Gotha GL.VII(Av)105/18 - Bat Project
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May 3, 2021Here start my adventure with this Bat Projects kit: it is a Limited Edition with Mercedes engines, and it is a good/excellent real "old time" short run kit.
The level of details is very good, but in some area they need some "help" to pop up, as here on the top wing radiator covers: on the right I have already scribed in the opening that is still blanked off in the left one.2
May 3, 2021This picture clearly shows why I said that is a good kit: the sidewalls are fully detailed and are really in scale thickness, to the point that they are translucent!!!3
May 7, 2021All interiors parts are cleaned and ready for painting.
I had to check an sand numerous times the two bulkheads and the pilot floor because they were too wide4
May 7, 2021Painting stages started: I gave a light brown-yellow coat, then some oils red brown filter5
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May 7, 2021When the oils were nearly dry, I brushed in with an old scruffy one, to simulate some veins7
May 15, 2021After some more filtering with red brown and black oil color I call the interior detailing and painting finished: I added a pair of Eduard's seatbelts and some levers but all the rest is from the box8
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May 15, 2021Dryfitting... it looks like is gonna be a hard fight!11
May 16, 2021desperate times call for desperate measures...12
May 16, 2021more desperate measures...13
May 18, 2021whoever lasts it wins! Not quite straight or square, but I cannot do it better.
I have started working on the engine nacelles, wings are cleaned and ready.14
December 13, 2021Finally resumed this project: some time ago I airbrushed some Mr. Surfacer and today, while I am waiting for a clear coat on my FW 190A-4 to dry, I polished all the surfaces and masked all the areas previously painted in "slate grey" ( I used Mr. Hobby RLM02...), ready for a white coat and preshading to go under my Aviattic Lozenge decals15
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December 13, 2021On the fuselage all is ready for some wood imitation...17
December 19, 2021Oils on a Tamiya Dark yellow base...
Looks like wood to me...18
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December 20, 2021I do LOVE Aviattic decals: just add (warm) water, simple as that!!!21
December 23, 2021Getting ready for the final lozenge decals session!22
December 23, 2021Tailplane nearly done!23
December 25, 2021I have found another use for uniPOSCA paint marker: rib tapes!!!24
December 26, 2021Wings ribbed!!! It took me one hour, more or less...25
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December 26, 2021This markers are great, on a glossy surface you can wipe them away with a Q-tip if or wash them away with water when dried, if needed.27
December 26, 2021Here I have already given a clear gloss coat to protect them and getting ready for the wing crosses, last decals to go on!
I am approaching the final assembly and rigging...
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December 29, 2021Slowly getting its shape...29
December 31, 2021Easy steps done, from now on it is getting serious...30
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December 31, 2021See you next year!!!33
January 3, 2022Struts and rigging finished! Now I can start breathing again!!!34
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January 3, 2022Tomorrow will do some touch ups here and there, then small bits and next days the final challenge: the flimsy undercarriage...36
January 4, 2022Calling this one finished!
Had to use a new different photo set up, not quite happy with the lights used.
I will do some more practice in the next days, in the meanwhile I hope you like it37
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January 10, 2022Today I was finally able to take some pictures outside: this model is quite big compared to the fighters I usually build and I don't have a proper large scenery background, so I had to crop some of the larger images.
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