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Captured: 03/02/2017 11:22:04
Camera: NIKON D750 (NIKON CORPORATION)
Lens: 150.0-600.0 mm f/5.0-6.3
Focal Length: 350 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Aperture: f/8
Shutter Speed: 1/800 sec
Item # 91489
Exotic Interlude
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I was looking through my travel shots and thought this one was an interesting shot of a market place food stall in Vietnam.
Painting and markings:
As this was to be a very late WWII aircraft, NMF was certain, and I wanted to place the service P-47H into the European conflict theatre, where its speed would IMHO be best used against German jet threats.
I wanted a colorful aircraft, though, and settled for a machine of the 358th FG. This group actually flew Thunderbolts in the 365-367th Sqaudrons, and I found several profiles of these gaudy things.
Common was an orange tail and a dark blue back, while the engine cowling would be decorated with a red front and the air outlets would carry bands in red, white and blue, with lots of tiny stars sprinkled upon. Furthermore, I found specimen with white cowlings behind the red front end, or even yellow cowlings. Pretty cool.
I tried to mimic this look. The model was basically painted with Aluminum Metallizer (Humbrol 27002) overall. The effect is really good, even without rubbing treatment. Some panels were contrasted with Aluminium Plate and Polished Steel Metallizer (Modelmaster), as well as with Aluminum (Humbrol 56, which is rather a metallic grey). The latter was also used on the landing gear. The anti-glare panel in front of the cockpit was painted in Olive Drab (ANA 613 from Modelmaster).
Since there is no air intake opening on the inline engine I decided to paint the spinner in bright red (Humbrol 19), and tried to incorporate the white and blue theme with stars decoration to the rest of the nose. As a convenient coincidence I found decals from an Italeri B-66 in the stash: it features a version with dark blue jet air intake decorations in the right size, colors and style for what I had been looking for. So, instead of painting everything by hand I decided to incorporate this decal option.
The area behind the spinner was painted white and then the B-66 decals applied to the front flanks. The radiator air intake scoop had to be cut out, but the overall size and shape were a very good match. Even the transition into the blue spine and cockpit area worked well!
The tail was painted with Humbrol 18, later some shading with Humbrol 82 was added. The blue spine was done with a mix of Humbrol 104 and 15 (Oxford Blue and Midnight Blue) - not a perfect match for the B-66 decal colors, but after some dirt and weathering these differences would blur.
Cockpit interior was painted in Humbrol 159 (Khaki Drab) and Zinc Chromate Green from Model Master. The landing gear wells received a chrome yellow primer (Humbrol 225 - actually RAF Mid Stone but a perfect match for the task) finish.
For weathering the kit received a rubbing treatment with grinded graphite, which adds a dark, metallic shine and emphasizes the kit’s raised panel lines. Some dry painting with Aluminum was added, too, simulating chipped paint on the leading edges. I also added some oil stains around the engine, and serious soot stains at the exhaust.
Decals were, beyond the B-66 decoration, puzzled together. The aircraft' code 'CH-F[bar]' is another exotic twist, in wto ways. The bar under the letter marks a second use of that code within the squadron, and as a difference from normal code placement (normally exclusively on the fuselage) I put the aircraft's individual code letter on the fin, a practice which had been used on P-51s and a consequence of the relatively large letter decals.
The nose art is again a fictional puzzle, consisting of a(nother) Czech MiG-21 pin-up from the Pardibice '89 meeting, and the "Ohio Express" tag comes from a Tamiya 1:100 F-105 Thunderchief. A neat combination that even matches the overall colors well!
As a final step, a coat of semi matt acrylic varnish was applied, with the exception of the ant glare panel, which became purely matt.
I can't help, but the finished article looks like an Evel Knievel stunt vehicle? The red spinner looks a bit odd, but I'll leave it this way. ;)
Lamborghini Murcielago.
Disfruta de esta y de otras imágenes del Rally en Grupo Exotic Car Club (Granada - Marbella '08)
IMO a great looking saloon. And "Quattroporte" sounds more exotic than "Four Door" :-)
Spotted out and about.
Sei que todos já viram isso mas não poderia deixar de fotografar...petiscos chineses! eu que sou um, mas não tive nem coragem de provar um simples espeto de estrela do mar imagina desses insetos...Beijing é uma cidade simpatica, mesmo com costume chines que chega a ser engraçado de tão conturbado que é...
ah! um grupo de canadenses experimentou, perguntei pra um deles se estava bom e ele: SIM! nhaca..
ah 2 ! um casal de japoneses tb ao lado me perguntou alguma coisa mas nĂŁo entendi e eles foram embora...Gomen na sai! acho que eles queriam que EU comprasse...