SCM Aggressor Group Build Fall 2019

Stephan Ryll Autor
A lot to read and watch - I found a lot of stuff in my library 😄

Patrick Hagelstein
Whoarh!!!! 😮

Kerry COX
This will be most interesting lads. 👍 🙂

Clifford Keesler
Amen to that!.

Slavo Hazucha
Top 👍

Soeren R.
Im in😉

Michael Phillips
Someone's ready for this GB 🙂

Count me in!

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you mates - you're all welcome 🙂
Started inspecting my pictures and books
First issue 1 photo without walkways on top some more with light gray walkways 😄

Maciej Bellos
Niiiiiiice!

Clifford Keesler
Nice choice.

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Maciej and Clifford, glad that you like my choice 🙂
After inspecting all pictures of the 33 I decided to go with the walkways on top
I was a democratic decision😄 1 to 15 for walkways

Konrad -
Very crowded here 😮!
Is there some free Space left... Ahh found it!
Very nice choice Stephan! I'm excited how this turns out 🙂!

Carsten Gurk
Follwoing 🙂

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Konrad and Carsten, you're always welcome
I think I have to rent a bigger room😉

Clifford Keesler
I will be doing an F-18 also, I hope I can do half as well as I know yours is going to be.

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Clifford for your kind comment 🙂 but I'm shure your's will be also a beauty

Jos Jansen
Iam in...following!

Daniel
climbing a tree to see something over this crowd😉

Stephan Ryll Autor
Mates you're welcome 🙂
You don't have to hurry😉 still 28 days left till the start of this part of the GB

Clifford Keesler
Getting my "ducks " in a row.

Nathan Dempsey
This is going to be one sweet Hornet.

Stephan Ryll Autor
thank you mates - only 27 days to go😉

Stephan Ryll Autor
Indeed 25 days left - need another small kit to build😉 May some loadout like Hans did 🤔

Clifford Keesler
I was going through my decals today, and I have a set for that particular aircraft. Did not even know it. LOL. There are other aircraft on that sheet as well.

Stephan Ryll Autor
The good one on this Clifford is, that this bird had no stencils 🙂

Clifford Keesler
Amen to that. Sometimes the stencils are the hardest thing to find for a particular aircraft.

Bart Goesaert
Nice jacket for this birdie...

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Clifford and Bart 🙂
Still 19 days to work on something else 🤔 I started with gardening, but that's all done now 🤔
What next... what next ...😉

Maciej Bellos
You can, say, start a model...😉

Slavo Hazucha
... or spectacularly exercise the man's right to bear arms as Hans does...😉

Nathan Dempsey
That hobby is a black hole for $$ just like this one is--
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Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you mates - I will fix the setup for the next projects and build some ordonance like Hans
@ Nathan - looks like a helmet 🤔 - may something to put one when my wife sees the next incomming kits 😄

Nathan Dempsey
The patch on the helmet is "2 right bear arms" 🙂

Stephan Ryll Autor
Ah understood Nathan - here is the result of the things I done
some loadout | Album by gaftic87 (1:48)

Nathan Dempsey
Looks like your armory is ready!

Bryn Crandell
Watching this one. Hoping to join this group build. Haven't decided what to build.

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you mates, indeed a lot a armory is done but won't be used on this bird 🙂

Stephan Ryll Autor
So this is finally also on the run 🙂
First thing to do is sand down the nasty seam on the clear parts 🙂

Kerry COX
After you have removed the clear parts from the tree with a hot blade. 😉

Stephan Ryll Autor
Kerry this is exactly the way I will do it - thank you for all that tips and tricks you showed us so many times 🙂

Kerry COX
Good to know I have been of use at times. LOL. hahahaha 😉
Once the parts have been removed from the tree, just 'shave' the remainder from the parts to be used to prevent any shattering if you try to take too much off at a time.

Clifford Keesler
I will remember that Keza.

