After few coats of clear laquer weathering begun. I ussualy do the panel lines with grinded dry pastel dust. For upper surfaces I used black pastel dust and for lower surfaces grey one.
The plane that I’m trying to build had underwing transport containers so I decided to include them in my model. They were scratched from old parts 1mm styreen sheet and aluminium self adhesive strip.
Excellent work folks. Hope I do 1/4 as well.
Noob question, where do you find reliable rigging plans for your birds? For the F3F, my kit instructions cover the antenna kind of well by leave the inter wing lines to the imagination. I did find the instructions from Revell’s 1/32 F3F, they’re very helpful, but the have the inboard lines entering the lower wing between the 1st and 2nd rib. Other photo’s show them entering the fuselage just above the lower wing root fairing. Any clues out there?
Having used some of Mal Mayfield’s (Holdfast) Miracle Masks some years back on a BP Defiant build, I was really impressed with the idea of using a masking film to create camouflage patterns.
To that end, after a bit of help from Mal in choosing a suitable film, I decided that the Gladiator was the perfect candidate to try out a new (to me) method of masking for painting the camo scheme.
So, first up, I made a copy of Airfix’s painting guide which I can over lay the film and then using a sharp scalpel, I cut out the pattern on the film
Mark, I used a product called Aslan S79 paint mask… I had to find a product available locally, but Aslan’s made in Germany so you may find a local distributor…
I’m toying with the idea of trying their S41 for rough surfaces next time as it may conform better to the curved surfaces of aircraft…
Thanks, I never heard of it before, have to see if I can scrounge one up. I failed miserably using paper cutout and blu-tack worms on my Hurricane. Want to try something that doesn’t have me slicing and dicing on top of the plane. Frisket paper is more available over here, have you ever tried it?
I am familiar with frisket film from 2d work I’ve done in the past… But from what Mal told me it’s quite a bit thicker than Aslan and won’t be as pliable when conforming to the shape of your aircraft…
Mal uses Ultra Mask for his masks so you should be able find either that or Aslan locally…
Don’t bother with hobby shops though: the seller of Aslan here is a specialist supplier to the graphic arts industry that applies commercial designs to trucks and work vehicles etc…
