My first complete, start-to-finish
YouTube build, which may be seen here.
As an experiment (and because I was too lazy to take pics),
these are screen shots from the video. Not the best option,
and at some point I will probably replace them with better
quality pictures.
Mark 1's Buffalo is a limited
run, 2-in-1 kit which is really quite nice, despite the
Lilliputian size. There are two US Navy and two Finnish
decal options, I decided to do one of each. Though they
went together easily and quite quickly, the amount of
masking and painting on the two very different (and very
tiny!) schemes resulted in these taking longer to finish
than I had anticipated at the start.
Kit decals were used. They
looked nice, but were prone to breaking and were completely
resistant to any of the decal solvents I tried.
Canopy and ventral window
frames were rather heavy so I sanded these off, polished
the clear parts and finished them off with a bath in Pledge
(Future) which improved them greatly. Frames were reinstated
with masking and painting and by thin painted decal strips.
Antenna lines are Uschi "Fine Size" rigging.
Paints are from Tamiya, ModelMaster and Humbrol.
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