*I totally agree with you : "Try, and try and try again still you reach your goal(s)!", that's a nice advise for our hobby (and for real life too!). Very nice fighter! 🤩👍👏👏👏*
I can imagine how sore your hand must have been after painting that camo. My toughest camo so far was on the Ki-44. Like you I experimented a lot with thinning ratio and pressures as well as trying to simulate the spray pattern in scale. Plane turned out great, thanks for the Japanese content!
This is elite modeling at a level I can only imagine. The attention to detail is truly mind-boggling. I fully enjoy watching you build, and get a vicarious thrill. Very inspiring.
The Toryu Ki-45 when I was a kid. I never tried the Italian planes. They were the challenges. I also remember thinking about painting the beautiful hexagonal lozenge pattern on German WW1 aircraft and the the spiral on the prop of a scale Bf-109. Good luck with those hurdles.
HAHA...I do the same thing with toothpicks for landing gear when I build so I don't damage the gear! Good stuff. Hardest camo for me was the 1/48 Kinetic SU-33. Just took forever to use the blue-tak to get the soft edge, make everything else, then the next color blue-tak & mask. Then you of course get ghosting so you have to go touch it up (3-colors)....just took forever. Regarding practice, I agree 100%. To those who are new, don't buy expensive kits to practice on. Both the Tamiya 1/48 Mustang and Revell Bf-109G (the 1990's tool) are very inexpensive and build into very nice kits. Lots of old 1/72 Hasegawa are easy, quick to build kits. You don't need a $50 kit to start with, nor do you need photo etch and resin. Just build out of the box and work on the painting and finishing stages. You can put $100 of aftermarket into any kit, but if the finish looks bad, no one will notice.
The toughest and most challenging camouflage pattern I have painted goes back many years, somewhere around 2003. The old Nichimo 1/48 Ki-45 "Nick" tein engine heavy fighter. I painted mine like the box art and it took many sessions of painting to get it right. It was painted with my trusty Paasche H single action airbrush. I now have a double action airbrush however, most of my current collection was painted with the Paasche. And I must say they look very good.
I haven't airbrushed a thing yet and have a Ki 84 and Ki 100 sitting on the shelf in their boxes laughing at me. Both 1/48 and Hasegawa. So I bought a little Agptek airbrush kit and the Japanese army color set in Acrylic.I believe for the Ki 84 I'll go with the decals in the box for the 22nd Sentai and I'm guessing they were green in China then grey when they transferred to the home Islands. For the Ki100 I bought decals including Major Hinoki of the 111th Sentai at the Akeno flight school where he was an instructor after losing a leg to .50 cal. He got most of his 12 claimed kills in an Oscar with the 64th out of Indochina and Chaing Mai Thailand, some against the AVG. He claimed one probable in the Ki 100 (Our records show 1 MIA and 2 returning with severe damage that day) I'll be picking up as much as I can from your videos so thanks for posting.
Nicely done! Agree with your advice on self censuring yourself when you see a modeler you admire. Its too easy to get discouraged by it, but its a good attitude to nurture that 'everyone started somewhere...'
I love WW2 Japanese aircraft and the Ki-84 is up there.Excellent video and build.Your commentary of the subject and build as well as encouragement is great.👍
Superb Model - I had the same aircraft and used the full Eduard etch and landing flap etch , plus the VECTOR resin engine kit replacement - great result for you , however
Landing flaps as installed would defeat the purpose of Fowler flaps (widely used on Nakajima fighters) i.e. CURVE down to help increase lift. Also on the natural metal Franks the wing hinomarus would not have white outlines.
Agreed, practice, and try, try, try, then one day...it will all come together. but the main thing is...have fun doin it. Nice techniques shown in here, valuable to helping me step up my game. Thank you.
Great video, just right length, no stupid all music video here. Great narration, great build. This kit showed Tamiya they faced very serious competition from Hasegawa. My hardest camo I've done was my Otaki 1/48 KI-44 "Tojo" Fighter.
Simply excellent! Only thing I noticed is that I think this particular aircraft had the symbols of three shooting stars painted on the engine cowl on both sides. But I'm not sure I'll have to check it.
Very nice detail, that you added rivets!!! Many little helpful Tipps here and there, definitely have to watch it several times and of course to admire the Camo-Work you did. My hardest camo was perhaps a 3-tone-modern-camo on a tank :D Great work and Video!!! Thx for sharing!!!
Wow I’m learning so much from the community of models builders on this platform. Amazing work. I’m building my 2nd real attempt at model building with a tamiya 1/48 mustang no going to bad. Going to try alcad II Lacquers
Beautiful build and video. The camouflage is very well done and I know how demanding paintwork is. I use enamels for the spots over a glossy, acrylic surface. They're forgiving, a mistake can be wiped off and try again. The hardest paint work I've ever done was a tricolour SM 82, spots of brown and green over a camo yellow. Even the wellenmuster camouflage is very difficult. I never tried smoke rings but it will be my next challenge soon.
Once again .. amazing work and execution of detail. Really enjoyed the video. Thankyou for sharing your talent with us. Hope you have a great new year.
Nice job on the camo. The inconsistent color saturation looks good and natural. Im building a Kawasaki Hien (again) and working to find the right mix of thinner/pressure on my paint mule.
