attention to detail.

Neuling
I agree with Guy and Erik. Excellent model!

Geoff Murphy
Awesome work!

Geoff M

Thomas Bischoff
That's beautiful!
If you want to spice up: colour photos suggest that one of the canopy frames of the rear turtleback was painted red. E.g. faintly visible here: defencenet.gr/istori..heiriseis-sto-grammo

Nathan Dempsey
That's a really nice build! I'm kinda sad I traded this kit now.

AndreasK Autore
Thank you all for the nice feedback. I really appreciate it.

@ Thomas: I have not noticed this in the photos in the various reference books I consulted. Is it only red on this single aircraft or maybe only in this unit? Maybe it was a field modification because the gunner always bumped his head there 😂

@ Nathan: The kit is really recommendable, especially for its age. I only added the cockpit PE, the rest of the detail is oob.

Thomas Bischoff
I guess the red painted canopy part is showing up on late Helldivers only. Difficult to see as you need good pictures - Possible that this was not applied to all. Another picture of a dash 4 with the red strip is here [img1]

Thomas Bischoff
Best example is howrver the cover picture on Warbirds Illustrated no 36

Neil
Wow!

Guillaume Blanchet
Looking fantastik! Love the paints job. I really like how the US interior green pops as a colors.

Rui S
A Beauty indeed 👍

AndreasK Autore
Thanks guys. I appreciate your compliments!

AndreasK Autore
I am proud to have won a silver medal at Euro Model Expo in the beginners category with the Helldiver. It was my first competition. 😃

Hans
Award well deserved. 👍

Neuling
Yes!

Martin Oostrom
Congratulations. Can you explain how the categories work? Because on the tables there was very little difference between beginner, advanced and master models.

Nathan Dempsey
Nice to hear you were awarded for this build. Well done!

AndreasK Autore
@all: thank you very much!

@Martin: beginner class is for everyone that has never won this class. Standard class is if you have won at least 2 silver or one gold in beginner class in the last 5 years. Master class is when you have won a gold medal in standard class in the last 5 years.

Patrick Hagelstein
What a beautiful build! And congratulations on that award!

Martin Oostrom
@Andreas, that clears it up then. Thank you!

John E
Congratulations! Very nice work! 👍

bughunter
Congratulation from me too 👍 And come on, we want to see your models in the Standard Class next year 😉
And thanks fro the visit on my booth in that corner far away!

AndreasK Autore
Thank you very much guys.

@Frank: I will visit your booth anytime again. It's just incredible what you produce! Seeing the parts move is much better than just the static pics 😃

Pietro De Angelis
Deserved award, congrats!