That's the cleanest "filthy" Raptor I've ever seen.  Great build!  Really nice work on the details.

Jim  

I love the way you blended the camouflage, great job.

Toshi

Wow, that is super nice. Very clean. I mean, WOW !!

BK

This is filthy? Lol. Looks good.

I'm not much in to modern stuff, but that is gorgeous.  Thanks for sharing.  

Joe

fox

That's the cleanest "filthy" Raptor I've ever seen.  Great build!  Really nice work on the details.

Jim  

Thanks Jim, I appreciate it!

Toshi

I love the way you blended the camouflage, great job.

Toshi

Toshi, thank you!  I started with the base color and then added about 3 more layers of shading.  Then I added about 2 layers of weathering!

BrandonK

Wow, that is super nice. Very clean. I mean, WOW !!

BK

Thank you, BK!  Like I said before I think the F-22 has a nice shape and the open bays sort of ruin it for me.  It just looks faster all closed up.

lawdog114

I'm not much in to modern stuff, but that is gorgeous.  Thanks for sharing.  

Joe

Thanks Joe!  My goal is to be the "lawdog" of modern stuff.

Fantastic work! Kudos sir!

Another masterpiece!  I was just thinking the other day about when you were going to finish this build.  Glad to see it completed.  =]  It was really does look great.  You should get some better light on it...maybe even just outside natural light and film it.  I think you have a lot of good color there that would show up better.  Just a thought.

What's next on your docket?

Gamera

Fantastic work! Kudos sir!

Thanks Gamera!  Glad you liked it!

bvallot

Another masterpiece!  I was just thinking the other day about when you were going to finish this build.  Glad to see it completed.  =]  It was really does look great.  You should get some better light on it...maybe even just outside natural light and film it.  I think you have a lot of good color there that would show up better.  Just a thought.

What's next on your docket?

Bvallot, thanks a lot!  

You're completely right about the lighting.  I took the pics in my kitchen sort of near a window.  I really want to build my own light box or something like that.  Honestly, I'm not very happy with the pics.  It was the same thing with that F-15E that I built last year.  It had really subtle weathering that I didn't capture in the pics.

Or I could have my wife take them next time.  She's a professional photographer.  Probably would have made sense, huh?

Shooooot!  Get on that! lol  The 30 min it'd take for her to get set up, film, and break down...you could have a bottle of wine popped and poured and a nice pasta ready to go! =]  Just saying...a nice meal will get anybody up and moving.  Plus a tasty bottle of wine....Shhhh********************t!  I'd be all over that camera. =D

Good as it gets, great job. But a year and a half???? Maybe you should have Toshi give you some help.

Patrick

patrick206

Good as it gets, great job. But a year and a half???? Maybe you should have Toshi give you some help.

Patrick

Ha!  Thanks Patrick!  The actual work was probably like 3 or 4 months but I kept dragging my feet for some reason.

That is THE most realistic looking F-22 Raptor model I've ever seen. So very well detailed. You should take outdoor photos of it. I bet it would look like the real aircraft.

SUPER JOB MAN!!!

very nice job. It looks filthy clean.

fantastic finish! well done

Really beautiful build. Excellent weathering if I may add. Not too clean, not too dirty.

What colors did you use?

USAFASME7

That is THE most realistic looking F-22 Raptor model I've ever seen. So very well detailed. You should take outdoor photos of it. I bet it would look like the real aircraft.

SUPER JOB MAN!!!

Thanks a lot USAFASME7!

cnq

very nice job. It looks filthy clean.

Thanks cnq! There's some subtle weathering that isn't really showing up in the pics. I'm gonna try to get some better ones.

CallSignOWL

fantastic finish! well done

Thanks Owl! I appreciate it!

allan

Really beautiful build. Excellent weathering if I may add. Not too clean, not too dirty.

What colors did you use?

Thanks Allan! I just used he colors that Hasegawa recommended in the instructions (I can post the colors later if you like...I'm not at home right now). All the colors were Mr Color mixes and were very easy to mix (all the ratios were 1:1). I added either white or black to the paint to get the fading and then used oils to create the dirtiness. The "Raptor Sheen" is really noticeable if you don't weather the paint. I lost a lot of the sheen but I'm ok with that. The sheen on the real planes is not so noticeable when they are dirty. It pretty much looks the way I was hoping it would.