Hi Andrew. Just had a catch up. Great progress. Always nice to get the primer on and even nicer when it doesn't show up too many areas needing work. Glad the masks worked. If you've had two out of two happy uses of them then a manufacturer to look out for. Top coat next :thumb2:
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Good evening all
And so an update much sooner that I thought!!
By 9pm last night my better half had been out for over an hour, Junior was in bed as he was feeling tired and Junioress had been picked up from work, had dinner and was in her room.....what is a man supposed to do with himself? I ask you!!
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Pre-base coat mottling is the answer of course!
ACW as usual.
ATB
Andrew
EDIT....looking back at the thing in real life the mottling is less solid and more dark than in the photos
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Andrew that's looking very good, don't know how you do the mottling, but it looks good .Comment
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Looks very good with the mottling as JR says. At his age he needs to worry about “Clotting” lol.Comment
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Nice :thumb2:
That’s a good base for the top coat Andrew.
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Evening Andrew.........just caught up to this after its disappearance, I simply lost track of it.......anyway good to see it's back on the go and you have made tremendous progress since I last visited....over a month ago. Keep it coming pard, she's looking down right sassy! :thumb2:Comment
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Nice progress Andrew, the mottling looks great, that's the next job on my F16. I've watched quite a few online builds where they use this, and the results look really good.Comment
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Thanks John glad you like it.
Not sure if you mean you don't know what the process is or if you don't know how I manage to do it. If it's the former, have a look at the below video from about 7 minutes...if the latter, apologies for teaching you to suck the proverbial egg!:smiling5:
I basically just do lots of fine squiggly lines with a 0.2mm AB. You can actually vary it quite a bit in terms of how tight the squiggles are, how much you lay down and so what mottling effect you achieve.
This is one of the vids I watched at the time, not saying it's the best but at least it's pretty clear.
Thanks Lee!! Are you saying John is old...??? I'll leave you to answer that question......:smiling5:
Thanks Geoff, I'm quite pleased with it too.
Has it been that long Rick??!?!?!? She's looking quite good isn't she! Not that I'm biased of course!!
Hi Mick
Thanks for the continued support and yes it really is a brilliant technique, extremely effective for such a simple process. It was our own BarryW that put me onto it a couple of years ago and even with my first attempt it turned out really well. This will be my fourth go at using it.
Looking forward to seeing the F16 come along!
Thanks again all.
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Looks excellent andrew , all it needs is some balkenkreuz and it could pass for a Luftwaffe night fighter scheme ! Its going to give the top coat a great effect , cheers tonyComment
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Coming along very nicely indeed Andrew.Comment
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Andrew, no I had no idea how to achieve that finish. Not much call for it in Russian armour :smiling3:The video was good .
Lee's quite right about that subject , hopefully I won't have any !Comment
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Tony
Thanks for the support. As for the night fighter scheme I'd never thought of that! Happily because of this 'Hunters and Hunted theme I have 5 twin engined nachtjager in the stash! I'm sure one will fit the bill!!
Ian
Thanks very much for the support. Glad you're liking it.
Hi John
Glad you found it informative. I tried it on a tank once but at 1/72 it was too small and dark.
Thanks again all.
ATB
AndrewComment
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Hi all
So I obviously want to preserve the mottling base coat for both the Medium Sea Grey and the Dark Green. Previously I would have done a full base coat of MSG and then the Dark Green over that but that loses the mottling.
However, I don't yet trust my AB skills to do it freehand at this scale and so used the below technique to create my own masks. I did this using online versions of the instruction's patterns, which I've done once before, with me masking out the Dark Green so I could do the MSG first.***
The only problem I have is that none of the five Tamiya MSG/DK camo patterns match Lonesome Polecat's. Plus the only full on shot of LP is from the port side, with no clear top shot....only hints from other shots...and there is no shot at all of the starboard side.
Therefore, I started with the mostly closely matching Tamiya offering and then adjusted it using those hints from other shots, the Hyperscale build I've been using for references and most helpfully the starboard shot of Mossie HK415. It was on the same squadron at the same time and its lines appear a likely match for LP. For most of the wings though, I had to stick with what the closest Tamiya match had.
The masks over the nose/cockpit and for the centre of the fuselage took a bit of finessing due to the curves but the rest worked out fine.
I also deliberately cut the masks slightly narrower than in real life so I can hopefully achieve a feather edge that the Dark Green will also overlap.
ACW as usual.
ATB
Andrew
*** The German splinter camo, with all the straight lines, is soooooo much easier than the British patterns.....
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Take a screen shot of the instructions camo pattern and put it into Microsoft Visio drawing/design programme. Then size it to the correct length using a line that matches the length of the kit.
Print it out and then adjust the pattern accordingly.
Get an A4 acetate sheet and trace out the line with a thin permanent marker. I then lay masking tape over the top and trace out the pattern again on the tape. I then transfer the tape to the cutting mat....stupidly forgot to take a photo of this stage in the process. DOH!!
The aftermath of cutting the Dark Green masks out.
The Dark Green masks in place.
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Looking good Andrew.Comment
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