Finished my Revell Colonial Viper.

Well, I like it.  It looks really good, the only thing that stood out to me was the poor masking job on the canopy.  The rest looks really good, especially the legos in the background.

That's pretty sweet dude, and the build thread is much appreciated. Not bad for so any "firsts".

You should post bigger picture here w/ your link.

smeagol the vile wrote:

The rest looks really good, especially the legos in the background.

 Those are my kids .... Honest.   We glue the lego models together so they pretty much stay in one piece.  Uselly something shows up on my work table once a week for me to "Fix". 

 Thanks for the nice words.

Heh, legos are an amazing tool to use to learn to fix seams.

 Oh the memories! I can just see Rick Springfield being blown to bits by those heartless robots!

Fantastic work!  I think that Commander Cain would be proud to have her as part of his Viper squadrons on-board Pegasus!

 

Greasy wrote:

http://www.happinessismandatory.com/misc/Colonial_Viper.htm I have learned the most of this kit more than any other I have done.  I tried a lot of new thing like: 1.. First kit I used an Air brush on. 2. First time I have used Salt Chipping to weathering. 3. First time I have sprayed "decal" instead of using what comes with the kit 4. First time I used the "Max Technique" 5. First time using a setting solution of the decals Thanks, Jon

Jon,

I was wondering if you couold explain a couple of things in your new learning items?  What is sprayed decal and what is Max Technique?

He has a link on his page about the "Max Technique":

http://www.keenix.com/inprogresspages/in-progress-max-technique.html

Nice work, BTW.

 

 

SNOOPY wrote:

Jon, I was wondering if you couold explain a couple of things in your new learning items?  What is sprayed decal and what is Max Technique?

The link above is the MAX Techique I used.

Sprayed Decal means I didn not use some of the decals from the kit, I just masked the stripes so only where the stripes would be visable.  I then airbushed the the color of the stripes.  The idea behind it is that it would look more realistic as they are painted on (Thinner) then it would look if you would regular decals as they tend to be thicker.  Also I wanted to do some chipping on the stripes and I thought it would be easier to salt chips and spray then to try and pick some of the decals off with an excato.

Thanks,
Jon

Very well done! I've got that kit not too long ago, and I'm looking to start it sometime nexgt year. I hope mine is half as nice as yours is.

Hey, nice build Greasy! I've just finally been catching up on the new Battlestar Galactica series (TV on DVD is the way to go), and I realllllly need to get me one of these. Too bad they don't have a kit of the new Cylon Raider to go with it.

Greasy wrote:

I have learned the most of this kit more than any other I have done.  I tried a lot of new thing like: 1.. First kit I used an Air brush on. 2. First time I have used Salt Chipping to weathering. 3. First time I have sprayed "decal" instead of using what comes with the kit 4. First time I used the "Max Technique" 5. First time using a setting solution of the decals

For all your 1st's "WOW" you did a Sweet Build there.

I got one I put away that I want to do soon, just hope it looks as good as yours.

Bud

Very nice Viper. How did the cockpit addition go? Fit and what not? I built one in the "what if" vein, but didn't do the pilot and pit thing.

sfcmac wrote:

Oh the memories! I can just see Rick Springfield being blown to bits by those heartless robots!

He didnt get blown to bits, just saw him yesterday on General Hospital

looks great!

 

Ric