I built a 1:32 He111 - and the mask set I used was marvellous !
2x Bf 109 F-4 (1/48)
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Thanks all :thumb2:
Al: Yeah I read some good things about Micro Kristal Klear, also used for filling small windows etc, will put that on my shopping-list.
Jakko: I tried something like that but the clear parts didn't have 'deep' lines on them so it was a pain to follow them with the knife :thinking:.
Si: Thanks, I hope they look nice in the end :thumb2:
Colin: I feel your pain... :dizzy:
This evening I was able to mask the engine and interior of the open cockpit,
then I sprayed a dark grey on the canopies (for the interior color) and ended with a grey primer (vallejo)...
Maybe I can add some color tomorrow! I hope all that masking will turn out ok in the end :thinking:...
Thanks and kind regards,
Steven
Al: Yeah I read some good things about Micro Kristal Klear, also used for filling small windows etc, will put that on my shopping-list.
Jakko: I tried something like that but the clear parts didn't have 'deep' lines on them so it was a pain to follow them with the knife :thinking:.
Si: Thanks, I hope they look nice in the end :thumb2:
Colin: I feel your pain... :dizzy:
This evening I was able to mask the engine and interior of the open cockpit,
then I sprayed a dark grey on the canopies (for the interior color) and ended with a grey primer (vallejo)...
Maybe I can add some color tomorrow! I hope all that masking will turn out ok in the end :thinking:...
Thanks and kind regards,
Steven
G
Holding the canopy up to the light will probably let you see where to cut. Of course, it’s a bit more difficult holding the part above your head while cutting the masking tape
Your Messerschmitts are looking really good Steven.
Another tip I've heard is to use the torch on a smartphone laid on the bench with the canopy over it.
Pete
Thanks Jakko, Joe & Peter,
A small update :
The spinner had this sad looking nose canon, which has an oval shape and no barrel-hole
So I searched my plastic-scrap box and found these tubes with a matching diameter (left) ...
Next I drilled a hole in the spinner (right) ...
Then the tube was cut and fitted with superglue, both spinners were modified.
I melted a sprue again and made a brake-line for each undercarriage strut.
In the first one I tried to simulate the curly shape at the bottom,
but this was hard to get right and as the wheel will cover it anyway I made the other ones simply straight...
The day before I cleaned the nozzle of my airbrush (H&S, Hansa 381), all was nice and shinny again but then all hell broke loose and I got bubbles in my cup when spraying...
As far as I understand this is caused by an air-leak inside the paint feed, so the only thing it could be was this very tiny rubber seal.
I never replaced this seal so it seems it has wear out...
I'm quite stubborn so I actually tried to fix it by making a new seal from thick paper, after many attempts I made a sausage from a piece of Teflon tape which in the end seemed to work for about 90%, some very fine bubbles kept coming but it was possible to airbrush again until a new seal arrives...
I also took these figures from another ICM kit, Revell has reproduced them too.
I was able to spray on some primer on these parts, the figure on the right seems to be smaller than 1/48 :thinking:
And a first coat of sand yellow was sprayed on top of the Trop-version...
Next week I hope to add the blue and white areas.
I just ordered a new seal for my airbrush so hopefully this will be an easy fix (fingers crossed) ...
Kind regards,
Steven
A small update :
The spinner had this sad looking nose canon, which has an oval shape and no barrel-hole
So I searched my plastic-scrap box and found these tubes with a matching diameter (left) ...
Next I drilled a hole in the spinner (right) ...
Then the tube was cut and fitted with superglue, both spinners were modified.
I melted a sprue again and made a brake-line for each undercarriage strut.
In the first one I tried to simulate the curly shape at the bottom,
but this was hard to get right and as the wheel will cover it anyway I made the other ones simply straight...
The day before I cleaned the nozzle of my airbrush (H&S, Hansa 381), all was nice and shinny again but then all hell broke loose and I got bubbles in my cup when spraying...
As far as I understand this is caused by an air-leak inside the paint feed, so the only thing it could be was this very tiny rubber seal.
