Archimedes Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 That is really excellent work the gear legs and wheels Spyros! Very convincing! Kind regards, Paul spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaxos345 Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 Looks amazing Spyro!!!! Xronia Polla John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citadelgrad Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 Having finished this kit last year, those landing gear are sublime. spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azgaron Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 Excellent work Spyro! Looks very nice! It for sure gave me som ideas on what I can do with mine! Håkan spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaeone57 Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 NICE!!! Alfonso spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted May 7 Author Share Posted May 7 16 hours ago, Shoggz said: Magnificent weathering... Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted May 7 Author Share Posted May 7 16 hours ago, Archimedes said: That is really excellent work the gear legs and wheels Spyros! Very convincing! Kind regards, Paul Many thanks Paul! 10 hours ago, zaxos345 said: Looks amazing Spyro!!!! Xronia Polla John Thank you John! Xronia polla kai kalo Pasxa! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted May 7 Author Share Posted May 7 8 hours ago, Citadelgrad said: Having finished this kit last year, those landing gear are sublime. Thank you! 8 hours ago, Azgaron said: Excellent work Spyro! Looks very nice! It for sure gave me som ideas on what I can do with mine! Håkan Thank you Håkan! Let me know if you need any specific information. 7 hours ago, Kaeone57 said: NICE!!! Alfonso Many thanks Alfonso! Azgaron and Citadelgrad 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted May 8 Author Share Posted May 8 Hi all. With all work on the airframe pretty much done I have now shifted my attention to the external stores. First part to be completed is the flat underbelly fuel tank. Only extra detail I added was the fuel transfer tube. For that I used lead wire and a small piece of brass tube. I drilled two holes, one on the tank itself and one on the model's underbelly, and glues the tube in place. Painting was done in a similar manner as the fuselage i.e. silver base, mottling with neutral grey and final spray with white aluminium. The fuel leak and overall weathering was done with brown and black Abteilung oils. Next parts to work on will be the kit's pair of 500lbs bombs. F`s are my favs, patricksparks, Landrotten Highlander and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amurray Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 On 2/4/2024 at 12:10 PM, spyrosjzmichos said: Hello everyone! I managed to make some progress with painting. One thing I should mention is that this is my first ever attempt at a natural metal scheme. I always shied away from doing such schemes as I was generally intimidated by the associated challenges and difficulties. But I eventually decided it was time I bit the bullet and try my hand at an "unpainted" aircraft. One thing I always struggled with is figuring out a way to depict the patina that forms on used metal surfaces as evident on numerous period photos of P-47s and P-51s. I eventually came across an old video of doogsmodels that suggested a variation of the popular black basing technique. This involved priming the plastic surface with a metal colour, then applied irregular patches of dark grey and finally unifying the whole scheme with an overcoat of a different metallic colour. I found the technique quite interesting and so decided to try it out. After polishing and cleaning the whole model I first painted it with MRP Silver. Then using an Uschi van der Rosten splatter stencil I covered the silver with splotches of MRP dark gull grey. Next step was to apply several light layers of MRP white aluminium. I made sure to cover the dark gull grey pattern enough to show through the top layer from different angles. I have edited the pictures to make the effect look more dramatic as it was the only way it would appear clearly. But in reality it's much more subtle. And a few detail shots of the effect. Next step is to do some panel variation with dark aluminium and then apply the olive drab anti glare panel. Thanks for checking! Brilliant! spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azgaron Posted May 9 Share Posted May 9 Very nice work with the tank! Looks great! Håkan spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyrosjzmichos Posted May 9 Author Share Posted May 9 10 hours ago, amurray said: Brilliant! Thank you! 1 hour ago, Azgaron said: Very nice work with the tank! Looks great! Håkan Thank you Håkan! Azgaron 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuzam Naj Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 Excellent!! Very realistic weathering. spyrosjzmichos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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