"French MS.406 1/144 True North Miniatures" Topic

Subject: MS.406
Manufacturer: True North Miniatures link
Scale: 1/144
Medium: White Metal
Price (webstore): $6.00 USD

The True North Miniatures MS.406 is a one piece casting. The minis had just a little pitting on the right side of the fuselage and a little on top of the cowling. I filled the tiny holes with a bit of gap-filling super glue and some two-part putty. The minis came with the decals shown in the pictures below.

Recommendation: Nice little kit, I recommend it for all experience levels. (I picked up some more of these as a part of a future Finnish project.)

Post assembly:
Decals: True North Miniatures
Paint: Vallejo Model Colors Light Gray Blue #153 (bottom), Dark Blue Gray #157, Flat earth #143, and Vallejo Game Color – Goblin Green (this might be just a bit too bright & I may opt for a different green for future projects w/3-color French camo schemes.)
Primer: Rust-Oleum Gray Automotive Primer
Matte Finish: Krylon Crystal Clear Matte

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Kevin

Hey Kev -

What is this? You finishing up all the kits you got at Historicon or what? Are we going to have a "dry spell" of not seeing your artistry while you do a bunch more?

ALL your reviews definitely look GOOD. As Dom put it more elequently on your previous review – I'm envious of the excellence of your work. Makes me want to buy out TN Miniatures and keep trying until I get them right.

Now that you got a bunch completed, are you going to find time to CY6 a few of them?

:-)

Pe-2s, Pe-2s…..

Kimball

Kimball, I was happily painting away when I needed something (don't recall what it was). I started looking through bins and drawers and came across a bunch of 1/144 minis that I started long ago (probably purchased around Historicon 2007). I immediately set aside half the things I was currently working on (put them in a drawer for later rediscovery) and started working on these 1/144 scale kits. Somebody recently mentioned smaller kits and I recalled that I had some 1/300 kits that were only lacking decals…so I dug through some stuff until I found them (and during that process rediscovered some more 1/300 and some 1/600 minis). So yes, I may slack off on the 1/144 kits for a while but there's sure to be something else that will replace them.

It may sound like heresy but after Fall In I think I'm going to paint an army of Sock Puppet minis. sockpuppetminis.com

Kevin

Yeah right!!! I looked at the link… HA! They would have to sprout wings for you to enjoy doing something like that.

Still, it might be relaxing…

kwk

No, seriously Kimball, there's a new set of rules out called "Check Your Socks!"
Kevin
(and remember, it's not the sock, it's the puppet.) ;)

My apologies to Scott and Chris for the terrible pun. Kevin