Patrick Hagelstein
Learning something new every time here! 🙂 👍

Donald Dickson II
I'll watch this. 🙂

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Kerry - done 🙂
Always good to get some advise - it's working very well
Also used parafilm for masking the inside of the clear canopy parts 🙂
Thank you all for watching this build, you're all welcome 🙂

Sergej I
In! 👍

Donald Dickson II
Stephan, just the inside? I use the parafilm for the outside.

Stephan Ryll Autor
All welcome 🙂
@ Donald - for the outside I have some masks😉

Patrick Hagelstein
I like that PJ pilot! Let's get some paint slapped on! 😄

Kerry COX
Parrafilm 'M' how I love it, both on the inner and the outer. 😉 👍

Daniel
looks like hes about to eat a hotdog 😄

Konrad -
Damn now I see a HotDog😉!
Cool progress Stephan looking forward to this one 👍!

Stephan Ryll Autor
Yes mates

Paint Parafilm and Hot Dogs
That's the stuff for modeling😢
I think the Hot Dog is a check list - or it's a pilot from „Hot Shots"😉

Clifford Keesler
Cool pilot figure. Where do you guys find these things? LOL.

Patrick Hagelstein
Belgium.......

Stephan Ryll Autor
Indeed PJ Production has a wide range of figures

pj-production.be/en/

Holger Kranich
Always interesting how different a seat can look. Is there a seam on the windscreen?

Harry Eder
Have you planed to change the pilots helmet to the newer HGU-55?

Stephan Ryll Autor
@ Holger - there are seams on every part in this kit 🤔 - clear parts as well - but that will only need some extra work

@Harry - this build will show a plane from 2009 - therefore I will not change the helmet - my reference also shows a normal helmet

Nathan Dempsey
Great looking cockpit 🙂

Konrad -
Stunning 👍 👍 👍

Slavo Hazucha
Smart looking workspace 👍 Great start, looking forward to see more!

Jos Jansen
Nice pit so far Stephan, crispy...!

Maciej Bellos
Great pit!

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Hans, Nathan, Konrad, Slavo, Jos and Maciej 🙂
Glad that you like the pit 🙂
The intakes will be challenging 🤔 hope to get this done during the next days

Clifford Keesler
Excellent pit.

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Clifford for your kind comment 🙂

The design and engineering of the intakes is a nightmare - no fit at all 🤔

Stephan Ryll Autor
Added some pictures with issues I had with the fuselage and air intakes 🤔

Konrad -
Cool stuff you showing here👍! Nice work and at the end it will look awesome!
I build the Kinetic F16 the second time at the moment and there are also a view issues to solve.

But anyhow your on the right way to show us another great plane 👍!!

Harry Eder
Nice progress Stephan! 👍 Please can you tell me, which book is that in the first pic, the open one? 🤔

Slavo Hazucha
Thanks Stephan for posting all these topics - I´ve got a Kinetic Hornet coming my way for the GB, so it´s great to know in advance!😉

Patrick Hagelstein
Wow! pictures 11 till 15 are some serious wonky shizzle.... 🙁

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Konrad,Hans, Harry, Slavo and Ptrick for your motivating words
Today I had to order a new tube of putty
Both air intakes are now glued to the fuselage - the inner intake tubes are primed from the inside
Left side will need some putty to fit the right side is ok - don't ask why - it's all Kinetic😉

Daniel
what I ve heard about the kit seems to be true😉 but I see that you re coming out victorious, very nice work 👍

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Daniel for your kind words 🙂 , hope to get a good result out of this 🤔

Bart Goesaert
Nice colors, in the ground it is a nice kit, just have to get it in there... a lot of dryfitting and sanding, but otherwise...

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Bart for your kind comment. 🙂
I ordered already some more sanding sticks and putty - and some good nerves for the closing of the main airframe😉

Clifford Keesler
Looking very nice Stephan.

Nathan Dempsey
I agree. Some nice work on those intakes.

Slavo Hazucha
The intakes look really good after your treatment 👍

Kerry COX
Nearly missed this one, but now I see what has been encountered and solved, my beer tastes twice as good. Well done Mr Ryll. 👍.

