Okay, got paint down on the Rooikat. Went with the 3 camo version:
All Tamiya Acrylic paints - custom mixes. I hoping a thin wash will add the correct hue to these.
Okay, got paint down on the Rooikat. Went with the 3 camo version:
All Tamiya Acrylic paints - custom mixes. I hoping a thin wash will add the correct hue to these.
Looking great. Nice work on the camo!
Very good mix with those colours. Couldn’t really get a better match if was straight out a pot. Looking very good.
Thats very good David. Definitely cracked the abandoned look and feel with the hatches open and discarded kit everywhere. The ground work gives it a really nice autumnal feel. The finished cam turned out really nice as well … Great job all over
Forgot to reply to this one Ryan, sorry. Looks good mate. I really enjoyed mine, its a fun little build with no real issues. Hows your going ? you just doing a basic green finish ? Kit rubber or you getting resin for it ?
Thanks. Not going bad, had some burnout time then life happened, trying to get on the overdose of all that. I am at adding PE and painting the interior before body painting. I think it will be all green as it appears that was the AK deployment color.
Both my LAV builds will have resin tires, don’t want any trumpeter rubber problems later.
I kept mine OOB but I can imagine PE for it would be nice and enhance it a lot. look forward to any updates
Great work in this campaign so far!
I am getting started slowly on my entry: 1/48 trumpeter Mig-23BN Flogger H.
I am planning to build an Ethiopian camo scheme.
More to follow
Nice one to pick Jesper. Will be good to have a plane joining in… Look forward to it
Thanks, Johnny! Really looking forward to painting the camouflage. I will probably go with hard edged camo and use a brush. Let’s see if I chicken out at the last moment and use the airbrush
A little progress on this one.
The cockpit decals are on. Not sure what I think of these. Clearly better details that can be painted unless you have a very sharp eye and brush, but does not fit exactly to the raised details. I guess it will see after some light washes.
Another one I lost track of.
Still have time buddy … It was sounding close last time …
Is yours very close now Peter @petbat … just needed a wash or filter didn’t it ?
Deadline is 10 Jan 23…and I can eke out another 7 or so days after if people need it ??
I’m very close John. I’ll finish in time.
I broke the protective rails for the smoke dischargers (knocked the turret of the mutihands holding it) and have had to replace them. They need painting, but once that is done, I just need to rub some pigments into the vinyl tyres and she is done.
Excellent
Okay, here is the finished (except for aerials) Trumpter Rooikat.
Fought me a bit at the end. Dusted with pigments to replicate this type of dusty layer, just not quite as heavy:
Now to find a guitarist to mug for his axe strings…
Very nice Peter. Good sympathetic layer of dust is giving it a used but not abused look. Tyres are looking very nice as well as the cam scheme. Great work mate.
I am getting there - But might need another couple of weeks. Could we get an extension to 1st February?
More to follow soon
Probably 100% risk that I will knock these PE antennas of during painting
If you haven’t tried it yet check out the rubberized CA. It’s black so it’s much easier to see where it is applied and it has a bit of give to it, a bit of flex. It also help to prevent parts launch when something breaks off. Been using it for a while now and have been happy with the results.