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What a coincidence! I just finished mine also--except I assembled it incorrectly. (can you spot the flaw?)
After shooting the entire model with gloss white "The Vixen" hand painted the Dunklegrun, Zinc Chromate Green, and Gunship gray sections.
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After comparing your photos with my build I see that you attached the trailing edge of the "wings" incorrectly. During my own build I noticed a conflict between Shrox's pictorials and text. The engine mount was shown as flush with a junction point in the trailing edge of the wings. which would require a 5/8" projection of the engine mount rather than the 1/4" projection as called for in the text. I emailed Doug for a clarification and he said to go ahead and make it 5/8" rather than 1/4", which I did. The biggest problem I had with this build was with the painting which required a ton of careful masking to accommodate the seven colors of paint. The build might have been level three but the painting was an S.O.B. ! Did you construct yours from Doug's original plan set as a "scratch build" or buy the Apogee kit?
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I bought the Apogee kit.
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Good to know about the engine mount variations - I’ll look for that when I finally get around to building mine from the plan pack. If guys are your level think it’s a bear to paint I might have to do a simplified scheme when I get that far. I am planning on replacing the NSFK decal with a West German flag though. Not trying to be PC or anything - I built more than one F104 Starfighter and F4 Phantom in West German livery and always liked the look. Yeah, I know the Iron Cross roundel isn’t right |
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I think a gray on white with black trim might give it more of a "naval look". Did the Germans have a navy other than their U-boats?
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While I've not seen the instructions that come with the kit, perhaps Apogee should include a supplement with their instructions, illustrating the correct layout of those two piece fins? (Actually, three pieces, but the angled fin at the wing tips wasn't the culprit)
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IIRC the surface combatants that weren’t the U Boats was the “High Seas Fleet”. Bismarck, Tirpitz, Graf Spee, etc.
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It was easy for ME to paint—I just asked “The Vixen” to do it for me.
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All very nice.
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Thanks, but the designer is the REAL artist.
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