Patrick Hagelstein
Way to go Stephan!!! 👍 I'm so glad I found reference pictures with intake and exhaust covers! 😄

Donald Dickson II
Nice solution there! *makes note*

Konrad -
Very nice 👍!

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you mates for your kind comments they are much appreciated 🙂 I'm also happy with the result till now
I had a glass of wine after that battle😉 cheers Kerry😉
I also found a nice picture of the intakes wich show a lot of streaks - so I can apply some weathering inside

Daniel
looks great&smooth 👍 can you upload/link the intake photo? I am always looking for more references there 🙂

Slavo Hazucha
Indeed, a ref picture of a nicely used intake would be most appreciated!

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you mates 🙂
Very nice dirty intakes pictures are uploaded - enjoy the dirt😉

Patrick Hagelstein
Try replicating THAT! 😄

Maciej Bellos
Well, that's not white, is it?

Slavo Hazucha
Nice indeed...

Kerry COX
A grotty sucker if ever there was. ! 👍 😉

Donald Dickson II
Wow, yeah, totally not white at all. LOL

Stephan Ryll Autor
Indeed mates - so you can have both the clean variant and the dirty one😉
I will decide later which way to go - but I found some evidence that on some planes the outerhull colour was also in the firsts 60 cm of the intakes 🤔 mmh so much options

Patrick Hagelstein
Me too! 😉

Clifford Keesler
Looking very nice Stephan.

Daniel
Thx for the pics Stephan, intake weathering will be the new thing in scale modelling 🙂

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you mates you are always welcome 🙂
And yes Daniel, that would be a challenge cause there not much reference available

Stephan Ryll Autor
Just a short update on that nightmare
I had to remove the colour cause the primer did not stay on the surface very well
That's modelers life 😄

Patrick Hagelstein
Wait a minute, what happened??? Did you have to strip those intakes?

Thomas Bischoff
Sorry to hear that - hope you can fix it!

Dave Flitton
Wow, I don't know if I can handle a Kinetic kit with all the fit issues you are having

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank's mates for your kind words 🙂
Hope to save the intakes - they are masked - hope the paint will stay were it needs to be after demasking 🤔 over the weekend I will have a clear picture 🤔

Patrick Hagelstein
Hang in there Stephan!!! 👍👍

Bart Goesaert
Kinetic it has it's downsides, but also plussides. A lot of versions in one kit, but also constant dry-fitting, sanding,...

Nathan Dempsey
I agree Bart on the dry fitting and sanding for Kinetic models. I had to do this multiple times for the wings on my Cheetah build. Though I'd say many of the newer kits suffer from "over-complication". Sometimes this is due to them trying to do many variants, but other times for no good reason at all.

Clifford Keesler
Hang in there you will get it. The only Kinetic kits I have built is their 1/32 Hawk and 1/48 A-6E. The only one I had issues with was the A-6. I have their 1/48 F-5B, will see how it is. LOL.

Patrick Hagelstein
I recently received their F-104G and looking at the parts in the box, it looks awesome!!! Fingers crossed then... 😉

Stephan Ryll Autor
Update from my yesterday intake rescue mission 🤔
Right intake is still ok - needs only some new color at the entry
Left intake the color went of partly with the masking tape - so this I need to fix 😄
So I don't get bored over the weekend 😄

Patrick Hagelstein
What primer were you using anyway? I remember a discussion here about the issues with different primers, acrylic and lacquer based. I stick to (Mr. Surfacer) lacquer based primers exclusively and, knock on wood, never had any issues.

Stephan Ryll Autor
I use acrylic primer Patrick - did't have that issue so massively like this time
Got a new bottle yesterday - that stuff seems to work so far 🤔

Patrick Hagelstein
Check! Hope it stays on this time! 👍

Stephan Ryll Autor
So that will be the solution for the intake issue
Consequently no pilot in the pit is needed - so I have to rework my dio idea

Patrick Hagelstein
That's exactly what I am going for. I didn't feel like painting up a pilot but now I'm cutting up my wings to liberate the flaps and ailerons. Tomato, tomato I guess....

