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Another yellow wing subject.. Almost too late because already close to the finish line
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starting with the cockpit some primer because the plastic is very smooth seat had molded on seatbelts but they are a bit wrong style, removed them and gonna add other ones
no decals for the IB and not much structure to drybrush
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stole decals for the instruments out of Tamiya´s export B339 version kit
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some more build up progress
applied a Mr Paint primer used the late style canopy for closing the cockpit during the paint stages
that is the actual cockpit
also started with the landing gear
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Won´t do the box art scheme or the other included scheme with black section colour. It´s gonna be this green section colour aircraft
some Gunze H26 Bright Green for Section 5 and lightened up Yellow for the Lexington
"ID" areas masked, getting ready for yellow wings and shiny fuselage
yellow wings painted with AK RC RLM04 black outlines done with leftover decals from the AM F3F kits
some more decal progress
whereas my dad kept the two previous built F3Fs pristine, he decided to apply a subtle oilwash on the Buffalos
installing the main landing gear
Looking great, my friend @grimreaper!
Pretty awesome, Reinhard (@grimreaper). All of the masking and colors are really look great. What did you use for the metallic areas?
used AK Xtreme Metal White Aluminium
