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Tamiya 1/48 Brewster B 339 Buffalo (Done)

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nerdling

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Decided to go with the old but still very nice Tamiya Buffalo kit. Won't start until I get my dog of a kit 1/72 Encore C-45 done. The pictures are old. I kept forgetting to post them. Also just came across a partial set of Eduard PE for this kit in my spares. Used the US Navy bits but it still has all the stuff for this version.

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Re: Tamiya 1/48 Brewster B 339 Buffalo

Cool, I'm going to have to build an Aussie version of this one day!
 
Re: Tamiya 1/48 Brewster B 339 Buffalo

Ah... I may buy this kit, this will be interesting! :popcorn

All the best!
Dusan.
 
Re: Tamiya 1/48 Brewster B 339 Buffalo

Dusan said:
Ah... I may buy this kit, this will be interesting! :popcorn

All the best!
Dusan.
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I highly recommend it. It has parts to build several different versions of the Buffalo. Just don't buy the Yellow wings version that kit only has stuff to do the F2A-2 version. But this one has everything you need.
 
Re: Tamiya 1/48 Brewster B 339 Buffalo

And away we go. For such an old kit this has some great detail right out of the box. I did add some Eduard stuff from a partial set I had in the spares bin.

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Nice ejector pin marks. But once this is all buttoned up you won't even see them

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I love these Eduard panels.

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This will go in the blank area on the left hand fuselage side. I built the control out of some evergreen stock. Much better looking then the flat piece Eduard gives you.

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Re: Tamiya 1/48 Brewster B 339 Buffalo

Got her all buttoned up today. The fit on this kit was wonderful. I only used filler on a few areas and those were to close up some mounting holes for parts that I wasn't using on this version.

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Re: Tamiya 1/48 Brewster B 339 Buffalo

Thanks for watching guys. So far this kit has been great as far as fit has gone. I of course lost the ventral window. Luckily I still have one of my first completed builds from years ago. So I stole the window from that one and wouldn't you know it not 10 minutes later I found the other window. So far it has been the only part that didn't fit well. Have her all primed and finished painting the bottom side. I used Vallejo Model Air black and something they claim is RLM 84. But it looks like a fairly decent match to sky to me. Brewster used their own paint anyways so the colors don't actually have to match completely.

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Re: Tamiya 1/48 Brewster B 339 Buffalo

And she is done. Painted up with Vallejo Model Air paints(flat black, RLM 84, US Dark Green, and Dark Earth. Not sure I really like the US Dark Green. It is to close to the dark earth color for my taste. But I kept reading it was a good match for RAF Dark Green. Rigged her up with EZ Line. The decals are the stock ones straight from the kit. Not sure if Tamiya went with a different printer or what but they were amazing. Comments or critiques welcome
























Tried playing around with the setting to see which of these last two look better.
 
Looks good. I see what you mean about the green. It really blends intop the brown doesnt it. Really nice job painting it. (y) (y) (y) (y) (y)
James
 
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