Beyond The Sprues
Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Aero-space => Topic started by: uncle les on October 27, 2014, 08:30:39 PM
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Saturday, One box of 1/32 FW bits and a spare Beaufighter.
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Sunday, some masking and some serious Tamiya putty huffing
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and having been called out on Sunday after the obligatory visit to Pt Cook for a Corsair viewing making Sunday night a bust...
Monday night ( now)
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Note the inspirational sideviews... thanks Apophenia
Bring on Tuesday night after work ( not on standby.. yessss)
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Oh yeah!
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Whoa!! Awesome!! 8)
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Got an Airfix Foche-Wulf Fw190A-8 to do something similar, the difference being you have actually built something and, as usual, it's superb. :)
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Wow, interesting build with such a simple modification it looks quite right.
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Nearly there...
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After the decals dry I'll do a little matting down and touch ups..
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Damn! You make it look so easy...
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Wot E said!!! 8) 8)
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Nice one, Les! :)
I'm going to be having a shot at building this variant of the Sea Wallaby;
(http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=351.0;attach=8933;image)
It'll probably be the next job after I finish the M41AS & HMBLT (so, in 3 to 6 months, if I'm lucky).
I have the kits to be bashed, courtesy of the SAPMA Expo, & this build has encouraged me to build it sooner than I intended. :D
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I have the kits to be bashed, courtesy of the SAPMA Expo, & this build has encouraged me to build it sooner than I intended. :D
Nice - glad to be of service !
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Last pics - now I really should fashion a pitot tube so the pilot knows when he's about to stall....
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Artistry, well done! 8)
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What a brute! I love it :)
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Just great.
I can see Fred H harumphing now.
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A real winner and looks like a million bucks in that lovely RAAF green!
Brian da Basher
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On the green, what did you use to match the RAAF Foliage Green?
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Amazing how the canopy and cowling job changes the look of the 190: I really had to look twice before I got it. Very well done!
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It looks so right!!!!!! Top notch job sir :) 8) :)
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On the green, what did you use to match the RAAF Foliage Green?
Funny thing that. I rarely trust what's written on the tin and use my FS chart as a guide not a bible. I just mix until I see (in my opinion) the right mix for the amount of scale colour and fading etc. In this case I mixed Humbrol 21, 30, 101, 149 which is basically black and a bunch of greens tending to the blue part of the spectrum until I got the shade I wanted. I mix as I go in the airbrush pot correcting along the way. Highlights achieved by adding Testors dullcote to the mix with a little black or mid green depending on whether I want lighter or darker. The dullcote makes the coat a bit transparent and you just build on it.
I don't profess this to be actual foliage green, it's just my interpretation. This is how I approach all my paint jobs, lob some paint into an airbrush pot and keep spraying until the fat lady sings.
HTH
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Thanks for that, so the answer is artistic license, or in my case probably more like autistic license
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Thanks for that, so the answer is artistic license, or in my case probably more like autistic license
;) Yep. [chuckle]
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Took the green bird out for a sortie today..
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I'd say it was a successful mission
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;)
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Congrats and well done, Les!
Those beauties are some real show-stoppers!
Brian da Basher
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Cool! 8)
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I see the links on my pics broke (serves me right for using facebook as storage ! ) So here are some of them again but from my website instead.
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:)
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Great to see again. Love that engine swap :)
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Nice! :)
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Great to see again. Love that engine swap :)
Concur, that's really sweet and I especially like the work on the exhaust!
Brian da Basher
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Amazing what a nose job can do!
Nice work!