BUILDING THE EDUARD A6M2 ZERO 1/48 SCALE : EPISODE.6

A6M2 ZERO EPISODE.6 Its time to get the canopy on now using good old Micro Kristal Klear, after which we will go over some fundamentals of preparing your model for airbrushing, like cleaning, how to mount your little pieces and getting the right color down over your canopy first. Special Tools: Airbrush Consumables: Micro Kristal Klear / XF-71…

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BUILDING THE EDUARD A6M2 ZERO 1/48 SCALE : EPISODE.5

A6M2 ZERO EPISODE.5 We got lots of little bits in this episode, but the main features are building the engine cowl, which has a nice template to build it with, and dipping your canopy with Gauzy agent, and all the aspects of masking the canopy as well. Special Tools: Angled Tweezers Consumables: Tamiya extra thin cement Find…

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BUILDING THE EDUARD A6M2 ZERO 1/48 SCALE : EPISODE.4

A6M2 ZERO EPISODE.4 We have some nice basics in this episode, starting with some sanding and how to check your sanding and filling is all good to go for spraying, second we look at the best way to get you going with your scribing nice and easy. Special Tools: Tamiya P-Cutter Consumables: Tamiya Masking Tape Find Products…

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BUILDING THE EDUARD A6M2 ZERO 1/48 SCALE : EPISODE.3

A6M2 ZERO EPISODE.3 We continue with finishing the photo-etch, showing you how to glue on your instrument display panel, this is followed by using micro crystal clear to make our own little glass window, with finally getting some nice foundations down in gluing our fuselage together. Special Tools: Cloths pegs Consumables: Micro crysal clear Find Products…

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BUILDING THE EDUARD A6M2 ZERO 1/48 SCALE : EPISODE.2

A6M2 ZERO EPISODE.2 In episode two we begin by spraying the cockpit all nice and basic, I then show you how to weather the cockpit in the most easy fast fun but effective way, and finally finish of with some nice and easy photo-etch. Special Tools: Number 9 blade Consumables: Tamiya XF-71, Citadel shade athonian camoshade Find…

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BUILDING THE EDUARD A6M2 ZERO 1/48 SCALE : EPISODE.1

A6M2 ZERO EPISODE.1 Here we start the new Eduard 1/48 scale Zero, which we will be doing as a basic step by step video build, but with the added twist of also making it a quick fun mojo boosting build for all you vets out there. So lets get started. Special Tools: Cutters, blade Consumables: Tamiya extra thin…

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BUILDING THE EDUARD P-51D MUSTANG 1/48 SCALE : EPISODE.3

P-51D MUSTANG EPISODE.3 In this final episode we will be doing some more advanced features, starting of with tinting our panels, this will show differences in the panels natural metal finish, this will be done using oils, and finally we will do some really up close fine post-shading. Special Tools: Airbrush, flat brush Consumables: Ammo oil brushers…

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BUILDING THE EDUARD P-51D MUSTANG 1/48 SCALE : EPISODE.2

P-51D MUSTANG EPISODE.2 In episode.2 we are going advanced with natural metal finish, we will achieve this with by focusing all on the primers and pre shading, as well as what varnish we use underneath our single main colour on top. Special Tools: Airbrush, Polishing cloth Consumables: Xtrme metal: AK481 polished aluminium Find Products In Store

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BUILDING THE EDUARD P-51D MUSTANG 1/48 SCALE : EPISODE.1

P-51D MUSTANG EPISODE.1 First episode up for Eduard’s very long range tales of Iwojima, basically a P-51D Mustang, this series will be advanced so its only 3 episodes long, but in this episode we will show you how to do wood effects and chipping effects, this will be followed by some Zenithal spraying of the…

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BUILDING THE HOBBYBOSS TBF-1C AVENGER 1/48 SCALE : EPISODE.17

TBF-1C AVENGER EPISODE.17 Here it is the final episode, but before it is finished we need to sort out then bomb bay doors with some steady cutting with a P-Cutter, we will also finish of with using easy line to represent our radio line, and give a final look and conclusion to the build. Special…

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