Edbert
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It has been a while since I started a new thread. Many of you know I tend to have way more kits in-progress than I can possibly address in a reasonable fashion, I blame that. There are some kits nearing completion that I have not even created a thread for, like my 1/32 Yak-3. or the 1/48 EA-18G (okay since it is a GB), and there are others. But I am a huge fan of ZM, and I got this kit for free at my local IPMS club's monthly meeting. I was gonna put it away to start later, but upon inspection saw it was not only open, but started. So it is not on me to break-bags right?
Don't care what you say, that is my story and I'm sticking with it! (that should be a song)
Anyway...this is what was in the box...
I thought it interesting that there were three different colored plastic in the sprues, not counting clear. A grey (most) and a black or very dark grey, and a dark low-luster silverish color.
Some parts were exquisitely molded, and others like these rudder panels were not.
Despite the colors provided paint was of course needed. A dark grey RLM color, a "black" and a bright silver. I split the bits and got them painted.
Then started on the sub-assemblies...
(you can see there I drilled out those terrible rudder pedals)
Don't care what you say, that is my story and I'm sticking with it! (that should be a song)
Anyway...this is what was in the box...
I thought it interesting that there were three different colored plastic in the sprues, not counting clear. A grey (most) and a black or very dark grey, and a dark low-luster silverish color.
Some parts were exquisitely molded, and others like these rudder panels were not.
Despite the colors provided paint was of course needed. A dark grey RLM color, a "black" and a bright silver. I split the bits and got them painted.
Then started on the sub-assemblies...
(you can see there I drilled out those terrible rudder pedals)
AK Real Colors are lacquer-based acrylics while AK 3Gen are water-based acrylics.
