How would you paint these GBU-12's?

mike, if you are like me, you want the thing to look as close to the real thing as possible and that your skill level will allow you to do. you are right, that would be a major undertaking, and you already know if you are willing to do it or not. i wouldn't start it if i didn't have the patience to finish. it seems that you've been working on the ordinance package for sometime now, how much ordinance can one bird carry?!! just skip it mike, i'm ready to see it finished!!! have fun, later.

Patience Chris, patience.
All that is left is the ordinance and the landing gear.
Hopefully it will be done this week.

Mike

With a GREAT BIG airbrush!

Could you just make a mask from Frisket or something like that? Something that would be reusable and keep you from having to mask each one individually?

Or, maybe find some decal paper and print a section in brown. Then just cut out pieces the proper size for each bomb.

I don't know Scott.
I am considering using a moveable mask and holding it on the edges of the brown color and spraying the camo green color around the mask leaving the brown underneath.
It would have to be awful small though.

Mike

IT's hard to tell from the picture, but that looks like about an 18" stripe judging from the size of the girl. At 1/48 that would be roughly 3/8" so it wouldn't be that small. Certainly nothing for a master like you!

A master?
That was funny Scott.

Mike

that is funny scott!!!.......................oh, sorry mike!!

If he does good on these I'm planning to send him a bunch of ordnance from my F-105 to do. Just softening him up a bit

Well I tried it and it worked fairly well. I have to touch up some of them with the MM Leather enamel that I used again as I was not precise enough with using the hand-held mask. What I did was sprayed the whole fin area with the Leather MM enamel and after it was dry I held the bomb in the double alligator clamp holder I have. I then held the strip of styrene you see in the picture over the leather colored area as I sprayed Green Drab MM Acryl over it covering the areas that should be green again. The strip I used in the photo is Evergreen .010" sheet strips that I cut 1/8" wide with an X-acto and a straight edge. It was easier than masking them all.



Mike

Looking good. Hope to see the finished model in my lifetime .

QUOTE: Originally posted by rjkplasticmod Looking good. Hope to see the finished model in my lifetime .

Gee ... another shot at Mike taking so long to build this F-15. Hey, Mike ... McD can build the real ones faster using just one shift!

I can't really say anything though. I've been working on this F-105 since early April.

The bombs look good, Mike, and it was worth the effort to make them more realistic I think.

QUOTE: Originally posted by MusicCity McD can build the real ones faster using just one shift!

It would take longer than that being that McD is no longer in business.
Maybe you meant Boeing?

Thanks for the compliments guys.

Rick,

Sorry I am not a fast builder but there are nights I am just too tired to work on them so it goes slowly at times.

Mike

QUOTE: It would take longer than that being that McD is no longer in business. Maybe you meant Boeing?

Shows how well I keep up with things. All I know is that McD first built the F-15. For all I know Microsoft is building them now

I know how it is, Mike. I had great plans all week about working on my F-105 all weekend. So far I've spent about 4 hours on it because I just haven't been in the mood.

Edit ... OK, so you were right and they are owned by Boeing now I did find a very good reference area on their site. The link is:
http://www.mdc.com/companyoffices/gallery/flash.html
and the F-15 page is especially good.

The proper answer

According to the "narato/naruto/narito family modeling" (sp?) the proper color is "Alclad 2 copper" and a flat coat

That dont look like no copper (said like a billhilly)

QUOTE: Originally posted by 1337 The proper answer According to the "narato/naruto/narito family modeling" (sp?) the proper color is "Alclad 2 copper" and a flat coat

I saw that guy's build and it looks silly if you ask me.
The color between the fins in the picture I posted is not even close to Alclad copper.
It is a brown color which designates a low explosive device or a gas generator which moves the fins of the missile.
Here is what I was told over at the F-15E Strike Eagle Forum:

A blue band means that particular section of the weapon is inert, not necessarily the whole thing. For instance the missiles fired at WSEP have a blue band on the warcranium, because it has been replaced by a telemetry unit, but a brown band on the rocket motor, since that is still live. A yellow band means that section contains high explosive, invariably the warcranium. A brown band means that section contains low explosive like a rocket motor or a gas generator (for moving the fins on an LGB).

Mike

thanks for the knowledge