1/48 Italeri CH47 (Chinook) "Big Wokka" RAF

[Old Collingwood]

"I'm  Back"

 

So after putting my Hawk on the back boiler  - I decided to have another bash on this,   if you remember I was struggling with  rattle can painting it,  so I decided to give it a bash with my airbrush,   I mixed up some Nato Green  in my airbrush cup  with 50%  water and started several coats all over my wokka, drying it before turning over to paint the bottom.

When finished  I also sprayed the tail gate.

Think it has painted up quite well.

[king derelict]

OC, that looks great. Its worth having teh airbrush just for that finish.

Alan

[Old Collingwood]

1 minute ago, king derelict said:

OC, that looks great. Its worth having teh airbrush just for that finish.

Alan

Thank you kindly Alan,     yep I'm quite pleased how it turned out.

 

OC.

[Canute]

Nicely done there, OC. Looks very good.

[Danstream]

Nice finish, 👍

[Old Collingwood]

4 hours ago, Canute said:

Nicely done there, OC. Looks very good.

Thanks Ken.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

4 hours ago, Danstream said:

Nice finish, 👍

Thanks Dan.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,   some more progress  tonight  -   I pulled the rear ramp masking off  and  painted the rear leg area  and the edging  then added a bit of wash,   next I painted and fitted the Two engine exhausts.

 

OC.

 

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,   more progress  on this -  I assembled / painted and fitted the Six wheels,   then next stage is to fit the decals   before adding the last of the delicate  parts,   some of the decals have to adhere to  some curves - so I have used quite a lot of Micro Set then Sol  to get them to  settle down  - always a nervous stage seeing them crinkle up  while they are shrinking down.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,   right  the decaling is finished  ok its silvered a wee bit  going ontop of a flat surface, but a  few flat coats sprayed over should hide that and kill the shine from the decs,   the rear  walkway  ones   got several coats  of micro sol  and settled down quite nice,   so next job after  letting the decals  adhere  is to spray the flat coats on.

 

OC.

[CDW]

With the beautiful paint and now the decals, she's really looking sharp, OC! 

[king derelict]

That looks great OC

Alan

[mtaylor]

Looking great OC.  

[Old Collingwood]

1 hour ago, CDW said:

With the beautiful paint and now the decals, she's really looking sharp, OC! 

Thank you so much Craig,   yes I know I should have sprayed a gloss coat over it before the decs  - reason I didn't  - I havn't got any,   but I am sure they will blend in with the flat coats.

 

OC.

Edited November 18, 2021 by Old Collingwood

[Old Collingwood]

1 hour ago, king derelict said:

That looks great OC

Alan

Thank you  kinly Alan.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

52 minutes ago, mtaylor said:

Looking great OC.  

Thank you so much Mark.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

I was working it out  - its my Silver  Tenth Anniversary  as a member in our  Precious Forum this month, I  signed up in the mk1 one  MSW  before the crash  building the part works  Di Agostini  HMS Vic  and got a fair way with the hull  before the crash.

My sig  photo is one of the  small boats from the build.

 

OC. 

[Landlubber Mike]

Wow!  Looks awesome!!!

[popeye the sailor]

good to see you working on her again!  I see your out of the box with the airbrush........you'll find there's no boundaries.......the paint looks fantastic!  

  looking really good !

[Old Collingwood]

2 hours ago, Landlubber Mike said:

Wow!  Looks awesome!!!

Thank you kindly Mike.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

1 hour ago, popeye the sailor said:

good to see you working on her again!  I see your out of the box with the airbrush........you'll find there's no boundaries.......the paint looks fantastic!  

  looking really good !

Thank you so much Denis  - so very kind of you.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,    Well that Gremlin has struck again  -  First I wiped down my wokka  then tried to remove any dust from it (kind of worked)   then I set up my spray booth and  compressor/airbrush, I work close to our back door in our living room  for ventilation as  the acrylic paint still kicks out some vapour,   any way I mixed some of my Ammo Lucky  Acrylic flat  and started  sparying over  - in a misting style at first, I then dried  it with the dryer between coats,  I must have filled the airbrush bowl about Eight times,  the trouble was  the decals  were been akward and not flatting down.

