Gazzas Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 A long long time ago on a continent far, far away I built the old 1/48 Monogram Black Widow. I remember even now what a mess it was once finished. It made me decide never to do another all-black aircraft until I had enough knowledge to make it look more real. So, here is my second attempt. I tried to use some light-effect-theory to guide my processes. Despite the fact that I used a jet black pin wash, many of the panel lines that show, show up lighter than the surrounding surfaces which are very much diluted black. This was opposite of my intentions. After reading many arguments over panel lines, it is my belief that sometimes they show... and sometimes they don't. I try to make this occur on each of my aircraft models. The MG 15 barrel with ring sites and MG 17 Barrel tips are by Master Barrels. The MG 151 barrel is copper tube and the aerials of the lower fuselage are scratch built. The wingtip lights are by 5-second-fix and the landing light backing is Molotow chrome pen. The escape hatch is scratch built from Aluminum sheet, brass rod, sprue, and styrene sheet. Brake lines are copper wire, and finally the seatbelts are Tamiya tape. A few more to go..... mywifehatesmodels, Kagemusha, mustang1989 and 18 others 20 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted December 19, 2020 Author Share Posted December 19, 2020 This aircraft is more of a representative of the type than any actual machine. Though a machine with these codes did fly intruder missions over the Eastern UK. Some had white fuselage bands. Some had white stripes under the wings. And some had the Nachjagdverband shield under the canopy. But others did not. My main goal was to work with the black and not be distracted by white and other colors. Speaking of the white markings... these are actually 50/50 Tamiya IJA Gray and Tamiya White. The markings were cut on my Silhouette Portrait. I hope you like it! Thanks for looking! Gaz Uncarina, LSP_Kevin, Fanes and 16 others 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 Lovely! I think it looks great Gazzas and mpk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted December 20, 2020 Author Share Posted December 20, 2020 14 minutes ago, Out2gtcha said: Lovely! I think it looks great Thank you, Brian! mpk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aircommando130 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 That's awesome! I'm going to build a black "carpetbagger" B-24D so I look at a lot of black airplane models for techniques to paint mine! Cheers...Ron Gazzas and mpk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted December 20, 2020 Author Share Posted December 20, 2020 1 minute ago, aircommando130 said: That's awesome! I'm going to build a black "carpetbagger" B-24D so I look at a lot of black airplane models for techniques to paint mine! Cheers...Ron Thank you! Good luck with your B-24! Hopefully we'll get to see some RFI pics. mpk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ron Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 Nice, I sure wish we had a kit of this in our scale too. mpk and Gazzas 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted December 20, 2020 Author Share Posted December 20, 2020 4 minutes ago, LSP_Ron said: Nice, I sure wish we had a kit of this in our scale too. Thank you! Seems to be a common thought. Maybe a petition needs to go to ICM... they've done them in 1/72 and 1/48. I'm sure there are plenty of ppl who could churn out some great AM for them. mpk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpk Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 Terrific stuff Gazza. This is your 2nd ICM Dornier? They must be nice. I began one a while back and parts of it are here somewhere??? How do you feel about this job when compared to the past? I am looking on my phone screen and it looks pretty good mate. Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang1989 Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 Wow!! I've often considered getting an ICM kit and after seeing this one here I may just tip over the edge and do it. Looks GREAT Gazz. mpk and Gazzas 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted December 21, 2020 Author Share Posted December 21, 2020 15 hours ago, mpk said: Terrific stuff Gazza. This is your 2nd ICM Dornier? They must be nice. I began one a while back and parts of it are here somewhere??? How do you feel about this job when compared to the past? I am looking on my phone screen and it looks pretty good mate. Thank you Dale. Comparing this Dornier to the Black Widow of the past is pretty difficult. All I had was a bottle of Testors Flat black paint and one of those crummy Testors paint brushes and very little modelling knowledge. I do remember total disappointment, though. All of these years later I have life's lessons as well as recently acquired modelling knowledge of the last few years. I'm very satisfied with this result and at this moment can't think of anyway to improve on the paint. Cheers, Gaz mpk and Greg W 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted December 21, 2020 Author Share Posted December 21, 2020 52 minutes ago, mustang1989 said: Wow!! I've often considered getting an ICM kit and after seeing this one here I may just tip over the edge and do it. Looks GREAT Gazz. Thank you, Joe! The latest generation of ICM kits are nice builds. You really can't go wrong with them. Gaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpk Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 That's great. You've done a great job. I have an ICM He-111 in front of me. The large Revell box has given out. I have a few things going but need to remove the need of the box. Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 It doesn't look monochrome or monotone so: Mission accomplished! Regards - dutik Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANicoll Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 Gaz, Nice job on a difficult finish! Love the scratch-built bits. Maybe this needs to be the subject of a group-build - all-black aircraft! Happy holidays! Chris Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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