Daniel
Throw your stones, but I like the vallejo crap, only had peeling problems once when I didnt clean the fat fingers. Otherwise it does what I need it to, unifies, makes scratches visible and is a nice surface for airbrushing all other paint brands, also protective with aggressive spray cans, easy to clean...only minus for me is a longer time to dry thoroughly...

Konrad -
Yep I'm with you Daniel I use the Vallejo stuff for all my builds and it works. All Fingers crossed... Anyhow sorry to hear this Stephan.
But the Hornet will also Look great with closed intakes 👍!

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you mates for your comments 🙂
I think it was a aged primer that caused the problem - the new bottle has a thinner liquide and gives a nice result
We have discussion about different primers every month in our modeling team
But I don't want to change so solvents 🤔

Donald Dickson II
Count me as NOT a fan of the acrylic primers. They absolutely do not bite into the plastic and peel at the the drop of a hat.

Jos Jansen
Acrylic primers aren't primers...I totally agree with Donald, if you have tried the lacquer based primers, for example those from Alclad you never want others! After spraying you can sand the lacquer based primer so smoothly for the next layer...no problem at all with peeling of!

Daniel
Dont get too religious mates, everything has its pros and cons and different people like different stuff (and I did actually work with mr surfacer before switching to vallejo)

Patrick Hagelstein
😄 😄 😄 And, off course, we all know Monty Python is always right! 👍

Daniel
😄 cant argue with that 👍

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank's mates for the lively discussion on that topic 🙂
I will give the acrylic stuff a chance to dry and we will see the result tomorrow
Have the fingers crossed 🙂

Jos Jansen
Good luck Stephan....8)

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Jos
The main hull is closed now but needs a lot of attention, filling and sanding 🤔
The upper side of the intakes need to be painted upfront 🤔 cause you can't reach those parts after closing the hull
Uploaded some pictures of the details

Patrick Hagelstein
I feel you Stephan... 🙁 No matter what brand, no matter what scale, this is something to Bug every Hornet build... I'm with you on this one! 👍

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Patrick your comment is much appreciated🙂
That motivates me to bring this further to the finish line
Ordered already more putty to feed the monster 😄

Clifford Keesler
Coming along nicely Stephan.

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Clifford
Hope to get the gaps closed today
Tomorrow will be sanding day 😄

arne vd burg
Good Job Stephan! watching

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Arne your comment is much appreciated 🙂
Today some more putty arrived - so that I can go on with that ... 🤔

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Hans for your kind comment 👍 hope to have the right mojo to go through those deep valleys of the kit 🤔
Today I nearly finished filling and sanding the seams
Tomorrow will be rescribing all those affected areas and start with fitting in the windscreen to the remarkable hole called cockpit 😄

Donald Dickson II
Wowzers. The Revell kit is a LOT better than this.

Nathan Dempsey
Keep going Stephan! You're overcoming all the obstacles🙂

Clifford Keesler
You can beat it Stephan. I know you will turn out a stunner.

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you mates for your motivating words, very much appreciated

Today the following happened on my work bench
Involved were a bottle of extra thin cement, a modeling knive, a rescribing tool, the windscreen of the kit and the instrument panel cover

First the cement bottle dropped and left a sea of liquid on my bench 😄
The first reaction was which part in the sea must be rescued first
I got for the windscreeen and took it out of the sea
Second I rescued the instrument panel cover from the sea
Then I tried to get the rescribing tool with it's plastic handle out of the sea - but the cement already loved the handle 😄
Then I got the knife and secured it

All in all a normal day in modelers life 😄 May as anyone of us had experienced too

So I decided to stop for today and give the thing a new try tomorrow 😄

Donald Dickson II
Ah, much like my adventures with the shark mouth decal on my A-7 last night. Fun stuff!

Patrick Hagelstein
Nooooooooooooooooooohhhhhh!!!!!!! 😮

Nathan Dempsey
Is it salvageable?

Clifford Keesler
OUCH!!!!

