Andy's 1/35 Meng K-4386 Typhoon, for Simon

[Mini Me]

Cheers Andy.......that's looking top notch. :thumb2:
Rick H.

[scottie3158]

Andy,
That is an excellent paint job, from the preshading to the cammo very nicely done.

[Guest]

Thanks chaps.

Yes, it was a lot of work Jakko and I'm sure I'd have taken the much easier route of brushing the camo if my skills with them were better!

Glad I've done it though, and praying I don't muck it up at the weathering stage like usual :smiling5:

[Steven000]

Very nice progress Andy, I like the camo colors :thumb2:
Steven

[Guest]

I'm sure I'd have taken the much easier route of brushing the camo if my skills with them were better!

It wouldn’t have looked as good, though. Straight-line camouflage is almost impossible to brush-paint correctly, is my experience — unless it was also painted that way on the real thing, of course

[Guest]

Thanks Steven

It wouldn’t have looked as good, though.

Agreed. Quicker though lol.

But I chose the longer approach as, after all, this is a group build in honour of Simon. In the short time I knew him he didn't appear to take shortcuts. Things took as long as they took, to get the best result he could. Since my build skills aren't really up to that yet I'm aiming to adopt his approach in the painting and weathering stages instead, rather than my usual rush-to-the-finish.

[Steve Jones]

Wow! Its all happening on this build Andy. Very tidy build and great work on the camo. Looking forward to seeing this one weathered up. Keep up the great work

[Guest]

Cheers Steve. I keep rewatching some of your videos for tips :smiling5:

I'm going to have a good bash with oils on this, in fact I've already started. I'm working in front of my makeshift spray booth so the smell isn't affecting me too much. Weird how I can spray lacquers all day without a problem, but oils/enamels make me heave :sick:

[Guest]

So I've come to a bit of a temporary halt with this. Long story short, don't try out a new varnish on a current build :smiling5:

After getting the decals on I thought I'd give it a coat of satin varnish to seal everything in, ready for the oil work. Since I've found the 3rd generation AK paints so good, I thought I'd have a go with their varnish too, as I'd run out of my usual W&N matt stuff.

In the absence of any decent instructions (as with all of the 3rd gen range) I tried it neat first (terrible), then with some of their own thinner (better). However, I'm now left with a surface that is glossy and sticky in places, grainy in others. That sounds immediately like a lack of mixing, but it got my usual shake, stir, shake again method which has always worked in the past, so I'm not sure.

I tried some of the matt version on the turret. I had to really thin this down with their thinner and water to get it to spray but it went on much better. It has dried ok, but it definitely isn't matt, more of a satin, maybe due to the over-thinning.

Looks like have to brave a real shop for the first time since March and get some more W&N, but in the meantime this is sat in the house, waiting for the stickiness to eventually dry out.

[adt70hk]

Andy

Apologies for very behind on this. It's coming on a treat but sorry to hear about the varnish problems you've had.

ATB

Andrew

[Guest]

Cheers Andrew.

Something was bound to go wrong, it always does lol, but thankfully nothing major this time. I'm back at work for a few days from tomorrow too, so I'd have made minimal progress anyway :smiling3:

[Guest]

So this is how it looked after I'd applied the satin varnish :sad:

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After a few days to harden up I sanded the worst of the gritty sections and have given it a coat of AK matt varnish. Much better I think!

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I'll leave that to dry a while then can hopefully get cracking again.

[Jim R]

Hi Andy
Excellent work. Glad the preshade worked so well. I tend to obliterate 2 out of 3 :rolling:
Camo is really nice. Worth all the time and effort masking up.
Varnish is funny stuff and because it is applied after the building and painting when it goes wrong it is even more frustrating.
Jim

[Si Benson]

Glad you managed to sort it.....looks loads better now.
I gave up with Acrylic varnish and went the lacquer based stuff. Currently using Tamiya gloss and semi gloss with nice results.

[scottie3158]

Andy,
The repair to the paint looks good you wouldn't know you had had a problem.