Matti Thomaes
Nice job on the cockpit

Marcin Terlikowski
Great start...

Rui S
I'm in 😎

Daniel Klink
Fantastic details Mate..I'm in!

Sebastian Meyner Författare
Thanks mates, much appreciated 🙂

Sebastian Meyner Författare
Yesterday I was able to close up the fuselage, attach the wings and to sand some seam lines. Quality control was done by one of our lapdogs, a 41kg lump of love called Zwieback (picture no.6). Once I'm not airbrushing, she's hanging out in my man cave with me. I always appreciated the company, girl 😜

gorby
Lovely work so far, but even lovelier dog. We have a 31kg lapdog and we thought that was taking it to the extreme. 🙂

CaptGPF
Agreed - if the cockpit looks this good, want to see how the rest comes out!

Sebastian Meyner Författare
@gorby: Thanks mate 👍 Our second dog (which we refer to as the "little one"....) is about 30kg 🤪

@CaptGPF: Thanks mate, stick around to see the rest....eventhough I am abysmally slow when it comes to finishing a build 😉

Rui S
Love to your beautiful modelling buddy ❤️️ I've one such love too, a 22 kg b&w border collie girl, with 7 years.

Patrick Hagelstein
Joining in as well! And not only for the dogs… 😉

Rui S
😄

Sebastian Meyner Författare
Thanks RuiS and Patrick! ....come in for the build, stay for the dog 😉

Patrick Hagelstein
😂

Sebastian Meyner Författare
So; the general assembly is done. Now comes the paint job and my "favorite" part, the landing gear and all the little bits and bobs. But, hey it's Tamiya.... a walk in the park with some spray painting. Yes, I'm a Tamiya fan boy 😁

CaptGPF
❤️ slide #6 - we need more canine helpers in this group!

I can't blame Tamiya fanboys, a hobby is supposed to be fun and enjoyable. I've seen many skilled modelers in this forum turn gold out of crappy, Ill-fitting and poorly detailed kits, but not many of us find challenges that enjoyable. 😀

Sebastian Meyner Författare
After a little break, I got the Jug primed, spay painted the ID stripes and masked them. Ready for the camouflage!

Patrick Hagelstein
Looks promising!

Sebastian Meyner Författare
Thank you Patrick 👍
I'm currently working on the camouflage. By Thursday I should something to show for 😎

John
Looking good, Sebastian! Your taste in model subjects is pretty close to mine. That reminds me, I need to add an TBM Avenger to the stash.... 🤔

Sebastian Meyner Författare
Thanks John, much appreciated mate! It seems so….however, I'm usually not so much into american subjects 😉

Patrick Hagelstein
Good thing this is a British subject then. 😉

Sebastian Meyner Författare
😉 👍

Sebastian Meyner Författare
Today I applied the few decals that come with the paint scheme…. and of course I managed to tare one :-/ I guess I'll fix that after the decals have dried, with some careful brush painting

Sebastian Meyner Författare
I decided that I will not over weather this one. My convenient "excuse" is that this Jug flew with the RAF until about one year after WW II ended, so I concluded that this bird would be well looked after and frequently cleaned by its crew 😉 So a pin wash is all she got for now.

Sebastian Meyner Författare
This build is slowly coming to an end… Once the propeller and the canopy are painted and weathered it should be all done by the end of this week

Christoph Schnarr
Clean build, very nice 👍

Sebastian Meyner Författare
Danke Dir, Christoph 🙂

Sebastian Meyner Författare
I'm calling it done. Very straightforward and enjoyable build, as one expects from Taniya :-D The only alterations to the basic kit were: the instrument panel (Yahu), the seat belts (eduard) and the decals of course (Xtradecals). The 75 gallon drop tank under the Fuselage comes from the spares box and was slightlymodified to attache to unused bomb shackles. Cheers mates ✌️

gorby
Beautiful result! It looks really good in this scheme.

Neuling
Same as gorby. 👍👍

Neil
Fantastic work, agree with above 👍

Christoph Schnarr
Wonderful Thunderbolt in a different but still very attractive camouflage scheme 👍

Sebastian Meyner Författare
gorby, Neuling, Neil and Christoph; thank you very much for the kind comments, mates 👍

I have to agree, British/Commonwealth paint schemes make american planes much prettier 😜 All jokes aside, I really like to go with the more uncommon users of a type, than to replicate yet another "ace plane".... glad you like it!