1/32 Zoukei-Mura Ta152H-0 White 7

[Medicman71]

That looks great!

[jkim]

Thanks Mike!

I can't help putting the HD prop on from time to time! Luckily, the cannon barrel keeps the spinner on relatively securely so I won't have to glue it on. It'll be a nice touch being able to see the detailed hub on demand.


Camo painting is not done but I thought I'd do the wing crosses at this time. Custom masks cut by the Silhouette Portrait.





The port wing cross came out kinda funky. Sometimes you'll get weird results if the mask stretches but it wasn't stretched on the relatively flat wing. I fished the mask out of the trash and confirmed it was an errant cut by the Portrait. Strange!


Compared to the starboard cross.

[Stuart]

That looks awesome John

Sorry to hear of your issue with the mask, I hope it doesn't hold you back too much!

[Floki]

Sorry to hear about the mask problem. On the plus side the saw tooth wing pattern came out great. Did you also use a custom mask for it?

[jkim]

Thanks guys! The cross fix is not a big issue but it's interesting that the Portrait mis-cut one of the crosses. I'll have to pay more attention to that in the future. The wave pattern was a custom mask. I'm actually redoing the sawtooth to make the triangles smaller and stick out a little less. Based on my reference photos, I may have made them too large.

[jkim]

Just to show that the Silhouette Portrait is not infallible...


The upper wing cross was a simple fix...


The sawtooth correction was a little more involved. First, I had to re-establish the RLM 76 base. In order to equalize the new RLM 76 with the old, I put down a base of neutral grey underneath. After the RLM 76 was applied over the neutral grey, the new masks with a smaller and tighter pattern of triangles was used.


The result is a little less dramatic than the first attempt, which was the goal here.


In preparation of the re-painting, I brilliantly thought to use the mask leftovers to protect the crosses. So that saved me a step or two!



The sawtooth redux is complete. As you can see, I've lowered the camo demarcation on the front end but have not started on the mottling yet.

[Stuart]

Great fix John - that looks awesome

[jkim]

Thanks but that port cross is still a bit wonky. I may replace with a slightly smaller cross.


I wasn't quite happy with the upper fuselage camo pattern. I had a difficult time correlating what I was seeing in photos of White 7 to known color profiles and schematics. I was using a drawing in Hitchcock's Ta152H book as a basic painting guide. It is representative of the Ta152H-0 and seemed to be based on the photos of 150003.


However, it did not seem to correspond to this recent photo of 150007...


My initial painting efforts were an attempt to marry the two images and resulted in some awkward transitions. As I looked closer, I realized that the fuselage pattern could be an inverse of the Hitchcock drawing. This made some sort of sense to me and so I went with that idea.

[LyleW]

Very lovely work. Your paint is awesome.

[Stikpusher]

Very lovely work. Your paint is awesome.