macroadster Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 The chalk pastel wash tip is demostrated by Steve Bamford at his website. It is really effective and panel lines can be done in minutes.
macroadster Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 The solution is composed of dish washing soap, charcoal and a tiny bit of water.
macroadster Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 The black fin above the jet engine was supposed to be a decal. However, the lack of experience with decal, my decal melt away with the decal protecting solutions. I guess I was spreading it to close. Therefore I end up painting the parts, and the top yellow parts. I guess I am lucky the chrome yellow was the same color as the supplied decals.
macroadster Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 Finally all of the parts started to join together. The white paint and panel lines look great together. I still couldn't believe I hand painted everything. I wouldn't be able to do this 20 years ago.
macroadster Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 The head laser piece was drill out at the tip to make the laser canon more realistic. The green section is again composed of chrome silver then painted clear green.
macroadster Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 The safty handles didn't work. I ripped them out and plan for a major change. I drilled two holes right above Roy's seat to insert the safety bars into those tiny holes.
macroadster Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 Sorry for the blur, I was intend to show the little white hole right after the yellow circle. I drilled the holes for the safty bar to connect from the top of the seat to the back of the seat.
macroadster Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 Time to take a break from the safty handles. They were driving me crazy. I decided to weather the landing struct instead.
macroadster Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 The silver area was filled with eproxy and hopefully the clear red will make the lights stand out.
macroadster Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 Roy decided to jump out of the seat when I weather the nose. Many parts were falling out. It seems like the project is heading toward a doom.
macroadster Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 There are so many tiny decals on this plane. It took me 15 hours to decal the top of the plane.
macroadster Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 Another day has gone by, and I just decal the inner side of the legs, and added landing structs. The landing doors are painted red. Another tip from mw_cheng's build.
macroadster Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 Instead of buying another dark grey. I mixed my own paint with 98% flat white, 1% steel and 1% semi-gloss black, the grey turn out to be excellent color for the armor. Most of the decals are in place, and I spreaded the decal protector to melt them into plastic. Next I painted a clear coating to make sure the decals won't be removed in the future.
macroadster Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 the decal bowl. I cut them into little piece and place them one by one. There were as many decals as the plastic parts.
macroadster Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 Finally all of the parts are assembled. Time to weather this bird.
macroadster Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 I tried to keep the plane as clean as possible. I only made a few dirty spots on the air breaker and the wings. The rest are kept as clean as possible. However, it still gets pretty dirty when you look at the plane in close distance.
macroadster Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 Lessons learn: 1. Do not use eproxy putter for small gaps. Try to use much of the plastic cement and glue the piece together, then sand the pieces together until the glue and plastic melt together to create a smooth surface. It is much more efficient and pretty. 2. Decal then clear coating then weather the plane. There are several parts that I weather the panel lines first, then clear coating. However, the clear coating and dish washing soap interact with each other to create junkie sticky paint on the plane. It makes the plane dirty automatically, but that might not be the desired effect. 3. Hase's decal expands in hot water. Use cold water to rinse the decal. Otherwise the decal will expand too much to fit on the plane. 4. Enjoy the process, rush will only ruine the fun. Happy holidays.
dyowelb Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 nice work....and you work fast, i mean really fast. d
Damian Posted December 28, 2004 Posted December 28, 2004 (edited) NICE!!!! I would say looking at the pics that, that bird wasn't brush painted Keep up the fine work! Damian Edited December 28, 2004 by Damian
Dat Pinche Haro! Posted December 28, 2004 Posted December 28, 2004 very very nice work...i envy your skill
HWR MKII Posted December 29, 2004 Posted December 29, 2004 man i really need to finish mine. i just have so many kits on my plate i need to set a priority list down. nice looking build. did you use testors light grey for the base color? its what i used and it looks the same as yours.
stphpo2 Posted December 29, 2004 Posted December 29, 2004 Nice job. I hope I can make my VF-1S look that good.
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