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02/09/2026

I have blocked the base colours on the Mercedes L4500 to see if I like that scheme. I like it 🤩. Lacking of any reference of an L4500 with aircraft related freight on the flatbed I decided to go all in with kitsch. Wait and see ☺️.

30/08/2026

Hey! It’s me! I’m all right, just enjoyed drawing and hiking more than glueing plastic for this summer. Now it’s time to get my weary bones back to the bench for not too loose any routine 😅. Starting with this little Mercedes L4500 truck. But what to lead on that flatbed? 🤨 any truck experts with aircraft related ideas? Or not aircraft related ideas? A civil paint job I sure would prefer 🙌🏻.
Thanks ~ Max ~ for printing me this beauty! You’re simply the best 🫡

12/06/2026

As I couldn’t wait painting and starting the decal work I made the last conversion steps after the decals. Is that smart planning? 🙂‍↔️

Cowling air intake, exhaust pipes, belly windows and under wing air intakes.

Finally. Close to the finishing line.

Have a great weekend! 🫡

09/06/2026

My little F4F-3 with her beautiful yellow wings. I modulated the yellow with several layers of airbrushed and brush painted yellow tones.

06/06/2026

Aluminum and Yellow go together pretty well! Finally the airbrush will rule the workbench.

01/06/2026

Grey primer with a few highlights applied – ready for the yellow paint to be sprayed onto the wings.

Later, I discovered that some of the surface details hadn’t been scribed deeply enough to remain visible after several layers of paint. 🤷🏼‍♂️

There are still a few modifications to make: the air intake on top of the cowling, the exhaust pipes, the windows on the underside, and the cooler intakes beneath the wings. I’m not sure why, but I added those later. I think I just couldn’t wait to put paint on this beautiful aircraft 😅🤷🏼‍♂️

26/05/2026

It took me several layers of primer and a lot of patience to scribe the F4F-3 panel lines. I learned a few lessons along the way.

Some lines and rivets were too soft to stay visible after the primer, while others turned out quite well. In the end, the most important lesson was this: it’s possible, and not as hard as expected, once you develop some “feeling” for it.

As usual, it may just need some practice 🤷🏼‍♂️😅
Who would have thought that?

22/05/2026

I colorised some plans to highlight the differences between the Fm2 and the F4F-3. The plastic parts are the original Sweet Fm-2 kit parts before the conversion. In the Plans blue is the Fm-2, green the F4F-3. Quite some difference even at first sight, if you highlight it this way…

20/05/2026

There’s one very popular aircraft still missing in 1/144 scale: the F4F. There are hundreds of great historical references for the interwar and early-war era. We already have a fantastic FM-2 by Sweet, but converting it into an F4F — especially a -3 — is far from a minor modification. It means filling all the wing panel lines and rescribing them from scratch, changing the shape of the rudder, modifying the cowling… in a nutshell: it’s fun 🤩

My friend Mike @ Harristotle's Miniatures was a pioneer of 1/144 F4F conversions 😉 It took me years before I finally dared to follow 😊

18/05/2026

I like the all dark sea blue Corsairs. The dark glossy colour makes it hard to see any details inside the wheel bays. I made little modifications on the landing gear. But a few where necessary.

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