Nice work as usual. Just something I would like to see. It would be nice if, in the description of each video, you could list equipment used, like paints, kit, airbrush, micro drill, etc. I find it helps me look for tools I don’t have without having to rewind the video. I’ve seen other content creators list the computer equipment used, cameras, and mic as well. Keep up the great work.
Realy nice build. Nice to see someone else has the issue of paint lifting after masking. That natural metal no matter whos product it is and how much one destickies the tape or frisket it peels somewhere, leading to feathering out the problem as best you can. The process of painting the color first then the metal can be difficult too.
Your camouflage scheme reminds me of the toughest one I've ever attempted, the desert scheme used by the Italians in North Africa. It's a patchwork of rough circles, each different. I made my own masks and a year later, someone came out with decals. Nice Frank, BTW. I had this kit but sold it for some reason. Your work makes me wish I'd kept it.
I just finished all 105 smoke ring decals for the Italeri MC205. I’m glad they were included because they went on really well and look great, much better than what I could freehand
Great job! Practice does make perfect. I've been lucky 1 or 2 times but metal finishes are definately a chalange and the Japanese mottling seems to be the hardest. There are a few German Eastern front squiggly and splotch schemes that can chalange too.
Loved the build, and now really jazzed to start mine. I think my hardest scheme was a Hungarian Bf.109 - the combination of mackerel , hard and soft edges, painted insignia and tricolor fin flashes and winter whitewash meant I spent more time painting it than any project before it since. Also, an FYI, the Ki in the designation is romanized katakana キ and should be read as a word, like “key”
Can't say I've ever pushed myself to do any camo that was particularly difficult. I've always wanted to build a Dora, but I've never felt up to the task of the camouflage. Maybe now's the time to jump into the deep end and give it try!
Very nice build/paintwork👍 I made it through with a similar paintwork like yours, om a ki61 1/72 svale. Maby it became a little rough but ok, also spots in german aircrafts is a tuff one. Good to se and hear how you do it, and you do it very well👍
fantastick camo work.. my most challanging one was for ICM B-26 in 48th scale.. I wanted to match worn olive drab from the box art and do chipping effect.. it wasn't easy, but I loved the effect at the end.. I need to think about other subject, that would require similar treatment
Nice looking kit,the detailing of the cockpit is excellent for \48,mr metal colour is good for 'toothpick chipping' under acrylics too.Im building a \32 'Nick' and need some inspiration for camo scheme,cheers for vid.
The hardest camouflage for me, was paint brushing a splinter camo on a Stridsvagn 103 and the airbrushed Berlin camo one on my Chieftain Mk.10 (both 1/35).... But I will soon do a splinter camo with the airbrush on a 1/72 SAAB Viggen, so that will be a challenge xD
pretty camo work - the hardest camos for me are the italian ones (green "smoke rings" on light brown surface) and the silver/greeen combination with colorful stripes on Ki-61
Great video and nice subject. My hardest paint job was a heavy conversion of a 1932 Ford coupe into a hot rod and painting flames that had to be the same both sides of the car. Yellow with sunburst red edges and then a white trim line around each flame. Nightmare!!
Excellent job with the camouflage and totally agree with your suggestion....practice, practice, practice.....even if a mediocre modeller (like me!). Really enjoy watching and listening to your builds so will be checking out what you have next on the bench. The hardest and possibly the most frustrating camo was a tricolour on an Italian Fiat G50. It turned out ok in the end but it took many hours of painting, touching up and repainting. Does anyone have any tips for any future attempts at the same scheme??
Great work! I really like the camouflage. The hardest camouflage/paint scheme I’ve ever done is an Eduard weekend edition fw-190 I had a lot of problems with getting the paint to thinner ratio right
Freehanding for German aircraft has been my hardest so far, but my next paint job is gone be the Ki-61 and I’m really not sure how well I’m gonna do with my patience and the limits of my setup
Definitely patience and practice, that's for sure. I spent a few nights on a Tojo as a paint mule before going to the Hayate. If you put a lacquer gloss coat down and use acrylics, you have a safety net to remove the paint with water.
Great Job, I used an OLFA compass cutter and a punch set for roundels currently, no silhouette machine as yet. Hardest camo... spitfire with dark green and dark grey, black based, mottled over, thanks Doog, as that's the only camo I've painted thus far, ended up respraying it because I spilled IPA all over the wing, ooops! What do you recommend for masking alternatives, apart from Tamiya tape or low tac masking tapes? Srayed decals look quite good, its a bit more effort I agree, but its good.
I dread bare metal aircraft for the simple reason that masking on them leaves you holding your breath hoping nothing pulls up when it shouldn't, still experimenting........
Try millibutterr. Donut of Milliput and a little Isopropyl alcohol. You can modulate the thickness and fluidity and get it anuwhere you want. Really awesome.
Im building a Ki 84 Tamiya kit from the 70s fit is not great and u used a photo etch kit for the interior. Im at the painting phase now and not sure what finish I will go with. My versus build will be the Hobby Boss F8F -2 Bearcat. I think i got lucky on the decals as they are still in good shape. Superb build sir!!