I never replaced this seal so it seems it has wear out...
I'm quite stubborn so I actually tried to fix it by making a new seal from thick paper, after many attempts I made a sausage from a piece of Teflon tape which in the end seemed to work for about 90%, some very fine bubbles kept coming but it was possible to airbrush again until a new seal arrives...
I also took these figures from another ICM kit, Revell has reproduced them too.
I was able to spray on some primer on these parts, the figure on the right seems to be smaller than 1/48 :thinking:
And a first coat of sand yellow was sprayed on top of the Trop-version...
Next week I hope to add the blue and white areas.
I just ordered a new seal for my airbrush so hopefully this will be an easy fix (fingers crossed) ...
Kind regards,
Steven
G
How tall is he? Hold a ruler next to him should show quickly enough whether he’s undersize or not.
Yes it's how I noticed it, I always take 1m80 divided by the scale (48) and he was about 3-4mm smaller, don't remeber the exact height, already on the train for work ; D
Hi Steven
Just had a catch up from the beginning. Really sorted, neat work. The engine is much improved with your stretched sprue piping. Love what you have done with the sand filter.. Masking is a chore but has to be done. Glad you got the AB working.
Jim
Just had a catch up from the beginning. Really sorted, neat work. The engine is much improved with your stretched sprue piping. Love what you have done with the sand filter.. Masking is a chore but has to be done. Glad you got the AB working.
Jim
Hi all,
Jakko : He measures 34mm without the hat, that's 1m63 in 1/48, although possible he does look sculpted as a tall person imo.
Rick : Yes that might work, if I'll use him he will get send to the back :smiling2:...
Jim : Thanks!
Another update :
First of all I received the new airbrush-seal,
I ordered a PTFE (white) instead of rubber, but as you can see it was slightly larger in diameter :thinking:
From that point I had lost a bunch of pictures due to a problem with the SD card (I think it's solved now), but what I did was cutting off very tiny bits with a knife until it was the right size. And after changing the seal the airbrush was working properly again.
Yesterday I gave a second coat of sand yellow, the first coat was a bit speckled because of the airbrush problem.
Today I added the blue and white, I used this 'camo masking putty' for the first time,
I rolled some sausages
I used this putty because I didn't want a very hard edge between the sand-yellow and blue color... (like you get with masking tape)
I'm not yet sure if I like this putty material very much,
It feels sort of greasy and to me that's never a good idea when you're painting things.
An other downside is that it very slowly moves towards gravity, after a few minutes I had to move it again upwards.
Here I'm masking the rest of the model, it looks a bit strange I know :smiling5:...
When the blue was dry I started masking the white areas
And more strange masking :smiling5:...
I masking the spinners and sprayed the propeller blades black.
The trop version on the left, the other I gave some extra masking.
I wanted to do a spiral-spinner but I couldn't find a single picture of a bf109F4 with a spiral spinner, it seems they started painting spirals only in 1944 (and thus G versions).
And this is what I have at the moment,
Thanks for reading and kind regards ; )
Steven
Jakko : He measures 34mm without the hat, that's 1m63 in 1/48, although possible he does look sculpted as a tall person imo.
Rick : Yes that might work, if I'll use him he will get send to the back :smiling2:...
Jim : Thanks!
Another update :
First of all I received the new airbrush-seal,
I ordered a PTFE (white) instead of rubber, but as you can see it was slightly larger in diameter :thinking:
From that point I had lost a bunch of pictures due to a problem with the SD card (I think it's solved now), but what I did was cutting off very tiny bits with a knife until it was the right size. And after changing the seal the airbrush was working properly again.
Yesterday I gave a second coat of sand yellow, the first coat was a bit speckled because of the airbrush problem.
Today I added the blue and white, I used this 'camo masking putty' for the first time,
I rolled some sausages
I used this putty because I didn't want a very hard edge between the sand-yellow and blue color... (like you get with masking tape)
I'm not yet sure if I like this putty material very much,
It feels sort of greasy and to me that's never a good idea when you're painting things.
