chrish Posted February 28, 2020 Author Share Posted February 28, 2020 (edited) And holy crap your right...I’ve gone 10 pages!! less talk, more work right!? Edited February 28, 2020 by chrish Spelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepp Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 Excellent project and superb execution! Love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 Thanks for looking and the encouragement I've begun spraying some paint, it's got 3 shades of olive drab on the top of the wing and 2 shades of gray on the bottom. I shot gloss black on the de-ice boot then punched tape discs to make masked spots (to look like patches on the boot) and then shot rubber black. The gloss black spots almost disappeared but can be seen in the right light, then the damage areas were scrubbed to get the aluminum color showing through. I made my own mask with circle cutter and tape for the star. Thank you for looking Shawn M, TAG, Landrotten Highlander and 17 others 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett M Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Very nice work! The damage to the wing is looking great to my eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lothar Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 This is just getting better and better - spectacular !!! Lothar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Pretty fantastic stuff. Sincerely, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phartycr0c Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 It takes a certain amount of bravery to put holes into a £250 + kit I was petrified of getting it wrong. Your doing stellar work, keep it up.! Lothar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted March 3, 2020 Author Share Posted March 3, 2020 Thanks! and thanks for looking, I'm getting paint on and I'm thinking it's looking a little more convincing now. It did/ does take a lot of my intestinal fortitude to damage the kit in a way that there's no coming back from...short of sourcing new parts and starting over. I think I'm over (a) hump with the paint going on now. masking for the triangle and letter, the white is "dirtied" with a bit of Tamiya "desert yellow" and the blue was painted out of centre and in a washed out blue to (hopefully) give the impression of field applied, old paint. white overspray has been cleaned up left wing getting the works on mask removal I noted I hadn't gone far enough or, too lightly with the blue in some spots, easy to fix. Dany Boy, Landrotten Highlander, Anthony in NZ and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn M Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 REALLY coming to life now, bravo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 Great work so far! Really starting to come together Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted March 4, 2020 Author Share Posted March 4, 2020 Thanks for the encouragement! Painting has started on the fuselage tonight. Thank you for looking TAG, Landrotten Highlander, AlbertD and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted March 5, 2020 Author Share Posted March 5, 2020 I've got a bit more paint work done (I've been able to go back to my trusty double action Iwata Eclipse) and begin adding shade and tonal variations to the paint, not that it really needs it because in places where I put the paint on too thin it actually looked quite real...but I went ahead and fixed that too real problem. I've been adding red brown, flat brown, olive green and yellow to the base color of olive drab in the airbrush. and trying to spray panels, panel lines, etc. with the different shades. Seen in the pictures are the masks I've begun to cut using Tamiya tape and Frisket film I've traced from the HK Models kit and Kitsworld's decals. On an interesting (to me) side note, upon tracing out the HK Models decals star I thought I had goobered them badly, I was using an RB Products straight edge to cut them out and noticed the stars arms weren't symmetrical. I put the straight edge on the decal sheet to find I hadn't goobered the tracing but HK Models had goobered them. So I made my own with a compass, protractor and straight edge. The perforations in the skin have been shot and brush painted with chipping medium and will be worked out after the plane letters and national markings have been painted on...hopefully Thank you for looking Anthony in NZ, Alain Gadbois, LSP_Kevin and 12 others 14 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, chrish said: I've got a bit more paint work done (I've been able to go back to my trusty double action Iwata Eclipse) and begin adding shade and tonal variations to the paint, not that it really needs it because in places where I put the paint on too thin it actually looked quite real...but I went ahead and fixed that too real problem. I've been adding red brown, flat brown, olive green and yellow to the base color of olive drab in the airbrush. and trying to spray panels, panel lines, etc. with the different shades. Seen in the pictures are the masks I've begun to cut using Tamiya tape and Frisket film I've traced from the HK Models kit and Kitsworld's decals. On an interesting (to me) side note, upon tracing out the HK Models decals star I thought I had goobered them badly, I was using an RB Products straight edge to cut them out and noticed the stars arms weren't symmetrical. I put the straight edge on the decal sheet to find I hadn't goobered the tracing but HK Models had goobered them. So I made my own with a compass, protractor and straight edge. The perforations in the skin have been shot and brush painted with chipping medium and will be worked out after the plane letters and national markings have been painted on...hopefully Thank you for looking your large scary project is looking good. I'm working on a LSP of my own, 1/32 ID Models B-29 vacform! Bruce Edited March 5, 2020 by Bruce AlbertD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 Wow! Love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themongoose Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 This is such a great project! Can’t believe how fast and efficiently you’re moving through it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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