Revell 1/72 A-10

[Spectre711]

I'm not sure how this one is going to end up but the box art is starting to grow on me.

Right off the bat the Academy pit is much nicer(left). There is also a lot of flash and ejector marks in the prastic of the Revell kit.

[Sebastijan]

This must be some older version - I am also using Revell kit, but it has Italeri plastic in it, which is quite nicer

[Spectre711]

It's a Revell USA boxing so that's probably why. From what I have read the RoG kits were sometimes made by Italeri or Hasegawa.

[Spectre711]

So the kit has Revell Monogram 1977 molded into it but I think this one is all Revell. Anyway here is my progress.

[Spectre711]

I'm going to attempt to reproduce this one!

I just have to figure out the colors and how to achieve the mottled look

[Ian Cooper]

Wow. Never seen that paint scheme before, Spectre. It looks great. Good luck with figuring out how to reproduce it!

Cheers

Ian

[Pete]

You might want to ask Bigasshamm about his A-10. He built one a couple years ago, and he aplied charcoal to the grey areas on it that gave pretty much the effect you are looking for. He took down the pics he had in the thread, but he may still have them on his HDD.

[Bigasshammm]

Had to delete that album sorry.

It was for the Desert Storm GB doing the euro 1 scheme. The grey I used was too light so I took some black pastel chalk rubbed onto some sandpaper. Used a stiff brush and kind of worked the chalk into the paint. Gives it a mottled look but you have to be careful with the clear cote because it can wipe away the effect if done too thick.

I can try to take a picture of it tomorrow since I'm looking right at it. Gives me an excuse to clean it and replace the jammer one of the kids broke off.

[Spectre711]

I was just going to send you a PM. If you can get a picture or two that would be great. I would really like to see how it turned out.

[Bigasshammm]

Here's the only old ones I still had on pbucket apparently. Hard to see because the crucial in progress shots of what i did are missing.

I was trying to achieve something like this

Looking at the grey area. Plus when I initially painted it the grey was far too light for my taste.

Anyway all I did was free paint but before gloss coat I would run the pastel chalk onto a piece of 100-200 grit sand paper. Leaves a nice black powder. Then stab the stiff brush into the powder and then stabbed that into the grey paint area in random spots and splotches. Then once I applied it I feathered it in the direction of airflow. You'll lose a lot of it when you clear coat but for me I needed to blend the grey before decals. You could do after decaling and give it a flat coat but you'll still want to give it another spray of flat or the chalk will rub off every time you touch it.

Hope this helps and doesn't sound like gibberish.

[Bigasshammm]

Just took these. Can see it better close with flash. Even shows the nasty fingerprint I left in the chalk prior to clear coat. Lol.

You can see how the grey is lighter and you basically just mash the chalk into the paint. No real finesse to it.

Hope this helps.

Lmk if you want picks of the chalk set but it's a very old (25yrs?) set. Just your basic art set of pastel chalks.

Edited November 14, 2013 by Bigasshammm

[Spectre711]

Thanks, I'm going to test out the charcoal this weekend and see what I can do.