dodgem37 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Great stuff. Sincerely, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogieman Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Hello and welcome aboard,wish you good luck with your project in memory of your old man. Cheers,Julius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KallistiUK Posted January 21, 2013 Author Share Posted January 21, 2013 Thanks guys, always nice to be appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squito2340 Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Thanks for directing me. The hurricane is outstanding and a great job on the groundwork. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Really nice job here, and some entertaining WIP writing with the back ground story. THAT is how interesting WIPs get made! Really nice job with the figies too. I wish I had your talent with figure making. Ive got some nice figures, and some Ideas to go along with them for some builds but just need to get to a build where Im going to use them. Looking forward to more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Ive got some nice figures [...] I used to have a nice figure, but sadly age has caught up with me. Kev A.Wolf Grant 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KallistiUK Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 I used to have a nice figure, but sadly age has caught up with me. Kev I think there are a few - myself included - in that boat! Glad you are enjoying my WIP - I attatched the wings to the fuselage last night - gulp! the fit isn't very good, will need quite a bit of filler... I'll do a proper update in a day or so and try to remember to take photos of each stage as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spads57 Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 It's great to see someone tackel an old Revell classis like the Hurricane. Major kudos to you in correcting the major faults and the outstanding additional detail. Looking forward to more of the same and taking a few notes along the way my friend. Highest Regards, Gregory Jouette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KallistiUK Posted January 25, 2013 Author Share Posted January 25, 2013 The wing is now attached to the fuselage and a lot of filling, sanding and priming has been taking place to get everything to fit together - it getting there and I'll post some photos when I'm back on the home computer later. It really feels like things are finally coming together! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonH Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 This is a great build! I love the toolbox. Keep 'em coming!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KallistiUK Posted January 27, 2013 Author Share Posted January 27, 2013 Thanks DonH This weeks update... things slowed down a bit this week, partly due to being distracted with other non-modelling things. My girlfriend is coming over from Portugal this coming week for her first visit since I moved into the new house, so I've been "spring" cleaning and managed to almost do my back in moving the couch in the lounge! Oh well, its a good excuse to be sitting not moving about much lol. I'll have ot move all the paints etc into the shed when she's here as she has this silly thing about smelling paints, solvents and sundry chemicals. Very fussy! So what about the model I hear you ask? Welll this was the week where the wings went on. The problem was the wing cord of the wings was much deeper than that of the fuselage joints! So this required a careful build up of the complex curve. First was to fill the coarse gaps with Mr Dissolved putty: This was left overnight to dry out. Then a layer of squadron white putty went over the top and again was left overnight to dry out. This was then carefully sanded down, trying to keep the complex curves smooth. A bit more filling and sanding left a reasonable surface. To smooth the whole lot off, a coat of Mr Surfacer 500 was painted over the joints and again left overnight The final stage was to sand this down and get a nice smooth finish: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KallistiUK Posted January 27, 2013 Author Share Posted January 27, 2013 (edited) It was while taking that last photo that I realised I was dumb and had prayed silver in the wheel wells instead of cocpit green as I originally planned as this was common on later Hurricanes. I'm happy with the wing joints now - I thought it would be harder to get a good joint, but it just took patience! In other news, work continued on the propeller: I've tried to represent a faded yellow tip using a mis of yellow and dark yellow. I painted the spinner metallic grey, then dabbed a few spots of masking fluid in streaks. Then once the tips were masked, I sprayed it with Nato Black. Next day, I peeled off the masking fluid then using a piece of kitchen towel polished up the matt finish to a more satin look. In the background you can see the resin exhausts painted up but not yet weathered. All the while other bits were drying I continued on the figure to represent my dad. Hiw uniform was painted in XF 49 Khaki and exposed skin given a once over with some flash -coloured paint. A oil wash with burnt ochre was then applied and it was left for a day: I then started on the head. Now I've not been very good with heads in the past so I looked up some tutorials on how to paint heads in 1:35 (although this is 1:32 of course!) and found a very good one on Missing Lynx which I'm following. Here is how the head looked after the first session - please excuse it being so dark - its bloody hard to photograph this thing without it being totally washed out with the camera flash! The big downside with oil paints is of course the drying time! I hed to leave things alone for several days then came back to touch things up again with some more oil wash to accentuate the shadows better: The face in this looks a bit "Black and White Minstrels" because the light seems to have picked up lighter areas around the eyes which are not all that obvious when you view it live. I've quite pleased with how this look. Sadly it doesn't really look much like my dad, but I guess thats asking perhaps a bit to much. What else? Lots of spare time to work on other bits and bobs like the cockpit canopy, which got masked up insid and out and painted. I'm using the canopy that came with the kit rather than the vac formed one I bought. The kit one is not bad, with nice moulded frame detail. I saw a mention of Value Gear on a forum this week and that reminded me I had picked up 3 sets at SMW so I had a look through the various piece and found some that might work in this context. These are several crates with some tarp aor tents over the top. I gave the crates and initial coat of buff, then overpainted roughly with red brown to give the wood some colour variation The tarps got painted khaki drab and one in Khaki, with the straps being painted a variety of colours from lenoleum brown to buff to desert yellow to give the straps some variation. Then an oil wash was applied to accentuate the creases etc. In the background you can also see the landing gear which was also given its initial silver and metallic gray colours. Unphotographed as yet, the tool box got sprayed silver, then given a coat of hairspray. Once all this has dried it'll be painted blue and then chipped/worn. I've got a few more days this week before the GF arrives, then I'll be preoccupied for a week before I can return to the solvents and paint smells Edited January 27, 2013 by KallistiUK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.Wolf Grant Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Well that's the LAST thing you want to happen when your girl-friend is coming over to visit from Portugal !!! ...... to have an untidy house! (For goodness sake fella's, who thought I was going to mention almost putting his back out). You're doing a super job with this - I'm looking forward to more, please. Grant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Mate that is some superb work! This is coming together very nicely indeed, and I'm mightily impressed with your results. Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geedubelyer Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 (edited) Hi Kallisti, this is a neat update. Plenty going on. I admire the work you've done to the wing joints. Very smooth. You must have alot of patience. I also think the figure's features look good too. You have n't fallen into the trap of trying to paint every detail in the eyes which is a good idea in this scale. All too often figures can look bug-eyed or starey. Good job. "its bloody hard to photograph this thing without it being totally washed out with the camera flash!" You may already be doing this but, a trick I learnt when trying to take close-up photographs is to use a tissue in front of the flash unit of your camera as a diffuser. The thin tissue softens the harsh shadows and contrast. Try using a single ply or multiple plys for different degrees of diffusion. HTH Keep up the good work. Cheers. Edited January 27, 2013 by geedubelyer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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