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79 7 February 2024, 15:34
Daniel AuthorWell, blowing the dust off - again.
This is really on the home stretch now in the mean time. Painted, weathered and waiting for end-assembly.
I'll upload some of the painting-in-progress pics I found in my cloud, not much of a build blog but thats how things go sometimes...
@Jennifer: I use a pristine straight blade perpendicular to carefully scratch down the seam, most important to keep a steady, smooth motion, gets hard to correct if you create a bumpy surface by vibration during scratching.
I continue this until there is no trace of a seam or sink mark left. After that I use my 2000-10000 grit wet grind set. If scratching went smooth its mostly just a polish. (some canopies are so badly seamed together though that you leave a flat area on top through extensive scratching. Which you have to sand round again to blend it back in)
Before I did the polishing with tamiya compound, and even before that I used a cotton wool bud with whitening tooth paste to polish, worked as well.
I think its easy to do but understand a lot of modellers are afraid to ruin the canopies. Helps to practice this on spare parts.
16 August, 20:45
Daniel AuthorOver the finish line!
Happy with the result, its quite an eye catcher on the shelf
23 August, 13:03
AlexanderEye catcher is an understatement, more like eye magnet!
Beautiful finsih - the decals really add to the already amazing paintjob! 👍👍
23 August, 14:34
Daniel AuthorThanks a lot Zbynek, Alexander and Nathan!
Yeah, glad the Decals were top quality at least, those took the most time
24 August, 19:24
J. HartwigSehr interessante Ausführung gut detailliert und fein zusammengebaut. Sehr gut gelungenen 👍👍👍👍
24 August, 21:09
bughunterWhat a beautiful colorful jet model 👍
Is the base made of printed cardboard?
1 September, 07:40
Daniel AuthorHey guys, thank you very much for your kind feedback 🙏
@bughunter: yep, this is the Uschi v d Rosten NAS Lemoore base
2 5 September, 10:49
