Guy Rump
Following. 👍

Edward MacKenzie Author
Thank you Guy 🙂 I just have found out that the markings of the «Grand Charles» are wrong in this Kit! Have to follow the decal-markings from the Kovozávody Prostějov Kit...

Andy Ball
Cool. Love a Tiffie in town! Or a Tempest even….

Moreno Baruffini
Following too! I've also the kit and aftermarket decals for the Clostermann' plane.
Eager to learn from you!

Edward MacKenzie Author
I love them too, Andy. A real beautiful bird 🙂

Edward MacKenzie Author
Thanks Moreno, but i am not sure that you can learn from me, you're too kind 😉

Edward MacKenzie Author
Cockpit is finished. I have made the instrumental panel by myself and also the seatbelts. I am happy with it 🙂

Moreno Baruffini
I totally agree with you! Great scratch built!

Edward MacKenzie Author
Mille grazie Moreno! I am glad you like it 🙂

Bernd Grün
Following with interest! 👀

Edward MacKenzie Author
Vielen Dank für dein Interesse, Bernd 🙂

Bruce Huxtable
Very neat instruments, how on Earth do you paint the fine details?

Edward MacKenzie Author
Thank you very much Bruce! Well, i use the dry-brushing technique with the smallest brush and a veeeeery quiiieeeeet hand 😄

Bruce Huxtable
Skills I have yet to develop, Edward. You have certainly succeeded 🙂

Edward MacKenzie Author
Thanks again Bruce for your very kind compliment! I'm very glad you like it 😄

Edward MacKenzie Author
After a longer break i did the paintjob. All brushpainted in two layers.

Moreno Baruffini
Well done 👍🏻

Edward MacKenzie Author
Grazie Moreno 🙂

Andy Ball
This is shaping up into one howling Tempest!

J35J
Great work on this build!👍🏻

Edward MacKenzie Author
Many thanks to you both for yer kind words, Andy and J35J. 🙂
I give my best on that!

Живко Джаков
Looks very good!

Edward MacKenzie Author
Thank you Живко for your kind words 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
Following

Edward MacKenzie Author
Did yesterday gloss varnish overall, tmo i'll start with decals.

Edward MacKenzie Author
Did the decals today 🙂 To be honest, i am not really happy with the Academy decals.

Moreno Baruffini
A bit of silvering, but a satisfying result 👍🏻

Edward MacKenzie Author
Yeah, as i wrote i am not happy with the decals. But thanks Moreno!

Edward MacKenzie Author
Just have finished this project today. I am happy with it, pictures follow soon. Thanks guys for following 😄

Edward MacKenzie Author
Pictures uploaded. I am happy with the result. 🙂

Moreno Baruffini
Great pictures and great result! 👍🏻

Guy Rump
Great result, congrats! 👍

Łukasz Gliński
Fabulous 👍

Edward MacKenzie Author
Thank you Moreno, Guy and Łukasz. 🙂

J35J
Very nice result!

Andy Ball
Clostermann would be very proud!

Edward MacKenzie Author
Thank you J35J. I really hope so, Andy 😄

Sadek Khalidi
Impressing result especially You using a brush. Hard to mark it looking on finished model!

Edward MacKenzie Author
Thank you for your very kind comment, Sadek. Yes, as a brushpainter life is not easy. But i do my best and i think, it came out well 😊

Neuling
Same as Sadek! 👍

Sadek Khalidi
I was painting with brush as well, Come to airbrush wehn i started my hobby over for 2 years ago and still learning.
But i know how hard is to do a perfect brush painting as You do.

Bernd Grün
Beautiful result, Edward! 👍🏻👌

Edward MacKenzie Author
Thank you Neuling and Bernd! Very kind 🙂

Edward MacKenzie Author
Thank you again Sadek. It isn't perfect but with a quiet hand and a few layers of thinned down paint it can come out as this Tempest. I am really afraid of using an airbrush. I think it can come out more worse than good...

Sadek Khalidi
Hello Edward!
I can assure You there is nothing to be afraid of.
I was building as as a kid up to my 20 ties, first planes 1:72 lately some 1:48 and 1:35 vehicles. And the end of this period i tryed airbrush, a simple revell beginner set with a gas can. It went not so good but i was able to paint some armor kits. After this i had a pause in my hobby about 25 years. Started for about 2 years ago with simple corsair 1:72 from mistercraft ( old heller kit) I was trying to made 3 color USnavy cammo with a brush, but it went not good- Before i was using humbrol and tamiya enamels, now i was trying with acrylics and it went not so good.
Thats the reason I have respect for guys like You who can brush with acrylics with perfect results.
I was not able to get a good effect but i wanted to stay with acrylics because of smell... I got a small compressor and cheapest airbrush. After one week i was painting kits like madman.
Finally the cheapest airbrush i got ( some no name) got all possible faults most because of bad quality of seals. Later I upgraded to better brush and painting since that.
Main advantage is you are using much less paint than with brush and getting more uniform layers. If you have problem with precission details its always possible to make ma mask. I can only recommend You to make a try.
Greetings!

Edward MacKenzie Author
Sadek, thank you very much for your comments. I took up the hobby again in 2018, similar to you, after more than 20 years. In the past, I had never painted the models. But this time I achieved quite a good result with the first model, a 1/72 Revell Spitfire Vb, without masking. The most difficult for me so far was the three-coloured Hellcat from Eduard. Soft colour transitions can only be achieved to a limited extent with brushes, but I still enjoy the result very much. Yes, airbrushing has many advantages, I agree. However, I am put off by the handling and application. I read a lot about the subject in the forums. Maybe one day I will try it too...
This is my Hellcat:
Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat | Album by Eddie the Brave (1:72)

Sadek Khalidi
Nicely done--- here i put some older pictures with buccaneer in same painscheme...It was a tricky build ( special hoobby)- i was forced to cut the wings and mount them again- since i watched a docummentery and it became obvious real plane had another geometry...

MyAlbum | Album by Sadolf (1:72)

Edward MacKenzie Author
Congrats Sadek, great work on that buccaneer! I like Special Hobby, they make some special planes you cannot (easy) find easy from other companies.

Sadek Khalidi
Thats all beauty with limited run models- more job but you will get something special.
Im not much on 1:72 but if i see something intressting with is not aviliable in 48 scale im getting on it.
Unfortunelly now i have kind of forced stop on collecting models simply because i have too much in my stash ( and not too much in my wallet🙂
But if im lucky i will get Sikorsky flying boat in 72...

Edward MacKenzie Author
I am building all my planes in 1/72 because i don't want to mix the scale just to have all in the same scale. I also have much kits, i think 50, in the stash, but like yer Sikorsky, when i see something special then i try to get it. Happy modelling my friend! ☺️

Jerem Aquette
Hey! Le tempest de Cloclo! J'ai la meme boite academy et 2 autres KP.
Joli resultat!
J'ai une boite en stock avec ces spitfires et tempest, plus le bf109G10 de son cousin allemand.
J'ai dû lire son bouquin une bonne dizaine de fois.

Edward MacKenzie Author
En tant que Français, il faut presque avoir fait sa Tempest et/ou son Spitfire. J'ai aussi sa Tempest de KP et le Spitfire Mk. IX d'Eduard avec ses marquages. J'ai lu ses livres, les deux. Un homme très impressionnant... Merci pour tes compliments ! 😄