[OIF Blackhawk]

3 hours ago, John1 said:

I bought a pack of cheap artist pastels at Michael’s (a US based art supply chain).   $9 investment gave me a lifetime supply.   Just use an xacto knife to scape the pastel onto some paper and apply the powder with an old paintbrush.  So much better than using paint and if I don’t like the effect, I just wipe it off and try again.  

excellent idea! Thanks 

[OIF Blackhawk]

Looking good! What did you use for the dust effect ? 

[Trumpeter F-14d]

Wow ! Really nice work! Making me wanna pull mine out of the box and work on it haha 

[1/35 ch-47 chinook’s (yes two) :)]

On 11/2/2023 at 6:46 PM, John1 said:

Any updates?

no sir,  Been working on a few commission builds   Smaller scale A10 and a 1/35 mh60 Jayhawk witch I need to post here when I make some decent head way on it. After that I can get back to my regular schedule haha

[1/35 MH-47 160th soar]

5 hours ago, AnthonyWan said:

Can't wait to see this... 

Which 3D printed parts are you using? Any chance you'd consider selling a set to a fellow LSPer? 

 

Thanks!

-Anthony 

thanks hopefully I can still make it all work.. the tanks and radar pod are 3d printed I’ll message the gentleman I got the kit from  

 

[1/35 MH-47 160th soar]

Hey all! It’s been a while havnt been at the bench much but I got something exciting! 
 

I was able to get my hands on a few Werner wings MH47 conversion parts along with some custom 3d printed parts too since the Werner wings kit wasn’t complete. But I have a solid start now!  Here’s a few pics of some mandatory dry fitting haha will be very slow build as I’m still working on some commission builds… 

 

 

there’s a few more parts. Got a bunch of PE parts and other resin parts with this purchase..   

 

see y’all soon ! 

[1/35 HH-60G pavehawk]

Small update.   Got gunners seats done and added some ICS bungee cords. 

 

The cords going out the windows will be attached to the gunners once installed  so I put them in the windows for now

 

 

Not sure what else my skills will allow me todo and not much Available items to put in the cabin area… 

[1/35 HH-60G pavehawk]

14 hours ago, AnthonyWan said:

 

Are you gluing these in with liquid cement? I'm curious to try this... 

 

just using the glue you see in the pic.   Tamiya extra thin cement 

[1/35 HH-60G pavehawk]

38 minutes ago, LSP_Kevin said:

That's coming together very nicely indeed! The instrument panel decals look really impressive.

 

Kev

thank you Kev ! I was honestly shocked how well the instrument decals came out! Haha   Saved me some pain staking painting haha

[1/35 HH-60G pavehawk]

Back to Slowly moving forward on cockpit/cabin area, instrument panels done and weathered with some Vallejo desert dust wash. 
 

I also pulled apart my MH6M Little bird to restore it, so I tossed the pilots in the pavehawk seats to see how it would look lol. 

this is the first time I’ve used instrument panel decals from a kit and I must say after a few coats of micro Sol I was able to form them to the wonderfully detailed instrument panels I think they look pretty good. 
 

with the desert dust wash..

 

[1/35 HH-60G pavehawk]

One side of this stabilizer done and primed to see how well it will look. 

looks pretty darn good imo 

 

 

[1/35 HH-60G pavehawk]

Taking a break come cabin decided to do some riveting  lol not sure if I regret starting this.   

 

.3mm solder balls gluing them into the recessed rivet holes.  Lord give me patients lol

 

 

[1/35 HH-60G pavehawk]

Ok success! lol 3rd times a charm! 
now I can move forward with the build.

