Hello from the UK.
This is my first submission to ARC, so I'd like to say thanks to Steve and all
the other contributors for making this site what it is. I've been lurking
for some time, and this is the first model I've built that I'm brave enough to
put up for public display! I didn't build it with accuracy in mind, so
please look at it as a fun project and nothing else.
The model was built
out-of-the-box, with no additions except for a nose weight. It's a lovely
kit to put together, it needed very little filler, but due to its shape and
size, it was a pain to sand. I lost some of the panel lines, so this was also my
first attempt a rescribing them. It went OK I think, but as you can see in the
pictures, I should have rescribed more of them to complete the effect.
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I'm fairly happy with the
outcome; I don't usually build in 1:72, so it was more fiddly than I'm
used to. The pre and post-shading worked well, and I'm pleased with the
weathering effects I tried out on this one (I like heavy weathering).
I
did however have to abandon certain painting aspects, like the yellow
noses and spinners, the white band between the chrome and olive drab on
the nose and (my biggest regret) the invasion stripes. I decided to ditch
those, as I painted it in the wrong order and the masking was just going
nowhere, resulting in me itching to throw it against the wall.
It's painted with
Tamiya acrylics (the wrong ones!), except for the nose which is alclad aluminium
and the superchargers are mostly alclad jet exhaust. The decals were horrible!
Some are out of register (the fuel cap ones are particularly bad) and they
battled with the decal setting solutions I tried and needed some major
persuasion to settle into panel lines. It's weathered using the Promodeller dark
wash (top and bottom), the chips were done with a silver pencil, and the exhaust
stains with thinned Tamiya acrylics (my first with an airbrush). The staining on
the underside was done with oil paint and turpentine.
Anthony
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