Hey Martin, thanks for the compliment on the exhaust. I primered them with Citadel's chaos black...because i found the vallejo primer peeled right off the resin parts. I used Vallejo metal colors - Black as the base, i handpainted it on To try and add some texture both inside and outside. I used jet exhaust on the inside exhaust flaps. I applied tamiya clear green on the outside of just the rectangular stiffener style pieces at the end of the nozzle flap, not sure what they are called but they have the bolts on them, then put jet exhaust over that to get the color in the photo. I used duraluminum to represent how the flaps scrape the paint off each other as they open and close. I tried to stroke the brush around the nozzle to get the worn affect to look like it was from the motion of the flaps against each other. Then i put 2 coats of matt varnish on everything because it still looked too shiny using the metal colors.
i used GT Resins for the exhaust and the seemless intakes. Both sets are of course way more detailed then the kit parts. The value is really evident on the intakes because the 3-piece kit parts would only look ok after hours and hours of work.
I have to agree with you on the PE! This is my 2nd time using it and it has been better than the 1st. I still lost 2 parts that committed suicide by jumping from my tweezers. So far on this size model I really find it adds something to the kit. On my 1/48 scale kit most of it seemed to be lost to sight.
In the pattern: Scale Shipyard's 1/48 Balao Class Sub! leaning out the list...NOT! Ha, added to it again - Viper MkVii, 1/32 THUD & F-15J plus a weekend madness build!
