Gerald,
Looks great to me. Thanks for the warning about the metalizer. I have several P-51’s and was planning to use that for the natural metal finish.
that 51 looks good to me. i would not have picked out the “faults”. i am finding that all the modelers here tend to downplay the fantastic work that they do. that is one a/c that you can be proud of. welcome to the community i look forward to your future builds.
Ive seen some really nicely weathered aircraft done that way. Their version was a little different though. First spray the area you want to chip with silver, then put a coat of future over the silver. After all that dries paint as you normally would. To get the chips just take some tape and stick it to the area where you sprayed the silver/future. When you pull it up its going to usually bring a bit of the topcoat and future with it leaving the silver on the bottom visible. Ive never done this myself however but Ive been wanting to do it to a late WWII worn out Zero!!
Hi DaveB. and all the others out there,
I have read about that way of chipping in one of my mags, but I think that chipping with a toothpick may give you a bit more control where you want the chipmarks and how many you wanna have. And it is quite easy to do.
A bit more to that MM Clours: They spray easy and you can polish them nicely. If there is no need to mask them off, I would recommend them. But… Never, ever use Tamiya Tape on them, even if you have sealed them with that special sealer or with future or whatsoever. Alclad2 is far easier to use, but I think you can´t polish it. And its expensive. But you can mask them with Tape and anything else. Easy to use, even for somebody with very little experience in NMF.
There is the Tamiya P-47 Bubbletop already waiting for me and that will be done with Alclad2. I will show some pics then (only if they are worth to be shown, ha, ha)
Greetings to all
Gerald