Well, I've managed to put in some good time in the Hobby Room this past week and was able to move along quite well. This week, I'm closer to finishing a few more models; hopefully I'll be able to do that by the end of the week.
I'll start out with Gloss Coat Attempt No. 3...
Gloster Meteor:
F-86 Sabre:
This time I airbrushed on the Gloss Black to see if I could get a smoother coat. You can still see that despite my best efforts, I still managed to coat this with another orange peel flecked with dust and small bubbles.
I cannot catch a break!
That's it, I decided to work on something more simple. I pulled out the Bearcat and started on the landing gear and underwing stores:
Here they are attached to the model. All I have to do now is fix that stupid engine inside the cowl and re-attach the propeller:
After I do that, this bird will be done.
Moving on to something else that is much easier, I shot the yellow on my L-39 where it's indicated in the instructions:
Later on I checked it out to see how it looks:
Not bad. I still need to paint the nose black so the front tape is staying on for now.
Since I was spraying yellow, I also shot the top wing to my F4-B4 biplane. Once it's dry I'll be able to clearcoat it, apply the decals and mount this on the struts:
While that was drying, I tested the three different blues I'd bought to try and match the decal. It appears the True Blue is the closest color match:
The True Blue will be the one I use to paint the engine cowl.
Now on to the others. I spent a good amount of time masking and painting the camouflage patterns on my F-111 and F-4 Phantom. Here is the Aardvark after the second mask had gone on:
I then shot the third color (tan) over this bird and set it aside to dry:
While that was drying, I masked off and painted the F-4 Phantom. Here is the second mask and the green color:
...followed by the final mask and dark brown color:
Later on when they were dry, I removed the Silly Putty masking to see how well these two came out.
Here's the Aardvark:
...and here's the Phantom:
Here are the two of them clearcoated so that the camo pattern is protected from any further damage while I paint the details on these two aircraft:
I will also be applying the decals to these soon too.
Well, that brings me to the end of my account of my productive week this week. I was hoping to be a bit further along on some of these, but I'm happy with the progress I've made, including the work I did on my armor; seen in the Armored Fury Forum. Feel free to check it out over there. I hope you all enjoyed the show. Thanks all for looking in, comments are welcome.
