P-38j aluminium/red

The cockpit detail is acceptable in this scale. There are no decals but the raised detail is nice. I primed everything black and used some red paint and a aluminium drybrush to paint the details. After that I used clear varnish for a glass effect on the intrument panel. This cockpit was much like 1/72 scale academy kits and then I saw that this kit was indeed a adacemy design. 

Not bad at all. I used a greenbrown wash on all green parts. I did use the seatbeld decals for the first time ever. I don't know yet if I like it. 

The turbo super chargers can be added later in the build. So is painting is easier. I painted them brown and added a light post shade with dark earth. I then used a dry brush of dark aluminium for a metal effect. Clear varnish was added before the black wash the bringout the detail. I will still do more to it before I call it finished. 

Some nose weight is needed. on a plane like this. The fit of the fuselage halfs is decent but a lot of clean up is needed because the seam lines don't line up with any panel lines.( This was not enough weight) 

The radiator flaps have ejector pin marks and I don't know if you can see them. So better be safe and fill them. 

Some of the parts are painted with the main color. I used vallejo metal colour white aluminium. Some of these parts are weathered with ammo dark night wash. 

I primed the prop parts black and painted the cones white aluminium. The decals for the blades work great. I also prepared the cones for red paint. 

The fit is decent and getting all parts lined-up is not hard at all. But the connection points do need some cleanup. I did add some revits and you can see that the gun sight doesn't have a glass.  

I added a clear plastic sheet for the sight before I added the canopy. 

Masking the canopy was a problem. The canopy framing is molded lower then the glass. So I desided to use liquid mask. I hope that the cleanup won't be to bad. 

I used white alluminium as a main colour. I also use that for the rim colour. 

The Instructions stated that some panels needed to be darker so I masked some panels and used dark alluminium to get a different shade. I paint white as a base colour for all the red parts of the scheme. 

Not much red needs to be added. But some red decals will come later. 

I added a black wash the air intakes to make them seem deeper. I also painted the anti glare panels on the engines. I should have done the nose also but i wanted to try the decal. That wasn't the right choice in the end. 

The decals are decent except for the nose anti glare panel and The devil on the tip of the nose. I needed to paint some corrections to make it look better. Al other decals are great. 

I clear coated the model to seal the decals and added Ammo Brown Green wash to all panellines. 

 

 

I also used the enamel wash for streaking and staining. I do like the look of this and i will try to use this in the future. The wheels are also weathered. 

The exhaust streaks are made with africa sand and dark brown. 

I added some chipping to the black area's and the gun barrels are added. Good detail for this scale! 

The final pieces are assembled. 

The canopy masking didn't went wel but I could fix most of it with a cocktail stick and a bit of paint. But I didn't add enaugh nose weight so thats very unfortunate. 

Still I'm happy with de result. 

This view won't be seen again. I decided to glue the model to a base. 

 

 

I will use this base a made some time ago.  

 

It's glued a finished now. I'm still happy with the result!