Hello from a Chicago retiree...
Greetings from Phil. Being retired for some years and at the age of 70 I decided to get myself occupied with doing some scale modeling aside from the everyday tedium of keeping up a house. I’m not at all new to forum sites as I once owned and ran one for some years (not hobby related). Anyway, I’m sure to have a crap load of questions and I’m currently working on my first one which is an Eduard 1:48 Hellcat F6F-3. As far as I can remember the last model I built was when I was around 14 and then we mostly just slapped them together with Testors glue and threw on some spray paint and things have obviously come a long way since then. I also, for what it’s worth, did some R/C flying back in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
I started working on the Hellcat back in October but I’m going slowly as I’m considering this as a learning project and of course still in the process aquiring various essentials. I’m interested in doing planes, but eventually I’d like to take on a tank, but one step at a time. I somewhat jumped in head first as I currently already have two airbrushes (Iwata Eclipse HP-CS –used, but mint condition and a H&S Evolution – new), spray booth and various other things, paints, craft tools, etc.
I was going to save a question I had on the Hellcat for later, but as long as I’m here: I’m at the point of doing pre-shading (which I’ve never done before, and not looking forward to), but seeing that the under belly of the Hellcat is white should I stay with black, or perhaps use a dark grey? I’m not at all too concerned with doing any pre-shading on the top as it will be Navy Blue which is very dark and any pre-shading would not show through anyway. Who knows, perhaps someone who is reading this post has already built this very same plane. Like I previously mentioned, this is a learning project but at the same time I’d rather not screw it all up at this point in time and stage of progress.
Thanks for your anticipated help, and once again… Greetings!
~Phil~