Adversary & Aggressor GB (3/15/09-12/31/09)

Chris,

Nice work.  Haven't forgotten about this build, just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Truly spectacular Chris. And equally impressive, if I recall right, the splinter camo was hand painted? She really came out nicely and I'm sure it will spur the masses! In fact we have a new participant, Konigwolf13. You made them salivate Chris, LOL. Thanks for posting!

Tony

lewbud wrote:

Chris, Nice work.  Haven't forgotten about this build, just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Hi lewbud, I know you wouldn't forget us! These builds always get livelier as the deadline approaches and I'm certainly looking forward to your funky green Skyhawk!

Just for everyone's info, I had mentioned a while ago that AFV Club has been working on a new tooling for a 1/48 F-5E Tiger II, a real mainstay of aggressor squadrons, particlulary for the US Navy and Marines. They've posted some test shots over at Aeroscale and it looks sweet, I think one of the really anticipated releases of the year and if we're lucky it will be out before the holidays...which would unfortunately force me (and my dwindling wallet) to do a second bird for this GB! Anyhow, I thought folks here would be interested in seeing some of these test shots .

Hot-Pb wrote:

Truly spectacular Chris. And equally impressive, if I recall right, the splinter camo was hand painted? She really came out nicely and I'm sure it will spur the masses! In fact we have a new participant, Konigwolf13. You made them salivate Chris, LOL. Thanks for posting!   Tony

Yes certainly made me sit up and take notice.

Anyways was picking up an expensive amount of paints yesturday and had enough money to pick up this bird from shops cheapo bin, being a scale I've never working in before I figured, hell why not. Got her home, looked at the instructions and as expected rather short on information (well it is an acedemy kit, looks not bad in general lines though). The only info paint wise given was "light grey with medium grey patches" . I figured if I had to google more accurate paint info I might as well make it exciting, after a while I found some images of birds from the 65 Aggressor squadron, figured looks like a good idea, see this thread today, and was sold.

heres what it should be

 This is what I plan to do with her

I have more accurate details than above, but not looking fwd to doing the 1/100th marking by hand LOL

Konigwolf13 wrote:

I have more accurate details than above, but not looking fwd to doing the 1/100th marking by hand LOL

Konigwolf13,

I have got to admit, the extra digit in 1/100 sounds small but hey, if it was easy everybody would be doing it! Do you have decals for the bird at that scale?

Tony

Thanks for the kind comments guys, and good to see that this GB hasn't faded away yet.  Looking forward to seeing more.   That F-5 looks like a nicely detailed kit.

Chris

OK Painting stage. She comes with a stand so I went with the wheels up configeration, and discovered she was not ment for that look, the gear doors needed alot of sanding to sit flush. Also needed some putty and sanding around the air intakes as well.

Did the base layer of Gunze sangyo light blue, then dusted with tamiya xf-23 light blue to get the right colour. Then I 've done GS 322 for the camo. I got part way through this coat and realized I still had the large flow nozzle in the airbrush which accounted over spray, So I need to redo the light blue again, hope it looks fine, cause I dontreally want to strip the paint and start again, lol.

 Andrew

Konigwolf13 wrote:

OK Painting stage. She comes with a stand so I went with the wheels up configeration, and discovered she was not ment for that look, the gear doors needed alot of sanding to sit flush. Also needed some putty and sanding around the air intakes as well. Did the base layer of Gunze sangyo light blue, then dusted with tamiya xf-23 light blue to get the right colour. Then I 've done GS 322 for the camo. I got part way through this coat and realized I still had the large flow nozzle in the airbrush which accounted over spray, So I need to redo the light blue again, hope it looks fine, cause I dontreally want to strip the paint and start again, lol.  Andrew

Looking great to me Andrew, paint looks nice and smooth, if there's any overspray I can't tell. Looking forward to seeing it all decaled up.

Tony

Thanks Tony, might not of been able to see it in the photos, bit it was there.

FINISHED

As it turns out without using an enamel based paint as a primer, just using crud quality tape, and handytak at masks  it was taking paint off down to the model. In fact just pouring metho over to make a bath to strip the paint took 99% of the paint off.

 I gave a grey enamel primer, then coated in light blue. I then made some masks by printing out the paint guide at the approx size, taped it on, and handytaked the in between bits.I then pained remaining areas.

Decals are mostle printed normal paper glued to aircraft with hand painting over white areas to small to cut out. I used the decals that came with the model, though not full black I think on this scheme they actually look better, I also used the kit formation strips. Only problem was the 'decals' printed at wrong size so the are slighty to large.

Andrew