International Scale Modeller

Will be my first entry ...it was hard to choose as about 90 % of my stash is from Tamiya

Those funky German designs always catch my eye. Good luck!

Nice choice mate.

Nice! I didn't know tamiya did this kit, I don't envy you the paint job though!

Saw one of these down at the LHS, will be interesting to see how it goes

I'm in on tis one

Looking forward to seeing this one!

Time to make a start on this GB , and this will be my first build , maybe the more quick one , and I still have a boat to finish in the floatty thing SiG

So , here are some photos of the kit ...the sprues in the usual Tamiya Plastic Bags ...

Hmmmm ...Cockpit masks ...I didn't remember but seems that I bought this and place on the box , I will use them as they are ok to use , right ?



Some metal part , seems Tamiya solved the weight on the nose making this as the support for the cockpit and as the weight on the plane nose ....nice !



Wheels sprues and some other stuff ...



Wings



More wings and rear wing .in this bag are the clear parts sprue , and this isn't very usual and they seem not damaged but we will see on the build



Fuselage



Instructions



Color schemes ...two here





they are similar , diferent NJG.

And a full size color scheme , and the one I will do



Decals ...



For the History and some nice details and History I advice to check this site , it is very nice also to see some other planes and a lot of info

http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft ... aft_id=489

and off we go to the build , some updates here soon

I started the build , and the first parts will be the cockpit of the plane :





And he cockpit to the fuselage halves



The pilots are not that good but decided to use them , not often we get the pilot figures and in this case I will use them



Some very nice detail of the kit , here some detial on the radio/radar panel of the navigator



Cockpit



Fuselage , and it seems a very nice way to fix the wings ...will see as this is always a headache



The ventral double cannon used on this planes ...'Schrage Musik'



New Blade for this build



And you never know ...with new lades and just in case some bandages



Some stuff ready to be painted , I will prime this , not usual to me to prime the cockpits , I only paint , this time I decided to paint as the main colour will be some Tamiya Spray TS-48 Gunship Grey



Primed with some Tamiya Spray Primer



The pice of metal to be used as the cockpit structure , also it is a weight to the nose of the plane , being a carachteristic plane , this will prevent that he will lift off the ground as the tail structure is not in the ground



For this will use some metal Primer from Tamiya , and then paint with the TS-48





Already painted and pilots painted



The fuselage halves , also will be painted in some interior



The shadow areas to be painted



Some ejection mould marks



The cockpit parts ready to assemble it





First decals in instrument panels



And voilá





Still missing the observation googles in the radio/radar instrument



The crew in their places , it is pitty that both are in the same position , Tamiya could add some different detail here , but they are ok , and I think that will be nice after all closed , in my opinion , some PE instruments will add some great detail to the build , not in this GB however





I put some Microscale Krystal Clear in their googles , it was an idea to see the end effect and if can recreate the glass



Now to add the cockpit to the fuselage , but still is drying , so tomorrow will be the next step !

Oh for gluing the plastic to the metal used some CA glue , even the plastic fitted precisely on the metal structure some glue was needed , the instructions lack this information , and that is unusual in tamiya , but seems that it also indicates that this kit has some age now !

Looking good!

Coming along nicely

New update on the Owl Build

After the cockpit ready I fixed it in the fuselage, and te fit is very nice, no issues at all , still some clamps needed to help the glue do the work



I will still make a Matt coat on the cockpit ...all very shinny to me



Wings and engines



Flaps and engines flame dumpers tubes , think I will only add them in the end and paint them apart



Two possible presentations , flaps up or down , will do it up



This plastic rods will be to fix the wings to the fuselage







and placed , again a very nice fit ! the opening in the up fuselage is to place the dorsal 20 mm double cannon , named 'Shrage Musik' it was placed pointing up , the idea was to the UhU fly until bellow the bombers , at night and for example the LAncasters do not had no turret bellow , the bombers will be hit from bellow when less expected, still som ecrews wiuld thought to have been hit by flak and not by a fighter ...this was used in some planes in WWI , also the Ju-88 C had in late war the same system , but also the Japanese used similar guns in the GEcko and the Shitei II Kai .





It is a Big Plane



Masked the canopy using Eduard MAsks not the most perfect fit , must say !



Some that instructions missed , the suport for the nose radar antennas should be painted with TS-48 8or XF-24 as it seems to me the same color ) , but the remaining panel should also be painted in my opinion





So I painted before I would place the canopy



Ventral cannon and support painted in sprue using brush ...



