Giorgio N Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Looking very good ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev1n Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 wot e sed ^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabat Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 How's this one coming along? Looking good so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyB Posted April 10, 2012 Author Share Posted April 10, 2012 She's coming along, has been a bit of an epic weekend and it still isn't finished! I've done all the little things, managed to get the canopy finished off and started to get the fightertown decals on. I'm about 75% of the way through hence why I haven't got any pictures. Have found the fightertown decals amazing, the level of detail and quality is absolutely spot-on but the instructions are dire! The sheet is even incorrect relating to the decals they provide let alone the actual aircraft. Shows decals in places that aren't on the sheet or on the aircraft and there are decals on the sheet that aren't on the instructions. Luckily I've managed to find pretty good source photographs but if you couldn't it would be a real head-ache! But then I guess the argument is that if you're using aftermarket decals you're going to be taking the hobby to a point that you are find sources and working from there and not the supplied sheets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabat Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 +1 on the Fightertown decals. I must admit, they aren't too clear all the time with numbering or labelling, it's pretty much for you to play hide and seek on the sheet! But they are brilliant decals, Microsol those babies up and they look painted on! Glad to hear you're cracking on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Unfortunately decalling a tomcat is always not easy because the stencils can have many variations. If then the instructions are not properly done, this can become a nightmare ! Having a picture of the aircraft helps a lot but still sometimes some interpretation of other pictures is required. Hope you can manage to sort things out ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyB Posted April 10, 2012 Author Share Posted April 10, 2012 Luckily the tophatters own website has a nice collection of pictures of the 80th Anniversary aircraft and even fightertowns own photobucket account had loads but they all seem to have disappeared. But, there have been a few educated guesses I've been using revell decal soft as it's all I've been able to get and it's been working OK, though the wing edge decals have been causing a few head aches and I'm probably just going to end up painting those bits on, but that's no major biggy. Though a coat of klear has been really pulling the decals down and leaving a great finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabat Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 For wing tip decals you mean the formation 'slime lights? Looking at references, these are a dull, mustardy, yellow from fading (particularly the wingtip lights) and I painted over mine with Humbrol 83 Ochre. I future, I won't even bother with the decals and I'll just paint 'em on! Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev1n Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Unfortunately decalling a tomcat is always not easy because the stencils can have many variations. If then the instructions are not properly done, this can become a nightmare ! Having a picture of the aircraft helps a lot but still sometimes some interpretation of other pictures is required.Hope you can manage to sort things out ! you can say that again........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyB Posted April 10, 2012 Author Share Posted April 10, 2012 For wing tip decals you mean the formation 'slime lights? Looking at references, these are a dull, mustardy, yellow from fading (particularly the wingtip lights) and I painted over mine with Humbrol 83 Ochre. I future, I won't even bother with the decals and I'll just paint 'em on! Hope that helps. Yeah, I've been thinking about it today and I'm gonna pick off what has gone on, mask them up and paint them. Thinking a mixing up some signal yellow with some black to dull them down and some white to fade it down. Here's a couple of pics of the work from last night, not finished yet and I'm yet to sort out the base. Excuse the mess Getting ready One side getting there As far as it stands tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 That is looking rather good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabat Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 That is looking superb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveJL Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Good work mate. I'll echo what Parabat has said about the slime lights on the wing tips. They are removable panels and do get covered in grease etc. I've built 10 1/48 'cats and haven't been able to get the decals on right once! I normally paint them on with a 50:50 mix of tamiya flat yellow and flat white give them a dusting over with weathering pigment. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev1n Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 good work - press on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyB Posted April 15, 2012 Author Share Posted April 15, 2012 Well just dipping in under the wire I'm calling this one finished Have spent today fixing my mess of the slime lights, repainting the decals that had got knocked and applying a bit of dirt to the wing roots. I haven't gone over board on the weathering as all of the source images I could find with this livery showed a pretty clean airframe, that and I picked up the wrong pastels, oil instead of chalk. Only thing to finish is off is print off a decent base image and get the proper pictures taken tonight. Will admit it's not perfect and at times in the build I felt out of my depth having not built anything since I was about 15 but I have learnt so much along the way and feel a lot more confident going into my next build. Just want to say thank you to everyone for the advice during the build and esp. to Parabat for answering all my questions early on and to Giorgio N for all the advice and DaveJL for building some truly inspirational cats during this group build, follow your WIP threads have been a massive help! Cheers guys and roll on the next one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveJL Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 Cracking result mate, well done! Thanks for the kind words with regards to my builds. Glad they were able to assist! Cheers Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neal Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 Very nice model. Looking forward to seeing it on a base in the completed builds thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 Well done another VF-14 aircraft finished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIO Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 Very nice model. Looking forward to seeing it on a base in the completed builds thread. ...next to a Kinetic Prowler as well ;-) Very nice indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabat Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 No probs DannyB, what a cracking result with your first model back! Real nice looker, well done bud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
periklis_sale Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Cracking result mate, well done! :clap2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio N Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Very nice ! It's a great looking model, well done ! Speaking of slime lights, on bigger scale models I paint them using... humbrol 81 zinc chromate primer. To me it represents well the kind of yellow of the real thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyB Posted April 16, 2012 Author Share Posted April 16, 2012 Yeah the slim lights caused me the biggest head ache at the end of the build and going forward I'm just going to mask them up and paint them on. I hadn't got a coat of klear on the white stripe decals so when I masked the slime lights the tape pulled them off so had to paint them in too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev1n Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 (edited) well done.....and a good job as well one small criticism tho'.... Just want to say thank you to everyone for the advice during the build and esp. to Parabat for answering all my questions early on and to Giorgio N for all the advice and DaveJL for building some truly inspirational cats during this group build, follow your WIP threads have been a massive help! ....you might find that as your navy career progresses, it's wise to thank the ship's commanding officer as well as the other senior officers, even tho in this case, this particular captain doesnt know anything and didnt do much anyway... edit - oh, and he cant type either... Edited April 16, 2012 by kev1n Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyB Posted April 16, 2012 Author Share Posted April 16, 2012 Sorry capt'n! Funnily enough when I posted that I wondered if I should of mentioned the boss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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