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noble
Guest
the paint job looks good mate it is a drop ship after all, being dropped from space through a planets atmosphere it would look worn and faded.
Scott
Scott
Great work Andrew looking fantastic and like the rest have said the paint job looks spot on and good work on the fins
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Boldman
Guest
Well, I feel like I came THIS close to ruining the whole model the last two days! As you saw before I'd AB Olive Drab all over. Then I went back and picked out a few details such as the silver on the landing gear legs and so on. I did a little bit of weathering, particularly on some of the leading edged to give them a sort of streaked look as though they've taken punishment on re-entry. Then I took it into my idiotic brain that I needed to give it several Klear coats. I don't really know what I was thinking apart from I wasn't!
Anyway several clear coats and a bit of sanding down later I then realised I'd forgotten to paint the various stripes and grey panels that the instrucitons show, around the rear engine intakes, along the leading edges of the big fins and so on. Its bloody annoying. So then I masked these areas up and brush painted using Field Grey XF 65. Of course when the masking tape came off there was lots of paint creep, so thats had to be touched up OVER the top of the Klear... grrrr
Anyway, this is what its looking like currently after its received it grey stripes
Had an issue with the right rear engine plate - as I was painting the whole plate popped inwards into the body of the model! it was a case of shake rattle and roll to get it back in view and some deftly manipulated tweezers and some fast superglue to get it back in place.
There was also some triumph plus disapointment when the canopy masks came off. Triumph that they came off nicely and produced a nice framing effect, disapointment in that I discovered that at some point during the constrcutions, some shavings or flakes of plastic had found their way into the cockpit and were electrostatically attached to the inside of the cockpit canopy. You can see them in the lower pilot window in this photo:
Apart from that the view into the cockpit looks pretty good. The headlamp masks also came off and look pretty good after a little sanding down with the sand stick to smooth out the paint ridge around the mask. Now I wonder if anyone can spot the - ahem "deliberate" mistake?
Anyway several clear coats and a bit of sanding down later I then realised I'd forgotten to paint the various stripes and grey panels that the instrucitons show, around the rear engine intakes, along the leading edges of the big fins and so on. Its bloody annoying. So then I masked these areas up and brush painted using Field Grey XF 65. Of course when the masking tape came off there was lots of paint creep, so thats had to be touched up OVER the top of the Klear... grrrr
Anyway, this is what its looking like currently after its received it grey stripes
Had an issue with the right rear engine plate - as I was painting the whole plate popped inwards into the body of the model! it was a case of shake rattle and roll to get it back in view and some deftly manipulated tweezers and some fast superglue to get it back in place.
There was also some triumph plus disapointment when the canopy masks came off. Triumph that they came off nicely and produced a nice framing effect, disapointment in that I discovered that at some point during the constrcutions, some shavings or flakes of plastic had found their way into the cockpit and were electrostatically attached to the inside of the cockpit canopy. You can see them in the lower pilot window in this photo:
Apart from that the view into the cockpit looks pretty good. The headlamp masks also came off and look pretty good after a little sanding down with the sand stick to smooth out the paint ridge around the mask. Now I wonder if anyone can spot the - ahem "deliberate" mistake?
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Boldman
Guest
Things have been progressing apace! We're on the home straight now with the finish line in sight!
Well it seems nobody spotted my "deliberate" mistake... Take a look at the lower edge of the widscreen at the front and compare it with this screencap...
Yup, I missed out the triangular panel in the lower left where the "01" is stencilled. Well that had to be added after the photos were taken. The next job, after the Klear was thoroughly cured was of course the decal. Now anyone who has ever touched this kit will tell you that they are painful. The large stencilled bands have solid decal film infill, so my solution was to eliminate that as much as possible as you can see here from the beginning of the job...
