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.
Mirage fit issues and other updates.
Normally joining the body halves should bring no bigger problems, but for some reason the halves woudn’t go together as they should in the middle of the body. After some checking I figurered that the intake seemed to be the problem. By gluing the body halves to the intake, it pulled them in, and thus created a gap in the top.
As the underside is open as long as the wings are not on, it was no greater problem to loosen the sides anad then glue the seam.
I then glued the intake again, which as it turned out I shouldn’t have done, cause when I tried to fit the wings, it looked like this.
There was quite a large gap to deal with and no matter how much I tried to press the wings closer, it wouldn’t work. I checked the net for a build review, and found one that said that I shouldn’t have glued the rear end of the intake at all. I also shouldn’t have glued teh outer intake covers until after the wings was in place. Something I’ll try to keep in mind as I have one more Kinetic Mirage kit.
I cut open the intake/fuselage bond again and also added a piece of sprue to widen the fuselage a bit.
Now the wings fit against the fuselage looked like this.
I glued the wings and added a bit of plastic on each side to take away some of the gaps.
After cutting them and filling the rest with some putty, it looked like this!
I’ll sand that later and might have to fill more putty to make it look nice. The hardest will be to rescribe missing panel lines.
Next up on my work bench was the figures to the Scout car, which after some shadows and dry brushing looked like this.
Getting closed to be done! The driver still need to be painted. All black uniform doesn’t make it easier. I might also sort a base of some sort.
It doesn’t show very good, but I repainted the belly of the lightning.
I’ll repaint the wings as well, and then do some panels in different colours to break it up a bit.
While painting black a while ago, I also painted the hood and interior roof black on my sons Mustang.
That’s all for now!
Mirage IIIE Argentinian AF – Kinetic 1/48 progress
I started this kit pre corona pre brexit. It’s been laying in the box since then.
I had started with the cockpit but that’s pretty much it. I added home made seat belts.
The instructions to these kits are a bit confusing and quite sparse when it comes to colour instructions. One pic shows that the intake should be white and the other silver. I did a bit of my own interpretation, but I might abandon that and paint aluminium all over.
While painting some other stuff black, I put some on the cokpit area of the fuselage.
The intake parts after removing the tape.
I glued the wheel well to the cockpit tub.
I used my Moltov chrome pen to paint the hub of the intake fan.
The last thing I’ve done so far is to glue the small round glass piece to the sight and the sight glass. I’ll carfully paint some black around the sigth later.
Forgot that I also did some painting in the wheel well to increase the interest.
It seems like I forgot to take pics on the exhaust parts. Will sort that later.