my favs are F`s Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 Awesome looking! Yeah, lacquer paints love thinning. Btw, why are these darker sprinkles and unevently painted areas around the rear side of the canopy? Is it an effect (for after the masking) or maybe contaminated paint or so... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
konbini Posted February 14 Author Share Posted February 14 21 hours ago, RichB63 said: Looks great with the first layers of paint applied! Rich Thanks! It's slowly coming together 🙂 8 hours ago, Bendinggrass said: Beautiful work. Many thanks Bendinggrass! Always a work in progress for improvement. 1 hour ago, my favs are F`s said: Awesome looking! Yeah, lacquer paints love thinning. Btw, why are these darker sprinkles and unevently painted areas around the rear side of the canopy? Is it an effect (for after the masking) or maybe contaminated paint or so... Ah! That is my rather poor and rushed result of spraying on a too thin a layer of primer. I used more PSI and paint for more coverage and some areas were not sprayed as well as I would have liked. Fortunately, I took slightly more care with the main color - however, there are still microfibers and dust stuck to whatever layer I paint and I dont think I am able to ever completely rid of them unless I sprayed in a clean room. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ALF18 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 I am awestruck by your landing gear detailing. Tiny parts, beautifully done. Soon I hope to tackle some F-35 models, and yours will serve as a great reference build. ALF Quote Link to post Share on other sites
konbini Posted March 15 Author Share Posted March 15 On 2/16/2023 at 7:45 AM, ALF18 said: I am awestruck by your landing gear detailing. Tiny parts, beautifully done. Soon I hope to tackle some F-35 models, and yours will serve as a great reference build. ALF Many thanks for your kind words. You’ll love the kit. Dear all, A bit of a late one for me. Been away from my desk. Good news is I got some spray time in and went in and bit the bullet for the main paint job. The grey is the Tamiya recommended mix, and I thought it came out ok. The LP paints were thinned slighted with mrcolor levelling thinner. I’d say 4:1, 3:1 paint to thinner. after everything was dry I sprayed on a mrcolor thinned x22 tamiya clear in preparation for the next stage, decals. I expect that wont be an easy task. I’ll keep everyone posted. Here is a test fit picture with the subassemblies put together. Nothing is glued yet. Look’s alright so far. More to come, happy modelling everyone! Konbini Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr.Happy Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 Looking good Konbini! The Tamiya LP paint mix looks great. Keep modeling, Mr. Happy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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