ICM B-26K Counter Invader "Special Kay" 1/48 Scale Full Build Video 

I massively respect your level of model making! And also your research done into this aircraft shouldn't go unappreciated either! Bravo, absolute Mastery!

Your skill level is better than you think

Love the details of the cockpit

I've watched all 1:14:16 without skipping. This is epic, well done !

I actually volunteered at the Vintage Flying Museum working on the real Special Kay. It was an awesome experience!

I very much appreciate that you talk and explain what you're doing and why!So many model building videos are either speed build or are closed captions.I don't waste my time with them.Thank you!!!P.S. A very gorgeous build with lots of fantastic details to feast the eyes with!

ICM i think are a slept on company. I've built a couple of ICM kits. They've always been a dream to build, the decals are just okay, but the quality of the kits themselves are pretty solid, at a reasonable price

Your attention to detail is unmatched. Bravo sir!👏👏👏👏👏

Excellent work!

Beautiful job!

Great work, thanks for sharing.

Great work!! 👏👏👏👏👏

Wow. Great work. Thx!

Great job!

Amazing work 🔥🔥🔥

Another cracking build and lots of inspiration 👏

beautiful work and great details.

Hey Brett, Can't think of many better ways to kill an hour or so than watching a Hammerhead modelling video. Your take on this kit is phenomenal, 👍👍👍 I have to agree the SEA camo scheme is pretty awesome.Well done mate.

What an amazing build!! 🎉

Amazing work

Hammer it's Absolutely Stunning. Your attention to detail and scratch built interior is 2nd to none mate. Superb job!

Awesome build!

Beautiful job, well done to you, sir.

Stunning model and excellent build

awesome build and paint ! thanks for your video

Very skilled work , amazing .

Fantastic work and attention to authentic details ✅✅✅

Super job! Those ICM kits are really nice kits to build.... I love their figures, too, always nicely detailed. Liked and subscribed! Cheers 👍🙂🥃🥃

Fantastic Video, Thank You :D, loved it!

Beautiful, I'm almost speechless, thank you.

I have always loved this plane. Very cool. It turned out great.

fantastic build and the painting/weathering is superb.

That's awesome man, looks really great.

Spectacular work! Truly inspiring!

...beautiful!

Thank you for this, loving it :)

Very nice finish - I really enjoyed following along.

Wow that was well worth the hour spent watching this build really looking forward to your next.

What an incredible video! So much attention to detail. Excellent descriptions of what you were doing as well.

You did an incredible job with all the scratch building, painting, and weathering!

Wonderful job, Wonderful ❤

Great work the detail is amazing

Fantastic build! I love scratch building and u did a great job on it. Thanks for sharing

Great work! Really like the scratch building additions like that fuel bladder in the bomb bay. I’ve got this in my stash and will hopefully get to it next year (2024). Some good ideas for me here 😊

Awesome 👍

Great job, this is an absolute masterpiece

Great looking build. Thanks for sharing your hard work

Really good l looking forward for more of your work keep it coming thank you Chris MC.

and once again an absolutley stunning build !!!!!! WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very very great build buddy going to catch up On your videos well done lovely kit.

Lots of Oooohs and Aaaahs. Very nice indeed. Thanks for sharing this with us.

Excellent build nigel❤👍

Very nice work, very nice video and commentary.

Keep on churning out these magnificent beauties!

Very beautiful absolutely love how awesome your a-26 looks amazing

nice one

Your finish really inspired me to do some of your recommendations in my future builds. Was an absolute pleasure to watch you build such a beautiful model.

Great looking bird! Nice detailing!

Fantastic work and an awesome model. I appreciate your selection of subjects to model. And of course the extra added details... You set a high bar. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Among the many that I watched, this is the most creative and well narrated of them all. Congratulations for this amazing work of art and thanks for sharing.

Great job! It turned out great 👍🏻

Nice series of models.

Stunning build.My favourite part, is watching you augment the interior with scratch built items, inspiring. 👍

Very nicely done!👍🏆

Excellent job. You do a great job of explaining what you are doing and how you go a bout getting the desired effect. Thanks for sharing your excellent A-26.

Your scratch buildup is really good. Amazing job. I like how modest you are.

Really cool 👍

Great build my friend! Love the super detailing with scratch, the paintjob and weathering and also the base is super! Congrats man!

Fantastic presentation. Really enjoyed the commentary -- that made it extremely useful. Congratulations on a beautiful model. I have one on my shelf. It will have to wait there until my skill levels improve. Thanks for your efforts.