All the flat coat  started to pool  - not in a running  fashion but creating a gravely surface, so I decided to stop at that point  - put the airbrush away and the booth, and examine the wokka.

 

So I thought trying a wet rag over it might help to smooth out the rough  areas  - yep it did but took too much off  and made the whole thing  a mix of  very flat and shiny  with most of the decals back to being shiny.

I decided to just put it down to experience and make it look like a well used machine  - so I started un - masking her,   second gremlin  arrived  - dust on the inside of every piece of galzing  (It looks terrible).

 

So its being scrappped,  the only thing that can be gained from it  - some airbrush experince.

 

Thats Two aircraft kits on the bounce that have gone this way.

 

Gonna stick to my waterloo figures I think  and that M1  I still have to build.

 

OC.

[Egilman]

Turn her into a hangar queen my friend, then the dust would be expected to be there, (in fact I would probably add more) the rest looks perfect for such....

[Old Collingwood]

13 minutes ago, Egilman said:

Turn her into a hangar queen my friend, then the dust would be expected to be there, (in fact I would probably add more) the rest looks perfect for such....

Don't think I will bother with rotors  - might just stick her in the bottom of my cabinet like she is.

 

OC.

[Egilman]

Well that would work, but I would at least do the hubs, blades are usually quickly repurposed but hubs last much longer....... leave a few windows off and maybe a couple of door panels, but yeah she's looking very much like a long disused bird...

[king derelict]

Darn it - that was looking so good only a couple of posts ago. I notice that I seem to have steered clear of anything that has a clear screen or canopy. 

I'm sorry to see it finish like this it. It was a great build

Alan

[mtaylor]

As it is now, she looks well used in the hot sun.  But, Egilman has a good idea also.  Stateside, the crew chiefs kept them as clean and neat as they could.  Overseas... not so much.  'Nam baked and bleached the paint pretty quickly.

[Old Collingwood]

Thank you all, will have to have a think as its kind of knocked my mojo a bit, will be honest I nearly had a paddy and  was tempted to throw it (literally) but I calmed down after saying a few choice words that made the air blue  $$$$$$$$   etc.

Very simple what caused the problem  - I first (way back)  part painted it with Tamiya Laquar rattle cans,    then I airbrushed over the top my Acrylic paint  (that was the good stage)   then I put on my decals onto a flat surface  (very bad idea)   then I used far too much Acrylic Clear top coat to try to flatten  down the decals, then wiping  with a damp cloth  was not a good idea.

 

OC.

[lmagna]

I agree with EG and Mark 100%. I have seen any number of choppers sitting at the end of the flight line getting slowly stripped to keep less damaged aircraft combat ready. For that matter we had a few now and then that looked like that when they were still on flight status! Mismatched doors and other covers were common. If it didn't involve keeping it in the air it didn't matter.  sometimes "pretty' was only used when referring to the girls outside the parameter.

EG is also right, in that one of the first things to be commandeered after the avionics was the main blades! I say don't give up and to go for the diorama. 

Edited November 19, 2021 by lmagna

[Old Collingwood]

19 minutes ago, lmagna said:

I agree with EG and Mark 100%. I have seen any number of choppers sitting at the end of the flight line getting slowly stripped to keep less damaged aircraft combat ready. For that matter we had a few now and then that looked like that when they were still on flight status! Mismatched doors and other covers were common. If it didn't involve keeping it in the air it didn't matter.  sometimes "pretty' was only used when referring to the girls outside the parameter.

EG is also right, in that one of the first things to be commandeered after the avionics was the main blades! I say don't give up and to go for the diorama. 

Thank you kindly Lou,   food for thought  food for thought.

 

OC.