Lt. Biggles
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A little update, just doing the finishing touches now. Brass barrels are on, Resin wheels are fixed on, Opened the bomb bay doors, Most of the antennas are done, Propellors are on, Nose cone is on, All the masks are off the windows, A few stains and streaks added here and there, And a few touch ups from the inevitable things breaking while working one other things! Once these final touches are done I’ll take some good all round pics and it will be finished!
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Thanks, I’m pleased with how it’s turned out and I’ve learnt a lot from this build!
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Looks amazing! Love how he had a giant kiwi on his Spitfire!
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F-51D Mustang by ERS Rich - Tamiya - 1/32 - PLASTIC
Lt. Biggles replied to ERS Rich's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Looks great! I’m learning all the tips I can about natural metal finishes as I’ll try one for my next project. Is that metal gloss varnish made especially for NMF paint jobs to give them a weathered and out in the weather used look? -
Thanks, it was another case of not really knowing what I was doing but managed to stumble upon what I was after!
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I’ve been on a few days road trip up to the north cape of NZ so this gave all the oil paint a good long time to dry in the hot water cupboard. Before I left I painted the exhausts aluminium and gave them an oil wash. These dried well while away and then I did many light misty coats of a red brown mix. Until it was enough to still have some aluminium coming through. Then I added some rust pigments and abit more highlighting with some soot pigments. Happy with these I managed to get them on the plane with only slight damage! They blended in with the whole plane which was what I was after, I didn’t want them to be super obvious and jump out in a bad way. I wanted them to look the part and just add to the over all feel. I am really happy with how they turned out!
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Decided to start on the superchargers, it’s the final subsection left! I did a lot of reading and looking at pics of the real ones and other modelled ones to see if there is a good and easy way to paint them so they don’t stick out but also look the part! saw a lot of people following the real ones and drilling out the pipes. So I decided to also while thinking about how to paint them. Here it shows one straight from the kit with the other 3 drilled. I think they do look quite good drilled out! They are all set for painting now! Still unsure so will leave it and think! at this stage I’m thinking the paint them aluminium, dry brush oils of black, grey and brown randomly and then do a wash with my AK rust wash. From there see how it looks and go from there! Any tips would be appreciated or links to other kits with a good technique. Otherwise I’ll just give it a go
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Thanks, I find it can be easy to weather so much that it becomes the main thing and looks nothing like any reference pics! So I try have some restraint even though it is fun, and keep the weathering to complement the paint job! I'm in the final stages now!!
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Haha back when one shade of green would have to do for everything! I also struggle with the weathering part! I feel I more give it a go and if it works it’s more of a fluke! I’ve mainly gotten better at knowing how to remove it with as little damage as possible to try again with a different technique until I’m happy! let’s see if I can fluke some very light chipping when I get around to it!
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Looks like an interesting build! Flying a normal plane the fuel is a big enough hazard… can’t imagine flying knowing that fuel tank was right behind me while in a combat environment!
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It is quite a contrasted picture. I won’t go darker but just move the oils about just to try give it a more smooth look. I like having an actual picture to work off as it means I don’t have to guess. The inboard engines have a unique pattern which I’d not have done if I’d not seen it!
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Underside exhaust and oil effects had started. Using this pic as a reference. I don’t want to do a super heavy exhaust effect but from a lot of the pictures they are really filthy! This is more of a first coat but also roughly as heavy as I’ll go but as it dries I’ll give it little tweak and add bits to it. also while it’s been on its back I installed the undercarriage.
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Thanks! I’m also following someone else’s build which I’ll be doing next. Happens to be an Eduard kit also, a P51d. Eduard do some amazingly detailed kits! And a 1/48 b17 will be a beast! This 1/72 one is still big so can only imagine! At the very least I hope I can help you learn what not to do with yours 😂
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Thanks. I’ll leave it as it is. A bit of making it abit grubby from use and hopefully that gives it abit more character. I’d like to do alittle bit of chipping effect with aluminium but it makes me abit nervous as the chipping patterns to make it look natural isn’t my strong point! The olive drab does change a lot depending on the angle you view it. Some angles it’s all just one shade and another angle all the fading and colours are nicely visible.
