Marks P51D eduard 1/48.

[Mark1]

A bit more done,planes had a quick coat of tamiya rattle can primer this will be followed with a black gloss using vallejo flat black and a coat of acrylic gloss varnish,i have the metal colour gloss primer but its polyurethane and not a fan after a bad experience with poly varnish!
Not really sure what kind of finish i was going for or gonna end up with so after a coat of aluminium on the flappy bits and not being that happy with it i went over with a light dusting of chrome and it looks a bit more like the polished finish ,tried some life colour polished ali and first and wasnt impressed with that either.needs a coat of metal varnish yet but the finish looks better than the photos and its my first go really with metal finish so room for improvement but reasonably happy so far.

[KarlW]

Cracking start, those profipacks from Eduard do give good "bang for your buck".

[Mark1]

Well its in colour,dont know bugger all about doing metal finish but im pretty happy the way its going so far, even if it is in the wrong colours or finish,just finished painting the darker finish on the wings,when thats dry i will paint the whole thing in vallejo metal varnish then on to painting the colourful bits.

[scottie3158]

mark, really looking good.

[Mark1]

mark, really looking good.

Thanks mate .

[yak face]

Thats looking excellent mark , great finish , cheers tony

[Mickc1440]

Definitely silver and very shiny, nice job Mark

[Jim R]

Just had a catch up Mark. I'm impressed. Beautifully painted cockpit, really brings out the details. Metallic looks good.

[Mark1]

Thanks very much chaps.

[colin m]

Nice work, looking great.

[Mark1]

Ive now finished the painting,i think!
All the blue bits are blue using mr hobby gloss, wheels and struts in mr hobby fine silver, wing tanks and canopy in vallejo metal, decals next. May have to paint the rudder thingy again,looks like its pickled a bit,mr hobby blue didnt like the vallejo flat black it went over by the looks of it,didnt let it dry long enough! The nose of the plane was blue over mr hobby flat black so should be ok.

[yak face]

Looks great mark , this is the scheme I want to do mine in when i get round to it , just looks so good with the blue . Cheers tony

[Mark1]

So most of the main decals are on, next will be to make a start on all them little service decals, and there is a few of em!

[KarlW]

After wrecking my Tamiya kit I'm looking at these offerings from Eduard, are they their usual levels of great kit.

[Mark1]

Personally i think this is a great kit,thoroughly enjoyed building it so far.