1/48 La-5F build (Zvezda kitbash from La-5 and La-5FN)

[4bogreen]

Great job on the interior! Opening the rear fuselage door is a good idea.

Hi Otto 

Thanks! It was easy to rebuild the door. I think i did it in one hour. The following you have to add;
- The interior longerons and an oval section
- Battery 12A-5 Type in a wooden container (the black box) on a plate between the oval sections 9 and 10
- The filter/cooler for the fuel tank (protecting inert gases). There were 2 of these (the silver cones on the black wire).
These were a challenge to build. especially the wire around the cone.
- the elevator control rod. The rod in the kit stops suddenly. You have to length it further to the rear.

Regards,

Remco

[4bogreen]

Hey guys 

I joint the fuselage and the wing section. Also i finished the landinggear. I used a steel rod instead of painting the shocks chrome. Lazy builder i know...





Feel free to comment!

Regards,

Remco

[Massimo Tessitori]

Hi Remco,
looks excellent. I see that you have utilized photoetched doors, and made buges on them. Was this difficult?
Regards
Massimo

[4bogreen]

Hi Massimo,

Actually is was easy. There are special places to push down with a ballpen. I made them in (both) in 15 minutes. Building is easy for me, painting costs time...and i have few time to paint...busy at home 
The "delay" was the alignment of the fuselage to the wings. I cut the access sheet to the weapons bay, and had difficulty gluing them in to place. I have a big seam by the access sheet and the wingroot. I want to fill it up with Mr. Surfacer 500 and place some tape to protect the detail.

Regards,

Remco

[B_Realistic]

This is very good.
I'm curious about the painting of the camo.

[4bogreen]

Hi Michel 

I am curious to  . I painted some Mr. Surfacer 1000 on the filled parts. Then i want to sand it smooth. The Mr. Surfacer sprayprimer is next (to fill other small holes) . I want to have a difference in the basecolor, so i am going to spray the wooden parts black, the aluminium parts white, fabric parts grey and the metal sheet in black. This because i want to spray the metal sheet in Alclad pale burnt metal. This color comes close (i think)

Regards,

Remco

[4bogreen]

Hi! i am back! 

Beeing quite busy on some armor, i have found my La-5 again! After filling some seams and holes, the La-5 is ready to recive some paint. Although i have few time at home to airbrush, i managed to do some pre shading of the hull (then i noticed that i have some more parts to spay black than just the hull  )





The next step is to paint with Akan paint (yes, we have a first timer here!).

Regards,

Remco

[learstang]

Nice to see you back on your Lavochkin, Remco!  It will be interesting to see how your AKAN painting turns out.

Regards,

Jason

[Massimo Tessitori]

Hi Remco,
nice to see your model continued.
Have you published photos of your armour models anywhere?
Regards
Massimo

[4bogreen]

@ Jason, I hope it's a very nice experience with Akan. I don't have their dedicated airbrushthinner (something to order with my next shipment), so i have read some good results with Tamiya X20-A thinner. So i wil make a testpiece today to see how it holds up. If it turns out good, i wil use Akan also for my (Russian)armor projects i am currently busy with...

@ Massimo, here are the links for my armor builds (i hope they work, i am not a pro with computers...)

http://modelerssocialclub.proboards.com/thread/7209/34-umtz-wreck-smert-dead

http://modelerssocialclub.proboards.com/thread/7234/ba-64b-build

Hope you like it!

Regards, Remco

[Massimo Tessitori]

Hi Remco,
I see you are working on a T-34 with inside details. Nice work. Eventually, you can show it in the 'general' section.
Regards
Massimo

[66misos]

Hi Remco,
your tank is very detailed and nice build. Photo looks like from Prokhorovka.
If you have several tanks and would like to build diorama from Prokhorovka battle, here is something for inspiration - screenshots from movie found on Youtube.


Regards,
   66misos

[4bogreen]

@ Massimo, I will post some photos in the general section, no problem.

@ 66misos, well, the text under the photo says that it was taken in the summer of 1944, in the Ukraine (operation Bagration?). I have the two Jean Restayn books named " operation citadel" and they are are a real insperation source for modeling. I am currently making a beutepanzer T-34. I just don't have a nice pattern of camouflage to go with it... Just found something, but still under development.

Thanks for the nice comments guys!

[B_Realistic]

@Remco
I will be good to see this one finished

[4bogreen]

@ Michel, I hope everything goes alright, then i have my first plane in my displaycase 

I have thought out the following for airbrushing; first layer is AMT-11 (topside grey), second is AMT-7 (undersurface blue), Tamiya clear coat for protecting the basecolor, AMT-12 (dark grey camouflage pattern), scraching of chipping the AMT-12 color with a needle or a thoothpic, Tamiya clear coat again to protecting the AMT-12 color from further weathering...

Any suggestion and comment is highly appreciated!

Regards,

Remco