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Carl

Nice progress on the Viper and taking care of those injector pin marks. The parts breakdown for the wheel wells are the Academy parts, injector pin marks and all!

Keep 'em coming

Peter

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Hello Carl, great progress so far. Question, the Tamiya Lacquer thinner you use to wipe away the Mr Surfacer, does it attack/melt the plastic in any way? I can thing of a few areas where this would come in handy but fear harming the plastic.

 

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Hello Carl, great progress so far. Question, the Tamiya Lacquer thinner you use to wipe away the Mr Surfacer, does it attack/melt the plastic in any way? I can thing of a few areas where this would come in handy but fear harming the plastic.

 

Don

 

I'm not Carl, and I don't use Tamiya's lacquer thinner, but I'm led to believe it's very similar to Gunze's Mr Color Thinner, in which case it's very unlikely to harm the plastic.

 

Kev

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As Kev replied, the Tamiya Lacquer thinner will not harm the plastic in any way. It seems to be a relatively "cool" lacquer thinner and so far hasn't had any effect on the plastic. I don't have the Mr. Colour thinner at the moment but do have some ordered so I'll see how they compare.

 

Good news is the AM resin seats arrived today so hopefully I can start making some more progress on the build.

 

Carl

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BloorwestSiR

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Well, I'm back at making some progress on the kit. I managed to get my new work bench set up. The CMK ejection seats arrived and I started with those:

 

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These are quite a bit nicer than the kit ones. There was just a small pour block on the bottom to remove and a bit of flash (or what I thought was flash).

 

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I used a razor saw over a container of water and kept both wet so as to reduce any resin dust from the sawing process. Likewise, all the sanding was done wet using sanding sticks.

 

Here are the seats with a coat of paint waiting for the PE details.

 

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The instructions don't really give too many colour details for the seats so I used the Tamiya instructions as a reference.

 

 

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I've always had issues with keeping my hands steady when I brush paint. As a result, I prefer to mask and airbrush as much as possible. This has been a bit easier with Aizu making several very thin widths of kabuki tape. Here's the tub masked off ready for some paint:

 

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That's the Aizu tape in the background. I used 0.4, 1.0, and 2.5 mm widths in masking the panels off.

 

And after a cort of X-18 semi-gloss black. I also picked out some of the dials and buttons with gloss white. I'm happy with the way it turned out:

 

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Now, the gory stuff. The IP and front side panels were too small to mask so I had no choice but to hand paint them. The results were what I expected even after a couple of tries:

 

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So after some thought, I've gone ahead and ordered the Eduard PE set to do these panels. I'll leave the side panels in place.

 

Hopefully they'll be here shortly and I can get back to work on this. In the meantime, i've been working on another build and I'll post that WiP shortly.

 

Carl

 

 

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Very nice work mate! Some good ideas here too about using thin tape to mask panels for airbrushing, and also using water to keep resin parts wet while sawing them. I'll be stealing those two for sure!

 

Kev

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Very work on the ejection seats and side consoles. I tend to do a bit of dry brushing before picking out the dials and switches and paint them with a toothpick instead of a brush - a a bit more control on the amount of paint and a bit easier to control

Keep 'em coming

peter

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Very nice work mate! Some good ideas here too about using thin tape to mask panels for airbrushing, and also using water to keep resin parts wet while sawing them. I'll be stealing those two for sure!

 

Kev

 The Aizu tape is really handy. Since it's so thin, it really can follow a compound curve easily and smoothly. I've even used it to mask off the stripes on ejection seat pull handles. 

 

As for wet sawing resin, i figured that if it works for ceramic tiles, it should work for resin. IBetween that and wet sanding when needed, it definitely has all but eliminated any resin dust getting on my workspace and more imprtantly into my lungs.

 

Nice, love the IP painting. I have the same theory on brush painting...................as Im not super steady in a line by hand either.

 

Looking forward to more!

 

I had a friend (who's now a professional illustrator/animator) watching me paint once who couldn't understand how I enjoyed the hobby since my hand twitched so much. Since then it's gotten worse thanks to injuries I've sustained over the years. I can't hold anything for more than 10 minutes before my hand cramps up on top of the shaking. Oh well, I guess I'm a glutton for punishment.

 

Very work on the ejection seats and side consoles. I tend to do a bit of dry brushing before picking out the dials and switches and paint them with a toothpick instead of a brush - a a bit more control on the amount of paint and a bit easier to control

Keep 'em coming

peter

 

Thanks for the tip on using a toothpick Peter. I'll have to give that a try. I have noticed one small issue on my ejection seats though. After going through your Sufa build again, i noticed that the two vertical protrusions on either side of the seat cushion should be solid and not cut out like I have them. Oh well, too late now. 

 

BTW, did you figure out a solution for the burner can? I want to see ho you go about painting it :)

 

Carl

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Carl, your doing great. I have the same kit although its not true 100% F-16B OOB but it's still a nice kit and the resin bits look very good.

 

Btw, about your wet sanding/cutting I do that a lot. Especially, wet sanding. Although, my sanding sticks get worn out much faster due to wet, but I think it's still worth it because I can do a lot of sanding even inside the house without upsetting family members with dusk and all.

 

Well, you keep up the food work.

 

Mike

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Thanks Rainer, I've learned to brace my hand against something when I brush paint. It has really helped but my new workbench is a lot lower than my other one so it's a bit harder to do so. 

 

Mike, you're correct in that it's not 100% accurate but I can live with the differences. I though about grafting in the gear from the Tamiya T-bird kit but it's a bit too complicated. 

 

I'm still plugging away at the kit and hope to have it finished before the deadline. We'll see on that one. I'll have some more pics up tomorrow, just haven't had a chance to upload them.

Carl

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