Post War 1/72 FAA - Part 2 - Cyber Hobby DH Sea Vixen FAW.2

[Dave Ward]

Ready for priming - the undercarriage doors were closed, unless cycling, I'll be able to brush paint the wheel wells easily enough. I'll mask off the side window, and stuff the cockpits with tissue before spraying....................


I'm going to use white primer overall, to start off.
Dave

[Jim R]

Hi Dave
Looks a decent kit although some parts look well detailed and others, like the seats, are rather crude. Those white metal seats are so much better. Looks like you are well on the way without any real problems. The box art is nice isn't it :thumb2:
Jim

[Dave Ward]

Everything's all white.............

AK Interactive white primer overall. I'll let this dry overnight, then, tomorrow, spray Insignia White on the lower surfaces
Dave

[Dave Ward]

I spent an hour or so masking off the white undersides - the yellow tape is more flexible, and the blue tape ( cheap! ) is used for flat portions! The inlets are plugged with wet tissue paper

I have a bad feeling about the white undersurface - I have managed to lift the basecoat AND primer in several places, so peeling the mask off, after spraying the uppersurface EDSG, will be a bit fraught.
I had washed the surface before spraying the AK Interactive white primer. I let this dry for a day, before spraying the basecoat of Hataka Insignia White.......................
I realise that I made a mistake in fixing the pylons before painting. The upper surface colour wraps round the leading edge, and the pylons make the masking much more difficult.
I'll spray the Hataka Extra Dark Sea Grey this afternoon, fingers crossed
Dave

[Guest]

This is one of the drawbacks of FAA modelling. The two tone are stark and unforgiving and they are a pain to mask!

Fingers crossed for you Dave with the unmasking.

[Dave Ward]

Chris,
this is my first time of using AK Interactive white primer, I'm hoping that peeling is only in small patches - otherwise it'll be back to grey primer & multiple coats of white paint...............

Uppersurfaces sprayed....................
The Hataka EDSG went on very smoothly & sprayed very well, just a few drops of water added.
Dave

[Guest]

This is one of the drawbacks of FAA modelling. The two tone are stark and unforgiving and they are a pain to mask!

Don’t worry, Dave will get a lot of practice applying it

[Dave Ward]

Words fail me...........................:confounded:

Walking away from this for the moment :angry:
Dave

[Guest]

Oh no, sorry to see this Dave. Such a shame.
Sensible to put it to one side. You’ll figure out a solution.

[Guest]

Strip and try again, I suppose is the only real solution, but I can definitely see why you might not feel like continuing to work on this model just now.

[rtfoe]

Hi Dave, don't dispare. Strip the paint off with Easy Oven Off or a paint stipping method you know of and reprime. I have a question, could ther be a reaction to the two paints used?

Cheers,
Richard

[Dave Ward]

Richard,
could be, it was the first time I used the AK primer. I'm going to have another go with the paint combination on the Sea Hawk - fingers crossed
Dave

[Dave Ward]

Sea Vixen resurrection............................

I think that this is as good as I can expect - I couldn't find the enthusiasm to totally strip the underside. I used a fibre glass pen to remove all the areas of loose paint, then brush reprimed the bald areas before giving another overspray with Insignia White. There are a few areas that will have to be touched up by small brush.
I masked the leading edges - and found that the EDSG wasn't lifted by the tape. This may just indicate an incompatibility of the AK primer & the Hataka Insignia White. Whatever, I'm NOT going to use this combination again! The AK primer, I might use on single colour aircraft! I've used the Hataka Insignia White before - on a 1/48 US Navy Gull Grey/White Fury, so I am happy with that..................
Sometimes, trying a new material can lead to problems! Moral of this is " If it ain't broke, don't fix it "
Anyway, I'll touch up the small areas where needed, before a gloss varnish overspray
Dave

[Dave Ward]

After a gloss coat, I made a start on the decals. this is the result after 21 decals have been added


All those red hatch warnings! I don't know why they didn't put a single thick line round the outside!
The decals are thin, but luckily pretty tough, as they needed quite a bit of prodding to get into place. I've coated with the Mig Decal Fix, and I'll let it dry overnight.
Dave

[Guest]

This is another one of those where you almost get the impression that they felt like making modellers’ lives more difficult