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Top jobbie mate

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!!!

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

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

So do you....lol

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!

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.

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

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

Sweeeeeeeet!!

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

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.

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

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.

WOW Paul she is looking superb mate really stunning

the painting looks awesome and the pre shading is excellent

top shelf so far.
Love watching this build, might lear something from it..
Awesome painting!

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

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

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

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

WOW mate she is looking stunning mate truly outstanding

looking awesome

michael

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.

Coming on really nicely there Paul, good work!

Looking good Paul

Nice one dude this is really coming together

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.

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

A fine looking model. Great work

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

Stunning Paul - gonna be a showstopper

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

She a beaut Paul.

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

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

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

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

Looks fantastic dude.

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

wow looks superb mate

looks amazing!!

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.

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?

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.

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

the base looks awesome!!!

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

Brian

great looking base mate it will look fantastic on there mate

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.

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

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