International Scale Modeller

Very nice paint work!

BigWall wrote: ↑Thu Jul 30, 2020 2:22 am Very nice paint work!

Thanks BigWall!


Ok, let's continue. As you understand by now I will not be able to make it across the finishing line in time, but I will of course press on with the build until it is finished. I want this off my work-bench before I can focus on the next build and I don't want to put it on hold anymore...

Masked the heatshields


Fixing the gaps in the wing-fences with some diluted Tamiya Putty




Some touch-up with black primer.


...OK - we are finally ready for painting the marble coat and the blend coat. I will do some experiments on the primed spoons tomorrow before I commit to paint on the model


Tommy

All looking good from here Tommy and top work as always

I did try putty for the wind spliters, but found it difficult to sand and not break off the PE, settled for CA as mentioned, glad you sorted it

Just be careful, I knocked of my at regular intervals

Looks slick....nice paint very smooth

Hawkmoon wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 7:22 am All looking good from here Tommy and top work as always

digger303 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 10:09 am Looks slick....nice paint very smooth

Thanks guys

Kevthemodeller wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 9:52 am I did try putty for the wind spliters, but found it difficult to sand and not break off the PE, settled for CA as mentioned, glad you sorted it

Just be careful, I knocked of my at regular intervals

Yeah, I had to be very careful when sanding, I used the Ultimate customisable sanding sheets cut in cobination with regular sandingsticks. It's not perfect, but it will do

Ok, done some paint testing on spoons:

Two types of marble coat


Added the blend coat using highly diluted H335 Medium Sea Gray




I will use a combination of those two on the aircraft I think...


Tommy

Paints - finally!

Marble coat first



I used a mix of both H325 and H338 in separate layers

Starting with the Blend coat - H335


Done - that took an hour or two...


...but I forgot the outsides of the hatches




Distressed medium sea gray basecoat done


Next up will be some detail painting (radomes, antennas and stuff like that...)


Tommy

Looks excellent!! Wish mine were as good as this

RangerNeil wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 6:32 pm Looks excellent!! Wish mine were as good as this

Thanks Neil


Tommy

Beautiful work

Looking good Tommy

Absolutely awesome result on the paintwork Tommy - that's stunning

Thanks a lot, guys!

I have done some detail-painting.

I used XF-78 Wooden Deck Tan for the radomes


Painting the nose-cone...




Some more detail painting...



Tommy

Lovely tidy work picking out the details Tommy - this is really coming to life now

Tomcat64 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2020 2:29 pm Lovely tidy work picking out the details Tommy - this is really coming to life now

Thanks Neil

I have started with the decals today. It's the last week of my vacation so I have to fix all the stuff I have promised to do during the vacation
So I have only spent an hour or so today, hope to be able to have time to continue tomorrow...

There is a large sheet of decals (made by Cartograf) included in the kit and they are very good. The instructions are, however, less than good...
The decals and stencils are spread out over 4 sheets, and there are errors, wrong numbers, references that does not exist on the decal sheet. So everything goes very slow, because I have have to double-check everything.

But the good news is that there is a detonation-cord decal included in the decal sheet (but it's not mentioned in the instructions anywhere).

The individual have been chosen: ZD610







Tommy

Really coming together
I agree, you build so neat and tidy
Love it as the decals start to bring a build to life
Nice work

Strewth - they couldn't even get the decal instructions right??

Keep at it Tommy - you're nearly there mate

Beautiful paintwork, the marbling looks great. Nice to see the detail stuff and the decals, looking like the real deal now.

It's coming along VERY nicely!

Thanks a lot!

Yes, it's starting to look like a real SHAR now

I'm continuing with the decals and the progress is s bit slow - but I'm not in any hurry (anymore)

I have found this walkaround to be very useful for double-checking the placement of the stencils:
http://nabe3saviation.web.fc2.com/waSHa.html

The lo-vis roundel on the underside of the wing should be placed *before* attaching the pylons, so I had to improvise




...slowly getting there




The black edges on the tail-fin are a little bit too small, so I will have to touchup that with some black paint later on...



Tommy

It just keeps getting better!

Splendid work!

Looking great Tommy K

Its amazing how the decals bring an aircraft to life

Great work Tommy Keep at it!

Thanks a for all the cheers, it's much appreciated!

Final push to complete the stencils...









And I have glossed the complete aircraft with GX-100 thinned with MLT





Next step will be some additional detail-painting of the small thrust nozzles, but it will require some masking so need to let the gloss coat cure properly before I can do that...


Tommy

As others have said - the decals REALLY bring the model to life - well done on an amazing job!!

You're getting there. It looks great!

