dutik Posted April 18, 2016 Author Share Posted April 18, 2016 (edited) Lets face it: Looks ok. Second stage finished Added a final coat of metallizer before taking this photo, so you will see the upper side tomorrow when anything has dried. Regards - dutik Edited April 18, 2016 by dutik DirkE 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 Yepp, you think you got it ready? Really? Murphy is watching you Of course something went wrong during the landing approach. During final taxiing to the apron, to be correct The metallised engine nacelles didn't look as nice as planned. The True Earth metallizer left a lot of brownish brush strokes. Well, istructions say to brush it onto the model, and the promotional images look very promising, but real live has a vote too. OK, there is a fix for every modelling problem. Got a jar of Migs "gun metal" pigments. In fact this is graphit powder. Brush on, rub it, and you have got instant metallics. Works nice, but this is not a pencil, but a powder. A lot of the pigments obeyed gravity and made it onto the lower surfaces of the wing. Some were also smeared or blown off onto the rear fuselage They are really hard to remove when settled down. Rubbing off is not a working option, so to say. I ended with some really nice metallic effects at wings and fuselage... Yeah, we don't make mistakes. We enjoy happy accidents So I repainted some parts of the model. Got some unwanted paint drops at the metallic engine nacelles (space between fuselage and nacelles is cramped), redid the metallics, removed more metallics from the wings... you got it Also metallized some hard to reach spots with a graphite pencil. Not to mention that an amount of light blue filter fluid crept from the light blue lower surface onto the brown fuselage parts. Had to airbrush again some areas and to add some new mottling at one side. But it is ok now I did it Will mate the missle with the trolley in the evening. Stay tuned! Regards - dutik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClumsyDude Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Sounds like a good save, dutik. Brutal when something like that happens on an almost-finished kit ... keen to see you put the finishing touches on this masterpiece. Jim dutik 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 Lets see what we have: The nacelles are not black. It's an artifact from flash/lighting conditions. They are iron-metallic. Looks good? Hm? Regards - dutik Out2gtcha and DirkE 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 Fasten your seatbelts! Here we go! :yahoo: :yahoo: How large it is? The size of a Grumman Hellcat. Just watch the airfield security making an inspection - dutik Gazzas, DirkE and NukerDan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 Bird view: Details, details: Enjoy! - dutik DirkE 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirkE Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 looks really good! Nice paint job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 Thank you to all that contributed! Great support! Great motivation to overcome all difficulties! Next step: Finishing the He-162 - with a special extra you don't see that often Paint it. Make new struts (the resin onees are full of bubbles...). Add the bird on top. Some touch ups. Take more images... A year or two ? Who knows... Regards - dutik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Fantastic, dutik! Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted May 1, 2016 Author Share Posted May 1, 2016 Mustered the Heinkel 162 parts. Found all the bits and pices that were stored here and there and elsewere. The resin seat had lost one of the handles. Will replace that with some wire. Everything else looked good. Started painting of the leftover cockpit parts, aka the second gun, IP, bits and pieces and to prepare the fuselage halves to be glued together. Dry-fitted the special part that will make this Heinkel unique. More unique than just sitting on top of a giant winged jet-bomb... Regards - dutik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fangio Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Great stuff Dutik, really impressive. I have this one in my stash too, ready for paint. Lucky enough to buy one a few years ago, along with the Revell salamander to sit on top. You have given me hope - and some cool paint ideas Thanks Fangio dutik 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted May 23, 2016 Author Share Posted May 23, 2016 Welcome to LSP And welcome to my thread The Arado has no cockpit, so it is easy buildable - for a resin kit Was well able to handle the few real problems that popped up here and there. Feel free to ask if you have questions. As for the paintjob - anything latewar goes. Splinter, freelance, monochrome, mottling, squiggles, bare metal/varnished wood, paneelwise coloration "as delivered by subcontractor". Even with foreign markings as "captured" airframe... Regards - dutik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted January 28, 2017 Author Share Posted January 28, 2017 Painting done. Added some Airscale placards here and there as required. Regards - dutik Lars Befring 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 Fuselage closed. Regards - dutik Out2gtcha and 109 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Looks great so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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