John H., @j-healy
Thanks for the compliments on the Moskito. I am very pleased with how it has turned out... and just think about it. I grabbed this box from the stash, and just started building on the spur of the moment. It has been a lot of fun too !

Since I typically try to paint the same color on various models (or similar parts) at the same time, that's the only reason why I have not been doing any work on this one. I have a deadline to get the big Heinkel done.

The 1/32 scale Revell He-219 is a monster of a plane... it dwarfs anything I have built lately, and it too has been a lot of fun. The fit has also been spectacular.

I wanted to give you a little heads up notice, there will be a new group build that will start on May 1st. It will cover anything from May 1st, 1910 on to today's current Luftwaffe machines, aircraft and equipment. I hope to see you join us... 🙂

I have several more big 1/32 scale Revell kits... that will be perfect for the upcoming group. How about a 1/32 He-111 or Junkers 88 ?

That would be the greatest of news: cannot imagine of Louis's Luftwaffe GB launch, without a @michel-verschuere contribution!

@lgardner
Looking good, Louis! Time indeed flies fast my friend, and it’s not only for model projects unfortunately.
The Ta154 big mottle is quite impressive, and judging by the looks that one isn’t far from completion, isn’t it so? Keep it up

Great paintwork, Louis @lgardner.

@lgardner

I can see those extra WIP propellers getting some attention Louis 😉 is that a sign of things to come soon? I sure would like it my friend

Speaking frankly, I really liked the mottle you had on the Ta 154, but it’s your model so it’s you that have to be content or not. The reverse approach to paint it you are doing soon is a neat trick, though I prefer the free hand spraying.
Looking forward to see how it turns out 😉

Pedro, @holzhamer
Yes your keen eyes have picked out some "new" Luftwaffe projects that will soon be a part of our ever growing LW group build. One set of propellers I sprayed last night is for our mutual 1/48 scale ICM Dornier 17Z build.

I was not happy at all with the paint overspray that was visible on and around some of the mottles. In other places, you could see some of the pencil lines that were slightly visible, where I had drawn out the mottling outlines, to get the shapes as close as I possibly could.

Now I will be using the same pictures as before to capture the shapes of each individual mottle mark. Hopefully this time I will not have any problems with over spray, and the pencil lines will be a thing of the past.

Hello Eric, @eb801
Thanks for stopping by. I want to get this one completed, so I can clear off some space and build a few new projects that I have made plans for. I have several kits that are very close to completion, with this one being one of them. My goal is to complete a few models before I start working on some new ones. The idea with the "new and improved" mottling came to me when I was working on something else... now I hope it works as expected.

I hope I don't let anyone down. Please stay tuned, and thanks for stopping by..

The enemy of ”good” is ”better”, my friend @lgardner! In your case the enemy of excellent (as it was the already made mottling) is the supreme! Like @holzhamer and @eb801, I too believe your previous result was fantastic. Had I been you, I might have left it "as is". However, I won't lie that I just love your approach in improving everything as best as you can: your results speak for themselves! I really look forward to see your new approach and results!

@lgardner - I just went back and re-read my review of this kit at M2 (done so long ago the pix were scanned from film prints). I remembered it as being pretty bad, but I forgot how bad till I re-read the article. So take the fact you have this looking as good as it does, and it looks real good, as a triumph of talent and skill over plastic that wants desperately to be a doorstop. This is a really great result!