1:32 Hawker Hunter - Miss Demeanour!

[Guest]

looking good,the colour change is great

mobear

[michaelm]

Looking fantastic, watching and waiting with baited breath.......great stuff.

[papa 695]

Great work Andrew

[Guest]

Thanks guys

So finally for now, the reds...

You can see the colour variation more in that second photo than in the first.

So thats where I've got so far today. The next bits are a bit more difficult... the grey and light blue bands are 10mm and 15mm wide apiece and have quite defined demarcation lines without them being too sharp if you see what I mean. These will require inverting the masking for this part. I've totally run out of yellow paint (2 10ml bottles used so far along with the same amount of isopropanol thinner, but then the yellow had to be mixed to create three different shades - white/yellow, red/yellow and pure yellow. Will have to visit Hobbycraft or Modelzone in Reading tomorrow to pick up another couple as I think I need to touch up the yellow orange demarcation just behind the cockpit - I think it needs to be further down the spine that it currently is to give the proper arc.

I've sanded down a little bit of the roughness from the paint, not much, just enough to take the edge off. Next I'll unmask it and leave it to funnly cure overnight before re-masking tomorrow. So that means I can spend the rest of the evening catching up on past episodes of Homeland... just got up to ep 6 today with 6 more to go!

[Guest]

Great work so far, this is going to be stunning

[Ian M]

Wicked!

Waiting nervously for the next part.

Ian M

[Guest]

You nailed it!

Theuns

[Vaughan]

A fantastic result so far Andrew I'm impressed you really have got it down to a fine art. Well done!!

Vaughan

[Guest]

good work so far.lovin it just take your time lol

mobear

[Guest]

So tonights work looks relatively straightforward but was far from it!

Re-masking the whole thing! This masking needs to be perfect, spot on. No paint creep can be allowed on this one! First off I sanded down the raised line where the previous paint had butted up against the previous masking tape. Then I laid down the new curve with a lot of roughly 5mm strips of Tamiya masking tape, a couple of mm inside the previously painted dark red. Then I gave the tape strips a paint over with maskol to try to fill any gaps to stop any paint creep. Then I taped the plastic bag over the top, fixing it with normal masking tape and once again giving that joint a coat of maskol to seal any gaps.

Its too late now to start any painting, but I did stop off at ModelZone in Reading to day to get another couple of bottles of yellow, plus some Royal Blue to do the dark blue with. There are in fact three blues, a light blue, followed by what they call "roundel blue" to which I've got XF-4 as a reasonable match, then will use X-3 Royal Blue for the dark blue. I'm going to give this a try on the fuel tanks to check that the colour is good.

[Guest]

shall hold my breath for you

mobear

[michaelm]

Great stuff, really enjoying watching this come together, fantastic work.

[Guest]

Having just tested X-3 Royal Blue on the fuel tanks, I think it is a prety goot match to the dark blue of Miss Demeanour's tail and wing tips!

[colin m]

Looking great. I've never seen this one built before.

[Guest]

Well that was a close run thing! Almost made a complete balls up of the paintwork! Did the grey stripe last night so this evening I thought I'd be a clever b****** and make the transition between the grey and light blue a bit softer so used blue tack to form the edge. Well of course once the paint had dried a bit and I took off the blue tac, discovered a very wavy line I then re-measured the width of the grey stripe to go back to using masking tape and discovered there was some significant overspray so like an idiot I dabbed some isopropanol and ALL the paint came, blue grey and even primer... taking it right down to bare plastic!!! aghhhhhhh!!!

Thankfully I had plenty of grey left over so was able to overcoat the bad spots, but this does set my timescale back as I'm now back to where I was yesterday and I still need to remask and paint light blue! I will have a go later tonight in abotu 3 hours to give the grey time to dry out more so at least I can mask the gry out and spray the light blue later tonight.

In the meantime I did spray the stand to match

and the fuel tanks sprayed with the dark blue from yesterday's test

Fingers crossed I don't screw up again!