Well it turned out to be the right thing to do as it meant the decals went down a lot easier. Okay it did mean there were difficulties as I was dealing with thin lines and shapes which had a very annoying habit of stickign more to each other than the model. I also had a problem in that with the age of the backing paper, when the stencil came free, it usually pulled a thin layer of backing paper with it. The solution to that was to seperate the decal from the paper under water, then immediately flip the decal over and scrub the underside with a small paintbrush to clean it. It did mean that all trace of decal film glue was lost, but Micro sol and set came to the rescue there. I only really had a few breakages and only the grey shapes caused any major problem as they completely broke up as I was applying them. In the end I just stripped them off and left it alone. I thought about masking and painting them on, but in the end I just left them off as I wasn't going to risk ruining things this late in the day.
So now she's all decalled up and had another coat of Klear over the top of the decals. The folding undercarriage doors have been decalled too and now attached to the underside, as has the refuelling probe and the fin just in front of the cockpit canopy and currently the model is now drying in the other room having had matt varnish sprayed
What you expected pictures? Patience is a virtue!
Now the other BIG job was those sodding missiles. I had 32 missiles which had oversized fins and were too long to fit in the pods. So out came the sprue cutters and the scalpel and sanding stick, fortified myself with a cup of tea and while listening to Pick of the Pops this afternoon this surgery got performed 32 times...
Since then they've all been repainted in white and some trial fitting done on the pods. All is looking well for the final fitting, probably tomorrow after the varnish has set on the otehr parts of the model. I'm not sure if I'll permanently glue the pods on - the fittings I've made are tight enough so that they stay in place at the moment without glue. I am tempted to leave them detachable for now while it gets transported around club meeings and shows and will permanently fix only when things have settled down or the joints get too loose.
I plan to take this to IPMS Farnborough next week, plus the Smallspace show in July and maybe some other shows during the year.
Today is the day when I finally saw all the pieces of the diorama working together for the first time... mmm, nice! :D
Well it seems nobody spotted my "deliberate" mistake... Take a look at the lower edge of the widscreen at the front and compare it with this screencap...
Yup, I missed out the triangular panel in the lower left where the "01" is stencilled. Well that had to be added after the photos were taken. The next job, after the Klear was thoroughly cured was of course the decal. Now anyone who has ever touched this kit will tell you that they are painful. The large stencilled bands have solid decal film infill, so my solution was to eliminate that as much as possible as you can see here from the beginning of the job...
Well it turned out to be the right thing to do as it meant the decals went down a lot easier. Okay it did mean there were difficulties as I was dealing with thin lines and shapes which had a very annoying habit of stickign more to each other than the model. I also had a problem in that with the age of the backing paper, when the stencil came free, it usually pulled a thin layer of backing paper with it. The solution to that was to seperate the decal from the paper under water, then immediately flip the decal over and scrub the underside with a small paintbrush to clean it. It did mean that all trace of decal film glue was lost, but Micro sol and set came to the rescue there. I only really had a few breakages and only the grey shapes caused any major problem as they completely broke up as I was applying them. In the end I just stripped them off and left it alone. I thought about masking and painting them on, but in the end I just left them off as I wasn't going to risk ruining things this late in the day.
So now she's all decalled up and had another coat of Klear over the top of the decals. The folding undercarriage doors have been decalled too and now attached to the underside, as has the refuelling probe and the fin just in front of the cockpit canopy and currently the model is now drying in the other room having had matt varnish sprayed
What you expected pictures? Patience is a virtue!
Now the other BIG job was those sodding missiles. I had 32 missiles which had oversized fins and were too long to fit in the pods. So out came the sprue cutters and the scalpel and sanding stick, fortified myself with a cup of tea and while listening to Pick of the Pops this afternoon this surgery got performed 32 times...
Since then they've all been repainted in white and some trial fitting done on the pods. All is looking well for the final fitting, probably tomorrow after the varnish has set on the otehr parts of the model. I'm not sure if I'll permanently glue the pods on - the fittings I've made are tight enough so that they stay in place at the moment without glue. I am tempted to leave them detachable for now while it gets transported around club meeings and shows and will permanently fix only when things have settled down or the joints get too loose.
I plan to take this to IPMS Farnborough next week, plus the Smallspace show in July and maybe some other shows during the year.
