1/48 Great Wall Hobby Mig -29 "Fulcrum C" 9-13

Post by **Lee** » Thu Oct 03, 2013 10:23 am

Top jobbie mate

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Thu Oct 03, 2013 1:55 pm

Holy moly.. that's top work so far Paul.
That finish is going to pop eyeballs I think.
You're really going all out dude.

I wish I could paint half as good as that. Give me one or two years and maybe my skill will catch up with your talent.
NOT!!!

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Thu Oct 03, 2013 1:58 pm

Hey I just noticed that you two have new signature graphic thingys. Very cool
Sharp.

Post by **Lee** » Thu Oct 03, 2013 2:14 pm

Coen wrote:Hey I just noticed that you two have new signature graphic thingys. Very cool
Sharp.

So do you....lol

Gav0909 · Post by **Gav0909** » Thu Oct 03, 2013 2:17 pm

Paintwork is looking good Paul, those paints certainly seem perfect for this. One of the joys of using a paint set purely dedicated to one type of subject eh!

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Thu Oct 03, 2013 2:32 pm

Lee wrote:
Coen wrote:Hey I just noticed that you two have new signature graphic thingys. Very cool
Sharp.

So do you....lol

Haha... I just noticed that haha.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Thu Oct 03, 2013 2:54 pm

Coen wrote:Holy moly.. that's top work so far Paul.
That finish is going to pop eyeballs I think.
You're really going all out dude.
I wish I could paint half as good as that. Give me one or two years and maybe my skill will catch up with your talent.
NOT!!!

Cheers mike, really enjoying this build, I'm liking modern jets more and more, although I'm itching to get back to that corsair, just waiting on the akan paint set for it, the mask set arrive yesterday.

Ps there's north wrong with your painting mate

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Thu Oct 03, 2013 2:55 pm

Gav0909 wrote:Paintwork is looking good Paul, those paints certainly seem perfect for this. One of the joys of using a paint set purely dedicated to one type of subject eh!

They certainly are good paints, im sure mixing paints would have archived the same results, I do like these akan paints though

ManCupboardModels · Post by **ManCupboardModels** » Fri Oct 04, 2013 6:42 pm

Sweeeeeeeet!!

Radzy · Post by **Radzy** » Fri Oct 04, 2013 6:54 pm

Holy smokes Paul!
That's comes really great. These shading on plates and all the stuff...

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Fri Oct 04, 2013 9:57 pm

Cheers fellas

Not much to update/change really, got all the panels that needed spraying masked off and sprayed, tonight it was given two coats of clear in preparation of decaling, tomorrow im going to focus on the landing gear

Oh one thing i did do, was remove the rear canopy, when i glued it in position it dried on a funny angle and was protruding one side so i got a small blade in and cut it free, it friction fits now and ill leave it like that so it can be displayed open or shut.

DC87 · Post by **DC87** » Fri Oct 04, 2013 10:44 pm

Looking really great Paul, must have taken some skill to cut that canopy off so well

ever considered doing some open heart surgery?

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Fri Oct 04, 2013 10:56 pm

DC87 wrote:Looking really great Paul, must have taken some skill to cut that canopy off so well ever considered doing some open heart surgery?

Ha ha if I honest...no lol

It came of fairly easy to be fair.

Nige201980 · Post by **Nige201980** » Sat Oct 05, 2013 8:10 am

WOW Paul she is looking superb mate really stunning

Jamesday1998 · Post by **Jamesday1998** » Sat Oct 05, 2013 7:15 pm

the painting looks awesome

and the pre shading is excellent

fly1ngdutchm4n · Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:15 pm

top shelf so far.

Love watching this build, might lear something from it..

Awesome painting!

EpoxySniffer · Post by **EpoxySniffer** » Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:18 pm

Really like how you have blended the camo colours together Paul. The pre-shading looks great coming through them.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Sun Oct 06, 2013 9:06 pm

Cheers guys, Im learning as I go too

So I made start on the ordinance. 2 Alamo and 4 archer missiles.

