I built
this out-of-the-box model off and on for over 4 months. I wanted to
concentrate on panel scribing and weathering for this model, so bear with me.
I started by spending many hours sanding off all the panel lines and rescribing
them using a exacto knife. My wife wanted to kill me after finding
millions of plastic “curly fries” on the desk…
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After that was
finally finished, I started building the interior of the plane, but decided not
to spend too much time on that. I figured that it was going to be hanging
on the ceiling and not very accessible to look into. Next came the job of
the fuselage assembly and seam filling. I haven’t gotten the science
down quite right yet, but it is much better than prior attempts. I painted
the entire plane a combination of dark gull gray and olive drab, standard
1940’s paint schemes. I then took a mixture of rubbing alcohol and ink
to fill in the panel lines, wiping the excess towards the rear of the plane.
I also took soot from the tailpipe of my truck for the exhaust stains, which
worked very well.
After a
coat of Future, I applied some decals I got off of EBay, cutting them where the
covered a panel line, then coated again in future. Some fishing line and a
couple of tacks, and I have another addition to the ceiling of my model room.
Anders Swenson
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