Greg Law Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Excellent progress. Looking forward to seeing it painted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Late catch up Mark (so much to see! ). Great builds! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lasermonkey Posted September 24, 2020 Author Share Posted September 24, 2020 Sorry for the lack of updates. Work has got in the way of fun over the past week or so, but I have managed to sneak a little modelling in. I sprayed some Humbrol 65 over the underside of the model, added some staining and pre-shading with powdered crayon pencil and then went over that with a new tin of Colourcoats RLM 65. It's exactly the colour I was hoping for- none of that weird turquoise we had to put up with in the 20th century! After that was dry, I did this. Not exactly my favourite job, but at least that's done now. I have since sprayed a base coat of DBI FS 34102 over the topsides, mainly as I have lots of it. Once that's dry, I'll mask off the areas for the RLM 71 and spray that, hopefully tomorrow. By the way, I thought I'd give hobbyphotohost a try. So far, it seems to be exactly what I need- simple and works with my ancient iMac. Cheers, Mark. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray_W Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 Mark, looks like you're doing a fine job with this build. I've come to appreciate just how attractive an aircraft the Dornier is. Ray 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 37 minutes ago, lasermonkey said: It's exactly the colour I was hoping for- none of that weird turquoise we had to put up with in the 20th century! I have a few of these on the shelf, they do seem a bit bright these days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Law Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 Coming along very well. I'm about to start my Do17z. I finished the Bf 110D and Heinkel. I'll have the Ju 88A-1 done next week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lasermonkey Posted October 1, 2020 Author Share Posted October 1, 2020 Not much to report on the Hurricane front, apart from having fitted the transparencies. As mentioned in the Woods-Scawen thread, I wasn't too impressed with the fit of the windscreen, as I had to do some surgery on both the fuselage and windscreen to get a reasonable fit. I think I might invest in some of the newly-tooled canopy parts once I have seen some mention of them. I now have three Hurricanes to mask. Oh, the joy! Speaking of masking: I have removed some of the masking around the tail and found an area where I didn't get the masking aligned properly. On this kit, rather than spray the RLM 71 overall and then mask off those areas, I decided to try masking each colour's area in turn to hopefully avoid any ridges. Sadly, my masking accuracy wasn't as good as I hoped, so some retouching will be necessary. Not sure it was worth the bother, to be honest, especially with the time constraints of a groupbuild. You live and learn. Much as I love the colour accuracy of the Colourcoats paints, I do struggle a bit with the lack of opacity. I realise it's the price one pays for a smooth finish, but it took ages to get enough coverage with the RLM 71 and with the Schwartzgrün I ended up using a base coat of Humbrol 91 and then overcoating with the Colourcoats. I'm not sure if I was doing anything wrong, but it was taking forever! I'll be back later once I have removed the masking. Cheers, Mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lasermonkey Posted October 1, 2020 Author Share Posted October 1, 2020 OK, topside masks off! Overall, it came out better than I hoped. Apart from the tailplane, where I was way out, there's just one more area with masking misalignment, and that's right under where a walkway decal will go, so I'm not fussed about that. I need to touch up the obvious line you can see, but otherwise, I think I'm good to go. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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