BloorwestSiR Posted December 16, 2017 Author Share Posted December 16, 2017 Coming together nicely, I can't wait to see the burner cans. Will you post a closeup of The bare metal and cans when they're in? I've only done it once and would benefit from your approach I think looking at the rest of your painting. Thanks Chris. I'll do the best I can with some closeups. This is the first time I've tried this approach to installing the burner cans and lower fuselage so I hope it works. On my previous builds, I followed the instructions so I'll see if this works better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted December 16, 2017 Author Share Posted December 16, 2017 Another change for me is the way that I apply Alclad. I have usually applied it onto bare plastic without any primer. I've found that it easier to polish Barr plastic than paint and not had any issues with the Alclad crazing the plastic. It does mean that you have to mask off the area twice to keep paint off the plastic so this time I decided to use a gloss black primer coat. I masked off the fuselage and then gave the paint a quick pass with a 3000 grit polishing wheel. I then sprayed Tamiya gloss black. I thinned it to about 70:30 thinner to paint. Once it was opaque, I sprayed a final coat of 90:10 thinner to paint to get a glossy finish. Now to let that dry and then I'll start on the Alclad. Carl sandokan, Whitey, CANicoll and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dany Boy Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 What a great model work! :popcorn: :popcorn: BloorwestSiR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kagemusha Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 Whoa, you've flying Carl, looking extremely good, have a D I'm going to do in Hill Grey and it's certainly whetting my appetite. BloorwestSiR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themongoose Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 Dang that is some serious GLOSS you've got there. I'm taking notes! BloorwestSiR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted December 18, 2017 Author Share Posted December 18, 2017 What a great model work! :popcorn: :popcorn: Thanks! I'm certainly having fun on this one now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted December 18, 2017 Author Share Posted December 18, 2017 Whoa, you've flying Carl, looking extremely good, have a D I'm going to do in Hill Grey and it's certainly whetting my appetite. Thanks Andy! I did a D earlier in the Hill Grey so now I get to do my favourite version of the F-4 in my favourite camo. Hopefully you'll start yours soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted December 18, 2017 Author Share Posted December 18, 2017 Dang that is some serious GLOSS you've got there. I'm taking notes! Thanks Chris! I think Kev told me about the trick of spraying a basically thinner coat at the end to get a good gloss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted December 18, 2017 Author Share Posted December 18, 2017 Onto some metallic paints now. Hopefully the pictures are okay as I just have my cell phone. I started with a base of Alclad Stainless Steel. Once this was dry, I sprayed some very thin stripes of Pale Exhaust. This followed the panel lines but was done freehand. Lastly, I added some spoltches of Tamiya clear blue to give it that bit of heat discoloration. This was done using a mix of 70:30 lacquer thinner:paint. And that's about it. Next up will be the tailplanes and the burner cans themselves. Carl CANicoll, LSP_Kevin, sandokan and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaka HI Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Damn..that looks good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Paul Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Nice work Carl! You've kicked it into afterburner now.. Paul BloorwestSiR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted December 23, 2017 Author Share Posted December 23, 2017 Nice work Carl! You've kicked it into afterburner now.. Paul Thanks Paul! Speaking of which, here are the burner cans. I painted the inner section in Tamiya Buff with a touch of gloss white added to it. I then gave them a dark panel wash and finally used Tamiya green weathering pastels them. I'm not sure if you can really see all that in the pics. sandokan, LSP_Paul, Shaka HI and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted December 23, 2017 Author Share Posted December 23, 2017 And installed into the fuselage. They're pretty much a friction fit and I just used a touch of CA to hold them in place. LSP_Paul, KiwiZac, sandokan and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Paul Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 I can see the tones from here Carl, looks great.. I bet painting them was Exhausting...I stole that joke from earlier in another thread..Seriously, I should know better lol Now Mikes going to come after me for proper Writers Credit..... Keep up the Great work ol Bean, Looking quite spiffy Paul Shaka HI, BloorwestSiR and Shawn M 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted December 26, 2017 Author Share Posted December 26, 2017 Thanks Paul! I don't mind the jokes. It's what keeps us going at times. Speaking of which, after getting the burner cans done, I switched gears and started on, yup, the MLG. I don't think I'm going to make the deadline on this one but I'll keep going and git-er done. Carl Shawn M, LSP_Paul and BradG 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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