Chip's He 219 'UHU' Night Fighter***Finished***

[Zee28]

Looks great so far! What colour is the interior on one of these?

[Molly-new]

I tend to use RLM 02 or RLM 66 for the interior of Luftwaffe kits, depending on the year that the decals depict.

[Molly-new]

Having returned from a week away I seem to be getting snowed under with work and really cannot see myself finishing this. Every time I get a bit of time to do something I end up making a mess of it and it puts me back even further, this is seriously testing my patience.

[Molly-new]

Having made an extra effort to do some work on this I have managed to get the main painting done:



The mottling was not as difficult as first anticipated, I used a cotton bud dipped into thinned paint and slowly worked my way over it.

[Dirkpitt289]

Outstanding work on the paint job

[gnomemeansgnome]

Nice work so far. Got this one in the stash as well.

[JamesPerrin]

The cotton bud technique has worked a treat as looks very consistent.

[Clashcityrocker]

Great idea with the cotton buds. Painting looks very good.

Nigel

[MarkyM607]

That looks smart!, might pinch the cotton bud idea for my FW190's!...

[bluesteel]

Excellent mottle effect. I too might nick the cotton bud idea. Tried it with a stipple brush once with mixed results, your method looks a lot better.

[JohnRatzenberger]

Yes, on the cotton buds, I might look at that for fuzzy camo demarcation also - Thanks !

[shangos70]

Nice camo, didn't think of buds. I would have gone the blu tak blobs way.

[Molly-new]

Thanks for the comments guys. I found that by using a cotton bud I could vary the size of the blob by the amount of pressure I used, and by rotating it a little bit each time you can vary the shape! I have been pushing on with this in the hope of finishing by Friday night, hence the lack of updates but all is looking good. All I have left to do is give it a coat of matt varnish and then fit the landing lights, glamour pictures to follow.

[Zee28]

Cotton buds! Genius! Why didn't I think of that....

This looking very nice, please finish!

Zee

[Molly-new]

Finally finished:





This is a cracking kit but annoyingly I did not have as much time to work on it as I had hoped. Apart from the dodgy fit of the engine nacelles and the problem of it being a tail sitter it builds up quite well.

To overcome the tail sitting I will eventually build a base so that the front wheel extension can be glued into it: