My new a/c build.............

[Guest]

Can you see them now, Mobear?

[Guest]

yehaaaa yes

mobear

[Guest]

yup that paint went madly wrong

mobear

[colin m]

Oh dear, but at least the chipping worked really well...

[Guest]

When I look at the photos on here it doesn't look too bad. The colour is pretty accurate to my eyes, it's just a shame the paint reacted and the salting was overdone (on the fuselage - the wing roots look nice to me). Oh well, I'll try again

[aaron]

Hi Alex,

I dont know whats wrong with me but i actually like how this is.

Cant you add some more base colour to the chipped area if you dont like it

It will all tone down with a cote of future?

A win in my book lol

[Guest]

It doesn't look that bad to me either Alex, maybe you could level it all out with some subtle washes made from the main colour?

[Guest]

Thanks guys, but it's already stripped to the bare plastic - almost.......... it took 2 days, including New Year's Eve! lol I'll be back with another version at some point

[Guest]

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Happy to say that after a 3rd paint strip and repaint, I'm now happy with the paint colour and very minimal chipping. I have 3 coats of Klear on this baby, so she's now ready for her decals!

Forgot the ask, can you see the pre-shading? It's more apparent in real life

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[yak face]

looking good alex, and the pre shading comes through fine, cheers tony

[Guest]

yup the preshade looks really good,and glad you are happy with colour(phew)

mobear lol

[aaron]

Id be happy with that colour. Especially looking at the box art.

Looking forward to seeing decals on this. Thumbs up on thr preshade Ajay.

[Guest]

Hi chaps!

Right, here's where I'm am.... (think I've been watching to much Dragon's Den.....lol)

I'm very happy with the pre-shade as I've already mentioned once or five times. Probably my favourite part of this build so far in fact!

I'm really limited as to how much weathering I can do with a trainer aircraft. I might airbrush the control surfaces with a lighter shade to depict sun-bleached fabric. Apart from that this build will be pretty clean. I have so far only pin washed the wings so have the fuselage to contend with.

One SNAFU I made was to use up all my orange mix (I used Vallejo scarlet red and yellow) so now I'm having a tough time painting my canopy in the right shade. I'll get it near enough and be happy with it.

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Hope you all like it so far. I have the float plane version so I know my way around this kit quite well now.

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[Ian M]

Looking very different.

As far as the canopy, being constantly cleaned all the time the frame would have a slightly different colour to the rest of the paint work, so a slight shade change would not be out of place there.

Ian M

[mossiepilot]

She's looking cracking Trey, and the colour looks spot on.

Great work so far mate.

Tony.