Daniel
Argh! I once tried to re-open a revell contacta needle, used too much pressure and it exploded over a nearly finished model... heavy weathering 😄

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you much for your kind words mates 🙂 good to know I'm not alone ...
Today I will have a look at the damage I did 😄
Hope to get some pics posted after the assessment of the parts 😄

Donald Dickson II
I can only imagine the canopy is toast.

Stephan Ryll Autor
It seems so at the moment that I had a little luck Donald 🙂 but I did not remove the masking yet

Sanding from the inside is needed hope to get the fog away 🤔

Martin Oostrom
I had a similar experience with ak's still water. Stuff was in a lot of places, including my hair. Luckily it missed my just matt varnished tractor.
Daniel, get the needle out of the plastic. Use a plier to hold the tip in a candle and the stuck glue will burn out of it. Be careful thought, the needle will be HOT.

Danny Meer
Had that with an Tamiya 1/16 rc truck, was working on cables and almost finished...had to place a clear plastic part inside cabin with glue, dropped it on the inside of the window and had a big ugly smudge on it 🙁 had to search few weeks for a new window and luckily found 1 😛

Donald Dickson II
Oh wow, that looks nasty to me...

Daniel
you can still go for a winter diorama…😉 hope you can polish that out!
thats a good tip martin 👍

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you mates for your kind comments🙂 and thank you Martin for sharing your tips here🙂

I could safe the windscreen 🙂 it took two hours to bring it back to life with sanding and polishing - puh...

Danny Meer
Nice! looks as good as new 🙂

Nathan Dempsey
Yes! Very nice work Stephan!

Martin Oostrom
Magician!

Konrad -
Awesome Stephan! Very nice work on the windscreen 🙂!

Michael Phillips
That's quite impressive Stephan. That has to feel good to make a huge save like that!

arne vd burg
Excellent job on the windscreen Stephan

Donald Dickson II
Well paddle me with a herring, I didnt think that was salvageable! Great job!

Jos Jansen
Crystal clear...👍

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you mates for your kind comments, much appreciated after that session of sanding from 600 grid to 2000 grid and polishing the whole thing four times 🙂

And Now for Something Completely Different

As Nathan already mentioned before😉 I love this stuff from Monty 👍

Tomorrow will be fitting the rescued windscreen to the mainframe ... that will be some more sanding😉

Clifford Keesler
Nice save on the wind screen.

Donald Dickson II
See, I just knew you all would not fail to understand the herring reference. 😄

Patrick Hagelstein
😄 😄 😄

Stephan Ryll Autor
Always good to get people to laugh again ... 🙂

The instrumentpanel cover is the next on the rescue list ... but this is not a big deal 🙂

Stephan Ryll Autor
Over the weekend I started to put the PE parts and most of the antennas to the surface 🙂
The instructions are sometimes very odd 🤔
I will clean up all areas before starting with the primer

Patrick Hagelstein
That instrument coaming turned out really good as well. Good save on those parts! 👍

Konrad -
Very nice Stephan! Comes out really cool so far!

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Patrick, Roland and Konrad for your kind comments
Some bling bling on that kit is something I had to do after all that trouble😢

Erik Leijdens
Nice work so far Stephan!

Clifford Keesler
Coming along nicely Stephan.

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you mates for your kind comments 🙂
Hope to get something this evening🤔

Adam Gudynowski
Following 👍

Danny Meer
wow what happened with the cockpit? almost look like it has been on the heater..

Danny Meer
Yeah now i see it, in corners 😄

Stephan Ryll Autor
Welcome Adam, to that slowly developing build 🙂
@ D. Meer - just some heavy protection against my clumsiness😄
@ Hans - your guess is right😉

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Hans for your kind comment 🙂
I just checked the area - and it's only that kind of dust that goes where it should not go 🙂 it's on top of the colour - so no surgery necessary

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Roland for your kind comment 🙂 I hope that this journey will be successful 🙂
The instructions are a nightmare and the fit is very average compared to the other builds I've done
The kit has the tendency to move towards the garbage bin - you always discover some more challenges the further you go 😄
But I don't own the Hasegawa kit - I think I have to get on in the future 🤔

Patrick Hagelstein
Sorry to say but I don't think Hans is mentioning that speck of dust. There's an indentation on both sides below the windshield and it might be the connection between the clear part and the forward fuselage. Right Hans?

