dr_gn Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 Got the Tamya white on, and I mixed some pale blue from some other Tamiya paints I had spare. The match to the decals was perfect, but I think it's darkened slightly after a couple of clear gloss coats. Not sure if the decals will darken also, but there you go! Ah well, at least Antony can have a laugh at me for saying I didn't need his *actual* FlyBe pale blue paint! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richellis Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Mine did that. Hopefuly Antony will be supplying me with the Blue! I forgot about that at SMW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skii Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Looking good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev1n Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 "...The match to the decals was perfect, but I think it's darkened slightly after a couple of clear gloss coats. Not sure if the decals will darken also, but there you go!..." you could always weather it a bit to expain any difference in shade - very common on in-service airliners, along with other little things, like nose cones not matching up.... just thought I'd mention it still looks good though..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_gn Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 "...The match to the decals was perfect, but I think it's darkened slightly after a couple of clear gloss coats. Not sure if the decals will darken also, but there you go!..."you could always weather it a bit to expain any difference in shade - very common on in-service airliners, along with other little things, like nose cones not matching up.... just thought I'd mention it still looks good though..... Thanks for the comments guys. This one's a tricky little model I think. Trying to mask that pale blue so that it is level all around when viewed from the side wasn't easy, nor was painting the engine pod intake rims silver. I thought I'd be clever and just dip them in a 0.5 mm deep pool of silver paint. Worked perfectly until I lifted one out of the paint, and it had formed a film over the intake! When I 'popped' it with some tissue, the excess spread all over my perfectly painted and dark washed fan blades. I always have trouble with engine pods. I think it's the combination of having to detail the insides, then assemble and mask things up that are usually awkward shapes around the back ends. I also find it impossible to get rid of the internal jont line in front of the fan disc. Regarding weathering: I'll do as suggested and try dark washing the control hinge lines and spoilers...and leave it at that. Has anyone ever tried mixing/thinning Vallejo Air satin varnish with Klear to give a decent sheen as a finish coat?? Cheers, Dr_GN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev1n Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 "...dark washing the control hinge lines and spoilers..." that could work....maybe a little streaking from lube on the bottom of the rudderr and on the flaps? pencil is good for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody37 Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Wow, can't wait to see this finished Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antony Robertson Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 dr_gn you got a really good match there from the look of it, and i wouldn't laugh at you for it! Antony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_gn Posted January 13, 2010 Author Share Posted January 13, 2010 Finished tonight, results here: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=42499 Thanks everyone for the help - much appreciated, and I'm happy with the results. Cheers, Dr_GN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_gn Posted January 20, 2010 Author Share Posted January 20, 2010 Not sure if this is any good to anyone: you can order some nice cutaway drawings of many aircraft from the Flight International website: http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/media...spx?PageIndex=6 Shows some good views of deployed spoilers/brakes/flaps etc. Here are the ones for the '146 / RJ85: Cheers, Dr_GN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richellis Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 It is a very good looking aircraft! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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