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    1/72 Revell Avro Lancaster B.III Special "Dambuster"

    in Work in Progress - Aircraft

    Posted

    19 hours ago, Thom216 said:

    The paint and weathering looks great!

     

    13 hours ago, Antb said:

    That looks great Val, if you like it and are happy with it then keep it the way it is.

     

    great use of the science putty btw, seems to have worked a treat

     

    12 hours ago, Tomoshenko said:

    Lovely work Val. It will look a little more muted with the flat coat. You can always use some soft chalk pastels to mute it a little more and add some tonal variation. The beauty of them is if you don't like the effect you can wipe them clean with a soft damp clothe before you seal them in.

     

    10 hours ago, woody37 said:

    Looks great with the paint and a bit of post shading on Val :)

     

    5 hours ago, Christer A said:

    Nice bit of postshading there! A flat coat and some light pigment weathering will sure blend it in further.

     

    Thank you all for you responses and positivity, I really appreciate it! I'll get the black work done next, decal her up and see what we're looking like. More soon, thanks again!

     

    Val

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    1/72 Revell Avro Lancaster B.III Special "Dambuster"

    in Work in Progress - Aircraft

    Posted

    Cheers guys! Christer, I went for the orange putty again :)

    I've corrected the camo and repaired damaged paintwork where applicable.

    Stage 1:

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    I then decided to do quite a bit of post shading, for a few reasons. Firstly, I've been scanning for pictures of Dambuster Lancs, and although these pics are usually black and white and it's hard to tell what is what, they do appear more weathered than I first thought. Secondly, a lot of the weathering is around the engine areas on top of the wings and this is to add depth to the exhaust staining. And finally because it just looked a bit one dimensional and a bit boring.

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    Now, it looks like I might have gone a bit over the top (it looks worse on screen then it does in real life to be honest), and the rule for weathering is if you think you've gone too far, you probably have! I'm going to leave it for a couple of days for it all to settle in and go off before deciding if I should knock it back a bit. I like it, but probably will. Although I might wait until I've got the black work done to get a better impression. In my (limited) experience, the shading never looks as strong after it's had a wash and a flat coat. We'll see.

    Cheers,

    Val

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    1/72 Revell Avro Lancaster B.III Special "Dambuster"

    in Work in Progress - Aircraft

    Posted

    The camo is nearly finished. The first step was to mask off the brown. Good ol' Science Putty was used.

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    Dark Green applied:

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    And unmaksed:

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    As you can probably see from the pictures, the camo needs tidying up a bit in places and also correcting here and there. I did lighten the green in places again as with the brown but only slightly. However, I've been looking at pictures of Dambuster birds and they do appear that they got a bit more weathered than I originally thought, so might do a bit more post shading here and there; restrained though.

    I'll try to correct the camo tonight, then I can look at masking the blackwork off in the next day or two.

    Val

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    Airfix 1/72 Lancaster II LL716 A2-G, 514 Sqn

    in Work in Progress - Aircraft

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    9 minutes ago, Simon said:

    I did one of those a few years ago. Not all plain sailing, mind!

     

     

    I ended up deciding to mould my own engine intakes for it as the kit ones are too wide and deep. Note my prophetic words in my first post: "soon after I finished it Airfix announce a state-of-the-art, and accurate, Lanc" :P

     

    Simon

     

    She looks great, mate! Hope mine comes out half as good as yours! I've not attempted to correct the dihedral either. I figured I'd create more problems than solutions! I don't think it's that bad either. I've got a pic on my work desktop background and you can barely notice the dihedral. Then you see other pictures when it's pronounced.

    Airfix 1/72 Lancaster II LL716 A2-G, 514 Sqn

    in Work in Progress - Aircraft

    Posted

    New Airfix is a strange one. Their kits are generally excellent imo, but it does seem a bit of a lottery how they go together. I've struggled like heck with some kits others say have fallen together (not ruling out me being the problem to be fair), but I've also made other kits of theirs which have literally fallen together, no filler at all, which others have really struggled with. Really can't explain it!

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