Fly-n-hi
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Depending on the type of DC-10 you could use the 90's British Airways livery. IMHO it's the nicest looking livery I've seen. Why they changed it I'll never know. (Actually, I do know why.)
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Nice. You did a great job!
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Nice work!
So how long did it take you to apply all those decals on top of the wings?
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Nice job! Was that one of the Revell re-releases? If so how'd it go together?
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Nice work!
Maybe I missed it but was was your "easier" way of threading the fibers?
And, how did you trim them down after painting? Seems like some of them would be hard to reach.
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First, you did a great job. Second, your bird does in fact represent the VF-84 scheme as it would have appeared in '76 or '77. After '78 the upper surfaces of the wings and the horizontal stabs were not painted white. The birds in The Final Countdown had the grey upper surfaces.
This paint scheme...with the white upper surfaces...looks way better in my humble opinion.
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I think its cool. Nice job.
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Great work. What colors did you use for the really dirty brown spots? They look very realistic.
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The flap position changes depending on whether we are taking off or landing. On the 737 we are at "flaps 1" or sometimes "flaps 5" for take-off. For landing we normally use "flaps 30" and sometimes "flaps 40" for shorter runways and contaminated runways.
The difference to the naked eye is that during take-off the trailing edge flaps are down only a little ways and the leading edge slats are extended to roughly 50% or their travel. On landing the trailing edge flaps are extended fully and so are the leading edge slats. The 747 has leading edge kruger flaps which swing open from the bottom as does the 737 and 727 on the inner panels so pay close attention to their locations.
I'd say that your best bet is to decide which phase of flight you want your model to be in and then look at pics on airliners.net to figure out how to cut out your flaps.
Hope this helped.
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Very cool. I like it.
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That's a great build. I'm curious too about your "photo booth."
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That looks great. I really like the F-2 paint scheme.
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I use steel birdshot and Apoxie Sculpt. Just mix in the birdshot with the Apoxie until it looks like chocolate chip cookie dough and mash it into any space you like.
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Very cool, man. Nice job.
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Thanks again for the nice comments.
I can't take full credit for the paint colors. I saw another F-22 build (maybe here on ARC...I can't remember for sure) where the builder used a paint brand called Citadel paint. Its a paint marketed to the gamers that use the little metal figures. I bought some and mixed it the way he recommended but his mixing for the dark part of the camo was way too dark. So I tweaked it a little and made my own mix.
The light part was 70% "Chainmail" and 30% "Codex Grey." The dark part was 70% "Boltgun" and 30% "Codex Grey." Basically, its just a lighter colored steel and a darker colored steel mixed with Dark Ghost Grey. I wondered if Tamiya Gun Metal mixed with Tamiya Sky Grey would work as well. The trim around the plane is Aqueous Hobby Color Light Ghost Grey (H308).
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Nice job. Cool display base, too.
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Great job. And nice work with the Minicraft kit. I've got a half assembled one now and it really is a POS.
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Nice work. The camo is fantastic.
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It seems to me that even with a nice sharp pair of sprue cutters you will sometimes still get the the problem you are having. One way to avoid it is to cut the piece off so that you leave a little bit of sprue on the piece. Then all you have to do is sand it down. Its easier to sand a little bit of sprue off than fill up a cut mark.
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It's cool. I know that you weren't criticizing me. I was just pointing out that if the paint looked really bad I wouldn't use it. Having the glowing effect is cool but if the colors were incorrect it wouldn't be worth it. Heck, even if it didn't glow I still think this paint looks better than the decals! Once you see it in person you get a way better idea of what the color really is.I wasn't referring to your work at all. I was referring to many builds you see in the gallery which, as you pointed out, are likely decals.
BTW, I really like your F-22. It looks like a super paint job and those slime lights look great to me.
Chuck
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Nice. Never would have guessed it was a snap kit.
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Thanks.That looks very very sweet....I'm still warming up to the look of the Raptor...it's capabilities are another matter, the things it can do are just awe inspiring!!!.
I'll be the first to admit that I find the F-22 kinda boring looking. It just seems like the 70's and 80's generation of aircraft were so much more interesting. I'd say that the F-15 is way more eye catching than the F-22, but that's just my opinion. The planes coming out today look way too computer generated and geometric.
Although, the last air show I went to had an F-22 demo and I enjoyed watching that more than I enjoyed the Thunderbirds.
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The glow-in-the-dark paint that I use glows greenish but it appears yellowish under normal lighting. Like I said above it is almost an exact match of the color you see on the real lights (Trust me, I looked a many reference pics to see how they should look). Plus, you can weather it down with a wash or with pastels.Although these lights look very cool in the dark, I would caution that many slime lights on models look way too intense and therefore unrealistic at scale. From a distance of, say, 50 feet from the real deal, you can hardly tell the true color of many formation lights, which appear to be faded yellow. Only up close at 8 feet can you see the greenish color properly.
This of course is an over-generalization and there are many exceptions, but you get the point. Any pics of this paint in bright light?
Not to sound like a jerk, honestly, but if it had an ecto plasm green color to it do you really think I'd put it on my builds? Heck no! If anything I'd say that the decals looked more unrealistic. They're a bright yellow color! The GITD paint has a built in faded look to it when it dries, too. Here's how it looks on the F-22 in bright light:
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Thanks for the compliments guys. I appreciate them.
F-14B diamondback oef 1/48
in The Display Case
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Looks fantastic. And it has the right amount of weathering IMHO. I see many models where people just get carried away with the weathering...although the builds themselves are excellent.
Nice work.