Boeing Build

Looking good Ghost.

nose section is assembled and preshaded.

Nice white nosecone. What did you use?

just testors gloss white enamel in a rattle can. I figured that the high contrast preshading under the top coat would help the nose stand out.

I airbrushed alclad on the underside of the engines for the bare titanium, now all I need to do is install the CFTs and I can start painting this thing gunship grey.

that will give it a burned metal look. Here is my E4B engine up date

Nice work, did you drybrush the impeller blades? the spinners must have been tough considering their size.

I used metalizer tianium then SNJ power followed by tamiya black wash. the decals are a pain needed to apply future on the cone place decal then micro sol and leave it alone that's what happens when you don't follow instructions and place the decal BEFORE assembly  

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Since I'm almost ready to paint the main coat on the mudhen, I decided to start with a test on the tails.

It went ok, but I think the paint came out of the rattle can too thick and just about obliterated the preshading. To save time I traced all the lines with a sharpie instead of airbrushing on the tails.  You can just barely make out the preshade lines in this pic, they're all but invisible in person.  I'm not sure the airbrushed lines will do any better against a rattle can, so I'll use an airbrush for the grey on the rest of it instead.

Interesting development: I hit the tails with glosscoat and suddenly all the sharpied panel lines appeared, bright purple and clear as day.  I won't be using sharpie to draw those in again.

Sharpies do not play well with most paint, they will bleed through almost anything. Sharpie does make an enamel-type marker that "supposedly" will not bleed through; however, I'm not quite enough of a risk taker to give it a shot. I did the same thing with a model a few years ago thinking it would be a cool way to get panel lines. I quickly learned from that mistake. You might be able to strip the paint and get the Sharpie marks off with lacquer thinner.

I may end up doing that, I painted over it again and the sharpie stayed down on one, but showed up again on the other fin.  Which is wierd, since I didn't do anything different between the two.

modelcrazy

I painted the B-47 with Alclad gloss black. It goes on well but the build is so big I had to paint it in two sections.

 

I also figured that I needed to build an airliner for the build. Since the Braniff 727 was a bust I wanted to do something else. Well I saw this last Saturday at our IPMS meeting for $3 and just couldn’t pass it up. So I snatched it and ordered decals for British Airways from Airline-hobby.com. So using Aarons excellent airliner guide I bought for myself for my birthday I got to work.

 

Steve

 

Nice Work Steve.  Thanks for showng that book too.  Never seen it before..  I may need that eventually....  who am I kidding....  I need it now.  LOL

By the way-  I have just got here from about 2 weeks of being tied up.  Great work and love seeing the way everyone helps each other.  Very Cool.  Some of the talent in here is simply amazing!

don't you just hate it when your decals stick instantly to the model and don't budge no matter how hard you try to refloat them?

Man that sucks GR. I never had that hard of a time sliding decals although I can imagine what you went through. Micro sol helps decals slide until you get it where you want and helps remove them. 

Yeah, I didn't have any trouble with the decals on the other tail, just those ones.  I found a new sheet of decals for the same kit on Ebay, so I'll just strip this tail and start over.

Steve, that looks really slick - seriously, nice work on this one.

regards,

Jack

Ghostrider114

don't you just hate it when your decals stick instantly to the model and don't budge no matter how hard you try to refloat them?

 

 

If you still need some of these decals and dont want to spend money for them, I have a set of those tail codes that I am not going to use. I just built two of these kits and only used one of the Bold Tigers tail codes. Let me know if you'd like to have them.

jelliott523

If you still need some of these decals and dont want to spend money for them, I have a set of those tail codes that I am not going to use. I just built two of these kits and only used one of the Bold Tigers tail codes. Let me know if you'd like to have them.

 

Ok, so I re-decalled the bad tail.  I had the same issue on some of the decals, but fortunately, I think I got them down in the right spot on the first try this time.  If anything, this tail now looks better then the one I didn't have to redo.

I also started airbrushing the body of the plane.  I had to move it into the garage on acount of the rain, but it worked, I was lucky my dad's car wasn't here.

At first glance it looks like all that preshading still didn't show through, we'll see how it looks when it cures.

If you're wondering, the left variable intake fell off when I masked the inside, I'll reinstall it after I finish painting.

Keep plugging GR you're getting there

Okay, finally have some completed shots of the Double F-15E build I did representing aircraft based at Mt. Home AFB, Idaho. Sorry if this is a little picture heavy, and some of the pic quality isnt the greatest. These were taken with the camera on my phone.

A fine looking pair, I like the overall soft colour modulation .

regards,

Jack

GR, your's are looking great as well! You'll be just fine.

Ok, I've had an eventful couple of weeks.  but, between the rain, a balky can of glosscoat and some airbrush issues(fortunately, once I figured it out it was a really simple fix), I've made a little progress on the mudhen.  I got a set of AIRES exhausts for it.  I painted them with Alclad (which was a pain with aformentioned airbrush issues) and just finished assembling the first one.  Boy are all those push-rods fiddly.  I'm glad I went with the AIRES cans though, the kit cans look like they'd be almost as much effort without as much detail.

Over the past couple of weeks I got a little work done.  I added some weathering to the exhaust cans, here's both of them dryfit:

Next I painted and installed some of the ordinance on stations 2, 5 and 8, since I haven't installed them on the jet yet.  I also painted and installed the two LANTIRN pods.  All the ordinance comes from the Hasegawa weapons packs except the drop tanks, which are stock.  For a little bit of added color variation, I painted the drop tanks as if they were from War Reserve Stock, hence the lighter F-15C style Agressor Grey.

I think I'm also going to have a mix of 500 lb dumb bombs and LGBs on the CFT stations, just to load it up with more variety.  I'm not sure why it'd be carrying a BLU-109, I just liked the look of that JDAM better then the Mk-84 version.  The general idea with this loadout was to showcase the subject's flexability.

I've also installed the landing gear, so I don't have to balance the airframe on paint cans anymore.

I've just realised that I really need to get going with my build if I'm going to beat the deadline. It's on the list as a Hasegawa 1/200 727 in Ansett colors. I hope it can measure up to some of the other fine work here.

Here's the current status: