allthumbs Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 (edited) Outstanding workmanship and attention to detail! And the model is coming together quickly considering all of the extra effort put forth. Rich Edited March 1, 2021 by allthumbs Piero 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piero Posted March 2, 2021 Author Share Posted March 2, 2021 Hello, due the quality of the Gunze colors and their drying speed if well thinned, yesterday I was able to finish the camouflage of the upper surfaces. After the Light Sand and the Light Green next was the H309 Dark Green. Then the H406 Chocolate Brown. The H65 Black Green was used to spray the patches covering the czech's insigna. Now its time to go with the Light Grey on the under surfaces....then the radome, antennas, metallic panels, black anti-glare panel and last but not least the large white band around the rear part of the fuselage. CIAO! Piero Renegade, Fanes, scvrobeson and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piero Posted March 3, 2021 Author Share Posted March 3, 2021 Hello, the painting phase is going on. The under surface were sprayed with a very Light Grey. I used the Tamiya XF-80 reference. Then I sprayed the matt Black anti-glare panel in front of the windshield. Patches of Light Blu Grey, Tamiya XF-23, were sprayed over the Czech's insegna under the wings and around the front section of the jet air intakes. The real "challenge" was masking and painting the White band around the rear fuselage section... meters of Tamiya's masking tape following such different shapes and details... but in the end I was happy with the result. Still a lot of panels and details to be painted... but for me this is the best part of building a model. CIAO! Piero Landrotten Highlander, Paul in Napier, Marcel111 and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themongoose Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Wow that looks great! What an immaculate job taping, masking, detailing. Piero 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcel111 Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Looks outstanding!! Piero 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Excellent paint work! Piero 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piero Posted March 8, 2021 Author Share Posted March 8, 2021 Hello, I spent the weekend spraying colors all over the small panels, antennas, metallic plates, radome and the interior of the undercarriage bays. Now its time to prepare the surface for some good thin layers of clear gloss paint Tamiya X-22. CIAO! Piero R Palimaka, Marcel111, Uncarina and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piero Posted March 19, 2021 Author Share Posted March 19, 2021 Hello, the Fulcrum has been glossed with a couple of layers of Tamiya X-22 thinned with Tamiya Laquer Thinner "yellow cap". After that I've applied a wash using the Flory Model's "Dark Dirt" acrylic wash. Now it's ready for the decals. CIAO! Piero scvrobeson, R Palimaka, johncrow and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncarina Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Great work and progress! That gloss really shows the work you’ve done with the color variations. Cheers, Tom Piero 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Beautiful paint work, Piero! Kev Piero 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff T Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Superb work Piero! Very nice indeed. Cheer's, Jeff. Piero 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themongoose Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Love your work on that camo paint! are you applying decals over the flory wash? Piero 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piero Posted March 22, 2021 Author Share Posted March 22, 2021 ... Unfortunately it went like this... My first experience with Techmod's decals has been "difficult": they are printed very well, good color saturation and a thin films... but hardly to use because are so fragile to move from the wet paper and to place on the model. Despite the model was so well glossed I had also a lot of silvering all over the stencils... a nightmare. This is the first time such a thing has happened to me... so I removed paints and decals until the bare plastic: I've used the AK Paint Stripper specific product for this task. Tomorrow I'm going to clean the plastic, restore some panel lines and rivets and after that I'll paint it again. This time it will be a Czech's Mig-29A, as it should has been from the beginning. CIAO! Piero Landrotten Highlander, Iain, LSP_Kevin and 7 others 1 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IvanVasili Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 Oh what a pity!! So nice the camouflage and paintin seemed!! Really sorry for that, I hope a better one comes now. Still, a very good looking Fulcrum you have here! Piero 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crobinsonh Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 Sorry to hear your pain - but a great recovery. Piero 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now