Today is the day when I finally saw all the pieces of the diorama working together for the first time... mmm, nice! :D
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noble
Guest
Keep up the good work Andrew looking good so far.
scott
scott
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Boldman
Guest
Thanks Scott
As I said in the last post, yesterday was the first time I got to see the diorama for real and although it looked good, there was something missing... It was a bit too empty, so today I knocked up a little extra for the landing pad...
This uses a couple of plastic tubes that I got when flying back from USA a couple of years ago - they are the holders for traveller toothbrushes Along with some plastic pipe, balsa, bits that were cut out of the missile pods and some of the bits left over from PE for the the cockpit , its a nice way to clean up some of the scrap that was left behind
As I said in the last post, yesterday was the first time I got to see the diorama for real and although it looked good, there was something missing... It was a bit too empty, so today I knocked up a little extra for the landing pad...
This uses a couple of plastic tubes that I got when flying back from USA a couple of years ago - they are the holders for traveller toothbrushes
Along with some plastic pipe, balsa, bits that were cut out of the missile pods and some of the bits left over from PE for the the cockpit , its a nice way to clean up some of the scrap that was left behind
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treyzx10r
Guest
Andrew its really looking great! I usually spray a very light coat of clear over the tape edges before applying color to keep the color creep down to a minimum.
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mobear
Guest
your imagination has no bounderies or limits,that is a great way to clean your work area lol,first class mate
mobear
mobear
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CDW
Guest
Just caught up on this ... i'm still impressed !!!
The quality of work never drops Andrew ...
You say you're going to get this ready to take to a show next week?? ...well to quote Vasquez ..
"Whatever you're gonna do, do it fast!"
The quality of work never drops Andrew ...
You say you're going to get this ready to take to a show next week?? ...well to quote Vasquez ..
"Whatever you're gonna do, do it fast!"
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Sky Raider
Guest
Great job your doing there, looks fantastic, im not sure about that Pink cutting mat though, lol
Andy
Andy
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Boldman
Guest
Start Date: Feb 28th
Finish Date: April 30th
We're in the pipe, five by five.
So this turned out to be a bit MORE mammoth than I expected... funny how 3 of my last four builds (all Sci-Fi subjects!) have turned out like that. I blame the Thunderbirds Firefly for making me want to scratch build so much! Anyway as you might have gathered, I am calling this one complete at long last. Even though its taken 2 months, I have to say its been a really enjoyable build - even the sodding missiles! The highlight for me must be the APC bay, which you can't even see anymore unless you get in EXACTLY the right spot and have a source of illumination like a camera flash lol!
So here are some initial photos - I'm waiting for some dayling to to some better photos but I'll leave you with these for now
Thanks to everyone for their encouragement and interest, its been a blast! I think I leave it to Hudson to say...
That's it man, game over man, game over!
Finish Date: April 30th
We're in the pipe, five by five.
So this turned out to be a bit MORE mammoth than I expected... funny how 3 of my last four builds (all Sci-Fi subjects!) have turned out like that. I blame the Thunderbirds Firefly for making me want to scratch build so much! Anyway as you might have gathered, I am calling this one complete at long last. Even though its taken 2 months, I have to say its been a really enjoyable build - even the sodding missiles! The highlight for me must be the APC bay, which you can't even see anymore unless you get in EXACTLY the right spot and have a source of illumination like a camera flash lol!
So here are some initial photos - I'm waiting for some dayling to to some better photos but I'll leave you with these for now
Thanks to everyone for their encouragement and interest, its been a blast! I think I leave it to Hudson to say...
That's it man, game over man, game over!
P
phalinmegob
Guest
fantastic andrew,nothing more to say, i have one of these and its staying in the box for now because i could never do it justice after looking at yours.
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CDW
Guest
Cracking build mate, really enjoyed watching it come together and participating throughout
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Boldman
Guest
Thanks guys, glad you like it
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mobear
Guest
well after watching this come together,i`m gobsmacked 5*s 6*s 10*s there aint enough,truly magical
mobear
mobear
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Boldman
Guest
thank you And now for my next trick...
To be continued here... http://www.scale-models.co.uk/planes/15396-1-32-hawker-hunter-miss-demeanour.html
