Luft46's Blog

So tonight I have a scheduled blackout whilst various electrical cables are fixed overnight.

There was a little work done yesterday but as I undertook a nice local walk and some gardening I was too tired to do anything today.

I got a walk into my local model shop today and picked up some paint and a new book on doing vegetation for dioramas at a good price. I also particularly like the Vallejo rattle can German Yellow which goes on nicely without a primer.

The Vallejo white grey is a suggested Luftwaffe nightfighter colour according to an article in SAM.

It’s been a week where lots of stuff I ordered came in including the Me210 from Italeri as well as some paint from Ironlak.

Next up is a tool set from Displae via Ali Express for the huge sum of $62. I’ve already used the sprue cutter.

On the modelling front I now have lots of stuff that need the Vallejo rattle can including the fuel truck and Minenraumer back wheels. Additionally I need to mask up and paint the Avrocar in Tamiyas rattle can silver.

Last up is something silly.

Busy personal week so not much modelling time. I did get sone more done on the Avrocar with all the flaps back on. I’ve also polished the canopies with toothpaste and Future’d them.

The other work was on the fuel truck wheels which were sanded on the joint around the middle.

I also heard that Brengun/Hauler are releasing a 1.35 Wirzberg Reise radar which I’m looking at buying sometime. I’ve already built their lovely 1.72 version so I’m looking forward to this one. With the larger scale I am hoping to detail the actual control cabin area so that’s sent me down the rabbit hole of finding more details. And it’s a very deep hole.

The other area is I’ve bought a Me210 that will yield up a replacement canopy for the yellowed Toad resin one in the Me 265 kit. It will also yield the remote control gun pods that are also missing from the Toad kit. As the 265 was a redesign of the 210 using as many as possible of the 210 components this is a good starting point.

Not much modelling actually. Actually the only thing done was some kit fondling with the last box of kits coming out.

This is the Luft 46 resin kits one with lots from Toad Resins and the old Czechmaster.

Hopefully this lurgy will go away by next weekend.

Yep after 26 weeks of getting it done on time it all fell over. More due to just ran out of time.

Anyway more a week of stuff coming in the mail from Ali Express and BNA.

Here’s the BNA stuff – a rather large box with the 1.32 Hs 129 and some other stuff.

And the Ali Express stuff

I managed a little work on the Avrocar

And lastly I dragged out this part finished German fuel truck but more for a look, not sure whether this will get much love.

It’s been both types of PSR this week – Putty Sand Repeat and Paint Swear Repeat (Hein wheels). The wheels aren’t well defined to do painting on especially on the inner surface. A rare gaffe for Tamiya.

After last week’s accidents with the Avrocar this week has just been catching back up with some more work on the undercarriage and more PSR on the join in the middle along with  the fans.

The kit fondling has stopped for the moment.