Guest Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 WOW !! Very nice work, I love it.....Harv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimHepplestone Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Nice job...as usual. Those mudguards look like they've just come of my old Landrover!! ... Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bstarr3 Posted February 6, 2018 Author Share Posted February 6, 2018 WOW !! Very nice work, I love it.....Harv Thanks, Harv. Glad you like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bstarr3 Posted February 6, 2018 Author Share Posted February 6, 2018 Nice job...as usual. Those mudguards look like they've just come of my old Landrover!! ... Tim Hah! Yeah, it is pretty heavy on the mud splatter. The nice thing about making the mud like this is that it's easy to wipe off any overdone areas with a thinner-dampened qtip. I think I will tone down the more heavily splattered one, now that I look at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Great job on the wing and landing gear. Can't wait to see you join them all together with the fuselage. Carl Jeff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karimb Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 WOW! Really really nice. The mud on the wheels looks fabulous like the mossie rolled through a wet mud patch. The difference in pigment colors really gives life to the treads. Love the way you stained the roof of the gear bays with this soft color gradation of grime and dirt! Model on K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bstarr3 Posted February 7, 2018 Author Share Posted February 7, 2018 Great job on the wing and landing gear. Can't wait to see you join them all together with the fuselage. Carl Thanks, Carl. I, too, am looking forward to that important step of making it look like an airplane finally. Although that does turn it from a bunch of manageably-sized sub-assemblies into a big honking airplane with a 2 foot wingspan that I'll be afraid to drop every time I touch it... I really need to get some sort of stand or jig. I'll have to go back in this thread and look at the ones people recommended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bstarr3 Posted February 7, 2018 Author Share Posted February 7, 2018 WOW! Really really nice. The mud on the wheels looks fabulous like the mossie rolled through a wet mud patch. The difference in pigment colors really gives life to the treads. Love the way you stained the roof of the gear bays with this soft color gradation of grime and dirt! Model on K Thanks, Karim. I'm very humbled by your praise, given the amazing quality you produce. Just rolled through a mud puddle is exactly what I'm going for. In fact I'm thinking of doing it as a diorama or at least a vignette, with a muddy grass airfield. Making the wheels all muddy was both an experiment in technique, as well as a sort of kick in the pants for myself to encourage me to follow through on a base for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1to1scale Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Yo...dude! You gots mad skillz! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bstarr3 Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 A small amount of work last night resulted in a major change - it finally looks like a plane! As expected, it fit together like a dream - beautifully engineered to minimize gaps at the join. A few detail shots of the rear radio shelf. I added some wires out of twisted 0.4 lead wire, just to busy it up. The decal for the GEE receiver that I had lost long ago I found again a couple of weeks ago. I set it with the box so I didn't lose it when time came to put it in, but I seem to have lost it again. Oh well, the carpet monster giveth, and the carpet monster taketh away. Besides, unless it's powered up, the oscilloscope screen would be off anyway. While the whole plane fits in my spray booth, I have become more limited in my ability to take pretty pictures with my background. I'm not sure what I'll do when time comes to try to take some nice shots of the whole thing in paint. Oh well - off to the cannon assemblies now! Actually, a question about those. Tamiya instructions say to paint the ammo boxes red brown. Are these painted that color, or am I dealing with bare plywood? Thanks Gazzas, BradG, BloorwestSiR and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Mate, You have some awesome painting and detailing skills! I generally avoid trying to put mud on stuff as it never looks realistic to me when I'm done. But those tires look great! Gaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bstarr3 Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 Mate, You have some awesome painting and detailing skills! I generally avoid trying to put mud on stuff as it never looks realistic to me when I'm done. But those tires look great! Gaz Thanks, Gaz. I am really impressed with the work you've done on your albatros. I admire people who step out of their comfort zones and try new things. The wood looks really good. Re: the mud, yeah I will definitely say that it looked better wet than it does now that it has dried. I put some gloss on it last night in hopes of getting back to that wet appearance, so we'll see... RLWP and Gazzas 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Looks great there. Definitely looking like a Mossie now. I think I painted my ammo boxes in the suggested colours from the instructions. Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bstarr3 Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 Thanks, Carl. I was able to find one picture of an RAF 20mm ammo box, and it was red-brown painted plywood. So I'll go with that, since it's barely visible anyway BloorwestSiR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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