After wiping off the excess wash, I call this kit finished! Here’s some pics!
Now the kit ended up on a shelf in my cabinet!
A-4P Skyhawk – Argentinian AF – Airfix 1/72 – Finished!
Finishing assembly on the Scooter.
With the decals in place and a clear cote for protection, I could start assemble landing gears.
As can be seen I repainted the air brakes in red.
After a while all parts was assembled and it could stand on its own legs.
I used oil colours and white spirit to do a wash.
The wash was then wiped off with cotton buds and a little more was added for streaks and general gream. The result will be posted in the finished pics, shortly.
Scooter decals added.
Yesterday I had a decal session and now the plane have all the decals.
Now only the tanks needs their decals. Will try to do that today.
More painted on my Scooter.
I painted some areas red, according to the instructions.
Landing gears and some other stuff also painted.
The wheel bays was masked for white colour.
The white colour was painted and the plane unmasked.
I painted and glued the fuel probe and then it was time for some clear cote.
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.
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.
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.
And then the canopy was put in place with blue tac.
I used medium grey as a kind of primer to check for flaws.
Some flaws was puttied and sanded.
Then it was primed again.
As was some covers.
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.
I’ll let it dry and then start masking for the first topside camo colour.