Great looking build. The whole diorama works very well together overall. I always liked the SEA camo scheme myself. Looks great on the F-4 Phantom loaded out !

very nice, i love the diorama

Great build, especiaily interior. I find it very inspirational in my rescent builds of some aircrafts.

Great build and a brilliant video. Well described and easy to take tips from. So many just play music or nothing at all(they are still good) and it's so refreshing to hear the modeller and the thoughts you had when doing it. Keep up the brilliant wok.

I SAY EXCELSIOR GOOD SIR. Awesome building skills on display. Learning Tons due to both the techniques and image quality being excellent!! Thanks for sharing. Cheers!

Stunning build my friend! Cheers from Argentina...

Impressive, i'm speechless. 😲

Very nice paint job. Groundwork and aircraft spot on well done . Steve U.K.

Perfect!

Very nice! You put why more work into that kit then I ever would or could. I have the Revell/Pro Modeller kit of the A-26B sitting in my small stash waiting to be started. It's one of my favorite airplanes. Cheers!

wow....just wow!!!

Good thing you mentioned the wings and the upgrades. I saw a documentary on the A26, and some of them were used so much, the wings were coming off! Attention to details like that make things more interesting.

Love this! If you do end up doing a battleship some time, I’d like to see a Nelson Class. I feel they’re rather underrated and overheated as battleships, so I haven’t seen a good model video of one. I’d love to see one from you! My personal suggestion would be the Rodney in 1941 as she hunted down the Bismarck, since she still had her torpedo tubes in as well.

NIce build!!

awesome

Might not need to do all the extra work, but it looks so good that, yeah, you kinda do need to do all the extra work! Fantastic build! Especially your scratchbuilt details! Peace and love.

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I enjoyed your video so I subscribed

nice 👍🏿👍👍🏽👍🏻👍🏼👍🏾

Just watched this build and got to say Wow !! Hopefully my builds can get this good and my channel this good also.

Great video, loved the safety tip about the resin dust, good health is a treasure beyond price. 1:04:04 A cordless hand trim router or even a Dremel router with a guide bushing would have made very short work of that overhang, and made for a very neat edge. Keep up the fine work. ;)

Thanks for the video of the excellent build of your B-26K! Your commitment to research & detail really shows! Zinc chromate is a specialized primer paint that is designed to "bite" into the underlying aluminum, and thus not just adhere, but strongly bond. Thus, zinc chromated aluminum will almost never "chip". That's why you will see, on the contemporary photos of Navy planes having much wear of the surface paint, the underlying zinc chromated primer still showing, instead of also being "flaked" off. This is NOT to say the zinc chromate finish cannot be eroded, as from heavy footwear or sand/coral dust, but that represents a pressure/contact erosion, rather than flaking/chipping from repeated temperature flex/stress cycles. You won't see zinc chromated interiors, even when fuel or oil stained, that are chipped or flaked. IF the finish has been worn to bare metal, it is from heavy & repeated contact erosion. This chemical bonding with the aluminum surface distinguishes zinc chromate from the vast majority of paints.

thx alot for the super inteesting build :-) i just startet the same kit but my is gonna be the RB-26K , they made 10 of them ,im gonna do the one in SEA camo , i love that glass nose , greetings from Denmark

when I opened the canopy on mine, I saved the frame and glued on some clear from a common blister pack. The plastic was thin enough to conform to the frame... actually worked out better than what I hoped for. Dane

Superb work. I'm currently building the glass nose B-26C and want to do something similar with the Marston matting.

I just tried Vallejo gloss black primer. 24 hours drying and yep, one spot peeled on my spitfire 1/72 when I peeled masks off. Following to see what primer you find. I also noticed M.R.S. Hobbies on your scratch build supplies. That is my hobby shop too. Good to see another modeler in Utah. Excellent work on your builds.

Youtpr youtube title is wrong, it should read “Hammerhead Model Masterclass”. Your workmanship is inspiring.👍👍👍

Looks amazing. Impressed

Si lo fue un largo video pero disfruté cada minuto viendo su gran habilidad y su minuciosidad en los pequeños detalles, y el resultado final fue ¡¡Increíble!!, Gracias

EXCRUCIATINGLY AWESOME YO! KUDOS ON THE BUILD.

Nice that you did not go crazy on chipping and weathering. Gives historical believably to the scene.