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mike that is a great job!!! I like the camo. could you show how you did it? the subtle effect between the mottle and base color is perfect. please show your process of the weathering and filters too if you could I am always looking to improve my limited technic.

what scale is your build and kit? I want to build a two seater next.

joe

btw I agree w/u- photobucket is a pain. too many adds slow it to a crawl and I hate the video adds they run while your trying to upload photos.

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Joe,
I've got an old Tamiya SG superfine double action airbrush, sort of on on its last legs, but it is hanging in there.
The base coat is Vallejo Air RML 74 (blue grey, I think its called) the mottling is tamiya xf 22 (RML 02 clone) thinned waayyyy down. almost 50/50 paint to rubbing alc. I did not use the darker grey called out in the instructions.

The pressure is very low, 20psi and the needle is tightened way down for very little paint flow.
As for the mottles, it's really just scribbled on there, short zig zag lines running up and down and then back overtop going left right.
I kept the airbrush moving pretty quickly and just light taps on the trigger to get paint. I am pretty pleased with the light, almost transparent, blotches of cammo.

I had tried to get mottles at the edges of other German late war a/c cammo, but in retrospect I was just using the paint I had been filling in cammo with and really needed to thin the paint much much more for the mottles

It's really a different way to paint than I am used to for 1/35th armor, when I am looking for base coat coverage or to fill in cammo patterns.

Hope this helps
Mike

Joe, nope it is the Hasegawa 1/72 night fighter / trainer version.
I have another vanilla Hasegawa kit and Markus sent me a -U4 nose conversion. This was supposed to be the warm up build, but time is passing and I am not finished yet.

Proof of LIFE !!!


Early work on basic sub-assemblies at this stage. No fit issues to speak of, very satisfying so far.

You guys have been progressing beautifully without my interference, work and home life have been crazy these past few months but now hopefully I can make a last-minute run at getting this built. I suppose I could appeal to the Campaign Leader for extra time if I fail miserably !

Mike D, very nice work on the mottling. Subtle, looks great. Thanks for posting the pics as well.

I have updated the Roll Call/Build Status post back on page 1, please take a look and let me know if I've got anything wrong.

Carry on. Cheers, D

Hi guys I'm a little further along I've got the kit decaled now I just need to weather it a little and finish off the landing gear doors et, then I'll be done ... er ..... maybe!















As can be seen in the first pic and third pics the decals are really rather old and were brittle and prone to breaking up I'll have a few touch ups to do on them later.

Finally got some undercoat on my 262.

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Finally got some undercoat on my 262.



looking good john, what scale is it? nice smooth primer coat- Tamiya primer?

Thanks Oliver!
RLM 76 is not yet applied, it's still the silver base. And I will leave most of the underside plain metall exept a few plates and the flaps and the rear section of the fuselage. The panels are prime-painted only inside where the rivets are and it's free hand painted - no masking.
Thomas

The panels are prime-painted only inside where the rivets are and it's free hand painted - no masking.
Thomas