What no more postings?! This won't do! Ok I guess I'll do a Ventura Update again since the XO insist! Yep FRank all thes kits are 1/48 and 1/32, Sorry Dave too many choices and not enough room for me to tackle 1/72! Maybe when the kids all move out! ( looking around for Dee) ![Black Eye [B)]](/emoticons/icon_smile_blackeye.gif)
Been sorting thru the stash for sanity breaks! Working on the German Aircraft today! So you can see the model box fort that Dee lives in is a real thing and not made up.
Ok Update! Been toning down my post shading and scruffed things up to give the tired look!
When you look at it at a normal distance it is looking purdy good!
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With that taken care of it was time to really start decaling! Condensed a lot of steps like future coating and sealing extc , pretty common stuff that isn't too exciting!
One thing that grabbed me that I didn't notice before was the stars and bars! The Book picture says it is the intermediate style without the red surround. Well without the red surround whats the diff? Size? Well that and what is really noticable is the bars. The actually penetrate into the star surround by a good 16th of an inch on the later version.
I put up a couple pics so you can see what I am talking about.
All I had was late style but my first decal fell apart. Like decals sometimes do. I had plenty spares but it dawned on me that there was my fix! I put the wrecked decals back on the backing sealed them with a bit of decal bonder and after they dried simply cut off little slivers of the dark blue circle surround and covered the 8 total intruding white bars and completed the dark blue circle!
Ok got the decals all on and dried. Sealed with future again and dried, Worked on the props and last details while I waited to pass time. Then started dulling this shiny dirty looking thing down.
Dull coat spray and rubbing alcohol followed. Really dulls it up will even turn it white in areas. To get rid of the marred white simply spray another light mist of dull coat and it vanishes. It can give interesting faded stained effects and is reverable so I play with that technique.
She is getting close guys! Did the props and drop tanks while things dried Won't be long and I am down to 1 week left! ![Shock [:O]](/emoticons/icon_smile_shock.gif)
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