Grant_T Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 And a bit of progress. johncrow, dmthamade, Gazzas and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEi Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 Very nice and well built ! looking forward for more photos ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant_T Posted June 7, 2020 Author Share Posted June 7, 2020 Pushing on with the lots of little parts. I masked the canopies (inside and outside) and started painting the various other parts. I also started weathering the bottom of the aircraft but couldn't get a half reasonable picture to show. Hopefully I can start on the upper camo this week. BradG, Lothar, Landrotten Highlander and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant_T Posted June 7, 2020 Author Share Posted June 7, 2020 Oh yeah, the kit comes with weighted and unweighted wheels, which explains the profusion of wheels above. chrish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 37 minutes ago, Grant_T said: Oh yeah, the kit comes with weighted and unweighted wheels, which explains the profusion of wheels above. And they look very good Grant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shujaa Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 Following this one with interest... First of all since it's a Phantom and secondly because I'm currently working on a RF-4E (Hasegawa 1/48) which will also be finished in a Norm 72 livery. I'm debating how to handle the underside of the bird. I'm contemplating using regular aluminium as a base and have a look if I can tone it down a bit with a semi-gloss coat... Look's like You might be heading in the same direction so I'm curious to see how it will look in the end... Keep up the good work on this sweet bird ! Kind regards, Rudy. MikeC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant_T Posted June 14, 2020 Author Share Posted June 14, 2020 On 6/8/2020 at 3:21 AM, Shujaa said: I'm contemplating using regular aluminium as a base and have a look if I can tone it down a bit with a semi-gloss coat... Look's like You might be heading in the same direction so I'm curious to see how it will look in the end... I painted the bottom with Vellejo metal color Aluminium, and then did to post shading with burnt iron and pale burnt metal to give it some variation. I just masked the whole bottom though so I don't have any pictures. I've just been working on the back end of the aircraft. Slowly getting my mojo back mozart, dodgem37, BradG and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shujaa Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 Nice to read You regained your mojo. The back-end is looking sweet. I'm looking forward to see the belly of the beast after she has been uncovered to see the results of your "explanation" regarding how you handled the "elusive weiss-aluminium". Keep up the good work ! Kind regards, Rudy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant_T Posted June 16, 2020 Author Share Posted June 16, 2020 And here's the cockpit. Obviously the kit is very basic/toylike in terms of cockpit detail, but I'm a busy person so really don't have time to add detail. If I built the kit again I'd look for some aftermarket for the cockpit, though I'm not sure if there is any. Still, I'm happy with this and it fits with my theory of cockpit painting (i.e. it should be of a detail commensurate with the outside of the aircraft and scale distance appropriate, and hence basically monochrome). johncrow, themongoose, Lothar and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant_T Posted June 20, 2020 Author Share Posted June 20, 2020 First top colour on and a bit of panel shading, and glossed to protect it. I think this one will be quite weathered. Next up, masking for the green. Alain Gadbois, dmthamade, johncrow and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Good show. Sincerely, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lothar Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Looks more than promising so far, she'll turn out a true beauty I'm sure.... Lothar mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant_T Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 Main colours on. Next up, decals. Sorry for the cruddy pics. Gazzas, mozart, Isar 30/07 and 17 others 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CZPetrP Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Beautiful spray. Grant_T 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Great work! Your masking came off perfectly. Grant_T 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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