Stephan Ryll Autor
I'm not shure what you're talking about 🤔 you mean that area I marked red in the first picture?

Patrick Hagelstein
Stephan, that picture with the red square answers the question perfectly! Yes, there should be an indentation! 👍 😄

Patrick Hagelstein
Roland, the 'problem' is solved! 😉

Stephan Ryll Autor
Ah I understand
That's what I already found out during dry fit - the clear part includes the frame but does not have the indentation, also the front fuselage does not show that
I uploaded a picture of the clear part

Jos Jansen
I love your progress pics...great work, superb detail man!

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Jos your comment is much appreciated 🙂

Clifford Keesler
Excellent work Stephan.

Jens
I watched silently at your breathtaking work 👍 👍 👍 and frustrated my Kinetic Kit of the Intruder pushed to me, but when I look at your details like that, I keep wondering if I should take it , the cover picture of the Kinetic Kits is so fascinatingly beautiful 😉 Thanks for the great information about the construction of the F 18 👍

Holger Kranich
Jesus what a gap-queen! Halt durch, Du schaffst das!

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Clifford, Jens and Holger for your motivating comments
This kit is reale a „time eater" 🤔
Hope to get the first of 5 camouflage colours done over the weekend
But we're to start - white belly - grey sides - sand camo - dark earth camo - green camo
So many options 😄

Kerry COX
It will be most interesting to see the masking off on this most impressive beast. 👍

Stephan Ryll Autor
Hehe Kerry 🙂 I'm just as exited as you are😉
Actual the kit has a stable orbit around the dustbin 😄

Patrick Hagelstein
Not now anymore, right? In primer it looks nice now.

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Patrick, for your motivating comment 🙂 we will see after the first masking tape is removed 🤔

Patrick Hagelstein
😄

Kerry COX
Hans. The issue of preventing paint coming away with the masking, I have found that Mr Surfacer is the one product that will prevent that from happening, as it has the surface quality that all paints just want to hold on too.

Clifford Keesler
Yes pulling paint off is no fun.

Stephan Ryll Autor
Due to the fact that I can't use solvents it happens from time to time
And it's Murphy's law that it happpens on the last colour 😄

Jos Jansen
Try definitely the Alclad primer Stephan, for sure I'll have no problem at all anymore with ripping of your paint by making tape...guarentee 👍

Stephan Ryll Autor
All good for now 🙂 first camo parts are on

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Hans 🙂 - to answer your question - I'm doing the masking on my own

Stephan Ryll Autor
No Hans I use a transparent self adhesive foil 🙂
I apply the foil to the surface and mark the camouflage areas with a pen - remove the foil again, cut the required areas an stick the foil again to the surface
It's time consuming but gives a good result 🙂

Patrick Hagelstein
Dang! Looking good Stephan! 👍

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Patrick, your comment is much appreciated 🙂

Patrick Hagelstein
🙂

Clifford Keesler
Looking good Patrick. That is going to be an interesting paint scheme.

Patrick Hagelstein
Thanks! 🙂 But actually, Stephan is building this one.... 😄

Daniel
Nice masking job Stephan! Maybe just the photo but both sand colors appear very grayish?

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Clifford and Daniel
@ Daniel - on my IPad it's ok - may I will take some new pictures later 🤔

Donald Dickson II
Yeah, totally looks gray to me too.

Stephan Ryll Autor
Tried again to get a better picture from the camo - but there is maybe a problem with the camera hope to get that fixed soon 🤔

Donald Dickson II
Those are tan. LOL

Clifford Keesler
Looking good so far.

