The longest project?

Ingo F
Looks good. 👍

Gerald
👍

David Andrs
22 years... wow 🙂 What did you take the pictures with in '93? Digital cameras were not really that common back then.
Also, I remember those kits from ESCI 👍

Alec K
Thanks gents for looking at my archeology 🙂.

@David: I took the pics back in '93 with a Minolta Maxxum 2xi Dynax, a 35mm film camera. I did not know what I was doing, as you can see from the pictures (depth of field? while balance? macro lenses? Bah...). I recently converted all of our film photo library to digital (I had the negatives scanned), and so I have these in digital format now. I did not get my first digital camera until late '90s.

Those ESCI kits are still pretty good, although I just dumped about half of my ESCI stash (mainly models of which newer/better kits are now available).

David Andrs
I figured it must have been analog. Those old days when you did not know how the picture was going to turn out until the whole film was shot and developed 🙂 I think one great advantage was you had almost infinite zoom so as long as you had your subject properly focused you were fine. We used to develop films ourselves with my father. But only B&W, for colors we relied on stores. Anyway, you have pretty decent pics...

Spanjaard
nice job. indeed. great to see it finished after such a long time 🙂
i had some still pending from the nineties too 😄

Łukasz Gliński
Wish I had that skill back in 1993 (or now at least😉 ) 👍

Alexander Grivonev
Haha wow

Stefan Schacht
very nice 👍

Alec K
Thank you mates!

@Spanjaard: I must say that not all of my unfinished projects from waaaay back were worthy of completion when I returned to the hobby several years ago (argument could be made that neither was this one, but)...😉

@David: yeah, waiting for the film to be developed was a major downer. Digital photography is very, very nice.

Jens
This is very well done for brushwork 👍
you could dab another, a fine bath sponge and with fine pieces of it just dab the color thinly.
so I work at the winter camouflage and then give some shading with the airbrush
I only explain, because you want to scale the meander on my Ju88 to 1:72

Alec K
@Frank: thank you. Nothing like your masterful creations, but this is an antique after all 🙂

@Jens: thank you as well. I did the "squiggle" camo with a small pointed brush, never thought about using a sponge. Thanks for the recommendation 👍. Going forward, I think that airbrushing the lines will be the way to go.

Jens
yes airbrush is probably quite good, if you have the practice you can do almost anything that the colors allow, for practicing I always recommend smooth surfaces, glass and mirrors for surfaces, cans of coke and beer for curves and butter or quark mugs for training for distance, angle of the gun to the surface and such small things

Alec K
👍 👍 👍 🙂