After scrubbing, sanding, re scribing, swearing, sanding and a bit more swearing i finally got to where i stopped and i am now ready for a total respray.
Going to paint her in late Luftwaffe colors dark green and black green and underneath it is going to be light blue and white wing tips.
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Suzi (08-07-17)
Looking good lovely!
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Spent the morning masking her. Went a wee bit overboard, still, better safe and all that.
This is the yellow i am going to use.
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Suzi (09-07-17)
I think i finally managed to acheive the effect i was after. The idea of panel lines is to pre shade the lines with black paint before you use the main color. This will have the effect of giving the wing a bit of depth and shadow.
You can see a bit of over spill of Black paint on the tail rudder, that is all you need to give it a bit of depth. Think i did okay. Now i have to wash it.
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Looks good!
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So the next step was to tone the yellow down a bit as it is too bright so you use a thing called a wash. It is just turps with a bit of artist black paint and you slap it on and leave it to dry, then you rub it off with a cotton bud and when your finished all it leaves it with a used look and not so bright.
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OldMike (15-07-17)
The wash is finished you get a sort of dirty, used, military look. Very effective.
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OldMike (15-07-17)
Looks good!
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Finally, started to work on my painting. I used a H&S Ultra airbrush with a 0.3 mm needle at 15p.s.i.
Still not happy with how the engine bays turned out. They really should be flat as an ice rink.
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Looking good Purple.
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