Hard-to-miss F-16

[Guest]

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After three light coats of primer, it’s now a black F-16. Unfortunately this has turned up that I need to re-fill and sand the holes in the undersides of the wing for the weapons pylons, as they appear very clearly under the paint.

[yak face]

Looking good jakko , cheers tony

[Guest]

Not looking so good anymore

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I guess I’ll need to spray some more black onto those wings now I’ve hopefully filled the holes completely.

[colin m]

I don't know, you wait ages for an F16 then two turn up together. I'm looking forward to see this one develop.

[boatman]

Any thing happening on this build ?

[Guest]

Looking forward to decaling......

[Jim R]

Hi Jakko
Just caught up with this as Christopher pushed the thread to the top of the list. Primer does have a habit of showing blemishes which were not apparent before. Good job to sort it :thumb2:
Jim

[Guest]

Any thing happening on this build ?

I need to get on with this, yes … First spray black over the front half to hopefully get rid of the glue stains showing, then mask that part off and spray the orange.

[papa 695]

Coming along very nicely Jakko

[Guest]

Because the black primer showed up deficiencies like glue marks, I sprayed flat black over it on the front of the plane, then masked off the areas that need to stay black.

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This isn’t too difficult, but is made harder by the instructions not being all that clear. On investigating, they don’t match up with the real aircraft in a few areas, which explains why I had trouble translating the drawings into actually putting masking tape onto the model. It’s mainly the side views, which suggest that the top of the air intake is black, with a demarcation line running fore and aft just above the lights. On the real plane, the upper side of the air intake seems to be orange all the way, with only the vertical bit between fuselage and air intake being black, and even then only the part in front of the small auxiliary intakes. I tried to mask this, but couldn’t really get the tape in there so instead, I’ll paint it with a fine brush after the tape comes off.

I’ve already discovered that the primer doesn’t adhere as well as I would expect of primer, though:

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I had put on the masking tape, then cut it to shape and removed the excess — and some of the black undercoat with it

Hopefully, I’ll spray the orange tomorrow. I’ve not yet decided if I’ll spray it silver and then put a coat of clear orange over it, or try to mix a metallic orange from silver paint plus orange paint or ink, though. In any case I suspect I’ll have to touch up the black later on when I remove the tape.

[Guest]

Now there’s more paint on:

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First a coat of Vallejo Model Air aluminium, followed by Tamiya clear orange:

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That didn’t go very well, though, the airbrush spattered — a lot I’m blaming this on the paint being old and thick, and it didn’t want to thin well. It’s also surprisingly difficult to put down a nice, even coat of clear paint.

I’m still debating whether to leave it like this and call it a metallic effect, or to respray the model, though I’ll probably end up doing the latter once I can think of a better way to do metallic orange. If I had orange ink I might try mixing that into the aluminium, but I couldn’t find a pot of it on a quick look throug my paint drawer. I’ll have to dig deeper to see if I really don’t have any anymore.

[yak face]

Try experimenting mixing red , yellow and silver jakko . Dont know how much of a metallic orange its supposed to be but ive had success mixing solid orange before. The clear tamiya colours seem to be a different formula to the other acrylic and are quite tricky to spray being thicker and slow to mix with the thinners .

[Guest]

I’ve searched through all of my paints and found inks in almost all colours (red, blue, purple, brown, black, magenta, green, chestnut, “flesh wash” and more) but no orange and no yellow I think what I’ll try first is to thin the clear orange better, because after looking closely at the current coat, I suspect the speckled finish will disappear if I can get a solid layer of that on. If that fails, then I’ll probably try mixing a metallic orange and spraying that over this first attempt.

[Jim R]

Hi Jakko
This has thrown up a few difficulties but I'm sure you'll sort it. Not sure how you'd get a metallic orange but your thinking to mix the paint better may work. If not you have plans b and c.
Jim

[Guest]

I did a test first, with clear orange over aluminium, and it came out as an acceptable metallic orange. If respraying the clear doesn’t work, though, I will have to go for plan B. Hopefully not C, though