Kerry COX
Now...............where the hell did I put that paint. ???? 😉

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you mates 🙂
I think „someone" used my camera for some outdoor pictures and did not switch back the ISO to 800 😄
Oh I hate that „someone"😉

The masking massacre is now nearly done 🙂 hope to get some paint on tomorrow

Stephan Ryll Autor
Your right Hans, the ISO setting is linked to the auto white balance in my setup - just checked this - all good now 🙂

Stephan Ryll Autor
The masking massacre is done - no „wormholes" found - next step will be the painting 🙂

Laurent VILLANUEVA HELLER ForEver
Nice

Nathan Dempsey
Looking nice Stephan.

Murad ÖZER
very intricate work with the camo there Stephan, looking great as it is 👍

Daniel
Very nice&tidy 👍

Jos Jansen
NICE

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you mates for your kind
It's a very interesting camo pattern
And a good training for doing splinter camo 😄

Jim J
Cool camo pattern. Very clean and sharp. 👍

Thomas Bischoff
Awesome - the colours look spot on!

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you all mates, glad that you like the camo 🙂

Clifford Keesler
Very nice.

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Clifford 🙂

Today I did the walkways - but still three colours missing 😄

Maciej Bellos
Looking goooooood!

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Maciej 🙂 glad that you like the camo

Jos Jansen
What a very cool schedule is this aggressor Stephan...two thumbs up 👍👍

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you for your kind comment Jos 🙂 much appreciated
I hope to do it justice 😄

Konrad -
Fantastic Stephan it looks very cool!

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Konrad 🙂 , for today I planned to paint the white belly and the radome tip

Konrad -
Looking forward to your progress 👍

Laurent VILLANUEVA HELLER ForEver
nice

Bart Goesaert
nice paintjob....

Harry Eder
Turned out great! What masking tape do you use?

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you mates for your kind comments 🙂
The white colour took longer as expected🤔
So it needs to dry till it can be masked

@Harry - this is TopMask Film I bought in 2015 here in Germany
It's a transparent film that is not too sticky
It's a role 30x300 cm - so it lasts for a long time 🙂
Hope that helps 🙂

Harry Eder
Thx Stephan! So I have to look for it 😉

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you James, your comment is much appreciated🙂
Today I will do some masking for the next gray colour🤔

Christian Bruer
Nice and sharp paintwork 👍

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Christian, your comment is much appreciated 🙂

Stephan Ryll Autor
Eight main colours on 😄 I think I lost most of my nerves during demasking all that areas 😄

Konrad -
Thats really awesome! Looks better than the Original one 👍!

Patrick Hagelstein
Wow!!! 😮

Jos Jansen
Excellent!

Clifford Keesler
Most excellent Stephan.

Soeren R.
Fantastic work Stephan

Nathan Dempsey
The camo is looking great Stephan.

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you mates for your kind comments 🙂 glad that you like it

Next step will be a clear coat

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Roland for your kind comment- 🙂 just try to apply the decals
Hope to get some pictures done tomorrow🤔

Jos Jansen
Iam really looking forward to the reveal of this big...👍!

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Jos 🙂 I'm also happy when this big xxx is done 🤔
Still a lot of work to do
Decals are on - it took me quite a while to figure out the right ones from the big decal sheet
The instructions are quite challenging - in some cases I had to ask my magic glass ball 😄

Laurent VILLANUEVA HELLER ForEver
nice

bughunter
Very careful build and painting! I like the outcome 👍

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you mates 🙂 glad that you like that bird

Konrad -
Cool 👍!
The finishing line is in sight 😉!

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Konrad 🙂 there is some light at the end of the tunnel😉

Konrad -
Awesome Stephan👍!
Now she's on her legs 😉!

Slavo Hazucha
Camo edges sharp as razorblades... 👍 I'm glad to catch-up and follow this on the finish line... You really got the paint job spot on, both in terms of the color tones and the shapes, very nice indeed Stephan!

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Konrad and Slavo for your kind comments 🙂 they're much appreciated🙂

Hope to get this nightmare done before Christmas 🤔

Donald Dickson II
Fantastic!

Michael Hickey
You've turned this putty queen into something that's going to be gorgeous, I love the small details on your undercarriage.👍👍👍

Jim J
Looking great. Awesome camo. 👍

Clifford Keesler
Looking very nice Stephan.

