#4581753 - 10/03/21 10:16 PM
Re: Yay new stuff arrived, and the next kit, Hartmanns 109G6
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#4581775 - 10/04/21 10:50 AM
Re: Yay new stuff arrived, and the next kit, Hartmanns 109G6
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Looking very nice.
I always admire your work.
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#4582019 - 10/06/21 03:07 PM
Re: Yay new stuff arrived, and the next kit, Hartmanns 109G6
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Nice, as always, to see you in here Watson I'm thinking to turn this into a wheels up build and trying out that motion blur ground effect underneath. Looking to find a nice top down aerial shot of the Russian Steppe, non winter, that i can edit and print and then place the plane above it on some thin rod. That sounds like a good idea, different than the usual wheels down and welded anyway.
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#4582053 - 10/06/21 06:22 PM
Re: Yay new stuff arrived, and the next kit, Hartmanns 109G6
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Or you could really do something different and do it at takeoff with the gear partially retracted in that uneven way they retract.
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#4582556 - 10/14/21 12:14 PM
Re: Yay new stuff arrived, and the next kit, Hartmanns 109G6
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Skipped a bunch of pic taking to get to this stage. The new VMS clear i have is nice but i feel she needs some thinning down. It's very thick and has to be sprayed at around 30 psi and laid on very wet although it does level really well as it sets, but, it has taken some getting used to. I did an initial coat which was a bit all over the shop regards laying it down wet, got a bit of tip dry mid spray as i was scared of giving it the full juice and ended up with a scattery result. I let her sit for a couple of days and then blasted another one making sure it was really wet this time around, full open air and spray and hoped for the best. Seemed to be how she works although it just doesn't feel right after always spraying at low psi and working delicately mostly. Followed that with some of the Florys wash to get into the rivets and panels lines, played around a bit more with the exhaust weathering and then another full blast coat of the clear. I've a bottle of VMS thinner coming si can knock the thickness a tad, and make me feel more comfortable. This is pre wash Post wash but before the next pre decal clear Decals on and settling with some decal softener before i put a final clear coat on. Once all of the decals are on i'll let her sit for until the weekend before do that. They are starting to settle very nicely so hoping for good results with them. A quick and dodgy-but-does-the-job box i wacked up so i can move my paints around easily into a cool place during the day as summer and it's filthy beer drinking heat and rum sipping humidity slowly creeps in. I have another project sitting on the bench immediately to follow this one...and i'm trying not to rush this one to completion, but i'm a bit excited, i'll drop a teaser pic in the next catch up
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#4582764 - 10/17/21 06:37 AM
Re: Yay new stuff arrived, and the next kit, Hartmanns 109G6
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#4582793 - 10/17/21 07:20 PM
Re: Yay new stuff arrived, and the next kit, Hartmanns 109G6
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#4583469 - 10/23/21 11:00 PM
Re: Yay new stuff arrived, and the next kit, Hartmanns 109G6
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Hartmann's bird is really looking good man.
and I really LOL at the Goonstang.
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#4583866 - 10/29/21 10:51 AM
Re: Yay new stuff arrived, and the next kit, Hartmanns 109G6
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Nearly there Luckily for me there was a spare two piece cockpit included in the kit, the one piece unit was a slight dodgy/gappy fit and i oversanded one edge of it making it far worse so she was kaput. The two piece one has a teeny gap at the top where the front section meets the rear, to fix that i needed to do a smidge of sanding to square it up but couldn't, unless i wanted to respray the forward section of the fuselage...which i didn't. The same goes for the right rear ..she'll have to do as is. The wheels worked out nicely up, the undercarriage legs were shaved within a mil of their lives and fitted to the wheels with the doors, also sanded to flush with the wing, fitting neatly on top. Hartmann in the cockpit looks like a drunken nightmare, as does most of my attempted figure painting, so i can't promise a close up pic once finished, only if y'all promise you will squint when looking. I feel i worked out the new clear on the final coat as i ended up purchasing the VMS thinners and knocked down the thickness a bit when spraying, goes on and sprays much nicer, and definitely feels more natural. Even in these average shots you can see the clear is a very thick finish which makes some areas of paint look a bit sludgey. Still to do, antenna wire, fit aileron balancers and some small tidy up. After that i have my background idea to print, shape to suit, mount the plane to it then i can knock out some decent shots.
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#4583896 - 10/29/21 04:13 PM
Re: Yay new stuff arrived, and the next kit, Hartmanns 109G6
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#4584231 - 11/02/21 12:14 PM
Re: Yay new stuff arrived, and the next kit, Hartmanns 109G6
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