An other downside is that it very slowly moves towards gravity, after a few minutes I had to move it again upwards.
Here I'm masking the rest of the model, it looks a bit strange I know :smiling5:...
When the blue was dry I started masking the white areas
And more strange masking :smiling5:...
I masking the spinners and sprayed the propeller blades black.
The trop version on the left, the other I gave some extra masking.
I wanted to do a spiral-spinner but I couldn't find a single picture of a bf109F4 with a spiral spinner, it seems they started painting spirals only in 1944 (and thus G versions).
And this is what I have at the moment,
Thanks for reading and kind regards ; )
Steven
G
Amazing paint skills on show there Steven.
G
Looking good. It’s not strange masking if it works
Thanks guys!
Tonight I started with decals, I sprayed a bit of gloss paint this morning
This is the one I'm trying to do, still have to spray the rudder red etc
The "14" decal looks not realistic so I will spray it on with a mask I'll make with Tamiya tape :thinking:
No swastika is included like most kits these days, I will try that one too with masking tape
I used microset and microsol for the decals, that seems to work very well at first glance (panel lines).
Before I used the Vallejo version but it was less effective...
Thanks and kind regards,
Steven
Well in the shop I ordered them from they didn't had the rubber ones, and the PTFE product reads "for all H&S models" :thinking: so I was convinced it would work. Strange but I got it working :smiling5:...
Tonight I started with decals, I sprayed a bit of gloss paint this morning
This is the one I'm trying to do, still have to spray the rudder red etc
The "14" decal looks not realistic so I will spray it on with a mask I'll make with Tamiya tape :thinking:
No swastika is included like most kits these days, I will try that one too with masking tape
I used microset and microsol for the decals, that seems to work very well at first glance (panel lines).
Before I used the Vallejo version but it was less effective...
Thanks and kind regards,
Steven
Hi Steven
Apologies for being a bit behind. Got so say these are looking very good indeed. Well done for preserving with the intricate masking it's paid off.
ATB
Andrew
Apologies for being a bit behind. Got so say these are looking very good indeed. Well done for preserving with the intricate masking it's paid off.
ATB
Andrew
Thanks guys :thumb2:
Another small update :
I made the numbers and swastika's by cutting Tamiya-masking-tape, I used the picture from the book (last post) as a reference for the size and shape.
It was a bit tricky to draw the lines onto the tape with a pencil (difficult to mark the tape).
Then I cut them out with a small blade.
Today I used those masks to spray the number and swastika (both sides).
Masking the rest of the plane...
I sprayed a thin layer of white as a base for the yellow number.
Then sprayed the yellow '14' and black swastika's on the tail.
Then removed all the masking tape, moment of truth...
I did an attempt to save the used masks, hopefully I can reuse the swastika's for the 2nd plane...
(I've put them onto a piece of plastic sticker paper)
Then I masked the rudder and sprayed it red (as in the reference picture)
This is the result so far,
the swastika should get a white outline but I'm not sure if I will be able to pull that one off :thinking:
Next I'll have to add a few more decals-details and then a 2nd coat of gloss...
Thanks for reading and kind regards,
Steven
Another small update :
I made the numbers and swastika's by cutting Tamiya-masking-tape, I used the picture from the book (last post) as a reference for the size and shape.
It was a bit tricky to draw the lines onto the tape with a pencil (difficult to mark the tape).
Then I cut them out with a small blade.
Today I used those masks to spray the number and swastika (both sides).
Masking the rest of the plane...
I sprayed a thin layer of white as a base for the yellow number.
Then sprayed the yellow '14' and black swastika's on the tail.
Then removed all the masking tape, moment of truth...
I did an attempt to save the used masks, hopefully I can reuse the swastika's for the 2nd plane...
(I've put them onto a piece of plastic sticker paper)
Then I masked the rudder and sprayed it red (as in the reference picture)
This is the result so far,
the swastika should get a white outline but I'm not sure if I will be able to pull that one off :thinking:
Next I'll have to add a few more decals-details and then a 2nd coat of gloss...
Thanks for reading and kind regards,
Steven
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