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Okay, so I think I've got all the brown masked. I'll check tomorrow before I paint. It was a bit of a challenge because I made a green set of masks and a brown set of masks. When I placed the green masks, e.g. the right wing, there were 3 masks to place where the brown mask was one large piece. When I placed the brown mask, I needed to perform some surgery to match what was actually painted brown. I should have made one large mask with all the pieces to place on the wing and then remove and then place again when I'm changing colors. Oh well, I'm sure it'll look fine when I'm done. Onward!

Good looking build! Thanks for sharing. Rod

I watched the video. Great work!

Great craftsmanship

The engine has a strange box shape between the cylinders. The Unobtainium exhaust instructions require you to remove this. I am not sure which exhaust to use at the moment but the box section doesnt seem to do anything and its not on the original engine. anyway its gone now and the resulting hole is covered with a bit of plastic card The engine has gone through white primer, white gloss, some parts titanium and some a sort of bronze gold. If this 1968 car follows the path of modern Honda Engines the bronze parts would be magnesium but i dont know going 60 years back. The original engine shows a bar across the rear which is the throttle bar which links left and right cylinders (top of pic) Also look at all that detail between the cam covers, none of which is on the model but in fairness it wouldn't be seen under the exhaust which exit out the top there as well. oddly this is missing on the kit, they give you the levers each end and the backets to hold them but they are not connected I found a bit of 1.5mm alloy tube that fits through the brackets, it has a 0.9mm bore . I cut the pins that locate in the brackets off and drilled them out and fitted some 0.9mm steel pins and a 33mm long piece of tube This looks better but i am wondering thy Tamiya didnt do this, i have looked ahead and i cant see it will foul anything later but this might come back to bite me.

I just found this and i think your aircraft paint finish is one of the best i have ever seen. What more can i say 👏

A little more progress. Painted the bottom a half black, half u.k. sky identification theme. working on the landing gear. Adding brake lines and hose clamps. Not sure what color to paint the spinner.

Looking really good Jeroen.

Gloves :)

Still making progress. Painting is complete except for exhaust stains, etc. Decals soon then I hope to get the canopy and windscreen installed (I hate vacuform canopy's 🤪!!!).

Figures look good, although two seem to be members of the Green Hand Gang 😄

Yes, it is a mask that I purchased. It's probably intended more for use on AFVs but I've seen it used like this too. I used it on the Spitfire VII build too. The Dark Earth is on. Now I need to cut the masks for over the Dark Earth to allow painting the Dark Green. I think if I try to paint the green freehand, I'll have too soft of a line between colors.

Hi all, The nose cowl required three modifications. When offered up to the joined fuselage halves, the outer edges of the nose cowl overlapped the edges of the fuselage. Therefore, those edges were sanded until they aligned to the fuselage edges. The joint seam down the centre of the nose cowl is printed as raised, when it was a shallow joint with fasteners. The vertical seam/joint running down the centre of the nose cowl was sanded away. The joint line was scribed into the cowl. The five cooling slots at the bottom, centre of the nose cowl were printed as raised ridges, not as slots. A rectangle was cut out of the nose cowl to remove the five raised cooling 'slots. A strip of masking tape was applied to the inside of the nose cowl to cover the opening. Thin strips of plastic rod were cut to length then located into the opening and held in position on the masking tape. The strips were then secured in position using thin CA adhesive. The masking tape strip was removed and the nose cowl painted, Mike

More work in some of the figures. I’ll probably never get the hang of this, but i shall soldier on :)

I gotta ask, the preshade mottling, was that done with some sort of mask? it appears like it's got a hard edge demark between the color and primer.

So far so good. Thanks!

Hi guys! I just publish my very first full build up vidoe of the 1:48 Kinetic Pucará! Cheers Fran

The underside is painted. Ready for Dark Earth tomorrow. (The cut masking is a little hard to see.

Nicely done Spitfire Dave.

That looks great there John.

Thank you!😀

Looks great from here!

Thanks Martin! I just hope I can get the canopy to fit okay!

Fantastic, you make it look easy John.