MiG21-MF Eduards Weekend kit.

[KarlW]

Not much bench time last night, a local suicide has left the whole community in a bit of shock, I did however spray my interior with Vallejo's cockpit emerald green "faded". Though I'm now wondering how to get it closer to the pre-painted PE in colour. Thinking of using a blue green filter.

[Dave Ward]

Karl,
I'd use a matt varnish, just tinted with a hint of neutral grey - obviously, starting off very lightly & increasing to suit the panel.
You said that you used Frisk film, because it was cheaper than Tamiya Masking sheet - I'm always looking for cheaper ways to do things - is the Frisk film much cheaper? I've had a quick internet search, and I can't find a massive price difference!
Dave

[KarlW]

I can get 10" by 4 Yard rolls of frisk for about twice the price of a pack of 5 (10" by 7") Tamiya sheets which is about 10" by 1 yard.

[Lee Drennen]

So despite stuff for this arriving earlier I decided tonight to continue doing a scenic base that I started a few weeks ago.
I wanted a rough utilitarian, “it’s not broken, it’s not getting fixed” feel to a taxiway or some part of an airfield. Slabs are 1/48 scale 5m by 3.5m, individually cut from xps foam, edges roughed and each sanded before being glued to an MDF base. The ground, which was tonights addition, is a craft shop ‘Art Mache’ with a touch of pigment added.
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Are you going to attend those water spots or leave them as some sort of stain ? Not very convincing at the moment

[KarlW]

Are you going to attend those water spots or leave them as some sort of stain ? Not very convincing at the moment

What water spots? There's no paint on that and the mache is still drying as it's only just applied in that picture..........

[Lee Drennen]

What water spots? There's no paint on that and the mache is still drying as it's only just applied in that picture..........

Here

[KarlW]

That's just light on the surface, might be a bit shiney from roughing it with a stone but definitely dry. It's all going to get painted over anyways.

[KarlW]

One of those nights where I don't seem to have gotten much done.......
Cleaned up and primed some parts.

And sprayed the intake and exhaust interiors and started to add the interior etch detail. Think I need the optivisor to add the rest.


Can't decide if these etch kits being self adhesive is a help or a hindrance, difficult to bend stuff that wants to stick so you have to cut the backing paper.

[KarlW]

Been a while since I've got to the bench, I'll blame binge watching Shameless....
Wasn't happy with the colour mismatch between the paint and the pre-painted etch so an trying a blue/green oil as a filter/wash, definitely going the right direction.

Getting close to the point I can zip up the fuselage.

[dave]

I mixed my own using the Mr Hobby Aqueous, H46 and H25 in a 1:1 ratio as per the painting guide in the instructions i had and it came out pretty near an exact match to the Eduard photoetch

[KarlW]

I mixed my own using the Mr Hobby Aqueous, H46 and H25 in a 1:1 ratio as per the painting guide in the instructions i had and it came out pretty near an exact match to the Eduard photoetch

Apparantly they changed the colour at some point, the call out in this doesn't call for mixing paints so I just worked with what I have. More fun.
(Though I have bought the Mission Models paint which I have read is an exact match for when I get to a MiG-23)