Hello,

Only a short update today; I have ended my vacation and started to work again - man, that sucks

Masking the small trust nozzles to prep for painting; I wonder why I didn't do this directly after painting the base-coat (that would have been much smarter)


Added some extra "masking" using a post-it sticker...


Painted with Collector Escape. The smallest nozzles where brushpainted because it was to difficult to mask them



Tommy

Hey Tommy, how is your Harrier coming along?

Ben

Looks better with every post. Well worth all the work.

Home straight now Tommy and looking good

Thanks guys!

Sorry for the slow updates, but work ramped up really hard this week and kids also started school

But I have finally started the weathering... I'm using oils as usual.






I haven't made up my mind if I should make this a "dirty girl" or not

I might tone it down a bit - maybe.




Tommy

It's looking great!

Nicely done that man and top work as always

Thanks !

Moar weathering....





Using Tamiya Brown panel wash to get a darker tone.




The build is on the finishing lap now; tomorrow I will put on flatcoat and do some final weathering around the exhausts


Tommy

Nice! I can't wait to see it finished!

Slow but steady wins the race. Looking really good Mark.

I sure hope you are proud of how this is looking! Blessed Feces this is good!

bfrd wrote: ↑Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:06 am I sure hope you are proud of how this is looking! Blessed Feces this is good!

BigWall wrote: ↑Fri Aug 28, 2020 2:41 am Nice! I can't wait to see it finished!

Me too! But I'm close to the finish line now...

Stokesy44 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 28, 2020 8:20 am Slow but steady wins the race. Looking really good Mark.

Thanks!

bfrd wrote: ↑Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:06 am I sure hope you are proud of how this is looking! Blessed Feces this is good!

Thanks Matt!
I have put this build back in the box a couple of times and I have even considered ditch the build completely, but I have done so much detailing and scratchbuilding on it that I feel that I must carry on. But now everything seems to come together and I feel that all that hard work is starting to pay off.

Okay, this will be a long update...


Flatcoated everything with GX-113 thinned with MLT


..and it's time for unmasking


I'm really nervous about the air scoop and cockpit



But it went well!

Problem.... the white tac has started to leak down in the cockpit tub


Most of it fixed, but there is som tac left between the wind screen and the IP cover


I was able to fix that to an acceptable level - I managed to dig most of it out using a piece of paper. The rest will have to pass as "weathering"




Installed the exhausts. I spent half an hour checking reference photos and I decided to for horisontal, since most of the parked aircrafts had them positioned like that.


Painting the nav lights


Installing landing gear...




...and it can stand on it's own!


...well, almost. I had to sand down the cental landing gear wheel a bit to make it rest on the outrigger-wheels


Added the droptanks and landing gear doors






...and the horisontal stabilisers


Next update will probably be the last one! I hope to be able to finish the build tomorrow, since this is the first weekend in 2 months that me and my family haven't been busy...


Tommy

Outstanding Sir, simply outstanding

Spectacular build! Great job!

Thanks guys!

I was a bit too optimistic about being able to finish the build today, so I will need one day more I think

Today I have spent most of the day with the missiles and the canopy

Prepared all small parts by putting them on cocktail-sticks


The paint instructions for the AMRAAMs seemed a bit too simplistic, so I had to double-check


So let's get started with primer


I used primer as a filler for a couple of gaps


Painting - I used H308 Gray FS36375, H1 White and H337 Grayish Blue FS35237

I need to brushpaint the fins with a dark metal tone, but I'll do that tomorrow

Decals




And I have also worked on the canopy

Painting the det-cord, using microscope for painting and cleanup




Some PE for the rear mirror


Painting it with Molotov Chrome diluted with MLT



Tommy

OMG a microscope to paint the canopy. Your constant pursuance of perfection is mind boggling

Your builds are a joy to watch and learn from

SMAddict66 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 3:27 pm OMG a microscope to paint the canopy. Your constant pursuance of perfection is mind boggling

Your builds are a joy to watch and learn from

Thanks Phil

Yeah, sometimes things gets close to ridiculous...



Tommy

Hey Guys!

Final build update - it feels almost wierd

Finishing the missiles










Lost and Found

This piece of PE pinged away from the aircraft at some point - I don't know when that happened and I didn't see that it was missing. But when I took a break earlier today I saw something grey on the concrete floor that looked familiar

Attached the canopy. I had to check some pictures to find the correct position.


Last thing; the pitot tubes


I was planning to scratch build something but after some consideration I sacrificed a 1/72 scale Viggen pitot tube set


Painted it in bright metal (H8 SIlver)


And we are done!












I will take better photos tomorrow for the Reveal post


Tommy