Here are a few photos of the model presently at the workbench.
It is another Israeli F-16, this time belonging to Tayeset 101.

I needed to rebuild the blisters at the vertical stabilizer base and at the sides of the air intake, as the original ones were damaged and removed while puttying some not so good unions.







It is now ready for some paint.


I hope to post more soon

Cheers

Marco Preto
http://mpminiatures.wordpress.com

A quick update:

The cockpit got a bit of paint and the canopy was glued after masking it.




The air intake and the landing gear were masked with panzerputty. After painting the exhaust nozzle and the radar radome (masked with masking tape), it was ready for some the camouflage.




Here's a photo of the fuselage grey.



I hope to post more soon.

Cheers

Marco Preto

http://mpminiatures.wordpress.com

The camouflage was basically completed this weekend.

The sand color was applied first.


Then, the different areas of the camouflage were marked with a pencil.


The colors were applied (first the green, then the earth).


The overspray was cleaned up as best as I could, airbrushing very close to the models surface, first with the green color and lastly with the sand color.


After removing all the masks, this was the result.



There are a few touch-ups to be made, but I'm basically done with airbrushing on this one!

I hope to post more soon.

Cheers

Marco Preto
http://mpminiatures.wordpress.com

Marco,
That's amazing work! I'm finding it hard to believe it's 1/144!

Looking forward to seeing the finished model.

Quick update!



Cheers

Marco Preto
http://mpminiatures.wordpress.com

Beautiful paint job!

Super sweet freehand paint job👍🏻

It is almost completed, but I still need to add some details and weather it a bit more.




I hope to share the finished model soon.

Cheers

Marco Preto
http://mpminiatures.wordpress.com

that's an amazing job you've done on such a small kit, how did you do the panel lines on the underside of the fuselage?

The panel lines were marked with a technical 0.3mm pencil. I like to use a pencil as you can easily erase any mistake (with a normal eraser)! For heavier lines (like around control surfaces) I have used Vallejo Model Wash Grey, mixed with Vallejo's Slow Dry (I like to use a far bit of slow dry on these acrylic washes as I find they create smooth gradients and do not dry as fast, allowing some time to work the colour to our liking).

Cheers

Marco Preto
http://mpminiatures.wordpress.com

Finally completed!










Cheers
Marco Preto
http://mpminiatures.wordpress.com

Gorgeous!

ah I use a similar technique, only it's a 0.5mm pencil, it's good to know there is smallwe option available.

Marco! Simply fantastic! I like to do a bit of 1/144 every now and then but it is far from this level. I would have a hard time telling the scale from your photos, there is nothing that looks overscale in it!

Well done!



Magnus