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The underside was straight forward. dark grey with some brown for the wash and a bit of griming. The top however was not so easy. I wanted a dark wash to get in the panel lines but didn’t really want to darken the paint, probably should have just done a dark pin wash looking back, as I wanted to do a wash to lighten and make abit faded and blend the paint together, which would have meant lighter. So I did the same wash on the top as underneath (dark grey with brown) and surprisingly it darkened the paint haha! So after a few days I mixed up some lighter olive drab and did another wash to lighten it. So my panel lines are actually lighter. I don’t mind the effect, but the panel lines should be at least a shade darker than the paint and I hope I haven’t washed out too much of the contrasting greens. After that I did a very light misting of very light olive drab to help fade it abit more as it was abit dark. Will see how I go but might just leave it how it is. While I’m deciding I’ll do abit more of the weathering and grime. After looking at a lot of actual photos added abit of the oil stains. The difference in the two photos are mainly due to the lighting. Middle one is on an overcast day and bottom one under direct sunlight
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Over the last few days I’ve managed to do the decals. there were a heap of tiny ones and against the dark paint were practically invisible but we’re leaving that slightly super gloss effect from the clear part, so don’t hate me but I didn’t put them all on! These pictures were taken under direct sunlight It’s almost ready for its oil washes. I’m really not sure what colour to do the oil wash? I don’t want it too dark otherwise it might loose it’s faded out look. But also can’t really imagine doing a light wash as all the panel lines wouldn’t look right. Any suggestions as to what might work? Brown mixed with dark grey with a touch of black is my thinking, as long as it’s abit darker than the dark shade of olive drab are my thoughts.
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Thanks mate
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Begun on the Olive Drab. It’s my first time painting with this colour and quite a large area of the same colour I think needs some modulation but looking at pictures of the real plane there really isn’t that much. If it’s well used and faded then it’s mainly just lighter but I’ll do some panel lines as just one solid colour doesn’t look right. And straight xf62 olive drab looked to dark for what I was after so used a 3 to 1 ratio of xf62 to xf4 yellow green and that seemed to give a nicer faded hint of brown that I was after. Added a few drops of NATO black to the olive drab to darken the panel lines. Then misted lightly over the top with buff mixed with a little olive drab to blend the two together and lighten it even further. Remembering the washes should blend the colours in further and under this light the contrast is maximum so didn’t want to make the colours blend into one and disappear I decided that it was enough. Let it dry and put a gloss coat over it. i think my gloss coats are too thin as I like to just make the surface look wet but pooling it like the tutorials say to get a shinny gloss I can’t bring myself to try! As pooling paint just scares me alittle 😅 So my gloss coats are more like a satin coat. A good dry time is in order now!
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Hey, thanks. I actually looked at your build log not that long ago as the Catalina is so unique looking! It came up well! Seems your main points about greys were that the lighter pre shading didn’t really work for contrast? They are a tricky colour
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Started on the underside, Tamiya neutral grey was the base colour over the primer and preshading. used a lightened NATO black to pre shade. A light base coat. The paint splashed out of my airbrush next to No 1 engine, so had to minimise that and try fix it. I’ll do a dark grey with a bit of brown oil wash to help blend it in better. I did learn if the shades underneath aren’t defined enough and visible then the washes will show nothing. So balancing how much coverage is tricky! Hopefully I’ve got it right! The pics are taken under light that really shows the layers through, under sunlight I like how it looks and it is alot more subtle!
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Thanks! I can imagine a 1/32 scale b17 once complete would take up a fair bit of room! This scale it’s still a good size!!
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Thanks for the kind words. I’m interested to see how the paint job goes myself! Trying to make it interesting without going too over board with effects is tricky I find
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Thanks for the recommendation! It’s abit late now that it’s all glued together. But it’s good to know about it just in case one day!
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Primed with Tamiya surface primer in a can, re sanded and filled where needed and primed again. Will let it dry well for a few days.
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