The HobbyBoss 1/32 B24D Liberator.

[Jim R]

Looks great Barry and really shocks when you realise the size.

[rickoshea52]

What a beast.

[rtfoe]

Showing her curves in the black lingerie Barry. Bet your seat has casters to slide from wing tip to wing tip when painting.

Cheers,
Wabble

[BarryW]

I have painted the Neutral Grey. As usual with something big, its best to work in small stages. Got there is the end. I managed all this on just one of the large cups of paint! Tomorrow there will be a lot of masking before doing the sand colour.

[Guest]

This model is certainly taking a lot of spraying!!!

Maybe take it over to Andy T and have him use full-size equipment on it?

[Andy T]

Maybe take it over to Andy T and have him use full-size equipment on it? :smiling3:

With something that size a mini spray gun like my Iwata lph80 would be a help funnily enough.

My biggest 'gun has a 2.5mm tip. That would obliterate it :tears-of-joy:

[BarryW]

With something that size a mini spray gun like my Iwata lph80 would be a help funnily enough.

My biggest 'gun has a 2.5mm tip. That would obliterate it :tears-of-joy:

Actually, bear in one that I am not looking for a solid colour and want some subtle variations in tone, spraying slowly bit by bit at a time is the way to go. The Colani is perfect for this

[BarryW]

All masked up ready to paint the sand.


To paint this requires more contortions than I have ever tried before. First I did areas best acceded froM below

Then I turn it over….


And finished.


For the first time since using MRP I did get some splatter toward the end of the session. Bear in mind that this was my longest ever paint session without even a colour change clean up. This was not the fault of the airbrush or the paint.

Next I will remove the masking and do some inevitable touch ups before masking again to paint some detail like the wing leading edges.

[Airborne01]

Blurrie 'ell - very large and very nice!
Steve

[Jim R]

Lovely paint job.

[BarryW]

I have got in with some detail painting. After masking up I sprayed the wing, tail and stab leading edges with steel.


Also I sprayed the exhausts with Pale Burnt Metal then shaded them with Burnt Iron.

These need some more work with washes and pigments. That will need to wait a bit and, next I need to do some touching up then the decals.

[minitnkr]

Beautiful. Your finishes are always top notch.

[BarryW]

I have applied the decals but it did not go as planned. Originally I wanted to do the ‘Squaw’ markings from Kits World however, for the first time ever, Kits World let me down. First the roundels were beautifully thin but they curled at the edges and I had a hell of a job to ‘uncurl’ them. In the end I decided to use the kits roundels instead, the kit blue looked a better colour to me anyway. Then another all time first, the HobbyBoss produced decals actually went down really well with no cracking and splintering and they bedded in to detail beautifully…

So, I attempted the Squaw nose art and being such a large decal, with a complex shape I just could not work it into position! In a way, my fault, as I should have cut that decal up into three of four parts to apply. In the end I dropped that idea and reverted to the kit markings and they went down perfectly.

After a few coats of solution these looked just right. I then sealed the lot with a gloss varnish ready to apply a wash. I have decided on a Flory Dark Dirt clay wash.

Here she is all decalled and gloss varnished. Incidentally, I did not bother to gloss the paint before applying decals as MRP is glossy enough.

[peterairfix]

Looking good a pity about the decals I have been forewarned as I have the kits world decals for my b-29

[BarryW]

Looking good a pity about the decals I have been forewarned as I have the kits world decals for my b-29

In the past I found the KW decals to be excellent so this was a surprise.