More painted on my Scooter.

I painted some areas red, according to the instructions.

Red paint on
Red paint on

Landing gears and some other stuff also painted.

Landing gears painted
Landing gears painted

The wheel bays was masked for white colour.

Underside masked for white
Underside masked for white

The white colour was painted and the plane unmasked.

Wheel bays painted
Wheels bays painted

I painted and glued the fuel probe and then it was time for some clear cote.

clear cote painted
Clear cote painted

Next will be a bunch of decals.

More Scooter progress.

My intention was to use masking tape, put on the plane, draw, remove, cut and then put back the pieces I needed. It was fairly easy on the wings, stabilizers and fin, but when it came to some of the shapes on the body I had to rely on blue tac and tape.
Once the masking was done I could lay down a cote of dark green.

Dark green painted
Dark green painted

A while later I removed the tape and blue tac. Not having the blue tac sit too long helps prevent residue being left on the paint.

Tape removed
Tape removed
Ailerons removed
Ailerons removed
The undersidde
The underside

Next will be to mask for wheel bays and some other areas that should have different colours, and I also need to sort the landing gears, arrestor hook and fuel probe.

Skyhawk progress

The pilot was painted and put in place and the front glass was also put in place.

Pilot in place
Pilot in place

And then the canopy was put in place with blue tac.

Canopy in place
Canopy in place

I used medium grey as a kind of primer to check for flaws.

Underside primed
Underside primed

Some flaws was puttied and sanded.

Minor flaws sorted
Minor flaws sorted

Then it was primed again.

Primed again
Primed again

As was some covers.

Covers primed
Covers primed

I had to sort a minor flaw created when I sanded the top of the plane. Once that was fixed, I could put on the first cote of paint, RAF medium sea grey.

Underside painted
Underside painted

I’ll let it dry and then start masking for the first topside camo colour.

A-4P Skyhawk – Airfix 1/72

This was intended to be a quick build for the Turkey shoot at Flory models forum. It started last thursday and lasted until last sunday. I couldn’t start my build until last friday.

Here’s the kit.

Boxart
Boxart

Under the lid.

Contents
Contents

I started by painting some parts medium grey.

Medium grey painted
Medium grey painted

Cockpit was painted and decals added, exhaust and intake assembled and glued in place.

Building started
Building started

I had some problems with the fit over the intake. I tried to remedy it as good as possible, but maybe could have done better with more time at hand. Some pressure helped close it fairly well.

Fuselage glued
Fuselage glued

Wing parts was glued.

Wing parts glued
Wing parts glued

Fuel tanks and other parts was glued and prepared for paint.

Fuel tanks and other stuff prepared
Fuel tanks and other stuff prepared

Wings was glued to the fuselage, and fitted very nice. Overall I’ve only used small amounts of putty. Will check after I’ve applied primer. The canopy was masked and the pilot is almost done. Need to be done with him first before I put the glass on, and then some primer.

Almost ready for primer
Almost ready for primer

I also got a delivery of the colours I need for the Argentinian colours I decided to go for.

Camo colours
Camo colours

More painted on Kiev’s deck

After masking a lot more tedious masking of landing strip lines, I gave it a cote of grey.

Grey painted

After it had dried, I painted it white, and shortly after I removed the tape.

Masking tape removed
Masking tape removed

I think I might do some touch ups, but other than that next will be masking for the heli pads.

Kiev deck painting

The other half of the deck was painted green.

Deck painted green
Deck painted green

The more or less finished main buildings.

Main buildings
Main buildings

I then started to mask for the yellow lines on the deck.

Masking started
Masking started

Once the masking was done, I painted the lines with pink and then after it hada dried with yellow.

Yellow lines painted
Yellow lines painted

Shortly after I removed the tape.

Yellow lines revealed
Yellow lines revealed

I’ve started masking for the white lines and will paint them before I mask and paint the landing pads. I think I need to paint some of it by hand with a brush as it will be complicated to mask and paint with airbrush.

