1/72 NOAA WP.3D Orion

Those decals look really nice, John!

Mr Canberra

And the artwork. This was done on MS Word and paint, the Miss Piggy came from NOAA's web site.

A man after my own heart. With all the talk about Photoshop and the other admittedly more-capable image programs, I think most folks overlook how useful the simpler ones can be. (Though I must confess I use Open Office rather than Word.) I've used MS Paint for decal-making for years, and find it's intuitive and really versatile. Even moreso once you master a few simple tricks.

Excellent work, John, on both the decals and the Orion. Your work is truly inspiring.

gregbale

Mr Canberra

And the artwork. This was done on MS Word and paint, the Miss Piggy came from NOAA's web site.

A man after my own heart. With all the talk about Photoshop and the other admittedly more-capable image programs, I think most folks overlook how useful the simpler ones can be. (Though I must confess I use Open Office rather than Word.) I've used MS Paint for decal-making for years, and find it's intuitive and really versatile. Even moreso once you master a few simple tricks.

Excellent work, John, on both the decals and the Orion. Your work is truly inspiring.

Thank you very much for your kind words!  

I've not tried open office, is that the one that comes with Google? I'm getting the hang of paint now, it took me some time but I think I've git it sorted.

John 

Thanks Don, needs must!

John

I use Paint Shop Pro, a much less expensive program than Photoshop that still has a lot of capability, and I also have, but don't use that often, GIMP, which is shareware and also very popular and powerful.  So there are certainly low cost alternatives to PS.

Don Stauffer

So there are certainly low cost alternatives to PS.

Also to MS Word.

To answer John's question, Open Office is an open-source (and free) suite of Office-type programs that seems to do everything the MS product does with (purely a personal opinion) far fewer annoyances. For decal making I use it for text and type faces, and especially for easy resizing of images to match whatever intended scale I'm going for. Works a treat for both.

John,

Nice work!! Regardless of what you used to make the decals they came out great. I use a CAD program for my decals and don't think I could have done any better. Use what works.

Thanks Greg, and Bick, I'll have to look around at what's out there, but what I have now is doing OK for now although some times it's been a struggle sorting some things out, but that's all part of the fun!  

John

Don't sell your efforts short John they came out great.

A problem with "other than MSPaint" programs  is a learning curve to achieve  work ability.   As you seem to have Paint well in hand, I'd stick with it.

DUSTER

Don't sell your efforts short John they came out great.

A problem with "other than MSPaint" programs  is a learning curve to achieve  work ability.   As you seem to have Paint well in hand, I'd stick with it.

Thanks Steve, I'm getting there, but there is always room to learn

John

Hi John,

Is that a scoreboard on the underneath, below Ms Piggy? What did it signify? Congrats also on a terrific build.

Glenn

mississippivol

Hi John,

Is that a scoreboard on the underneath, below Ms Piggy? What did it signify? Congrats also on a terrific build.

Glenn

Thanks Glenn, the scoreboard records the countries the aircrafts has operated in and the Hurricanes she has intercepted and recorded, there are quite a lot, mainly in and around the Caribbean as you would imagine.

John 

I'm an Orion fan, nice work!  The Navy Orions used to overfly the shipyard in Seattle.  I always had to look up!

Thanks Lon-ski Yes it is a very nice aeroplane, I've never seen one flying but I've seen them in the static at various shows here in the UK.

John

Your WP-3D model is incredible!  How did you form the underbelly radome and the tail?

Jim

Thanks Jim I did a build report on another forum, you can find it here http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/57402-wp3d-orion/?hl=noaa If you have any more questions just let me know.

John 

One of these days I want to build a WP-3D and a while back I printed the construction steps from your build thread. I'm curious: What is Halson's appliance white, a gloss, semi-gloss or flat, and how would you replicate that with Testors Model Master?

Thanks Jim, Halford's Appliance White is a gloss white acrylic rattle can spray, from a Car accessory suppliers in the UK,  if you use Testors just go for a gloss white.

John