and other artistic stuff
I cut off the bomb holder rack from the pylons, and glued the pylons in place.
Struggling with both the airbrushes and Vallejo’s grey primer.
A thorough clean up seemed to have helped the airbrushes, but I kinda gave up on Vallejo’s primer, and used AK’s grey primer instead.
It reavealed a few areas to sort!
Hopefully, after sorting the flaws, I can use this primer as the light ghost grey for the underside, and then just paint the 2 remaining upper side colours.
I painted the Sidewinders from the Tornado to match the kit ones.
In an attempt to solve the missile and missing drop tank problem. I checked my Eurofighter Typhoon kit and found these tanks and pylons. I’ll check if they’re the correct ones.
The Eurofighter kit also contained a pair of Sidewinder missiles, and compared to the kit ones they are a better match than the Tornado ones.
I think I’ll paint them up and possibly use them instead of the Tonka ones.
Just a small update this time.
I’ve painted covers and landing gear parts with white.
Then there was this question about the load out. For some reason Revell have put the wrong missile on the wrong load out point, and also it seems this one should have no bombs. And I who thought that would have looked cool.
Anyway there’s 2 kinds of missiles in the kit, Sidewinders and Sparrows, and only 2 of each.
In reality there should be 4 Sidewinders in total. I’ve painted the ones I have.
The 2 other missiles seen in the pic are from my Tornado. Slightly different, but the Tiger meet Tonka don’t use them so i might use them for this kit.
I also should need a pair of fuel tanks instead of the bombs, to go on those pylons. I’ll see if I can scavenge up some.
I glued the main gear in place as well as parts to the bay.
The tires and rims was painted and the seam on the intake as well.
Then the wheels was assembled.
The intake was glued in place.
The canopy was masked.
Gear parts and missiles painted white.
Then I started adding the pylons.
I had to re-glue the cockpit tub and put the HUD in place before adding the canopy and later the nose (after addding weights).
A bunch of bombs was painted with OD.
The bombs will be masked and painted yellow on their noses. I also need to figure the proper colours for the missiles provided.
Not much left to do before it’s time to put some primer on. I think I’ll go with AK’s grey primer, even if it smells a bit. It gives a very nice and smooth surface.
The focus is all on the exhaust in this update. I started by applying putty on the inside.
Partly do fill in the seams and partly to build up where needed. It took some passes with sanding inbetween. Here I’m still not done.
Once that was done I started painting the inside. Trying to replicate the patterns and general look inside.
The inside on the “bottom” part also got some paint.
I might need to redo some or simply glaze with some more insignia white.
I guess I can just mask the outer most part while painting the outside. Possibly I have to wait until I have put the exhaust pipe in place to make sure it sits nicely, before painting.