I've been back at this hobby in the neighborhood of 8 months now and I finally found a pic hosting site I am happy with so I thought I'd try posting a few pics of my current WIP. I build for my own personal satisfaction and to escape from the worries of life. Everything I do is OOB at the moment and not always historically accurate. I am currently working with painting as much Insignia and other markings as I can because it's challenging and more fun than doing decals. I like using the black basing technique though I have played around with others and still will from time to time for a little variety. These are just simple pics taken with my ipad.
This is a very simple, old kit to build and so far has been a lot of fun.
It goes together real quick great for a first build. The cockpit is without detail.
I don't know why I didn't paint the wheel wells on the sprue when I painted all the other blue. Just one of those duh moments.
Canopy all masked up with Parafilm (I love that stuff).
Black base was done with stynilrez.
I use Tamiya acrylics for all my painting. This was silver chrome, and I also used some flat aluminum as well. Funny I'm posting a silver paint job as my first post considering it's my least favorite color to work with.
My first attempt at painting the insignia. I chose the easiest of them to attempt first. They were done with straight Tamiya flat red.
Clear coat (pledge) applied and canopy unmasked, the parafilm comes off easily with a toothpick. This is it for now hoping to finish this up in a day or two and I'll post when it's finished unless I do something to screw it up, I sometimes have an uncanny knack for doing that.