OH this is gonna be good

No pics yet.. but update...

painting the weapons pylons.. ( transfering dazzle scheme )

Landing gear..

tires..

broke Nose gear wheel mount,, scratched that back..

painting fuel tank dazzle

...pics soon..

I wonder what it would look like in some Daisy Dukes......sorry my mind was wandering....

any problems with the color bleeding through??? did you prime??

no probs w color bleeding.. just some sneaky whips under the tape. in places.. The weapons pylons are giving me  a stroke tho..

I did prime the model all over with Floquill railroad primer..

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Thanks P38! Now my eyeballs are bleeding!!!

Really, love what you've done here, super eye-catching scheme and I know what a pain splinter edge camo can be to get right- and yours looks perfect.

Maybe sometime in the future we'll see competition with the 'Tiger Meet' by a 'Zebra Meet'.

Sorry for the long absence, guys.  Had a lot of stuff happening over the past few months but am now getting back to the plastic ( realizing how little time was left on this GB was part of the motivation ).

Just so the list can be updated, the kit I'm using for the not-so-Blackbird is Revell's 1:72 kit of the SR-71.  When I left off, I'd just started rescribing the raised panel lines.  I'll post pics in a little bit since I have a lot more of that to do pre-putty and I'm sure most of you are aware of the usual sub-assemblies you'd be working with at this point.

Since I'm so short on time, I'm skipping cockpit detail and just blacking out the windows.  Originally, I thought about altering the crew to look more like the "Science Ninja Team" characters, but the closed cockpit and small windows wouldn't have let anyone see it.  Besides, the point of this is the wild wings, not strange, brightly-colored outfits on the crew, right?

Anyway, I should have the first part of the rescribing done and putty started tomorrow.  The plan is to putty the kit's seams near the edges before rescribing the zigzag pattern.

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Sparrow... Not gonna make it with both entries:

Hans Von Hammer      F-4C and F-18                Revellogram             1/48

I'm cutting it back to just the Phantom, if that's ok with ya....

No problem.  I can't even get access to my 50% complete F102 kit right now. So I'm even on hold.

Hans von Hammer

Sparrow... Not gonna make it with both entries:

Hans Von Hammer      F-4C and F-18                Revellogram             1/48

I'm cutting it back to just the Phantom, if that's ok with ya....

Still hoping to make it here with the "Not-So-Blackbird", but it's gonna be close.

Almost ready for the primer, but I'm running low on the Tamiya I normally use.  Anyone got tips on a good alternative I can use that'll handle enamels and polycarb spray paint?

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P38: Wow, she's looking fantastic!

Kugai: I don't use much Tamiya paint anymore, Testor's Acrylic is easier to find, much easier to hand brush, and I find it sprays almost as well as Tamiya.

Gamera

P38: Wow, she's looking fantastic!

Kugai: I don't use much Tamiya paint anymore, Testor's Acrylic is easier to find, much easier to hand brush, and I find it sprays almost as well as Tamiya.

and to you both.. I use mostly MM enamels.. if I can.. rarely do I use acrylics.. if the color is not available I do..and then its MM...

Gamera

P38: Wow, she's looking fantastic!

Kugai: I don't use much Tamiya paint anymore, Testor's Acrylic is easier to find, much easier to hand brush, and I find it sprays almost as well as Tamiya.

The catch there is no airbrush and the LHS doesn't carry Testors Acrylic.

The main reasons I use the Tamiya spray primer instead of anything from Testors are that it 1) dries faster and 2) leaves a less heavy coat.  The last couple of times I used Testors gray primer it ended up peeling off when I tried using a mask even though it had been left to dry for 48 hours and ended up obscuring some of the detail.

Kugai: Sorry, misunderstood your question

As to spray primer, yeah I haven't found anything as good as Tamiya. Testors and hardware store paint like Krylon go down really heavy so I hate using them. Maybe P38 has a better idea, I'm not sure what else would work.

No problem Gamera.

So that leaves me unable to meet the deadline this week.  After all of those hours of scribing, though, I'm gonna finish this thing anyway.  Would there be a problem with leaving a pic here whenever it's done?

Sparrowhyperion, please accept my apology for not contributing to the Wild Wings GB as I had intended. It was an interesting and fun concept, and I had a kit that needed all the help it could get, a vision for it, but no follow thru. Should you decide to extend this build or host another, I would hope to participate with more enthusiasm and bench time.

mike

Hi folks.  I know a lot has happened over the last year.  Most if not all of us have had to delay builds for one crisis or another, so I am going to extend the build until October 2012.  This should give us all (including me) a chance to complete our builds.  So lets all just take a deep breath and relax.

Rich

Thanks for the extension.  Now I'll definitely be able to get this puppy done even if I have to wait a few more months for Tamiya to start shipping to the States again.

Ditto the thanks on the extension - looking forward to dusting off my "entry".

Kugai; my LHS is now restocked with Tamiya primer, but during the dry spell I started using Alclad's Primer and Microfiller, which is so far a great product and a little cheaper, if you have an airbrush to spray it. I'll probably get a can of the Tamiya Fine White for the times I don't feel like cleaning the AB.

Mike

mrmike

Kugai; my LHS is now restocked with Tamiya primer, but during the dry spell I started using Alclad's Primer and Microfiller, which is so far a great product and a little cheaper, if you have an airbrush to spray it. I'll probably get a can of the Tamiya Fine White for the times I don't feel like cleaning the AB.

That's the catch here.  I don't have a setup for an airbrish and likely won't be able to get one for a while, so I'm stuck with what I can brush paint and what comes in a rattle can.

would a valkyrie in 3 tone splinter camo be eligable for this?

camo will be similer to this

I believe that that would qualify. :)  I still don't have access to my F102 so I am going to have to come up with something else.  Maybe a B17G with a red and yellow flame theme...  Hmmm...

eatthis

would a valkyrie in 3 tone splinter camo be eligable for this?

camo will be similer to this

 

 

 

il do a backstory in a bit but heres some progress pics

nice ! I have one in the stash.. looking forward to this bird !

is this eligable?

i started it last week (maybe 2 weeks ago i can never remember lol)

it started as a lightning f6 but has had some errrr subtle mods since then ;)

heres the current state of it

i cant make my mind up if this looks really good or really crap????
ps the spine is black as the leading edges of the wings and the fin will be

heres the build thread

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let me know if its ineligable and il remove it :)

current progress painting is nearly done

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are those HVAR's on a F-15 ??

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