Great work Doug and thanks for the tip. I always want to get that worn look on the decals but never seem to get it. I'll have to give this a try.

Doug, that is really starting to come to life. Stunning work, Sir.

BK

Looking great there Doug, those decals look to have gone down really well.

Oh wow, great stuff there guys!!! 

Doug,

I take it you airbrush the light grey for the fading?

Still waiting for my airbrush to return. 

Well good morning all... I did the decals and started panel lines and weathering last night. The drying and setting time is a necessity, but when I get to this point its like "Off to the races!" I can see the finished build in my head and I want to rush! Calm down... back away... You know this has to happen... Any way, heres what I have...

After applying decals I nearly always use Micro-set to ensure good adhesion to flat surfaces and / or Micro-sol to soften and set decals. Tamiya and Hasagawa decals usually take some work to get them to soften and lay flat. Micro-sol would not work on these, so I had to break out the Walthers solva-set. Much stronger and has never failed to attain a good adhesion.

Starting to do panel lines and weathering...

A little dry brushing with aluminium to show chipping and sand blasting wear. I'm fading the upper surfaces where the blistering African sun would sun bleach the finishes. To do that I just use a thin mix of sky geay very lightly applied to the individual panels.

One side is done , for comparison.

Well Thats about where I'm at at this time... Thanks for looking. Hope I'm not too long winded describing pics. Just trying to pass on my techniques, the way I've learned from others... Thanks, more later.

Doug

Tony... I'll be following these close... I have ALWAYS struggled with figures and have never been able to do them justice. I can make them acceptable, but never like I really want.

Doug

Nice start Tony, you got a good base there.

Yeah it should be OK MC. I've got the base colours laid down for my figure. These can dry for a couple of days then I'll start the serious painting. These really just serve as a primer.

Cheers

Tony

checkmateking02

 

 

Bish

Nice work on the pit there Justin. But just a note on the colur, the cockpits and exposed areas of RAF night bombers was black.

 

 

 

Another

I followed the Airfix painting instructions for the HP Hampden, and ended up with this.

Closed up the fuselage already, but haven't posted until I get the photos over to PhotoBucket.

Instructions called for Interior Green on the crew areas, but fortunately black in the bomb bay.

Ought to teach me to do research and not be overly sanguine about the instructions in the kit.

Thanks, though, for the information, Bish.  I'll know better next time.

On a happier note, great work going on with the rest of the builds.  Exceptional work all around.

 

I'm not too worried about the accuracy,  once my fuselage is closed up, 90 percent of it isn't visible. ...

Bish

Nice job on that Toshi.

 

Toshi

Greg

 

 

Toshi

Instrument Unit for Tamiya 1/32 Mosquito cockpit.

 

 

That's a neat little instrument box there, Toshi. Nicely painted (and decaled).

 

armornut

Tosji, that radar screen is something else, the rest of the panel looks good too. Wish I had your skill at knobs cause mine almost always look like they have been hit with a hair dryer to the point of melting. Speaking of pix, soon, (I hope), I will have a few shots of my Tempest cockpit. Trying to pin down the color reference I am most comfortable with. Big horizontal stab and rudder halves are put together, hadn't noticed til I started assy. there are no locator pins anywhere. Still gonna be a fun build.

 

Toshi

Bish

Nice work on the pit there Justin. But just a note on the colur, the cockpits and exposed areas of RAF night bombers was black.

Another

I followed the Airfix painting instructions for the HP Hampden, and ended up with this.

Closed up the fuselage already, but haven't posted until I get the photos over to PhotoBucket.

Instructions called for Interior Green on the crew areas, but fortunately black in the bomb bay.

Ought to teach me to do research and not be overly sanguine about the instructions in the kit.

Thanks, though, for the information, Bish.  I'll know better next time.

On a happier note, great work going on with the rest of the builds.  Exceptional work all around.

Uh-oh indeed.

Roster is updated guys, hopefully i ain't missing anyone. If i am, give me a kick.

Uh-oh (used to express alarm, dismay, or realization of a difficulty) more Spits. 

Never to late to jump in Texas. Glad to have you and you Spit on board.

I am going to be "that guy"...I just got back into modeling so I would like you to count me in for a Tamiya 1/48 Spitfire Mark Vb Tropical bird...

armornut

Tosji, that radar screen is something else, the rest of the panel looks good too. Wish I had your skill at knobs cause mine almost always look like they have been hit with a hair dryer to the point of melting. Speaking of pix, soon, (I hope), I will have a few shots of my Tempest cockpit. Trying to pin down the color reference I am most comfortable with. Big horizontal stab and rudder halves are put together, hadn't noticed til I started assy. there are no locator pins anywhere. Still gonna be a fun build.

 

Gotta love those limited run kits. Look forward to those pics.

Nice job on that Toshi.

Toshi

Instrument Unit for Tamiya 1/32 Mosquito cockpit.

That's a neat little instrument box there, Toshi. Nicely painted (and decaled).

Tosji, that radar screen is something else, the rest of the panel looks good too. Wish I had your skill at knobs cause mine almost always look like they have been hit with a hair dryer to the point of melting. Speaking of pix, soon, (I hope), I will have a few shots of my Tempest cockpit. Trying to pin down the color reference I am most comfortable with. Big horizontal stab and rudder halves are put together, hadn't noticed til I started assy. there are no locator pins anywhere. Still gonna be a fun build.

Instrument Unit for Tamiya 1/32 Mosquito cockpit.

 Assembly #3 Instructions

Bish

Toshi, nice work on those seats, are those belts from the kit.

 

Toshi

Doug, I love those colors and that pattern is unique. It looks great.

BK

Doug, Tony nice work there guys! 

Good to hear you Greg and Doug's wife are feeling better. 

Tony,sound slike you got quite a line up planned. can't wait. I still need to addyour figures to the roster so will do that in a bit.

Nice start on the figures, i usually find with most plastic ones the join between body and arms needs some attention.

Bish, that's what I've been told about the vellajo,Thanks for verification. Thanks to you and Greg for well wishes for my wife, yeah spring time in the South is no place for the allergy prone. She has issues about every year. 

Andy, yes the Dark Earth is straight from the bottle with a thinning with denatured alcohol this time due to humidity being high the day I painted, (rainy yesterday) it drys a tad slower then the lacquer thinner and as a second color it won't disturb (distort or bleed) into the base color. 

Doug

I like that Dk Earth colour too. Hey, great work everyone. I'm thinking about more subjects for this GB as I go. 1/72 Spitfires. perhaps a 1/32 Hawk in Red Arrows colours, some British jugs, I'm really not sure yet.

However, for now, I've put my pilot figure and his dog together. These are the Master Box 1/32 (54mm) items. The fit is really quite poor, but I find its usually easily fixed on figures in this scale. There is still a lot of cleaning up to do, but I hope to get it to primer stage today.

Cheers

Tony

Doug I like the Dark Earth color from MM you have there. Was that straight out of the bottle?