Horatio Gruntfuttock Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 (edited) Some of you will recall the disaster that I had earlier in the year with this model when I sprayed her with Tamiya Satin clear and the paint crazed like crazy. Well I spent a few days over our winter sanding the crazing back vewwy vewwy carefuwwy with increasingly finer sanding sticks until she looked like this.http://i.imgur.com/dCRX6AJl.jpg You can see the depth and extent of the crazing. Then I started the respray job by covering all decals ( which curiously had not been affected by the clear coat) with Humbrol Maskol - comme ca.http://i.imgur.com/rNqIw4Ll.jpg Next I resprayed the two greens - first a bronzy olive and then a patchy olive drab to try to replicate the partially weathered RDAF schemes of the 1970s.http://i.imgur.com/Jsb4cOdl.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/pXbxX8Rl.jpg THen a coat of Humbrol Satin Clear , the enamel one this time!, and now she is done and here are some shots of her in the early morning sunshine beaming through our kitchen window - there are still a couple of rough patches but she looks a great deal better than the crinkled mountain range effect that I first produced. Hope you like her.http://i.imgur.com/6rgdPCol.jpg and with flash to dull the colours downhttp://i.imgur.com/PjpF9CXl.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/bE1RT4Wl.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/aK9Gld1l.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/lbXArZQl.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/ZzPGPZ2l.jpg PS - sorry about the linked images - I will have to sort out this issue for other posts. Edited October 16, 2017 by Horatio Gruntfuttock image issues 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme H Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Came out looking very good in the end, good save Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 You did good with that a really good recovery & a really nice looking model. Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luis Alfonso Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Hi Horatio!!! Congratulations for the great job you have done!!! I have this same kit and have bought two Airfix kits to use the other alternative versions parts in them. For sure will follow your path one of these days as, for me, the bird in that colors look nice and out of the common!! Thank you very much for sharing!!! Cheers, Luis Alfonso Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Great looking Draken 👍 turn the link into a Direct link on imgur. I use them and thats what i do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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