Great detail

These where primed and they sprayed white.

Then masked up, it took me 90 minutes just to mask up and spray the burnt iron and FS grey on these two

The fins were sprayed in mr hobby burnt iron and the nose in an FS dark grey

The 4 archers were sprayed white and the nose sprayed FS dark gray

Not a terribly interesting update, but part of the process

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Mon Oct 07, 2013 1:35 am

Damn, the ordinance is a kit onto itself.
That's a lot of detail.
Fiddly business.
Looks really great Paul

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Thu Oct 17, 2013 5:43 pm

So after a busy week back to this

I started by spraying the exhausts in mr hobby buff able iron and dark iron, I love these paints, I think they are useless on larger areas as they pull of with masking tape and when touching it, but for small areas they are great.

So before on the left and when buffed on the right, you simply spray them on (no primer) in fairly thick coats, then when dry buff with fingers, cotton buds and cloths.

I also started on the decals today too got a few down will do more later, they are fantastic decals, probably the best I've used, really flat, and release nice and fast from the backing paper, they also dry nice and flat with no silvering, the pic shows them before any setting solution

Gotta love shark mouths too

Nige201980 · Post by **Nige201980** » Thu Oct 17, 2013 5:59 pm

WOW mate she is looking stunning mate truly outstanding

bullgill67 · Post by **bullgill67** » Thu Oct 17, 2013 6:50 pm

looking awesome

michael

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Thu Oct 17, 2013 7:14 pm

Wow... those decals are freaking wonderful Paul.
That's incredible. I've never seen decals do that before... not that well.
Sweet. That kit just keeps getting better and better.
I'm going to start looking at some of Great Wall's other kits, just to see if they've done this well with the others.

Gav0909 · Post by **Gav0909** » Thu Oct 17, 2013 7:29 pm

Coming on really nicely there Paul, good work!

Post by **Lee** » Thu Oct 17, 2013 9:28 pm

Looking good Paul

T3hGuppy · Post by **T3hGuppy** » Thu Oct 17, 2013 9:39 pm

Nice one dude this is really coming together

chief5437 · Post by **chief5437** » Fri Oct 18, 2013 10:56 am

This looks beautiful so far Paul, loving the Russian colours! It'll be mint when it's finished. Good luck with the rest if the build mate.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Fri Oct 18, 2013 6:49 pm

Another thread that had passed me by - glad i have caught up. This is modelling at its best. Classy work with the airbrush too.

spruecutter · Post by **spruecutter** » Fri Oct 18, 2013 10:52 pm

A fine looking model. Great work

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Sun Oct 27, 2013 9:42 pm

Thanks for the kind comments fellas

So finally got the mig decalled, just the missiles and fuel tank to do and they are all done, thank god.

Then itll be a couple more coats of klear and then a wash

DC87 · Post by **DC87** » Sun Oct 27, 2013 10:16 pm

Stunning Paul - gonna be a showstopper

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Mon Oct 28, 2013 4:35 am

Bugger Me!!!

Paul.
It's beautiful. Once the wash is on that thing... Oh man..
Dude... Spectacular!!!!!

Nige201980 · Post by **Nige201980** » Mon Oct 28, 2013 7:53 am

She a beaut Paul.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Mon Oct 28, 2013 9:59 pm

Ok so yesterday I said I was done with decaling I was wrong as I still had the ordnance and pylons to do and I was going to leave the stencils off from underneath. But it's been nagging at me so today I did all the ones underneath, pylons and most of the ones on the missiles. I must have out on about 150+ decals in the last couple of days. Nearly there now though

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Tue Oct 29, 2013 5:04 pm

So decals on the plane dry and the pylons and missiles are setting.

Got the new mk2 ultimate dark dirt wash applied using a brush to the entire aircraft including the landing bays

Just need to let it dry

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:29 pm

So got all the wash off and...

Its works awesome

All the panel lines recesses and rivets show nicely, i did lose a little detail after the vallejo primer spraying on a little too thick but only a bit of detail.

