Props (no pun intended) to Tim and Aaron for another excellent vlog. I really enjoy those.
Tried something new. (For me, at least.)
Since the Eduard Baby's fuselage molding is pretty flat and featureless...
...I thought I'd dress it up a little by adding a bit of 3-D detail, in the way of stitching and lacing. The tools: paper-thin styrene sheet (Evergreen .005, I believe), a metal straight edge, and Trumpeter's "Hobby Rivet Maker" rivet tool, which I purchased a while ago, but had thus far never used. I used a regular cutting pad for a backup surface.
For each line of stitching needed, I made several passes with the rivet tool, relying on random chance to "overlap" the rivet tracks slightly, to give something that looks (vaguely) like seam stitching that's been taped over and doped. Then, using a new #11 blade, I sliced these lines of stitching into strips.
Then, using brush-on liquid cement, I applied these strips of stitching to the naked fuselage. (Obviously, there's a bit of PE lacing there as well, from and old Tom's set.)
I suspect the effect would be more to scale on a 1/32 bird, but even for 1/48, it doesn't look bad. (I tried to get low-angle lighting in the photos to show the raised effect, so the shadows look harsher and deeper than they ordinarily do to the eye. I'm hoping that with a touch of light sanding, a coat of primer and dark-toned topcoat, they'll look about right.)
May get a bit more done this weekend. Hope everybody's builds are going smoothly.