Sanandrea

So, I had some progress this weekend on the project. Spent like 2 hours on the canopy masking, but in the end I am pleased with it, although it would had been easier with wider masking tape (I had only 6mm). Then I painted the tail and rear wings with Revell Black Gloss °7. My experience with gloss is that it needs so much less thinner. In the first try with the same amount of thinner as the matt ones it was very difficult to lay a layer of paint the effect was horrible, the paint would float on thinner. I cleaned the spots with thinner and started again. Also I was complaining with the white colour as my least favourite to paint, but gloss is even harder. Every dust particle can be seen on the surface and the model has to be super clean before painting. I bought a bottle of surgical spirit (ethanol 90% methanol 5%) to clean the model before painting but still some small particles can be seen. I hope that the decals will mask this small imperfections. The easiest part was painting the nose with Anthracite Black as the effect was quite good with almost no effort. Now I am stuck cause need to buy some missing colours to paint the canopy and the rear wheels bays (which I painted with the wrong colour ). cheers

Hey, thank you very much for you advice. I worked this weekend on the wings gloves by cutting and sanding them a little more and repainted the wings again. Unfortunately I do not think it will make a difference (I did not try to move the wings again), I am seriously thinking at glueing the wings at a fixed position. I still have not glued the frontal part, otherwise the moving mechanism is not accessible anymore. This is a very valuable advice. I have seen too many videos that most modellers apply a transparent gloss coat before applying decals, but I did not understand the reason behind it. I am planning to do the same then. Will post here updates of the build. Thank you very much again!

Hello Modellers, This is my first post in this forum. I would like to ask some advice regarding my first build a Tornado ECR TigerMeet 2014. Premise: I am realising now that building a 1:32 is a lot of work and is not suitable for the newbie. It is very likely to give up. But I have not bought this model myself. I received it as a gift from my wife last christmas. I had no idea of the existence of plastic models until December 2017 (shame on me) and now a whole new world is in front of me. I have read a lot of posts from the forum and seen a lot of videos. I enjoyed the Andyc build and now I am following the awesome TSR2 Build. I am doing small steps in becoming a little more proficient in plastic modelling. I also bought the tools scalpel, colours, airbrush, compressor, etc. When I started the build I had no idea literally where to begin. Back in January I had only 3 colours and 2 brushes. I will not show how the cockpit ended painted because it was the first part . The first advise that I am seeking for is the following: The Revell Tornado ECR main body colour is black gloss as per instructions. But to be honest I do not like it, I might be wrong but it is awful. I am planning at painting it as the first Tigermeet in grey silk matt (Revell email 371). Now I am wondering what will happen with the decals if I change the body colour. I am afraid it will become something more awful. Second advise is regarding the variable geometry of the wings. Since the model had that feature I wanted to build it as it was intended although many of the build I have seen have simply glued the wings in a fixed position. My problem is that I painted the wings before inserting them into the body since the inner part has a different colour like this. What happened is that when the wings move they friction in the rest of the body and the paint goes away (although they were painted like 3 days before). At this point I have no idea how to deal with that. I am posting a photo of the problem: You can see in the second photo I tried to cut the upper part of the body in order to create more room. I do not want to tear the model apart at this moment in order to sand the room for the wing. Any advise is highly appreciated. Thank you