Painting on the Kiev started

I started by painting the top of all the buildings in orange.

Decks painted orange
Decks painted orange

Four helicopters with rotor blades test fitted.

Four helicopters
Four helicopters

I masked the buildings and started to fit parts that also should be grey onto the buildings.

Buildings masked and some parts glued
Buildings masked and some parts glued

Then the buildings got some light gull grey.

Light gull grey painted
Light gull grey painted

Then I removed the tape.

Tape removed
Tape removed

I then did a little test fit with the building parts and some of the radar masts.

Building test fit
Building test fit

Guns and other small parts was also painted in light gull grey.

Guns and stuff
Guns and stuff

I wasn’t happy with how some seams and puttied areas had turned out. Mainly as I didn’t wanna destroy too much of the rails and other details. I decided that I wanted the surfaces to look smooth, so I sanded them nicely and by that also destroyed some of the details.

Some areas sanded smooth
Some areas sanded smooth

I will try to heat and pull some sprue into thin strings that I’ll use to replace the rails with.
Hopefully that will turn out looking better than it did before.

Amusing Hobby 1/35- Strv-104 review/unboxing.

After a long wait I finally recieved my pre-ordered kit, and here’s a first view of it.

The kit depicts the Swedish version of the British Centurion tank. Here called Strv-104, which is short for stridsvagn (=tank) 104. It was first bought in 1958 and was then called strv-81. Modifications in steps broght it to strv-104 which in duty to about 2000 when it was scrapped.

Strv-104 boxart
Strv-104 boxart
Opened box
Opened box

Here’s pics of the contents of this kit.

Individual track pieces
Individual track pieces
2 sprues drive sprockets and rear wheels
2 sprues drive sprockets and rear wheels
4 sprues with road wheels and suspension parts
4 sprues with road wheels and suspension parts
Small parts to the turret
Small parts to the turret
Turret parts
Turret parts
Small parts and rear deck
Small parts and rear deck
Armor plates and fenders
Armor plates and fenders
Upper hull and fender parts
Upper hull and fender parts
Gun barrel and small parts
Gun barrel and small parts
Lower hull
Lower hull
Tow cable, etch, decals and suspension springs
Tow cable, etch, decals and suspension springs
Instructions front page
Instructions front page
Instructions page 1-2
Instructions page 1-2
Instructions rear page
Instructions rear page

With individual links and movable suspension, and as far as I can determine very nice details, this looks to be a very nice kit. Looking forward to building it at some time in the future.

Fast delivery and painted boats.

I ordered some colours and a stencil last tuesday, and today I got the parcel. Which is quite fast considering it’s delivered by DHL.

Some colours and an airbrush stencil
Some colours and an airbrush stencil

As I failed to show the hole in the deck that I had to sort, I’m doing that now.

Switch opening filled with plastic sheet
Switch opening filled with plastic sheet

I painted black on the bottom of the boats and added some blue windows.

Boats painted
Boats painted

Not easy to paint the windows by hand, and perhaps I could have masked, but this will suffice I think.

Kiev, build update.

Sometime I do bits here and there, and here the boats got some white paint.

White painted boats
White painted boats

Then radar masts and whatnot got some black colour.

Radar masts painted black
Radar masts painted black

On the deck there’s a hole, which I think is for the switch for the engine. For some reason I’ve missed that, and have to deal with it now instead. I cut a piece of plastic and fitted it in the hole. Lost one piece in the process, but the second one got where it should.

I then turned the ship over and glued the propeller shaft holders and rudders.

Rudders and shaft holders glued.
Rudders and shaft holders glued

I decided to glue one of the top parts to the bottom building.

Lower part of the building
Lower part of the building.

I then painted all the buildings with grey “primer”.

Buildings primed
Buildings primed

The top of the hull and the deck also got primer.

Deck and upper hull primed
Deck and upper hull primed

There’s a few things to sort were the most visible is the seam on the rear deck.