1to1scale Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 You dont give yourself enough credit, that looks great! Out2gtcha and Bruce_Crosby 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 You dont give yourself enough credit, that looks great! 110%! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick HMD Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 As much as I hate the Trumpeter 'B/C', I'm inspired by yours. You've managed to turn a sow's ear into a work of art. A real beauty indeed. I'm in aw. (jaw dropping) And it's not even finished yet! Take this as an advanced compliment on the finished product. Love the B/C. That's why I'm here looking. Very easy looking I might add. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 I like the looks of that alot! Gaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce_Crosby Posted June 20, 2018 Author Share Posted June 20, 2018 Hi Guys, Another day at the coal face! This morning I ran some Mig Blue Dirt panel line wash into the hatch gaps and trim tab lines. I thought Black would be too stark for a new aircraft, which is why I also didn't do any washes of rivets or normal panel lines, relying on normal shadows and the differences between the metallic colours of the panels to do that for me. I'm a believer in "Less is More", in real life you won't see individual rivets at 32 feet away, which is having your nose practically on the model wing tip in scale! This afternoon it was assemble the undercarriage and tyres and hang them under the wing, after having forgotten to paint the inside door faces! So that put me back a while. Plus I added the radiator door and ram, the flaps, ailerons, guns and gun/ammo bay covers. I sprayed the prop tips yellow, something else I'd totally forgotten and they will get decals tomorrow. Then its assemble the prop blades to the spinner, aerials and Pitot tube, odds'n'sods. final bits to go on will be the wingtip nav lights in their new positions. Here's a bit of undercart: Nearly there by Bruce Crosby, on Flickr Crappy photo of the radiator outlet and the tailwheel. Doors still not fitted! Nearly there by Bruce Crosby, on Flickr Port wing looking like Joseph's Technicolor Dream Coat in umpteen shades of metal: Nearly there by Bruce Crosby, on Flickr I can see the finish line! Regards, Bruce Crosby MikeMaben, LSP_Kevin, Kais and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 Looks great! I like the look of it a lot, despite the difficulties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce_Crosby Posted June 22, 2018 Author Share Posted June 22, 2018 (edited) Hi Guys, Well, its 99.999% done! One small mishap yesterday that I'd spotted after I'd taken the photos and just before I went to the local model meeting, one of the nav lights fell off and it's gone into the maw of the carpet monster. So a tiny bit more work to do today. I didn't do much in the way of washes or weathering. This is meant to represent a C on a test flight at the Dallas plant, so I've put a Ammo Blue Grey PLW in service hatches and engine panel lines but nowhere else, relying on the shadows in the panel joints and rivets to show. Black would be far to high a contrast. At one foot away from the model you're a scale 32 feet away and you aren't going to see rivets or panel lines unless the aircraft is about to be scrapped! What I didn't want was the "Painted Lady" effect so prominent in the Spanish school of modelling, where every single rivet, divot, lump and bump is highlighted, shaded or generally messed about with. Worked on real aircraft long enough to know it's rubbish, thank you very much. Good for magazine and book articles and selling shed loads of paint, but realistic? In a pig's ear! Taking the photos, all I did was cleared a space in the spray area, so nothing fancy. I'll do some proper stuff for the RFI section some time this week, also put up the Revell Mustang D. their 262 and four Hasegawa Fw-190D models that I've finished in the last year. And here you can see the stbd upper nav light in place! Untitled by Bruce Crosby, on Flickr Untitled by Bruce Crosby, on Flickr Untitled by Bruce Crosby, on Flickr EndGame by Bruce Crosby, on Flickr EndGame by Bruce Crosby, on Flickr EndGame by Bruce Crosby, on Flickr Hope it's acceptable. Regards, Bruce Crosby Edited June 22, 2018 by Bruce_Crosby LSP_Kevin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce_Crosby Posted June 22, 2018 Author Share Posted June 22, 2018 A couple of filler photos, the prop assembled after I threw the Revell decals on, and the upper hull with thin E-Z line as the aerial. Untitled by Bruce Crosby, on Flickr Untitled by Bruce Crosby, on Flickr Regards, Bruce Crosby rafju, LSP_Kevin and MikeMaben 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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