Hi Mate From Aussie Scale Modeller, Just Jumped from Nigel's modelling bench to your channel as spoke to him and well he recommends your channel and mine so mate glad to subscribe and mate your work is of the charts brilliant and great content, Cheers Jason
Your eyesight must be amazing to see such detail on a ridiculously small plane. This is a very good and entertaining build. I love the variety you give us with your choice of models. Keep up the great work James and stay safe mate!
This was absolutely superb. I'm quite awed at your skills. And I'm also a Yank that likes seeing British roundels on American aircraft. I'm thinking of doing a P51 B this way.
Such splendid work, James in such a small scale. I admire your work on the cockpit Maybe someone could produce a complete cockpit in 3D resin as an upgrade for 1/144 scale kits. Happy modelling.
I love Sweet kits. They're so nice to work on an the fit is incredible. But your build is truly fantastic. I will have to practice some of those techniques on my next build.
What a lovely kit - and what a fantastic job. I must look up Sweet Model - I'm getting into 1/144 having just finished a Pitt Road Eurofighter Typhoon.
I don't comment every time, but I watch every one of your vids. This time it was more than just a challenge. To build a tiny model Like this with such an attention to detail.... I'm impressed. This is not a model, it's scaled down reality. I can only honestly say, good onya mate 👍🏼 The cockpit interior and the entire finish is brilliant. Thanks a lot for sharing. Stay safe and sound and keep up the good work mate. Greetings from Cuxhaven on Germany's North Sea shore. 😎👍🏼🇬🇧✌🏼🇩🇪👍🏼🤠
You are an absolute master and such an inspiration! I'm returning to the hobby after 30 years of raising a family- haven't built a model since my mid 20s (and then not very successfully). I've watched all your videos, and if My models can turn out 1/10th as good as yours I'll be thrilled! Thanks for sharing and inspiring with your incredible skill and talent.
That's absolutely bloody amazing 👏 😍 🙌 The one thing I admire about you James is your passion for the Hobby! You continue to do amazing work, and I've become a big fan! I build myself and I've learned a few tips and tricks from you! I hope you continue to keep us amazed!
Thanks Corey that's really kind, I dont like to pigeonhole myself into one style or subject too much, I get bored easily so variation works really well for me. And I'm glad to have lots of support from my model freinds !
@@lpjmodels that's what I like about your channel. You do all kinds of different subjects and that is awesome! The Wingnut Wings builds were out of this world amazing. Keep the fantastic builds coming 🙂🙂🙂
Absolutely stunning. What a fantastic job, especially on the cockpit. What's hilarious to me is this comes with more detail than 1/72nd Wildcats I built in the 70's as a kid. The Wildcat is my favorite aircraft (I know, I'm strange) since I built the old Revell 1/32 F4F-4 around 1976 (when movie Midway was released). Funny tidbit, the Wildcat cockpit doesn't have a floor per se, but two wide rails or channels connecting fore and aft cockpit bulkheads. This was to allow the pilot to look down through two windows on the underside of the fuselage. I don't know how useful they were in practice, but as a mid-wing design, they had poorer downward visibility without the belly windows. Maybe next tackle the Trumpeter 1/350 Wildcat. White Ensign Models makes a photoetch cockpit for the F4F, SBD, and TBD in 1/350th! Thanks for video. Very inspiring.
Thanks TXG ! I noticed the floating cockpit when looking for references, but at this scale a hard floor and seat were enough :p. Pe cockpit in 350th. There can't be much to it, madness !
I think - that's a brilliant little model, tremendous build! Great video too! I also think I'm going to go and dig out my half built Sweet Sea King and get it finished! 😀
Amazing work on such a tiny canvas James! I noticed that you didn’t do any chipping down to bare metal on the wings roots or around the cockpit (which is fine… not every warplane had pronounced chipping). A couple of questions about chipping at that scale if someone wanted to try it: 1. The metallic flakes in many metallic model paints might be too large for 1/144 scale. Is there a brand you recommend with scale-appropriate flakes? 2. I can’t imagine there are sponges small enough to create believable 1/144 chips… are you pretty much doomed to trying to brush-paint them?
I found that washes would often leave imprecise areas and edges and also dull the general colour of panels etc. Rather than using washes to pick out lines and details, try using Isographic technical drawing pens, such as those made by Rotring. you can fill them with the same colour mix you already use for panel line washes and they come in nib sizes as small as 1/10 of a mm. I first used them to draw tattoos, clothes patterns and faces on Citadel miniatures.
Thanks TheFissionchips !. Thanks for the tips , I dont know if I'll go down the iso route, when we were selling them before the shop closed they were about 30 quid a pop 😆
Hi Martin, I dont know if dark tone is something I'd use, I googled it and I'll stick to oils. Tiny tanks could be fun. I did a fair few in the before yt times
How do you spray so little/thin coats? I'm relatively new to airbrushes and see a lot of advanced builds doing it, but can never wrap my head around it. Is it just super thin paint? And what PSI is it being sprayed at?
Thin paint yeah, ignore then skimmed milk thing and thin it 60% thinner as a starting point. More if needed. Pressure varies from 10-20 depending on what I'm doing, and the big key is getting in close, and only opening the trigger a tiny amount !
