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This is my 1/48 Hobbycraft Avia 199 in Israeli
markings that I just finished.
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I
decided to use the Aires resin cockpit because the Hobbycraft interior is
very, very poor. The Aires cockpit set is very beautiful and
interesting, with a low price for the quality, but it is hard
to set the resin bay it in the aircraft.
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The Hobbycraft kit is very
basic and not really good fitting and I didn't like it a lot. I
had much to fill with putty, a lot to sand, and many times I had to rescribe the
panel lines! Probably the really attractive appeal of these kits is
the good price with a reasonable quality!
The decals from the kit, are sticky and hard
to conform to the model. The striped decal on the tail drove me crazy! I
minimized the problems with a little touch of Tamiya acrylic white and red,
but perhaps it'd be better to spray the stripes directly on the model.
I gave to the model a coat with an old Humbrol
enamel HU1 (this is an old classification) that seems to be the best match
with my references. Then I hilighted every detail with Tamiya smoke heavily
thinned and, after this, I give a light coat of Humbrol HU1 very, very
thinned. This is the first time I used Tamiya smoke and its not bad at all!
After a coat of Tamiya acrylic gloss clear, is was time for decals and
after this, for weathering, with raw humber oil color diluted with mineral
spirits.
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I added some minor details with stretched sprue
and plastic rod (the barrels of the wing guns is two pieces of plastic
rod with a little hole in each muzzle, the pitot tube are two rods fit
one in the other, the safe cable of canopy is stretched sprue, etc) and
then I gave a final coat of Humbrol satin varnish and some little touch with a
chrome (silver) pencil.
Massimo
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