Andrewvft Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Here's my latest build. Not a fan of the Eurofighter, but decided to give it a go. When I opened the kit, I noticed the decals were not like the box photo. infact, I found the colour of blue used on the tail was too 'purple' compared to photos of the real bird. Decals : Note the purplish colour of the tail The real bird So I decided to try painting the background colour myself and cut out the bits and pieces of the Tail art. Here is the tail with the cut out decals applied Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewvft Posted July 16, 2014 Author Share Posted July 16, 2014 and here's the final product This kit was a pretty nice kit. It comes with a lot of weapons including AIM-120, Meteor, IRIS-T, ASRAAM, Brimstone missiles, ALARM missiles and a few cruise missiles. Though as this is a show birds, I'm just going to put 2 IRIS-T missiles. I like the luftwaffe colours for the Eurofighter, so I'll probably do a normal Luftwaffe bird as well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Joel_W Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Andrew, Excellent job on the painting of the tail in the correct colors. The kit decals do indeed look completely wrong. Your over all build looks quite nice. Joel Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lancer512 Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Wow! I didn't realize that the colors of the Hasegawa decals are this much off. You did a great job on fixing the colors. The jet looks gorgeous! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ruud Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Beautiful work. The colors look much better too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewvft Posted July 16, 2014 Author Share Posted July 16, 2014 Thanks guys, I was really hoping for something straight forward, but I just couldn't live with those colours. Not to mention, the colours suggested by Hasegawa for this model seems pretty wrong. For starters, they suggest colour H307 (FS36320) for the fuselage where as FS35237 is more appropriate. This isn't the first time Hasegawa has screwed me for decals! So far, they've screwed me with: Chippy Ho History set - Very poor markings for the 1996 eagle painted on the nose E-2C Hawkeye USS GEORGE WASINGTON Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Don Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Nice work...great color correction ! She looks great. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mike C Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Great effort in replicating the blue shades, bearing fantastic result! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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