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Here are a couple of shots of the cockpit I finished tonight. I like the way it looks inside the fuselage.
Above is the fuselage after a wash of burnt sienna and a dry brush of aluminum. I was generous in my dry brush because I wanted to create more light in that dark air frame once it is closed up.
On the Bench: , Tamiya 1/48 Corsair Birdcage, Revell B-25J, Tamiya 1/48 Spitfire Mk. I
Up next: Revell 1/48 A-6 Intruder
Good work so far, Rob.. Any thoughts yet on which final paint-scheme?
I am probably going to do "Juanty Jo" since it is not MF and I want to try some chipping techniques. I just got back into scale modeling after a 7 year hiatus so I plan on keeping it simple until I can get some of the more advanced skills. Although I saw a post you wrote someone about a craylon rattle can for NMF and I am dying to try that! So to answer your question....I don't know what the final paint scheme will be
Yeah, it's good stuff.. "Krylon Premium Silver Foil Metallic" is the name... About 6 bucks for an 8-oz can, but it goes a LONG way...
Just be sure to give it a good 48 hours to fully cure before you handle it, and make sure it doesn't rub off on your fingers by spraying a test-piece after you get done painting.. When you can handle the test-piece without marring the surface or getting metallic on your fingers, your model's paint is cured...
Natural Metal it is...now I am thinking after market decals....any recommendations?
Hans von Hammer Yeah, it's good stuff.. "Krylon Premium Silver Foil Metallic" is the name... About 6 bucks for an 8-oz can, but it goes a LONG way...
Hans, I have a Revell B-29 in my future, and am starting to think about NMF. How are you using the Krylon? Do you decant it? And, how far does it go; a couple of 1/48 fighter plan kits?
On the Bench:
Revell 1/96 USS Constitution - rigging
Revell 1/48 B-1B Lancer Prep and research
Trumpeter 1/350 USS Hornet CV-8 Prep and research
No I don't decant.. I shoot right from the rattle-can... But make sure you practice with it.. I can't really describe how I do it by typing, and I don't have any way to make a video... Basically, I just make ordinary asses that one would do with a rattle-can, although the Krylon nozzle is one that will allow you to change the spray-pattern, like from a vertical to a horizontal "fan"...
It's an 8 oz. can, and I've done two P-51s, a B-17, an F-84, and two P-38s with the same can, still have about a third of it left, according to my calibrated arm...
Should be able to do a B-29 and as many single-engine fighters as you want, as long as you only want five or six...
Thanks for the response, Hans. It sounds like a winner to me. I will try to buy some tomorrow!
No sweat, Shipper..
Handsome Rob Natural Metal it is...now I am thinking after market decals....any recommendations?
Yupper, that's th' stuff...
As for AM decals, I dunno.. I don't have any prferences, and generally, I build aircraft with spurious markings and serials, so the Rivet Counters can't critique my build by telling me that "Jersey Bounce had a nine-man crew at the time-period you modeled your B-17 in, it only had one waist gunner. You've added the name of the right-waist gunner that no longer was assigned to any 479th B-17s...:".
I make up my own serials and squadron codes, often putting mine and folks I know names on the canopy rails and fuselages, and make my own names up to go with the nose art.. Ain't historical, but it's fun, lol..
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