Bryn Crandell
Quite amazing if I say so. The camo came out fantastic. Did you freehand mask it or use a mask set?

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you mates for your encouraging comments 🙂 glad that you like the „putty queen"
@Bryn
I use a transparent self adhesive foil 🙂
I apply the foil to the surface and mark the camouflage areas with a pen - remove the foil again, cut the required areas an stick the foil again to the surface
It's time consuming but gives a good result 🙂

Picture 69 shows the mask 🙂

Slavo Hazucha
I always dread the hour when masking tape hits the painted model - or better put the moment when it is about to depart again... The fact that all your paint is on the plane in such a tricky pattern testifies that you indeed are a man who can chose his own foil!😉 👍 I really like this project!

Stephan Ryll Autor
Me to Slavo - it's the moment when I stop breathing - but demasking clear parts always stops my heartbeat😉
Glad that you like this project 🙂

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you James 🙂 glad that you like the build

Erik Leijdens
Neat work so Stephan! The camouflage is fantastic. I also like the intakes, very good job with them.

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Erik and Roland for your kind comments 🙂
The intake covers are scratch build - the remove before flight flags are from Eduard

Christian Bruer
Very nice work so far Stephan 👍

Clifford Keesler
I really like the intake plugs, very well done.

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Christian and Clifford, your comments are much appreciated 🙂

bughunter
I like it 👍

Donald Dickson II
Great job on the FOD covers! You could sell those! LOL

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you mates for your nice comments 🙂

I CALL IT DONE!

Slavo Hazucha
Grand show Stephan - it totally looks like the Hornet on the title picture, wow! - if you'd put a light on to cast the shadow from the LERX, they would be indistinguishable😉 Top job! 👍

Patrick Hagelstein
The end of a journey! Beautiful Stephan! 👍

Donald Dickson II
You know, you arent half bad at this.😉

Nathan Dempsey
That's some fine work Stephan.

Thomas Bischoff
Incredibly how the colours match to the picture of the real one!

Jos Jansen
Excellent colors, they're spot on to the real ones...very nice build!

Daniel
Very very nice Stephan, a true beauty 👍

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Roland,Slavo, Patrick, Donald, Nathan, James, Thomas and Jos for your motivating comments during that stormy journey.

My conclusion for this kit
Check the instructions, some parts are not in there or have wrong numbers
Check your reference pictures
Check every colour in combination with the decals (which are very good)
Dryfit as much as you can
Buy some putty and sanding paper

A god thing is ... you don't need nose weight

Laurent VILLANUEVA HELLER ForEver
Nice

Slavo Hazucha
Thx for the heads-up - will re-stock my putty & sandpaper reserves! I guess the BigED PE's were well matched, I am up for some Aires fitting havoc on mine...

Again, great show with the build & camo! 👍

Konrad -
Very nice scenery with a lot of great details! 👍 👍 👍!!

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Laurent, Slavo and Konrad your comments are much appreciated
Glad that you like the dio 🙂
@Slavo the Eduard PE is very nice especially the canopy parts

Neuling
Beautiful build and dio!

Murad ÖZER
Stephan lovely build all the way from start to finish, scene was the icing on the cake, congrats!😎😎😎

Christian Bruer
Excellent, looking forward to see it in Lingen next year!

Harry Eder
I also like this Hornet very much! 👍
Who will visit Lingen next year? I also will be there the first time.

Christian Bruer
I will be there and hope to meet you at our Clubstand 🙂

Harry Eder
Yes you meet me there! 😉

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Neuling, Murad, Christian and Harry
Glad that you like the build and dio 🙂

I will bring it to Lingen - Hotel is booked - hope to see a lot of mates there 🙂

Harry Eder
👍

Clifford Keesler
Excellent job Sir.

Timmie
Nice looking f18.

Stephan Ryll Autor
Thank you Clifford and Timmie 🙂 your comments are much appreciated
Glad that you like the build and dio 🙂