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  1. Remodeling, recasting and remodeling again. Ahhhhhhh
  2. -see below- Uschi van der Rosten's "Trinity Splatter 2" is by far the best set I've come across. Their site has plenty of companies to buy them from, or just go to good old eBay. A few others make and sell them as "weathering airbrush stencils." AK is popular alternative. I just really like the brass one for durability/reusability and since you have to soak them in thinner to clean (no scrubbing as they are essentially a big photo etch piece. https://www.uschivdr.com/shopping-categories/shop-photo-etch/
  3. If yours came with 3, cut one in half and on the other remove the thick border edge. Or just bend one into a 90° angle. That way you can get in closer. Remember you don't want perfect patterns. Imperfect is more natural as counter intuitive as that sounds. A bit of trial and error, keep going!
  4. After Iran was cut off from USA tech they played around with adapting mim-23 Hawk surface to air missiles! https://www.twz.com/33456/iran-equipped-its-f-14s-with-modified-hawk-sams-that-had-bombs-attached-to-their-noses Here is a great read/transcribe on reddit with images.
  5. Basic colors on the go fast bits. Stainless steel, pale burnt metal, hot carbon and burnt iron followed by a brown and black dirty wash. Easy on the painting as I want to revisit some other forms of weathering I hadn't really touched in 20+ years when I was fresh around the ears. Hope to get the engines wrapped up by tomorrow so I can focus on the experimental payload it was equipped with and finally clear the workbench!
  6. I went light to dark as the darker colors covered the base layers faster with less paint. Even if my lighter color's coat had fuzzy edges, it was easily correctable with the darker colors without loosing the ground work. I had to come back in a few places with the tan to correct some of the camo patterns, somehow ot dodn't really take away from the soft edge/shading. It may be a scale thing though as IIRC you keep working on them tiny scales, lol. Marking correctsions, topcoat and then it's weathering time!
  7. Started trying making blu tac snakes to mask the camo and quickly found that that was a waste of time and ruined my foundational efforts. Freehand it is relying of preshading techniques and thinned overcoats. Edit: cant attach pic it seems via mobile
  8. Maverick finally being okay with passing the torch and being a leader to the next generation. He kind of started going down this path by being the instructer in TG2, but in the end he reverted back to being just an ace pilot. I don't think Tom Cruise would allow that though as he tends to always be the main action hero, not playing 2nd or 3rd string. I defiantly would like to see Maverick's studemts returning. Hangman, Rooster, Pheonix, and Bob were great!
  9. Just pay attention to you paint. If they are PE sheet thin stencils, don't try to scrub them clean as you'll bend them up in the process. Soak in appropriate (paint type dependent) thinner.
  10. I don't enjoy painting black kits or I'd consider. Blackbird, Stealth Bomber, and a handful of Yukikaze kits in the stash have placeholders for a black finish amd that is enough for me. I still have 2 cats to build, one will have to be a Jolly Rodger Bombcat, the other is my grail kit, one with every pannel opened up for service (late 90's Tomcatters.) Highly rec the Trinity stencils over freehand marbling. You can over thin your paint to use less materials. Also resulting in way less paint filling the (Tamiya super thin) panel lines while you build up layers. There is also the fact you can do a whole 1/48 bird in about an hour! Keen eyes will spot some early A exclusive parts!
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