Afternoon All,
Got time to clear another from the bench this week. It is the most recent release of Airfix's 1/48 Lightning although I believe the tooling is from the 90's.
I want to begin by commenting on the kit itself. Frankly it is very good indeed, not many parts for an aircraft this size but it fits like an absolute dream and in my opinion there is just enough detail to be able to build a very good replica straight from the box. The decals sheet is very comprehensive with a full complement of stencils and options for three aircraft, one F.2A and two F.6's. The only additions from me were the harness which I made from thin plasticard and a couple of antenna.
I started this build as a bit of an experiment. I wanted to build XN793 92 sqdn Gutersloh 1972. I don't know about the rest of you but every time I try to use Alclad to cover an entire airframe I end up ageing ten years and the kit ends up in the bin. With these painful memories but a desire to do a bare metal airframe I decided on a different approach.
So this Lightning has been primed with Tamiya primer, had a few panels painted in different shades of aluminium from Tamiya, GW and some others. These panels were then masked and I shot the whole thing in Tamiya TS 30 Silver Leaf straight from the can. The spine and tail were then airbrushed in a few different shades of blue.
To try and get a less toy like finish I loaded the airbrush with Tamiya smoke and started picking out panel lines and shadows. A Paynes Grey oil wash followed along with the oil dotting technique for some of the staining. A few washes from MIG for streaks and more concentrated leaks and that was that.
To my eye it looks fairly convincing, maybe a bit too dirty looking but apparently these things took a pounding in Germany. I love to know what you think.
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Thanks for looking
Jason
Got time to clear another from the bench this week. It is the most recent release of Airfix's 1/48 Lightning although I believe the tooling is from the 90's.
I want to begin by commenting on the kit itself. Frankly it is very good indeed, not many parts for an aircraft this size but it fits like an absolute dream and in my opinion there is just enough detail to be able to build a very good replica straight from the box. The decals sheet is very comprehensive with a full complement of stencils and options for three aircraft, one F.2A and two F.6's. The only additions from me were the harness which I made from thin plasticard and a couple of antenna.
I started this build as a bit of an experiment. I wanted to build XN793 92 sqdn Gutersloh 1972. I don't know about the rest of you but every time I try to use Alclad to cover an entire airframe I end up ageing ten years and the kit ends up in the bin. With these painful memories but a desire to do a bare metal airframe I decided on a different approach.
So this Lightning has been primed with Tamiya primer, had a few panels painted in different shades of aluminium from Tamiya, GW and some others. These panels were then masked and I shot the whole thing in Tamiya TS 30 Silver Leaf straight from the can. The spine and tail were then airbrushed in a few different shades of blue.
To try and get a less toy like finish I loaded the airbrush with Tamiya smoke and started picking out panel lines and shadows. A Paynes Grey oil wash followed along with the oil dotting technique for some of the staining. A few washes from MIG for streaks and more concentrated leaks and that was that.
To my eye it looks fairly convincing, maybe a bit too dirty looking but apparently these things took a pounding in Germany. I love to know what you think.
[ATTACH]115840.IPB[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]115841.IPB[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]115842.IPB[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]115843.IPB[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]115844.IPB[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]115845.IPB[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]115846.IPB[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]115847.IPB[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]115848.IPB[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH]115849.IPB[/ATTACH]
Thanks for looking
Jason
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