Tie_Dye_Jedi Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 Well its Christmas time again and while shopping for gifts for others I magically ended up in the hobby section of the toy shop in the local shopping centre, amazingly I managed to escape with only purchasing a 1/72 airfix RAF red arrows gnat kit which was cheap and I could use it to try using a wash for the first time, I convinced myself. My original time frame for this was one day but I couldn't get my air brush working which extended the build to two days. The kit was painted with tamiya XF-7 and clear coated with Tamiya TS-13, decals were set with mr mark softer and panal lines were washed with tamiya panel line accent black I'm mostly happy with the results as this is my 1st airfix kit as well as aircraft build, 1st time using washes, painting canopys and using micro Krystal clear. I did make a few mistakes -breaking off the wings on the top and bottom of the fuselage -overpainting the main wings which restricted the amount of wash detail -I got lazy and used TS-8 to paint the Canopy after masking which made it look like I had used a clear red -accidentally using TS-65 pearl clear because I didn't read the label properly, I didn't fix it and the colour has a slight metallic effect which looks good in person but not show up in photos the wash looks very pronounced on the rear wings because I think I used less paint, also check out the left wing the camera just picks up the pearl effect in the paint 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booty003 Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 Great little build. Something that I haven't built yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 Great looking Gnat 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winenut Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Good on you for grabbing a kit and having a go at a new technique Looks good to me and I'm sure you will use the wash again in future builds Well done Cheers Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurrantBunbury Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Gnice Gnat! I can see what you mean about the wash being stronger on the tail. Looks like it's turned out well, though, and a useful technique for the next build. I'm quite intrigued by the pearl effect! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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