Porco Rosso - Curtiss R3C-0

[strobez]

Just a start, but I decided to tackle a couple more of the Porco Rosso planes.  Now that I've got the Savoia S.21 and Macchi M.52r on the shelf, they look a bit lonely.  So first up is the iconic blue Curtiss R3C-0 - basically the main "bad guy" plane of the movie.

So far I've managed to cut some sprues...


And get a first coat of paint on the bits...

[zenrat]

I've built one of these.  Can't remember doing it so it must go together OK.
I painted the yellow and white markings as I was concerned about the opacity of the decals and wanted the yellow on the wings and rudder to match that on the underside of the floats.

[nighthunter]

I really want to build the Curtiss

[strobez]

It really is a dream to fit together. If I'd been able to get my masking tape straight on the seat cushion, I'd already have it buttoned up and pretty much fully assembled.

[zenrat]

Even rigging it was easy.  2 lines each side from floats to wing.  If there was supposed to be interwing rigging I didn't bother.

[KiwiZac]

One of my favourite Cary Elwes roles. I'm excited to see this!

[strobez]

Well the cockpit went together without too much fuss (and none that wasn't of my own making). I plan to do a bit of rigging, pretty much in line with how it appears in the anime film.  I learned from my experience with my Tintin Ki-10 Perry to make sure the wing struts are glued in place before the painting starts otherwise you're just asking for a gooey mess.

So she's starting to look like a plane now...

[NARSES2]

Lovely looking aeroplane

[strobez]

A bit of a bulk update.  This one has been basically going together so smoothly that I keep forgetting to take/post any pics.

Once the construction was together, I gave it a coat of primer... no real flaws.  That's a first!  I was so excited I decided to do the white and yellow stripes first.  Seemed reasonable that the blue would cover any overlap better than the other way around.



The wing/pontoon struts are a lighter shade of blue, so I just masked off the stripes and then gave the whole plane a coating... that way it would give an even undercoat. I've had issues with blue showing the undercoat very well in the past, so I wasn't taking any chances.





Then I just masked off the struts and gave the rest of the fuselage a shot with the dark blue.  I had a little bit of an overspray issue on the floats, but nothing a bit of careful masking and another few shots of yellow couldn't fix!

[zenrat]

 

[NARSES2]

This is really going to be the business 

[zenrat]

Isn't masking the yellow on the underside of the floats a complete and utter c-word of a job.