I spent today finishing up the cockpit. Got the instrument panel painted and finished the ejection seat. As it’s the most prominent feature in jet cockpits, I like to spend a bit of time on them. After painting, the cushions got a wash with Citadel Sepia wash, and the seat structure a light dry brush with steel paint. Then made up the harness and straps with thin cut paper strips.
Also cleaned up the missiles. They had some large sprue attachment points and needed a lot of cutting and sanding. Need to find something to make up the rocket exhaust nozzles. They’re quite prominent on the R530 series. Wonder if heat stretching a bit of tube will do the job?
Thanks Jesper. That actually makes a bit of sense and the thought hadn’t occurred to me.
I suppose as I’m doing a Tigermeet aircraft, it’s unlikely it would have carried live ordnance. Not sure if they would have carried anything, but I don’t have anything with R530’s in the collection.
You can always use some rod or sprue if it is wide enough. Put it in a drill and sand the main truncated cone shape from the section that pokes out the end. Then drill out the centre of the tapered point. Cut off the piece from the rod, turn it around and insert the hobby knife blade into the hole and twirl it around to pare out the rod into the wider flare shape.
I took Petbat’s advice and tried my hand at using my rotary tool as a makeshift lathe to make the rocket nozzles. Made them from a short length of tube.
This looks like a great place to work on something new to me, a 3D printed model of the Le Char D’Assaut Peugeot mod.1918 (C-2) with 75mm Blockhaus Schneider by Vargas Scale Models. There are very few parts to this 1/35 scale kit but it has the tracks & wheels all built together which is going to make it a challenge to paint.
Post your start picture and your finished picture in this thread, please; OR
create a thread under this campaign and post your pictures in it and link it to this thread.
I would just like the finish picture posted here or linked to in this thread to make it easy for me to figure out who completed the campaign at the end.
Very good, I have done many campaigns on the old Kitmaker sites. I would like to post the start, build & finish pictures right here to share with all and get any suggestions that may come up.
Is there some instructions someplace on how to post pictures?
