mattlow Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Hi Nick Great looking Emil. Your airbrush skills have come on a lot - very subtle linework for the pre-shade. This is going to look very nice when you've finished. Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmayhew Posted April 1, 2011 Author Share Posted April 1, 2011 cheers matt, and also very funny i was thinking the same myself, and then promptly puddled some of the blue i was spraying!! it had nothing to do with the paint - it was just me not paying attention, and because the paint was mega thinned and being put on a primer of similar colour, i did not notice until it was late hey ho, not the end of the world, and luckily not too close to border with the 71 / 02... so, it has the weekend to dry hard and i'll run some super fine sandpaper etc over it and then go for some more coats when i get back from Brussels / Germany on monday cheers for popping in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wurzacher Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 ... when i get back from Brussels / Germany on monday... Nick, don´t trust your sat nav: Brussels is in Belgium, not in Germany... Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmayhew Posted April 1, 2011 Author Share Posted April 1, 2011 Nick, don´t trust your sat nav: Brussels is in Belgium, not in Germany... Thomas he he - you know what i mean! i am in Brussels today, and we drive to Karlsruhe tomorrow sadly it is on business and not for pleasure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmayhew Posted April 13, 2011 Author Share Posted April 13, 2011 hello again been very busy in the garden and various business trips so i have only just had the chance of doing some more work on the camo of this bird first, to point out a few painting errors - spatter and all that due to my carelessness with my airbrush, but hopefully these will be corrected, as you will see the bits you can see above were sanded down using fine grade paper and then resprayed, so this goes to show that painting is rarely a "one shot game" (thank God for that!) underside sprayed rlm65 - all fairly routine and now to the stuff i did this morning - the mottle, everybody's favourite bit of Luftwaffe painting!! first some stripey bits of rlm02 and also a bit of general "overspray" of 02 on the tail more in a minute... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmayhew Posted April 13, 2011 Author Share Posted April 13, 2011 as you can see in this pic, the 02 stripes seem to stand out a bit more than the main sections of camo in the splinter here it is after adding mottle bits of rlm71, and then a gentle overspray of rlm02 although i probably wont go back to change it now, i am not happy with my overspraying - it should have been a bit more random or patchy i think, and instead i went along the fuselage, but hey ho and the other side; i also added a very light overspray of rlm71... in order to tone down the mottle and blend everything in a bit, i then went with a light overspray of rlm65 again - not sure if the picture shows it, but this made quite a difference more in a bit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allok Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 Starting to look fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmayhew Posted April 13, 2011 Author Share Posted April 13, 2011 thanks Keith! anyway, the aircraft from this unit had the rlm65 overlap the topside of the wings, thus: now i should really have masked this off beforehand but i didn't so...freehand time! i got a fiar bit of spray going onto the splinter camo which i wasn't sure how to avoid so a quick respray of rlm71 seems to have cleared this up nicely what say you?? i've got other stuff to upload about Eduard's SC250 bomb etc but that's just annoying so i'll leave that for later cheers Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmayhew Posted April 14, 2011 Author Share Posted April 14, 2011 morning chaps quick word about Eduard's bomb i measured it up against plans i have and it's pretty much there for a SC250 problem is as i may have mentioned before the "panel line" marking the join between the tail unit and the main cannister is placed incorrectly this was the last picture i took before i gave in and ordered a bomb from MDC i should also mention that the ring you can see around the body should not be there (thank you Radu ) once again disappointing that Eduard could not get this right i will post some pics of the MDC bomb (mastered by Radu i believe?) later on anyway, i also ordered the bomb cart from MDC, and "borrowed" some coffee stirring sticks from Apostrophe near Bond St (a better class of Starbucks, but same old same old...), so at least i am getting things together for the base now i also looked once again at markings i had been planning to use Montex markings from the KAM#32149 set of a 109E-4 from the BoB just to get national insignia, and was planning to hunt out a decal "6" from the stash however, there were some issues in the Montex set i was not happy with the quality of cut as you can see in this picture "daylight" is clearly visible between bits of the crosses and the backing the crosses measure up ok 900mm and 1000mm in 1:1, but the lower wing was 1000 whilst upper and fuselage were 900; looking at various EagleCals sheets i have for BoB a/c, i could not see this combo not to say they are wrong, but who knows? anyway, the fact that the masks were pretty much unusable - i might as well have made them myself given all the extra masking that would have been involved - i decided to contact Ian at AdAstra Masks, and we are currently working on a custom set re the gaps in the mask, he said it looked like the backing had expanded and stretched the mask, probably due to heat or moisture this is odd as they have been kept in a sealed bag all the time; my loft gets warm, but nothing crazy, so maybe i just got a duff set as my other Montex stuff looks fine hey ho anyway, searching for the right "6" was fun (!) as i tried to identify units with a similar "3" to this one (you can just about see it) and then look for pics of a "6" i came up with these... and the matching 6...which is what my 6 will be modelled on, only much much smaller - it will only be the height of the width of one of the arms of the cross, if that makes sense? as this unit used teeny weeny numbers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmayhew Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 hi, back from my trip to Vienna at the weekend (shame it was business and i saw nothing but the inside of a convention hall but anyway...) i decided i wasn't happy with the wavy edge finish on the wing leading edge, so i decided to mask - this is probably what i should have done in the first place i kept the "negatives" stuck on my desk - they proved useful! i then masked the splinter boundaries the result was good, but because of the ar$e about face way i had gone about things, i realised i needed to spray a bit more rlm65 to sharpen things up here are the negatives applied 9i did protect the rst of the wing with more masking) and this is the final result this next pic looks very close to the one in John Vasco's book (i try to convince myself!) but at least i now have had experience with my first wavy leading edge scheme, and if you mask them, they are easy peasy free hand airbrushing is a different ball game! it is taken from a funny angle to replicate the angle of the pic in the book more in a mo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmayhew Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 (edited) i am just waiting on the masks i ordered from Ian at AdAstra - here is what i decided to go for regarding the "6": and in other news... i painted the spinner yellow and then masked so i could spray the spinner and back plate rlm70 it wasn't 100% perfect - hopefully the panel line wash on the spinner will hide the odd bit of messed up masking, we'll see but it will add a bit of interest to an otherwise fairly drab scheme - i think the markings etc will really help this too that's it for now just masked the canopy frame inside and out (fun - not!) and will spray that this evening, but now i have an 8 hour appointment with my vegetable patch and garden, and the chickens are letting me know they want to be let out into the field! gotta go Edited April 18, 2011 by nmayhew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRutman Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 To quote a friend from the south"Theys some great paintin goin on ovuh chere! J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 I like that contrast between soft and hard edge. Very nice. The wavy pattern on the leading edge was a bane to me on the Hartmann build. The underlying 76 changed the value of the 74 & 75, and vice-versa, and I had a dickens of a time working the values back. Good job on that! Sincerely, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmayhew Posted April 19, 2011 Author Share Posted April 19, 2011 "Better lucky than good..." as I believe the saying goes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesHatch Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Come on Nick! What's keeping you? I know you're already looking forward to the next one of these in your stash? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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