Well I have been glueing little bit of plastic together scratch building the flaps and getting the Landing gear started. While this is setting up I finished my weathering with some chipping. This is the very first time I have done large areas of chipping so dont be afraid to give me pointers I need to learn it. In my pic the chipping is not showing around the little pilots hatch but its there.
Thanks for lookin,
Jeff
Dang silvered decals!!! Lesson learned… make sure decals are dry complelty before the sealing coat of future
Looks good Jeff. The chipping doesn’t look too extreme. What technique did you use ?
Regards, Rick
Thanks much Rick… master of the clean build [;)]. I took my finest flat brush and dry brushed the areas to be chipped with Humbrol Silver, then I took a wooden toothpick and carved the small end til it was sharp and stabbed myself!!! no, I took the sharp end and dipped it in the Humbrol silver, whipping the excess off and “scratched” in the chipping tiny bit at a time. I didnt want a beat up spit, just used.
Jeff
Jeff,
Looks very good. Especially like the chipping around the gun access panels. Nicely done.
Kurt
Very nice so far Jeff. It’s still not too late to take care of that silvering. Very nice paint and weathering.
Steve
oooo how do I fix that silvering… it has a flat coat over it
Beautiful Spitfire. I love the weathering and chipping.
Darwin, O.F. [alien]
comin’ along really nicely Jeff!![tup] another coat of future over those decals will take care of the silvering, then dull coat it again. later.
hey thanks Salty
Beautiful weathering Jeff. I really like the look of the camo too.
Didnt work salty has to be in my base.
Good one, Jeff.
I like the look of the faded paintwork - looks realistic.
I’m very guilty of making my a/c too “clean” - I guess it’s from so many years of doing airliners. Looks good - make sure you post some pics when it’s done.
Very nicely painted! By the way, which kit did you use? As a WWII builder, a Spitfire or two will grace my table before too much time passes.
Nice work, Jeff!
As Mucker asked, what kit is it?
She is looking good from here Jeff
Thad
Jeff,
Your spit lookss great. I think you did a great job on the chipping.
Here’s a method you can try to fix that silvering both involve the use of a pin
take a pin and make little stabs on the silver part of the decal (tho they look like white to me) and either coat with future or copious coats microset/sol (the red bottle), which is your best bet, reseal after decal settles down some. I usually will give my decals 3 or 4 coats of the red mico bottle prior to sealing with future and a flat coat.
Its Hasegawa’s 1/48 “Malta Island” Spitfire.
Thanks wibhi I’ll give it a go… I think what happened is my first coat of future after the painting cured was kinda “grainy” and put a few more coats and one heavy coat (that ran[:(!]) and let that set up 24 hours. I then applied the decals but the surface still had a slight glossy “grainy” look to it. When I did the flat coat I think the silvered decals hadnt finish drying and setting up becuase its only the last set of decals I did that are silvered… all the rest look great. With everything I put over them to get them “in shape” will the setting solutions work?
Jeff
more pics shortly… all I have left to do is some more weathering (ref on the way) and attach my scratched flaps.
I am only a marginally better modeler then a photographer so thansk for puttin up with these images.
Jeff
Look’s good Jeff. Nice job on the faded paint for the Malta look. I had the same problem with decals on my corsair. Never did figure out how to remedy that after I "plastered " it with future and flat over-coats; but than again, I do not build many WWII kits.
BTW - you getting any of that rain up your way?
Ray