CheshireGap Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 A few shots of my latest, the Hasegawa kit with a replacement CMK cockpit originally designed for the Monogram kit, and new exhausts, Apart from a strange reaction between the Humbrol acrylic Dark Green and Tamiya Clear resulting in a very rough texture that needed polishing out, the build was fairly straightforward. Weathering was kept minimal with pastels and silver pencil, as a colour photo of the original aircraft shows it was fairly clean. The panel lines were washed with Flory Dark Dirt as it is not as stark as the black. 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 That's a superb "Tiffie", nicely done with the paint and weathering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winenut Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Very nice Tiffie indeed. One of my favourite aircraft. Well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcode Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 nice job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyhunter66 Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Excellent - I love the car door Typhoon! Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knikki Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 That looks really good. Must confiess thought you were doing the bubble top version, not the car door type but still looks good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave N Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Very nice indeed. Flory wash looks very convincing for the panel lines, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith in the uk Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 wow , what a beauty , that's a very nice Typhoon indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheshireGap Posted February 24, 2016 Author Share Posted February 24, 2016 Thank you for all the kind comments, as usual I see the mistakes before the good bits! I was a bit frustrated after applying the gloss as to how dark the colours went, and how the subtlety of the pastels was lost. I hoped that the matt varnish would take things back a little to how they were, but not so - does anyone know a gloss/matt varnish combo that leaves doesn't shift the colours so much? I guess its all about surface reflectiveness, so the flatter the matt the better. This shot shows how it looked just prior to the Tamiya Clear: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire31 Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Excellent Typhoon! And interesting question about how a gloss coat will darken the tones. Maybe an argument for using Xtracolor, which is high gloss in itself? Splendid work. Kind regards, Joachim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pascal JMW Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 superb work !!! well done ! looks beautiful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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