You can also 'weather' the roundels too. Lookin good there Ian
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Well done ,definitely worth the effort. Sprayed on markings usually look better but,you're right,they are a real labour of love.
SteveComment
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Too late I guess but you could have sprayed the outer roundel white, then put your transparent decals over that. Then it's just one circle to mask and spray, but I think the sprayed version looks better.
Coming along nicely, well done.
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Good idea Tony. Problem is not so much the roundels them self as there printed on white. They where just to small!
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Top work Ian, this is going to be a great build mate.
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Well it was a hard day going back to work after the Easter Holidays, so it was rather nice to come home and unwind with a bit of paint work.
Finnished the roundels off!
Question. The four cannons that stick out of the wing. Black og Gun metal?
The long thin thing next to the outermost cannon on the right wing: What is it?
Here are a couple of snaps of the results of my roundel painting.
Once all the guns are done its time for a coat of Klear I guess.
Washes? Could any one give me a clue as to a good colour for a wash.
I dont want the full weather effect, just to bring out the panel lines and the like.
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Bugger. Just noticed on the photos, that I lifted a touch of paint! Touch up time!
Also need to do the exhaust areas...... Dude, loads to do yet!
Ian MComment
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I'd go for this sort of colour. The Finnish chap is holding an MG151 from a Bf109,all 40 Kg of it. I think the other device you are referring to is the pitot tube.The last skinny section (furthest from the wing) was a bronze colour and could be electrically heated to prevent iceing.
Cheers
Steve
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Right: Bodges are touched up and the last bits and bobs painted.
Went for black for the guns, as my Gun metal is not very good freinds with paint brushes. PE682 is now sitting in the hanger, waiting for the first coat of clear to dry...so not much going on here until thats dried. Washes?
Oil paint and turpentine? Will Future survive that? its new to me so dont know what you can/cant get away with. And I dnt want to find out on my GB model!
I'm thinking black around engine cowl and panels, and dirty brown for the rest. Does that sound ok? I know nothing about weathering an aircraft!
Ian MComment
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I only use the Promodellers washes so I cannot really comment. On my spitfire, I used the Promodeller Dark Dirt wash overall which was then rubbed off so it only remained in the panel lines and other scribed detail, shows best on the underside pics as it is a lighter colour underneath. On the dark green areas on the topside where I thought that the Dark Dirt wasn't showing up enough, I ran a little Promodeller Black wash into the panel lines just to emphasise the detail.
I would have no idea how to use a paint type wash as I prefer the paint on and, when required, rub off of the clay based washes.Comment
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Ian mate iam just catching up and this is lookin cool, nice one
scottComment
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Well the Klear has had more than enough time to dry. I did a tank at the same time and thats dry any way!
Now for the bit I have been dreading the most: Take a kit which is painted to a reasonably satisfactory standard and obliterate it was a very well thinned down oil paint!
My initial reaction was; AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH what have I done to it. But my pulse is back to normal and the rivits panel lines and other squiggly bits are now sporting a nice dark "shadow", so I guess it worked.
I now just need to add the serial number, give it another coat of clear and posibly a flat coat. Then I think I'm done with this one!
As this is just a fun build, is it permitted to build two? I think it would be kind of fun to find the German version of the actual 'plane that become PE 682.
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A bump in the road!
Just been trying to find what my plane was marked and painted as a German version!
Oh Bugger. Small detail; the serial nr was PE882 NOT PE 682. I was workong from a blown up downloaded scan, so the detail was not that good.
Bigger detail. The craft in question was not a 190 A-3, but an A-4.
Now there was an A-3 in RAF camo, but it was rather different and the Markings are of "the other type".
So I have two options really. Do it over? NO WAY.
Make a new Serial nr decal. MOST Likeable idea.
Say Sod it and cal it PE 682 and take the flak.
Does any one have the book Captured Butcherbirds Vol.1 ?
Ian MComment
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I'd call it PE682. She's looking good as she is. Can't help with that book I'm afraid.
Cheers
SteveComment
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Just to prove my total ignorance of things with wings:
How should the finnish be; total flat, satin, I guess it would not be shiny, but how matt should I go?Comment
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