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The He 219 has long been one of my favorite planes. I was overjoyed to see the He 219 at the Udvar-Hazy Center and look forward to the day it's finished. And Volks has long been one of my favorite manufacturers-- I've been buying their resin FSS mecha kits and been a fan of their Super Dollfies long before Volks' owner, Mr. Shigeta, started producing aircraft kits under the Zoukei-Mura brand name. Buying every Zoukei-Mura to date, the He 219 was a must-buy.
After getting the kit and the rash of newly released printed material on the subject from Kagero, Valiant, and Zoukei-Mura itself, I got to work. The build is augmented with color PE in the cockpit , brass gun barrels, Eduard fabric seat belts, and brass landing gear dampers. I also got the bright (read: stupidly ambitious) idea to build the kit as a cutaway to show off all the cool internal details. So, a lot of cutting through the fuselage and one of the nacelles was needed. Not content to stop there, I also decided to do a "cutaway within a cutaway" and make one of the engines' internal mechanisms (pistons, etc.) visible. I wanted to present the build as an "industrial illustration" so I kept weathering to a minimum so as not to distract from the internal details.
The cutaway aspect added a whole new dimension of "fun" to masking for the painting process. Paint is Gunze Mr. Color and Vallejo, with weathering done using AK Interactive products. I wanted to show the build to Mr. Shigeta at the 2014 IPMS USA Nationals and spent three evenings putting on the finishing touches in my hotel room. Luckily, I got it done just in time to take it to the Zoukei-Mura booth and present my work to him. I was overjoyed to see the moment commemorated in one of the photos he posted on his Blog afterward.
I've also always loved the Ho 229 and was happy to pick up a copy of Zoukei-Mura's new kit at the Nationals. Happily, the skin in that kit is molded in clear plastic, so when I inevitably decide to build it as a cutaway, it should (hopefully) be a little less stressful!
After getting the kit and the rash of newly released printed material on the subject from Kagero, Valiant, and Zoukei-Mura itself, I got to work. The build is augmented with color PE in the cockpit , brass gun barrels, Eduard fabric seat belts, and brass landing gear dampers. I also got the bright (read: stupidly ambitious) idea to build the kit as a cutaway to show off all the cool internal details. So, a lot of cutting through the fuselage and one of the nacelles was needed. Not content to stop there, I also decided to do a "cutaway within a cutaway" and make one of the engines' internal mechanisms (pistons, etc.) visible. I wanted to present the build as an "industrial illustration" so I kept weathering to a minimum so as not to distract from the internal details.
The cutaway aspect added a whole new dimension of "fun" to masking for the painting process. Paint is Gunze Mr. Color and Vallejo, with weathering done using AK Interactive products. I wanted to show the build to Mr. Shigeta at the 2014 IPMS USA Nationals and spent three evenings putting on the finishing touches in my hotel room. Luckily, I got it done just in time to take it to the Zoukei-Mura booth and present my work to him. I was overjoyed to see the moment commemorated in one of the photos he posted on his Blog afterward.
I've also always loved the Ho 229 and was happy to pick up a copy of Zoukei-Mura's new kit at the Nationals. Happily, the skin in that kit is molded in clear plastic, so when I inevitably decide to build it as a cutaway, it should (hopefully) be a little less stressful!
Image size
1166x936px 793.81 KB
Make
NIKON
Model
COOLPIX P5000
Shutter Speed
10/607 second
Aperture
F/2.7
Focal Length
8 mm
ISO Speed
112
Date Taken
Sep 1, 2014, 11:16:52 PM
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Ho-229 you say? I'm looking forward to seeing the building of it,