Tony Oliver

about the only thing you can do in weather like that 👍🏽👌🏽🤣

yes I understand all that but I don’t think the OP does.

It just doing it’s job. You must live in a high humidity climate

https://www.instagram.com/p/CsohKciuh8U/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== So turns out the RIO has his own insta page and shared a pic of this build a while back. How cool is that 😎

Is this perhaps too weathered then?

cheers Mike 👍🏽

Turned out great in the end. I have had the same trouble with printscale decals folding and curling up on themselves. Think its because they are so thin? What do you reckon mate?

yeah I thought so thanks for confirming it 🤣 ps the YouTube channel aircrew interview are doing a video with the RIO from this day about this day in particular and his time on the demo team in general…

Thanks gents. To get a uniform metallic sheen but still look weathered I tried a different approach to black basing as mixing darker or lighter shades of the havglass paint would have diluted the metallic by adding white or black etc. So this was primed in good old fashioned grey. Then pre shaded and highlighted with black and white. Then the haveglass hataka redline was mixed with mig ammo ‘transparator’ basically satin varnish to make the paint kinda see through. Built up in thin layers and thats it. the nozzle was painted in Tamiya Titanium silver acrylic and then had

Perhaps better than using something designed to stop blisters on your feet or whatever 🤣

Kabuki is the yellow tape and not flexible. The white tamiya tape can suffer from low adhesion if you overstretch it. Plus positioning a curve several times means you will lose more tack. But practice and adjust your techniques ie don’t flood or spray against the edge and you’ll be fine. Should always try and spray inwards over any tape rather than up to tape to avoid bleed.

1/72 F-16CJ haveglass. Tamiya kit. caracal 72019 next gen viper sheet. hataka red line paint.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125792396450?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=CPYGyahJTGG&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=CPYGyahJTGG&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Thanks guys 👌🏽

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