[Scorlord]

This is a model I've been working on since X-mas and you can see the paint schemes I've chosen behind the box. I've begun adding some combat damage here and there, but the main hit you can see. She is my second Stuka, but first Cannon Bird, generally I don't paint my plastics.

[Brophmeister]

Hasegawa makes some great kits. Good luck with this one!

[Romanator]

So you are making it with some bullet holes and flack damage, or is it just general wear and tear and weathering? And you don't paint the models when they're done? Why so? Generally, this is the most interesting part and it allows the modeler to really show his/her creativity Maybe if you don't like to paint, you could try card modeling? The scales are generally 1:33 and the very detailed model is made entirely from paper and cardboard. Some excellent publishers are Halinski and GPM.

In any case, excellent work, and I would like to see how this big bird works out!

[Landsknecht]

Agreed. Painting is a very important part of completeing the kit. I still have several boxes of 1/72 scale kits that I made to play a great old game called "Mustangs and Messerschmits". It was the closest thing to being able to fly WWII aircraft until decent computer sims came along. Id love to get some folks together and drag it out again some time. But getting enough people who knew enough about the game to make it interesting and enough room to chase each other around the room was always a little difficult. The best game I ever played was when we had 30 people, some with more than one bird in the scrum, and we were playing on a basketball court in a gymnasium. That ROCKED!
I was tooling around with a two bird element of 190A8's. That was over 25 years ago. :? Crap, I'm old :evil:

[Scorlord]

I do intend to paint this, generally I do plastics smaller then 1:72. So unless you get close they are kind of small. When I get ones bigger then 1:72 I generally give them the basic scheme that comes with the craft, but like my R/C models I like to paint them as if I flew the plane myself. Which means I keep all the markings needed, but ignore whom ever the model was based off.