Canopy added , the front canopy has only side masks so and Eduard also didn0t mention that should use MAskol or some other liquidmask , but I use some of the spare masking paper to fill this in



Before masking place the Peil G6 supressed D/F aerial





And masked all parts bellow that shouldn't be primed and painted with fuselage colour , will go for the all Sky blue with the Grey violet mottling , also a scheme from the NG/J1



and today will be Primed , and will need to check some places where to place the putty , specially in the ventral fuselage , the kit is from 1997 , and some sprues and the way as the kit was linked to them reveals that , in some more recent kits you will have less to sand in where the sprues are fixing the kit ...well but we must usesome putty and sanders , if not wasn't fun

Looks great. And glad you're thinking safety first with those plasters! Wish I was that prepared last time I sliced my finger open!

Ads24 wrote:Looks great. And glad you're thinking safety first with those plasters! Wish I was that prepared last time I sliced my finger open!

Thank you Ads !
Really I was joking of course , but I also slice one or three times when I change the blades, seems inevitable, it like putting a new matt and spill tamiya glue on it

Quick update , and painting the fuselage ...

First some putty must be placed , a lot for my mistakes

so tools , MrHobby liquid putty , some lacuer thinner and off we go ...



The ventral guns



Mr Owl primed



on the dorsal on top , the way how the kit is done is almost impossible not to use putty and sanders ...and this plane has a lot of panels ...



on bottom also , again a lot of detial and panels





Tru blue , in this particular Tamiya AS-5 Spray Sky Blue



the choosen color scheme ...



And at first I thought in using this masks from Eduard ...



Tamiya advise to use Tamiya AS-4 Gray Violet (Luftwaffe) So I thought it would be easy doing the mottling with this :



Hmmm



Wrong ..this masks could be usefull , and I already tried them before in small mottling , I mean the camos with some lateral motling could be done using this carefully , not in this one , so and after two tries , I get to spray again the AS-5 on some experiment done in one of the wings ...and decided to go soing this using Tamiya XF-22 and Airbrush ...Very diluted paint nd low pressure on the compressor , and keeping cleaning the needle and ths is the final result ..I'm not convinced , but in the end will see how it goes , painting this at free hand is hard , specially on such large surface , but the final result is a beautifull camouflage !



Now to the small bits , coating , decalling and so on

rodrant wrote: Really I was joking of course , but I also slice one or three times when I change the blades, seems inevitable, it like putting a new matt and spill tamiya glue on it

Haha! As long as you don't get the extra thin on the sliced open finger! Ouch!

Looks like a fun build and very nice so far,

After the painting marathon , time to do wheels , antenas and all the little small pieces of the plane

Front Whell bay



And this is the underface after all masking gone



The engine exausts will be covered by the flame dumper tubes



Placed the dorsal gun 'Schrage Musik' double Mk 108 30 mm Kanonen , I drilled the tip ofit so it just look more real



With the cover , think I will let it open and do not glue it so we can take a look to the gun



All this will go to paint now , the engine radiator grills and covers will be painted with the AS-5 Blue from the fuselage, the propeler blades with XF-27 Black Green , strange stuff that this color wasn't in the main list of coolours that it is usual in Tamiya instructions ...



All painted and ready to go to the plane



Some X-11 and XF-16 apllied on the propelers





Flame dumper tubes added ! All Black (XF-18)



Engine Radiators



Propelers and it looks like a plane now !



Nice silhouete



Small bits to place after the decalling and weathering


Underside antenas , the Morane Antenna for FuG 16ZY and the Antenna for FuBI 2F (the one looking as a flap )



wing landing gear , almost no glue needed and one of the few Landing gears that I manage to place without any issues at all , nice the double whell



Front gear ...



Now one more 'confusing step' for painting the nose front antennas , in the paining scheme call it is mentioned to paint them X-18 Semi Gloss Black , on the other hand the instruction on the detail paintimg ( the bellow ones should be black but the under side should have white and red stripes ) calls for using XF-1 (Flat Black) , so I choose XF-1 Flatblack , even all the others (the ventral and rear ones ) have X-18 ... not the best instructions Tamiya ...not the best ...but 1997 is some years now ...



Also here are the nose antenas ready to place



Now Clear coat on the plane and will go for decalling and weathering the plane !

After a Clear Coat , time for decals ;



Strange, the kit brings the squadron Badge for NJG1 but no indication in instructions where to place it , so I went and search on my reference books ...



The decals were ok to apply , even always carefull with Tamiya decals didn't have any issue !





The swastika was placed again on the spot that some reference books indicated for this Squadron



Work to place the Radar antennas



This one of the tail is one Big favourite to get lost someday



After a matt coat , time to remove those masks , before I apllied only Panel Accent Line form Tamiya and some Weathering MAster on soot and some rust in the motor cover exausts



, but off we go to the Reveal Photos here :

http://intscalemodeller.com/viewtopic.php?f=532&t=19749

Very nice work