I got this kit from my Swedish Secret Santa last year.
As I decided to finish the Coach first, it took a while to get this build started.
Anyway, now it’s started and first things to be assembled was the boogies.
Then parts to the lower hull.
That’s all so far.
After a clear cote, I removed the canopy and glued what I guess is part of the opening mechanism on the inside. Then some actuators got both aluminium and chrome paint.
The tires was touched up as well.
The pylons was painted grey, but I’m not sure that is correct. According to the tab and corresponding hole on the rocket the pylon will sit like this.
I hope that is correct, as it’s hard to see exactly how it sits on the pics I’ve seen.
I noticed that I had missed painting a few spots like the black on the fin and one antenna (I think it is)
Then i repainted the grey a bit on the fin.
It looks a little bright, but with clear cote on it turned out quite okey.
Then on to the decals. They go down quite nicely, but the print is a bit off, at least the white background.
I still need to do the other side and some stencils are still missing. I’ll let this dry a bit and then do the other side.
I got the advice to buy new decals, but for some reason didn’t follow that advice.
Maybe if I get hold of this kit again, I’ll get some better decals, as there are quite a few nice paint schemes available.
Time for some decals. I’m doing a bit at the time. Those lines under the belly was a bit of a pain in the …
I still have a lot of stencils to do on the underside. Just letting these dry first.
I picked up this kit yesterday.
This is my first Wingnut Wings kit ever. I usually don’t build biplanes due to the rigging, but these kits are supposed to be very nice, so I’ll give it a try.
First I painted to the best of my ability all the dark sea grey areas.
Then the grey areas was masked off with black goo.
Dark green was painted.
Turns out I had a few missed spots that needed to be taken care of.
Not perfect, but a lot better!
So how did it go with the 2 or 3 years old tape and the paint that was under?
Actually bloody perfect! The stabilizers broke off but that’s really no problem at all.
Next will be to paint everything else that isn’t painted, and to give the plane a clear cote.
The work with the camo contiues. First of all, don’t leave the black goo too long! 🙂
Then this happens! No bigger problem to fix though.
After some back and forth with the camo colours and masking, it looks like this.
I had a bit of overspray on the underside.
Easily sorted though.
Now it’s ready for clear cote and later decals.
The underside was masked and then the topside was given a preshade in black.
Then dark earth was painted over that.
Then I used some black symbiote goo was used to cover parts that shouldn’t be painted.
After that I painted dark green.
Turns out that I got some of the fields all wrong. Something I have sort before proceeding.
Other than that I’m quite happy with the colours.
I got a hunch to pick up this build that I started a few years ago.
I had already started painting it and had masked in preparation for the topside camo. So the tape have been sitting there for quite some time. I just have to hope for the best.
First I had to address a few spots with ghost seams.
After that was done, I repainted with black and masked the canopy and front area which should be black.
Then I used a mask for irregular patterns to paint with light ghost grey over the black. This was the first time I used this kind of template, so it didn’t go very well, but I think it’ll do for the purpose of the paint.
Next I’ll start painting the camo, starting with dk sea grey.
Just a quick update to show that I’m still working with this one. I finally got some colour on, so now the underside is painted with Sky type S.
Now I’ll let that dry and then mask the underside where I risk getting overspray and then start painting the topside camo.
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