Grumman F6F Hellcat

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The pilot's seat with the seat belts. Very fine colored photo-etched parts by Eduard.
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The remaining components of the cockpit. The main dashboard consists of two photo-etched parts glued on top of each other. Small levers complement the dashboard. The two side consoles are painted with a brush. The thrust levers are also photo-etched parts.
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The assembled cockpit. Here you can see the structure of the main dashboard very well.
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The individual parts after the primer and a first coat of paint in silver. All parts were brushed with a chipping fluid. A black preshading was applied to the panel lines.
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The blue top color is a mixture of royalblue and glossy seablue in a 1:1 mixing ratio. A coat of pure seablue seemed a bit too dark to me.
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The underside of the aircraft is white, the sides of the fuselage have been sprayed in a light blue tone.
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The plane after assembling the main parts and chiping.
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The dark blue areas were lightened with highly diluted white oil paint.
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Syringe needles were used for the machine guns.
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The plane against a natural background.
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The Corsair of another famous US Marine Corps major.

57 2 July 2023, 12:31

Michael Kohl
I am in.

2 July 2023, 14:08

Harald Besold 著者
Thank you Michael for your interest in my model.

2 July 2023, 16:02

Rui S
A beauty & nice presentation 👍

26 July 2023, 22:49

Michael Kohl
Very nice. Convincing chipping and color fading. Like it a lot. I'd like to see it in person. At the club meeting in September maybe?

27 July 2023, 21:13

Neuling
I agree with Rui and Michael. 👍

28 July 2023, 07:13

Andy Ball
Terrific Hellcat, could you describe the "chipping fluid" step please?- how do you do it?

28 July 2023, 07:43

Mr James
Oh yes... very well done. Great weathering

28 July 2023, 08:12

Harald Besold 著者
Hello model building friends, I was very happy about your positive feedback. Especially because you are all such great model builders yourself. So I was very happy about this recognition.

28 July 2023, 13:56

Harald Besold 著者
@ Andy

I sprayed the entire model in a silver tone. Then I diluted the Cipping Fluid with water in a ratio of 1:1 and applied it to the entire model with a brush. (I applied the Chipping Fluid with a brush because even when diluted, it couldn't be sprayed with an airbrush.)

I used the CHIPPING MEDIUM from vallejo (73.214).

Then the preshading and the color were applied with the airbrush. I moistened the areas to be chipped with a wet cotton swab and then scraped off the color with a toothpick. The slightly finer areas along the edges of flaps etc. were scraped off with a fine needle. I only did the rough work with the toothpick. A toothpick (for 1/72 scale models) is too thick for the fine scratches and the chipping quickly seems exaggerated.

The method works better than e.g. Hairspray. In my opinion, a more controlled chipping is possible. The only problem is that after the chipping fluid has been applied, it is no longer possible to mask off with masking tape. If you loosen the masking tape, you would pull the paint down with it. Masking tape can only be used after a layer of clear lacquer.

I hope I was able to answer the question.

28 July 2023, 14:19

Rui S
Thx for sharing your method/technique 👍

28 July 2023, 22:58