Fancherello

Yes that was one of the goals when choosing LOU IV: i'm able to say it's 100% correct in tones !!!! And i found out that there are plenty of subtle things on that scheme, i love it now ! Thanks all for your kind words

Hello That's too long since the last update ! So where is how both models and their figures look like so far: "STEP HE" !! And that pic: inspired this: still a lot of work, for sure a challenging exercise ! bye Fanch

Hi and thank you ! I'm honestly glad you said that: i really look for subtle and second reading effects for that cowling. I restrain myself alot on weathering and artefacts to try and stick to the original pic that i put a few posts before ! More generally, even though i enjoy all kind of contrasts for watching, i like my models to have subtle light/shadow modulation ( whuch doesnt mean weathering to me ) effects

And we now have a yellow cowling. En route to the nose arts.

I love that build !!

some progress on the Mustang !

Base coat is Tamiya's new lacquer silver paint, then nsome hairspray I've been using four shades of grey based on Gunze's H69 and black. I've textured the paint with Ushi's and Radu Brinzan's splatter stencils. First with larger blotches then as i was reducing contrasts, i went for thinner and crisper patterns. I've added a few wind streaks by whipping the wings with some airbrush fine lining. I tried to use not too use contrasted grey to minimize the use of blending mist for final adjusting. The splatter stencils dont need much contrast to have the effect show up due to the hard edge demarcation. Next step will be challenging: i'm keeping as close to the pic ( previous post) as possible and almost no chipping is visible at that distance ( apart in the wing root shine ). So my chipping will have to be visible only on close up.

Hi Anthony and thank you ! I'm glad to confuse your mind, as you said, a sign this starts to work ! And you have the proof that its no cheat with colors with that thick pink finger ! Bye !

Work continues ! And i've started working on a Reedoak figure: Bye! Fanch

Thank you very much guys !! Bye Fanch

hello i've put my Silhouette mask cutter at ork, and here we are now: bye ! Fanch

Thanks a lot Anthony ! I couldnt imagine coming here with pics and keeping the method i used secret ! For sure, it's a pleasure to share

Thanks a lot guys

Thanks a lot !

hello Eric I must turn crazy. I remember rebuilding the aft section of the rudder, because of an incorrect number of triangular fences/stiffeners that sit on the trailing edge...a friend gave me a ref pic showing that one was missing. I've found back some pics of my QF-100 and i set accordingly 11 blades.( Air Modeller issue 31) and looking for a pic to illustrate, i count them 10 on any of the real one i've found in pic and 10 on the kit ? But in the mean time i remember redoing that area because of that obvious pic....much much annoying, both because i made you loose time reading this and because after finding back the original drone's pic...it has 10 blades too. So: mistake. So i think you'd better disregard that info, because i'm not sure that reference was appropriate ! Sorry for that. ( And i get back to googling rudders )