scvrobeson Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 Your airbrushing skills are truly a work of art to behold John. Always looking forward to what comes next. Matt Thunnus and JayW 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunnus Posted October 23, 2022 Author Share Posted October 23, 2022 Thanks guys! Painting continues with the tail markings. The Werk Number and swastika was scanned from the Eagle Editions decal sheet and traced using AutoCAD. This allowed me to cut paint masks using the Silhouette Portrait cutter. The black fuselage cross was added at this stage as well. The swastika looked too big and when I checked the decal sheet again, I found that I had traced the wrong swastika. So after sanding down the edges of the newly-painted Werk Number and swastika, I covered up the tail with paint again. I've also started adding the Bright Green RLM 82 (AK Real Colors) to the top of the fuselage. After the corrected swastika and Werk Number were added back to the tail, the masking tape around the black and white tail bands were removed. I still need to add the Brown "4" and dash but painting is almost finished. I'm not really happy with the demarcation between the green and brown at the front fuselage... may just make it a hard separation at the gun cowling panel line. JayW, D.B. Andrus, Uncarina and 19 others 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 Looks great, John Thunnus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainM Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 That is looking great! Man, that's a real good paint-job! Thunnus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunnus Posted October 23, 2022 Author Share Posted October 23, 2022 Thank you Gaz and Iain! The brown "4" and bar are masked and painted. https://i.postimg.cc/ZqRCxMTy/IMG-3168.jpg With the completion of these markings, the painting is stage is just about complete. Note that part of the "4" appears to be curved when viewed from behind. O.W, TAG, Dpgsbody55 and 19 others 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scale32 Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 It's too clean.....! Ah but that is where the real fun begins, in the weathering. Great work as always John. Cheers Bevan Thunnus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 Just superb, John! Kev Thunnus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dpgsbody55 Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 Looking very good. I like your choice in colours, but these late war Luftwaffe paint schemes are so hard to nail down. I've read that planes were painted in whatever colours the factory or units could lay their hands on, and this build certainly shows that to good effect. Cheers, Michael Thunnus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 Thunnus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunnus Posted October 24, 2022 Author Share Posted October 24, 2022 Thanks guys! On 10/22/2022 at 8:47 PM, Scale32 said: It's too clean.....! Ah but that is where the real fun begins, in the weathering. Great work as always John. Cheers Bevan Ah yes. the weathering step is yet to come so this bird will be dirtied up considerably! Not quite finished with the painting yet as I wanted to make a few corrections. First is the demarcation between the upper and lower camo colors in the vicinity of the fuselage cross. Since I have a photo of the starboard fuselage of Brown 4, I thought I'd try to match the demarcation line a little more closely. I'm not a huge stickler for this type of matching but this one is easy enough since I can use the leftover mask materials to protect the markings I've already painted. After the minor correction... I also noticed that the brown bar on this side is slightly drooping so this was fixed as well. Yes, the bar is noticeably lighter than the "4" so I'll need to adjust that as well. The stencil markings are going to primarily masked and painted using the 1ManArmy laser-cut stencils. These are really cool and, in many ways, superior to decals. Obviously the biggest advantage of painted markings over decals is the absence of decal carrier around the marking. And given the fast-drying nature of the acrylic paints that I'm using, painting is faster than applying decals since the decal solution step is not necessary. Resolution of the masks is incredibly fine and I highly recommend trying these masks out if you have the chance. Another plus is that they are re-usable. I just replace the masks back onto the sheet after use. One drawback to using these masks is that since the yellow masking material is opaque, placement can be tricky. Not insurmountable but additional care in placement needs to be practiced. The upper wing stencils have been painted. tucohoward, mc65, LSP_Kevin and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaninaustria Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 Outstanding work John, I am glad to see you are using the 1man army stencils. I have been using them too, and love them. They are superior to the decals! Cheers Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 Super work, John! Those 1ManArmy stencils look amazing. I just wish they weren't so expensive. Kev JayW and Thunnus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody V Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 Not only is the build incredible, but your photographs help us appreciate it that much more. REALLY good stuff happening here! Greg W, allthumbs and Thunnus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayW Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 (edited) John - I don't know where to start! What a beautiful FW. How 'bout this - the correction you made on the tail swastika's. You just cooly and calmly fix such things, or seem so, whereas were it me my hair would be on fire, and my fix would we worse than the original miscue. And boy - you really put that stencil maker of yours to use. The 1ManArmy stencils are super impressive as well. It brings to mind the difficulty we had with the skull & crossbones stencils. How do you suppose those guys can get that kind of tiny detail to come off so clean? Wish they did 1/18... Edited October 24, 2022 by JayW Thunnus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 6 hours ago, JayW said: How do you suppose those guys can get that kind of tiny detail to come off so clean? They're laser-cut I believe, rather than blade-cut as per our consumer-grade plotters. Kev JayW, Out2gtcha, D.B. Andrus and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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