Assuming tamiyabuffalo is required, the following 9 results were found.
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The Buffalo was a small American fighter which first flew in April 1937 and built from 1938 until 1941. Several nations, including Finland, Belgium, Britain and the Netherlands, ordered the Buffalo. The Finns were the most successful with their...
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- Author: Peter
- Category: Tamiya 1/48 Brewster B-339 Buffalo
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The first stage for the Buffalo is thr cockpit There are two seats in the kit, this one and one with a rounder top. The chosen scheme also has a headrest for the pilot. Two holes need drilling to mount the headrest. Probably should have painted this...
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- Author: Peter
- Category: Tamiya 1/48 Brewster B-339 Buffalo
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With the cockpit prepared, it's time to fit it to the fuselage halves and put them together. The back of the rear bulkhead has a pair of alignment nubs. To ease alignment I decided to remove the right side one. I fitted the bulkhead into the left side...
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- Author: Peter
- Category: Tamiya 1/48 Brewster B-339 Buffalo
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With the fuselagew together, the next thing is to assemble and fit the wings. There is a full span lower panel and two upper panels. Before assembly, the interior and undercarraige bay were painted green and aluminium. The upper panels were pegged into...
- Type: Article
- Author: Peter
- Category: Tamiya 1/48 Brewster B-339 Buffalo
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Before paint the canopy needs to be masked and fitted. To avoid cutting out the supplied masks, I used them as an excuse to get a vinyl cutter, so got myself a Silhouette Portrait. To make the mask I scanned the kit masks. The image was loaded into the...
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- Author: Peter
- Category: Tamiya 1/48 Brewster B-339 Buffalo
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With main assembly complete, it's time to break out the Lifecolor paints and add some colour. The first thing that's needed is to spray the canopy with the interior colour. Black was used to ensure the canopy is colour fast. Everything, inckluding the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Peter
- Category: Tamiya 1/48 Brewster B-339 Buffalo
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There's not too many decals to add, but some of them are two layers put on top of each other, which is a little bit of a pain. I recently discovered that Vallejo have produced some decal solutions. They've been around for a while bujt I've only just...
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- Author: Peter
- Category: Tamiya 1/48 Brewster B-339 Buffalo
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The next job is to apply some weathering and get the Buffalo onto it's wheels. I decided to go little old school with weathering. I coated the model with Flory Models Dark Dirt wash and left it to dry. When dry the excess wash was removed with damp...
- Type: Article
- Author: Peter
- Category: Tamiya 1/48 Brewster B-339 Buffalo
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The next job is to fit the engine and then do the few little jobs to finish the model. The engine is a single part which was painted black and dry brushed with aluminium. This is glued into the nose. The cowl ring can then be glued into place. Dry...
- Type: Article
- Author: Peter
- Category: Tamiya 1/48 Brewster B-339 Buffalo