Jb65rams Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 My entry will be Minicrafts 1/144 Legend of Aviation, The Douglas DC-3. The kit comes with 3 decal options, I have gone for the all over orange KLM version. I have some concerns over the decals, as they are quite old, did test one and it seemed to behave itself so fingers crossed. Plan is to build this wheels up, as a desk display model. Build wise I am going with the Bruce Wayne Option, Planning to start about 3ish this afternoon, means I should complete it before the Indy 500 starts, 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockeyboy76 Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Ooooooo, someone else to convert to the power of pink primer!! Great for Orange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Did someone mention the O word ! I got in a world of trouble painting my Renzan "Rita" in the Frog GB over shades of orange 🍊 Best of luck Cheers Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jb65rams Posted May 29, 2021 Author Share Posted May 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Hockeyboy76 said: Ooooooo, someone else to convert to the power of pink primer!! Great for Orange. Already a convert, used it under yellow, but never for orange. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinxman Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 3 hours ago, Hockeyboy76 said: Ooooooo, someone else to convert to the power of pink primer!! Great for Orange. Ahem, what would you use as a primer for pink then, me old china? 🤭 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jb65rams Posted May 29, 2021 Author Share Posted May 29, 2021 14:33 Made a start. Very quickly I had the wings together and paint the cockpit black, I made a display stand out of some Albion Alloy tube. After an hour, most of the major construction has been finished. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emily Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 (edited) Fantastic choice! Can't go wrong with a DC-3. Looking forward to seeing how this one turns out! Edited May 29, 2021 by emily Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jb65rams Posted May 29, 2021 Author Share Posted May 29, 2021 Just before T, I gave it a coat of Vallejo Squid Pink on top of Halfords Primer. A couple of hours later, this was followed by a couple of light coats of Vallejo Orange. Normally I like to leave a couple of days between colours. As well as a difficult colour to paint, orange is also proving difficult to photograph! That's it for today, off to research DC-3 undercarriage, I need to modify the kit parts to wheels up. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natter Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Speedy progress. But then I suppose this is a Blitzbuild... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jb65rams Posted May 30, 2021 Author Share Posted May 30, 2021 Spent a painful 60mins doing the decals, there is not many but they where poor. They fragmented coming of the backing and didn't really want to settle down. Ending up cutting the decals up and doing it letter by letter. Do seem to be on a bad run with decals, end up ditching the kit ones I was using in my Less Than A Tenner Build and raiding the spares box. Given a coat of future, and put aside to dry before entering the home straight. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 Nice colour 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beggsy Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 The pink primer appears to have worked well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jb65rams Posted May 30, 2021 Author Share Posted May 30, 2021 The pink primer does work will. Cut the wheels and undercarriage to fit wheels up. At 12:50 I am calling this finished, 90mins short of the 24 hours, Has been a fun build. WIll take some better photos for the gallery later this afternoon. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockeyboy76 Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 Pink is the word brother. Are you paying attention @nimrod54 Great work, that looks amazbobs. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 Congratulations JB, looks the business Don't forget to put it in the gallery cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nimrod54 Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 Great job JB, that looks fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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