rgb40 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 (edited) Beautifully done Tony. Up to your usual standards. By the way How are you? George Edited January 21, 2018 by rgb40 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Incredible work, I love the subtle weathering. Cheers John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbell Posted January 22, 2018 Author Share Posted January 22, 2018 13 hours ago, rgb40 said: Beautifully done Tony. Up to your usual standards. By the way How are you? George Doing well, thanks. Getting the results from the latest CT in a couple of weeks. I’m pretty confident it’s all clear. See you at Heritagecon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbell Posted January 22, 2018 Author Share Posted January 22, 2018 On 2018-01-19 at 8:17 PM, Bob Henry said: I absolutely love this kit so I'm going to shop around at the swap meets to see if I can find it. Great job on the wooden prop. If you don't mind, can you share some info on how you painted it ? Thanks again for posting. Bob H. Thanks, Bob. The prop laminations were masked and painted. I drew the masks on the computer, ellipses for the front and strips for the rear, and cut them on my Silhouette Portrait computer controlled cutter. The light colour is Vallejo Air Radome Tan and the dark colour is Vallejo Panzer Aces Light Rust. I applied a very light coat of thinned raw sienna oil paint which I streaked with a piece of torn sponge for a subtle (almost too subtle) wood grain. Cheers, Tony 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow113 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Very nice. Do you think the prop masks could be done for a 4 blader? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbell Posted January 22, 2018 Author Share Posted January 22, 2018 8 hours ago, krow113 said: Very nice. Do you think the prop masks could be done for a 4 blader? If the profile of the individual blades is similar, I don't see why not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Henry Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 11 hours ago, tbell said: Thanks, Bob. The prop laminations were masked and painted. I drew the masks on the computer, ellipses for the front and strips for the rear, and cut them on my Silhouette Portrait computer controlled cutter. The light colour is Vallejo Air Radome Tan and the dark colour is Vallejo Panzer Aces Light Rust. I applied a very light coat of thinned raw sienna oil paint which I streaked with a piece of torn sponge for a subtle (almost too subtle) wood grain. Cheers, Tony Thanks for the input. I'm "Technically challenged" so the computer is not in my game plan. I will probably just do it the old fashioned way and manually cut some very thin strips of Tamiya masking tape and try the masking. The other steps should not be a big issue. Bob H. ..... Oh, did I forget to mention how much I really liked this build ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbell Posted January 22, 2018 Author Share Posted January 22, 2018 1 hour ago, Bob Henry said: Thanks for the input. I'm "Technically challenged" so the computer is not in my game plan. I will probably just do it the old fashioned way and manually cut some very thin strips of Tamiya masking tape and try the masking. The other steps should not be a big issue. Bob H. ..... Oh, did I forget to mention how much I really liked this build ??? I did my Wingnut Wings Albatros prop the same way, but with hand cut masks. Just be sure to study the laminations pattern on the real thing; it's quite distinctive and simple strips don't replicate it accurately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Henry Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 That also is a great looking build. Bob H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSTON Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 NOICE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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