The Mk2 Dark Dirt wash from ultimate is a massive improvement over the other one, leaving a nice dark wash behind once dry and so easy to remove with moistened kitchen roll and cotton buds.

Got a few bits to attach befire i give it a matt coat.
Then need to sort out the missiles/pylons, landing gear and attach the exhausts and she is all done

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Tue Oct 29, 2013 6:32 pm

Yeah... That's a scarey picture.... Seeing those washes in action still wigs me out.

But the ends results... Superb.
That's freaking awesome Paul

T3hGuppy · Post by **T3hGuppy** » Tue Oct 29, 2013 8:26 pm

Looks fantastic dude.

Will have to get some of the mk2 dark wash as it looks like it'll do what I want lol.

Nige201980 · Post by **Nige201980** » Tue Oct 29, 2013 8:28 pm

wow looks superb mate

Jamesday1998 · Post by **Jamesday1998** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 8:42 am

looks amazing!!

Gav0909 · Post by **Gav0909** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 4:26 pm

Looks good Paul. Maybe I will use some of the Ultimate Dark Dirt on the Hawk then. None of the washes I currently have are the right kind for slapping all over the model and removing once dry. The Citadel ones are good, but tend to adhere to the entire surface too well to then remove from the areas its not needed. And I have no luck with oil washes.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 4:30 pm

Gav0909 wrote:Looks good Paul. Maybe I will use some of the Ultimate Dark Dirt on the Hawk then. None of the washes I currently have are the right kind for slapping all over the model and removing once dry. The Citadel ones are good, but tend to adhere to the entire surface too well to then remove from the areas its not needed. And I have no luck with oil washes.

Yeah it wipes of a gloss surface real easy so should be ideal, did you sort your varnish problem?

Gav0909 · Post by **Gav0909** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 4:35 pm

Well I let it all dry for a while, then added a few layers of Klear over the problem area and from some angles you can still see it, but overall it looks much better. So should be able to get some decals down tomorrow.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 4:39 pm

So the mig is fully decaled now, never seen so many on one aircraft.

The missiles and pylons are ready for a matt coat, these 6 missiles and pylons have 134 decals on them alone

I also made a "runway" base today, been meaning to make a larger one as the other one i made is too small for any jets over 1/144 scale

So i used a nice piece of 18mm mdf

I Scribed the concrete section lines into it using a tamiya p cutter, it was then sprayed with tamiya grey spray can primer.

This was then post shaded using a darker mr hobby grey, and using vallejo acrylic wash in the actual scribed lines to give it depth.

The yellow lines where masked off and sprayed mr hobby yellow, Using pva and some scenery grass i also added a grass verge

And finally added a few oil stains and added some black stains to the yellow lines

Jamesday1998 · Post by **Jamesday1998** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 5:18 pm

the base looks awesome!!!

Bridon · Post by **Bridon** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 6:09 pm

It will look great on that base...nice depth to the paint job all adds to the realism

Brian

Nige201980 · Post by **Nige201980** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 9:14 pm

great looking base mate it will look fantastic on there mate

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 12:49 am

I didn't know you were doing a dio Paul.. I thought you were going to attach it to the wall somehow... at least thats what I thought that you said.
This is soooo much better. Freakin cool dude. Looks awesome!!!
That's a coffee table centre piece.

EpoxySniffer · Post by **EpoxySniffer** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 12:54 am

That base is cool Paul, are you going to put any ground crew, vehicles or equipment on there with the bird?

BrummieModeller · Post by **BrummieModeller** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 1:31 am

That's looking awesome paul love the base! will look wicked when its all finished

Coen wrote:I didn't know you were doing a dio Paul.. I thought you were going to attach it to the wall somehow... at least thats what I thought that you said.
This is soooo much better. Freakin cool dude. Looks awesome!!!
That's a coffee table centre piece.

Coen it was his Tamiya F16 he said he was going to mount on his wall I think