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Check his channel. There is no disrespect here.

Paul, your work is top notch. I marvel at how good it all looks!!

I am late to the party since I missed this post but will answer anyway. Well, for primers I was using Alclad with microfiller, but was having issues with the primer releasing when pulling masking tape off. I now think it was my application, but alas, I started using Mr Hobby Special Finish 1500...

Oh, and I don't know if the putty is new or not. None of my dustributors carry it. It is why I had to Amazon it.

I saw it on the A4 Garage Youtube channel. He uses it a lot, and he is the best modeler I have ever seen...soooo, naturally I thought if I got some I would be magically as good as he is! The fact that I blunderingly missed the cockpit floor piece for this model shows that it did not happen darn...

Ok, FYI for anyone thinking of making this model; the kit comes with a plastic cockpit floor along with a resin floor. The instructions make no mention of this part, and honestly, it looks better than the resin part. Guess what. On the underside of the plastic part is the WHEEL WELL PART! :bash:

The surface difference was pretty big so I had to putty significantly on either side to even up the surfaces :( But, yeah, I have done the tape trick. Wish it cudda worked here!

K, so, I have coat #2 on. This putty seems to thin with lacquer thinner so I brushed it on with a #10 flat shader to smooth it and filled spots I missed the first go'round.

Brilliant!

Also, try isopropyl alc 95% to clean the dried acrylic paint. For my cleaner I use half and half airbrush cleaner and alcohol.

The main problem with thinning an acrylic with water, whether in an airbrush or on a canvas using a brush brush, is you are dilluting the linking molecules that bind the paint molecules to each other and to the surface. Also, water does not release the paint as well as a medium that contains a...

Surprisingly I did better than I hoped with the first pass. You can see the carving tools I used to whittle down most of it. Then roughed up and reshaped the surface for the next layer.

Well, I bondo'd (Tamiya polyester puttied) the crap out of it. Now to see if I can salvage it!

Thanks Paul. And, I had thought of the nosegear and fortunately there is a nice opening to add weights!

Wow.. that's...wow. 10 years in the making. It turned out magnificent!

What is the Marine motto? "Improvise, overcome, adapt"? That is what I am doing here I guess. I got the wheel bay in but the cockpit floor is too wide to let the opening close far enough so there is some work to be done to camo that edge I tried glue and clamping the daylights out of it But it...

Thanks Paul. I am performing a little plastic surgery. I am paring down the height of the bay. It should give me nearly an eighth.

Man, the fit of this thing; I have really never dealt with this. The front wheel bay is not fitting at all. The rear section has to go down 1/8" and there is just not that muck material there. I may have to take the 3D printed part off anf trim the edges so it sits inside the walls instead of on...

A little oil weathering. Once it dries a bit I will lift some off. The 3D printed part worked out great!

The cockpit has formed up well and fairly easily. The PE parts are top notch and look fantastic. I need to "glass" the bezels and weather a little now. I tried to make little switches by drilling holes with a #80 bit and using .010 wire. Once the glue cures I will try snipping them shorter.I...