I’m very close to finishing my first airliner, a 1/144 Revell 737-800 in Carribean humingbird markings. But I just can’t seem to find a difinitive response on painting the corogard. I’ve seen everything from just flat gray to steel to very artistic blendings of color. What is the best way to represent Corogard?
Also, I did something rather stupid (in my case redundant), I left the landing lights off until the build was almost complete, and of course they don’t fit without almost destroying and repainting the model. I was able to build them up decently with Testor’s clear glue, but it yellowed (the build has to contour to the wing leading edge). I’m thinking trying it with Epoxy or super glue, but there’s no turning back once I apply these. Has anyone faced this before?
Thank you for your help.
Alan
XtraColor has Corogard. Other options is pick the closet match of gray to the actual aircraft (has a lot of corogard fades over time) and paint that. You could also had a little bit of alunimum to the gray you chose and then paint the wings.
Draw Decals puts out corogard decal sheets for specific aircraft, so you could also go that way.
This is very helpful. Thank you.
What IS corogard? Is it a primer, or some sort of conversion coating?
Not exactly sure what it is, but I believe its some sort of protective metiallic coating on modern jetliners. Its an option airlines can request when they buy a new jet, has some have them some don’t
Alan, here is an article I did on reproducing realistic, 3D landing lights. I don’t know if you can use it, but it sure does add to the appearance once on the shelf.
http://floatingmid.com/LL.htm
Good luck!
Frank
Wow, that looks great. I’m definitely going to try that…thanks so much for sharing.
I may be too far into this build to try it this time. What I’ve done is experimented with Testor’s clear glue, building it up and holding the model to let gravity fill it out, and it seems to be working. I’ll need to clean it out and back it with silver, then rebuild it. I think that’ll save me this time. I’ve put links to what it looks like.
I noticed you mentioned foil or decals in the tutorial. What do you think of the silver decals? They came with this kit, and look pretty good, and might give the slightly used look I’m going for (with all my traveling, I’ve yet to see a pristine plane).
Thank you again for your response (and for all the responses I’ve received). They’ve been very helpful.
Alan
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