 

[1/35 HH-60G pavehawk]

Ok iv been doing some practice and doing the hairspray technique and I think iv got it figured out lol 2 hair spray brands later and 3 test parts and a lot  of painting lol 

test part below

 

now I can retry on the pavehawks floor. I  got it all scraped off, primed and base coated I’ll let it dry over night then I’ll hit it with some hair spray and top coat and will report back tomorrow   Wish me luck lol 

[1/35 HH-60G pavehawk]

6 minutes ago, Landrotten Highlander said:

Been rethinking my answer above.  I think to minimize the chance of artificial look you can change your sandpaper to different grades of fine paper.  That way you will get different scratches.  Look also at the space between the seats (where you limited the paint cover, presumably because this will be hidden by something).  try to get various types of impressions of that kind of cover around each 'chipping' markl.

ok thanks I’ll spray some extra parts and do some practicing! Thanks 

[1/35 HH-60G pavehawk]

13 hours ago, MikeMaben said:

Hi Matt, find pictures of actual chipping that appeal to you (they don't have to be any particular subject)

and look closely at them. Scuffing / chipping are rarely just one color / intensity. Of course practice.

Your build looking good.

how do you do chipping ?  I think I’ll strip mine down again and try again 

[1/35 HH-60G pavehawk]

Ok my Vallejo liquid mask finally came in so I was able to repaint and do the chipping on the floor. Not to bad for my first time I’m happy how it turned out! 
 

 

I’ll gladly take advise if there’s is a better way 

[1/35 HH-60G pavehawk]

I’ll probably glue in the resin fastrope after the fuselage half’s are glued together so it doesn’t get broken in the process lol 

 

it looks good tho, I’m happy with it 

 

[1/35 HH-60G pavehawk]

Well…… I wasn’t happy with the chipping since it didn’t even really work lol :facepalm: so in removed paint in the areas that I wanna redo   Also after primer and several coats of paint.  I was able to peel the paint off pretty easy.  It was like rubbery like didn’t ever dry :facepalm:   I ordered some liquid mask that I saw a chipping bow to so I’m gonna try that when the stuff comes in lol 

 

This is how I’ll try next once the liquid mask comes in next week. 

[1/35 HH-60G pavehawk]

Moving along with cabin..

 

[1/35 HH-60G pavehawk]

Well got the rest of the coats of paint on and my “chipping” method didn’t work… 

 

I let the clear sit over night to cure but seems it’s still to soft to “chip” away the black leaving them yellow to show.. 

 

first two pictures are just all painted ready for chipping.. 

 

and you can see the attempt to chip on this picture..

 

 

and I got the resin fast rope bar all done what y’all think? 
 

 

to be continued…

[1/35 HH-60G pavehawk]

On 1/1/2023 at 9:49 AM, Pete Fleischmann said:

Awesome Matt! Will follow along and cheer you on! Great start!!

 

cheers

Pete

Thanks Pete ! 

[1/35 HH-60G pavehawk]

Thanks for the kind words guys! 
 

Starting in the cockpit/cabin floor next, trying my hand at chipping where pilots step in and where the crew gets in on sides.  Primed then spray interior yellow followed by a gloss coat. After it dries for 24hrs to make sure the gloss is cured good I’ll spray the top coat, then followed by (what I hope will work) tooth pick and chip off some of the top coat leaving the interior yellow showing (gloss coat should protect the yellow from being scrapped off)  and if works out good I’ll do another gloss coat followed by some panel liner to weather the floor!
 

 

 

 I also got the resin fast rope bar painted and glossed ready for panel liner as well.

 

 

small update, but hope will see y’all tomorrow for another as well! 

[1/35 HH-60G pavehawk]

Happy New Years everyone! 
 

funny story I have lol 

 

I worked so hard on painting and detailing the cabin ceiling fast rope bar, only to discover I Purchased a live resin high detailed kit   
next question is should I keep the original part or swap it out for the live resin ???

 

 

Cheers!

[1/35 HH-60G pavehawk]

Hey guys i finally decided to start my pavehawk kit  
 

Did a lot of dry fitting then started per instructions, started on the cabin ceiling section. 
 

here are some pics so far 

 

 

see y’all again soon!