Fat Lady Warming Up.. mmD's Penultimate Blitz... Done.. just

[ShaunW]

This is going to be tight Mike. It is slightly bonkers or brave, depending on one's point of view, doing a blitz on a workday I hope you can do it!

[mightymikeD]

Tick tock tick tock

First camo colour on.. now for the second



Silent prayer sent in thanks for the quality of Revell decals



Tum te tum te tum...

[mightymikeD]

Masking came off the windows and canopy just fine.. which is a blessing.. the tail is causing me some issues..

Avanti!

[Sissel]

I recognise this scheme, it's very attractive. Great work so far Mike.
You always seem to keep us on the edge but you do finish in time!
And I bet ya you will this time as well.

[mightymikeD]

Final hour.. things could go either way.... thanks Sissel!

[mightymikeD]

Calling it a 19.48.

Ciggy first, pics next...

[Ian]

Wow. From where you were to getting finished in three hours? Rapido!

[mightymikeD]

Ugly pic just to show that it's a plane.. I'll do some proper ones in a bit.



Cuppa needed.

[Sissel]

That looks great from here. Told ya you would finish in time!
Well done on another build. Waiting for the glamour pics...

[ShaunW]

Down to the wire on that one Mike but very well done, a great finish!

[mightymikeD]

Thanks folks.. "Glamour" photos..



Cruel Macro...












As I mentioned, I lost too much time on this (a late scheduled conference call delayed me two hours at work today) which led to the paint job not being as good as I'd have liked.. also didn't use half the stencils (that said there are 68 of them and some of them are no more than pinpricks). A couple of rrrrgggghh moments due to rushing: broke the white decal on the rudder so had to use a trusty paint pen to touch it up, had a wing break off on me and a bit of a canopy fit issue.

There's also meant to be anthracite in the camo scheme but when I reached for my pot of paint this evening I discovered that it has dried to a substance like, well, anthracite.

Two things saved me: Matchbox fit quality and Revell decals, as there were some tricky bits there.

Lovely kit and I wish I could get more at that price!

Thanks for watching!

[ShaunW]

That has turned out very well especially considering the near disasters and almighty rush to get it finished. Stencils can always largely be ignored for a blitz. In fact I often largely ignore most of them for a non-blitz build. IMHO too many stencils can make a model look cluttered. Great work Mike.

[flakmonkey]

Always a nice one to see built. Very cool Mike and a good job.

[Ian]

You did a great job with the time you had, Mike. Well done.

So what's that now? 14 down and 1 to go?

[mightymikeD]

You did a great job with the time you had, Mike. Well done.

So what's that now? 14 down and 1 to go?

Thanks, Ian..

That's it.. 1 to go...

Just have to pick a suitable time for it...