Hey everyone,
While it's still not technically impossible, the odds of me squeaking this thing by are pretty thin so I might have to roll the last little bit over into the new GB. (If that's alright)
What I've done to date- the airframe is assembled. I primed it with Tamiya primer, than wasted almost half a bottle of Alcald aluminium on it trying to get a metal base layer. I pre-shaded the bottom with black, and sprayed tamiya JA Grey with a tad of blue mixed in. Masked off, and went to work on top. I don't remember exactly what I used here, but it started with tamiya Dark Green, built up a postshading layer of two different light greens (light olive maybe?), rounded out with a heavily thinned layer of Tamiya JA Green. I finished it by mixing a bit of Tamiya buff into what JA green I had left in my cup, added even more thinner, and did some final fading on the upper surfaces with that. I was looking at the decals, and decided I wanted to minimize the number of them I was forced to use. I then masked off and sprayed the white home defense squares. This also let me introduce a bit of color variation, and let me fight some of those tonal crush problems. If I can get my hands on a decent circle color, I'll probably spray the hinumaru's as well.
I tried to do the hairspray method of chipping- after the metal, before the preshading. I don't know if I used too much paint and let it get too thick, but the hairspray just wouldn't activate. So, it'll have to be less beat up than I was planning, and I'll go back to the silver watercolor/silver on a sponge thing.
What I've got left:
-Red things (spinner, wheels, hinumaru maybe)
-wheel wells
-decals
-clear coats
-maybe a filter, depending on how badly the hinumaru sticks out.
-final assembly
Now it's just a question of whether or not I can get enough time in before the end of the year. I'm going to try my ****est, but it'll be close. Between the usual holiday stuff and a trip south I've got to take, I just don't know.
Anyway, I'm typing this in the middle of a lecture, so once I can get some pictures taken I'll throw them on.
-TWA
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On the Bench- Tamiya 1/48 Raiden, Rufe, Buffalo, He 162; Academy 1/72 F-89, Eduard 1/48 F6F-3, Accurate Miniatures 1/48 F3F-2, Minicraft 1/48 XF5F, Academy 1/35 Hetzer, Zvezda 1/35 KV-2 (Girls Und Panzer)
