discussion Tamiya 1:48 Douglas Skyraider A-1J

[Guest]

Excellent preshading work

 

[Guest]

I have the feeling that we are going to see another masterpiece.

Francesco

 

[Guest]

This is the first model that I have tried to paint using 1/48th scale paint adjustment. I have often found that the standard colours on my models look dark when used, so here are the colours I have mixed up for this Vietnam canouflage Skyraider.

I just used a mix of Tamiya colours that I had on the shelf.

This is the tan colour mixed for a lightening scale effect.

The scale effect green.

Scale effect Olive Green.

And finally the underside.

For the underside, I airbrushed on a very thin coat of the light grey and let it dry for a few minutes. I then sprayed about 5 thin layers until the desired amount of pre-shading showed through. Once I had dried it in my drier, I went over the paint with a polishing stick to merge in the pre-shading with the grey and smoothed of the matt paint.

The camouflage scheme took a bit of planning! The kit comes with a full model scale plan of the paint scheme, so I placed wide masking tape on the plan and traced the camo. outline with a pencil. Once peeled off, I cut the curves in the masking tape with a modelling knife and stuck them on. Onece the light tan was airbrushed, the mask was peeled off. The camo lines on the fuselage were masked using 4mm automotive flexible masking strip, which sticks well with no residue left and is lovely and bendy

I continued with the olive and then the green, drying the paint and then buffing it down with a polishing stick, to give a more worn and bleached effect.

I finished of with a few coats of acrylic floor gloss (Lakeland brand) to seal it all in. Decals and weathering next, I am aiming to try and keep it reasonably subtle, but I'm not sure yet how it will turn out!

As usual guys, any observations or constructive comments are welcome.

 

[flyjoe180]

That is amazing attention to the scaled paint detail. Very nice work. look forward to the next installment.

 

[Guest]

Excellent stuff! I'm all for the concept of colours mixed to scale - for instance black should never be ' black ' as it's too dark in small scales.

The camo looks amazing, such a clean finish!

2 questions : what's the program / application for determining the scale colour & what polishing stick are you using?

Cheers

Patrick

 

[Guest]

Thanks guys, my reference for scale effect colours are taken from cybermodeler.com. I then used the app to mix up the colours from the paints that I had on the shelf.

The polishing sticks come from flory models.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Graham, I'll check them out

 

[papa 695]

That's looking great Graham

 

[Guest]

Thanks guys, my reference for scale effect colours are taken from cybermodeler.com. I then used the app to mix up the colours from the paints that I had on the shelf.The polishing sticks come from flory models.

 

[Guest]

All done!

Please feel free to make any obsetrvations or ask any questions.......

Thanks for looking.

 

[Guest]

Last few

 

[Guest]

Amazingly good Graham, I'm stunned! The quality of finish is flawless IMHO, as shown by the close-up shots.

Actually it's both inspiring & depressing! A level to strive to attain, but the realisation that I'll never get as good as this *sigh*

Cheers

Patrick

 

[Guest]

talk about showing off lol,you go right ahead and show off,this is truly lovely mate 5*s for the plane tis a lovely sight too see

mobear

 

[Guest]

That is very nice Graham.

The sort of effect I always get--- in my mind. But not in practice.

Laurie

 

[flyjoe180]

Awesome result Graham, a beautifully constructed and finished Skyraider

 

[Guest]

Stunning model Graham, perfect execution.

Francesco

 

[Guest]

Superbly done, a real masterpiece.

 

[Guest]

Thank you all for your generous comments

 

[Guest]

Graham tell me more about this please sounds interesting.

Like your innovative approach to the camouflage cutting the masking tape. Also interesting as you get a nice cut edge on the tape. For all my work where you need a good clean edge I cut the tape. I have found that the edges on rolls is not so good they obviously use a cutter to cut the rolls off a large roll and the edges are not clean.

Laurie

The camo lines on the fuselage were masked using 4mm automotive flexible masking strip, which sticks well with no residue left and is lovely and bendy

 

[Ian M]

That is great Graham. Love the paint work and just nicely weathered as well. Not a bad looking bird either considering its size.

Ian M