RAAF F-104

[david sMiGielski]

Made some progress on a kit that has been languishing on the shelf for over a year. Lots of masking...LOTS of masking. I need a beer.

The finished product should be a slight variation of this, courtesy of Gekko_1:



My take on it. The middle color is a bit off, but I figure a) I'm not going through that painting exercise again, and b) this will be a SEAD airframe, so these colors work for low-level flight over Western Australia.

[BlackOps]

I think Richard will be proud of you, that is a seriously kick*ss paintjob!      VEEEEEERY Nice!

[Weaver]

Woah - IMPRESSIVE!   

I love splinter schemes  How on Earth did you do the fine edging lines? 

[Captain Canada]

Ho-lay ! Now that is some damn fine masking....how did you pull it off ? Pardon the pun.....

[sideshowbob9]

Yeah - beautiful bit of masking there 

[wingman77]

Great job.........again....how did you do the fine lines seperating the diff colours???

[Ed S]

Great job.........again....how did you do the fine lines seperating the diff colours???

Great paint job.  Like he said, how did you do the fine lines?

Ed

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

D*MN !

Didin't see that one coming, David. Brilliant work !

Ian

[Sisko]

The splinter scheme is amazing enough!

But the fact that there is a nice thin grey demarcation line between colours pushes this job over into the truly special!

[Brian da Basher]

That's some incredible paint work! My hat is off to your skill and talent!

I'm really looking forward to seeing more!

Brian da Basher

[david sMiGielski]

Thanks everyone. I should note that the tan is greener in real life (I shot those photos under less than ideal conditions), so the colors aren't as off as I originally thought. I'm too hard on myself.

As for the demarcation lines. I used some really thin masking tape that I got from a place called Jammydog: http://www.jammydog.com/
The stuff is great. I'm going to use it on all my hard to mask projects. I'd considered using decal strips but I'm pretty sure that would have been harder than masking.

[tigercat2]

Its going to look great; can't wait to see the finished model.  One of the best cammo schemes EVER!!


Wes W.

[G.Marcat]

  First class: not less.

A well executed project.

I would to be so clean and precise in the my paint works!

[david sMiGielski]

Decals applied. Kind of nervous about the clear coat. There is potential for some serious silvering. Time to start praying to the modeling gods.

[PolluxDeltaSeven]

Incredible!
That's a wonderfull 104 you've got here!!

I'll probably test your masking method one day, that's beautiful!