Okay, as promised; here is my latest progress on what I've been working on this week. Once again, I'll start with my aircraft....
Working on these is tough. I just
had to choose models that need white and bare metal to work on!
Here is the fuselage of the Boeing 737. I shot a couple layers of white on this and once again, it failed to lay down like it should:
Believe me, it may look good in the pic, but there are a ton of small blemishes and issues all over this. When I tried to sand it and smooth it out, it got all dirty and blemished even more!
The wings turned out much better though when I shot some Tamiya Gloss Aluminum on them:
Now if I can keep them that way until the model is finished I'll be thrilled. I'm not confident though, given my usual history with models like this *cough*C-118!*cough*
In that same vein, I also shot the white on the Jetstream fuselage as well. Once again, major issues all over:
Once again, the wings turned out quite well:
While those were drying, I took time to prepare more aircraft for primer and paint by masking off the canopies for all of them. First up is the two WWII aircraft; the P-40 and P-51:
Next I did my Swedish J-32 Lanssen:
Finally, I masked off the canopies on my two F-14 Tomcats:
Later I even added the canopy to the A-10 and masked it off:
Next came the primer on all of them except the A-10...
P-40:
P-51B:
J-32 Lanssen:
F-14A Tomcat:
F-14B Tomcat:
Once the primer was dry, I shot some Tamiya Gloss Aluminum over the P-51B:
Later on when I tried to improve the white on the Boeing and the Jetstream, I shot some white on the bottom of the F-14A:
After that, I was done with aircraft.... fixed wing ones at least....
On my helicopter, I completed the cockpit and went to add the decals to the instrument panels as specified in the instruction sheet. Unfortunately, nobody told the instruction sheet writers that there are no decals for instrument panels on the decal sheet. So, I did a quick dry-brush with white:
After that, I closed everything up inside the fuselage and added a few other bits and bobs:
Next up will be the challenge of assembling the canopy for this. I already dipped the parts in Future, so I should be able to get this done fairly soon.
That's all I got done on my aircraft for now. Now let's check in on my armor....
After getting the T-80U from a friend, I took it home and got started on it the next day. First up was the turret:
The brass gun barrel is only dry-fit. That will go in later. That was as far as I got on that so far. Since I had started it though, I also decided it was time to start my T-90 with the cast turret (I'd already completed the welded turret version some time ago) Again, I started with the turret:
I then added the few pieces to the upper hull:
You just gotta love the detail on these magnificent Modelcollect kits:
I later added the wheels to the lower hull. Since the lower hull is metal, I had to use Gator Grip Glue which holds them nicely:
Again, I just had to get the 'glamour' shot:
After that, I shot some Krylon Plastic Primer on the lower hull and the turret:
I kinda jumped the gun here as I still need to do side skirts and other bits and bobs. Oh well, I'll get them done.
After that I tried to work on the Ludwig Areo bus again. I had sanded it and re-primed it with Mr. Surface 1000 to see what else needed to be done:
I still saw quite a bit wrong and so I re-filled some areas and re-sanded everything. Then I shot the Krylon Plastic Primer on it again since I had run out of the Mr. Surfacer spray. Much better I think:
Now to smooth this out and shoot some real color on this.
Okay, that completes this update for now. I hope to have more done soon. Stay tuned, more to come.
Thanks all for looking in, comments are welcome.
