Thanks Jaypee, funny what you miss when you are just too close to these little critters. I'll have a go at "thickening" the white a bit. I buy'em to build'em. My stash sits at about 30 kits and they will all be built, no intention of letting boxes gather dust !!

@Rob, great choice there. Maybe a Lake Boga dio coming up ??

Cheers, D

Damian, my suggestion is to even out the wash, and dont worry too much if you think its a bit heavy. use 2 more colours to weather the airframe to break things up a bit, and you can always tie them all together with an oversprayed mistcoat...I find a good mistcoat ties up a paintjob or weathering job nicely...just mask your glazings..not pane by pane, but a general masking..just my humble opinion..

Thanks Jim, I was thinking maybe a thin wash of Blue/Grey next, then a seal coat. What colour do you suggest for the mist coat?

Cheers, D

Sorry it took so long for me to reply ... life has been a bit mean lately ..
Choose a neutral colour like light grey and mist it on ....careful not to overdo it..
you may not even notice the first couple coats ...its a gradual thing...then add streaks here and there following the airflow...I usually try to go for 5 different tones on a model if I can( thats tones, not colours)5 seems to be the magic number for painting...for me anyways.
Have a look at Robs post of the Catelina pics ..the first pic in particular I see at least 4 tones right off the top...HTH

Damian,

Another way is to use artist pastels, instead of a wash. Jim made reference to the Catalina OX-D which is the first pic of the wartime pix I posted.
Several years ago I built the PBY 5 Catalina for the RAAF replicating the weathered condition of the photo to the model subject which I did this in 3 ways.

Firstly: Overall Silver finish on the model.
Secondly: Fuselage painted in 'Night Black' from the Xtracolor range, canvas tailplane surfaces painted, in Humbrol 'Matt Black'.
Thirdly: Ocean Blue/Dark Sea Gray, both FADED by adding 10% of Flat White to either mix of the upper main wing surface.

Given a gloss coat to adhere the decals, followed by a Dull Coat, when dry the fuselage was lightly rubbed with an emery board, exposing the 'BMF' as chipped paint, the main upper wing was done in the same fashion then rubbed down with pastels and sealed, smaller parts where then added, (DF Loop and Fuel Drains) and the wing adhered to the fuselage.






Note: This model subject, has the fishtail exhausts and was built for the RAAF and is at RAAF Base Williams, (Not the RAAF Museum).

Hope this helps a little.

Thanks so much Jim and Rob (stunning Cat too !!). I will be using your advice to finish my build off soon for this campaign, but just at the moment I am packing up to move house next weekend (joy of joys). It will be 2 weeks or so until I get back to the bench

Cheers, D

Stunning job on the cat, Rob. Great entry in the campaign. I love the weathering.

Hello Rob,
Great looking "Cat". Thanks for the update and photos. Please make sure you get a photo in the gallery for your ribbon.
Cheers,
Bruce

Good job on the cat looks really good!



Build On,
Justin

I put three photos of my Arado Ar 95 in the gallery.
And so I conclude my very first campaign.

Hello Scott,
Congrats on your build and your first completed campaign. I am honored to awarded you your first ribbon at the end of the campaign.
Thanks for joining the campaign,
Cheers,
Bruce

Hello All,
Does anyone know what happen to the ribbon that was (I think?) on the campaign page.
If it vanished, Can anyone here make me a new one, Please.
Cheers,
Bruce

Hi Bruce.

PM inbound.

HARV

Hi All,

Having decided to build an RAAF 'NOCTURNAL Cat' from the kit, for this campaign and having started on a few minor details (in between other projects), after opening the box I found that a lot of the smaller parts as well as all the wing section parts are worpt or twisted to some degree.
With a little persistence I had painted the cockpit and rear gunner's sidewalls area in the semi gloss black, along with most of the floor plates and other parts of the cockpit, but 'scratched' the floor area with a silver pencil and smugged the pencil marks with a Q tip.
The instrument panel is highlighted using a white Graphite pencil and sealed using an artists pencil and charcoal sealer.






The next sub assemblies are the main undercarriage legs.

Note: Bruce the pix I posted previously of the PBY 5 Catalina, were posted as a guide to assist in a weathering technique as the model was built back in 2003 as part of a contract I have with the RAAF in building models significant to their history.
Sorry if I did not mention that in the original post when i put the pix up.

ok, i'm getting there !.......slowly but i'm getting there.
floats are on,a little bit of touch up , rigging and i'm done.....................so about another 2 months......

Well, my Zero Floatplane didn't take a whole lot of time, but my second entry seemed to linger - why is it life always seems to get in the way of modeling?

Anyway, I finally finished my OOB 1/144 scale Trumpeter Kawanishi Type 97 Mavis H6K5/23 Flying Boat. It was a nice build. although the plastic was a bit "softer" than I like to work with. The fit was great, no problems, and the decals looked good and sat down nicely. It doesn't come with a dolly, but with a stand instead, so - that is how she is displayed. It wasn't one of my better builds, in my opinion - just couldn't seem to get into the build, if you know what I mean. But, it's acceptable by my standards, and more importantly - it's in the case! Here are a couple of shots - sorry about the photo quality:




So, two entries for me in this Campaign, and a really fun one it was. Thanks for the chance to participate.

Cheers,
Mike

Very nice second entry, Mike. It looks beautiful.

Thanks for sharing

I love the MAvis ....nice job on her Mike!

Beautiful Mavis. I have an unfinished 1/72 Hasegawa that I back-burnered after I started making mods to it.

I was going to do a Pete, then a Glenn but now to combine with another forum build (and keep my builds better managed) I'm going to do an Airfix 1/72 Sunderland. I want to get the PE set for the mid section and detail the bomb racks.

Should make a nice companion piece for my in progress 1/72 flower corvette and yet to be done 1/72 Type VIIC U-Boat.

looks good on the display stand Mj congrats.





Build On,
Justin

Hi all, I'm calling this build done ! I would like to do some more weathering and maybe have a try at my first water base dio down the track sometime, but for now it's on the display shelf.



One of the club guys took a few pics for me, so if you're interested here's a link

Damian's He115

Cheers guys, and thanks for a really good Campaign Bruce

Damian,

What a great model! The paint finish is excellent. Well done. What was the build like (sorry I haven't been following this campaign ) and is the kit easy to come by? I might keep this one in mind for a future build myself.

Simon

Thanks Simon. It's and old (and I mean OLD) Matchbox 3-colour kit that I stumbled across a while back. It went together quite well, but one of the wings was badly squashed in, from poor storage I think rather than during manufacture. There is absolutey no interior detail, which I didn't do anything about as this was an exercise in paint methods for me.

Most of the progress pics are on pages 9-13 of the thread.

Glad you like it, I had a lot of fun with it and am happy with the result.

Cheers, D

it came out really well congrats D.



Build On,
Justin

Really nice He 115, Damian. I still have my doubts on the historical accuracy of the camouflage, but it came out very nice. You made a great result out an old kit.

Thanks for sharing