Northrop FA-5K

[sotoolslinger]

Very slick 

[Weaver]

Doesn't look much different, but all the PSR is done, the u/c bays and door insides are painted up, and it has a new cockpit coaming to hide the control panel a bit more.... The pylon and arrestor hook attachment points are masked up and the Sidewinder rails are fitted. The canopy is masked up, but I have limited confidence in the cheapo masking tape, so I don't know whether I'll glue it on tonight and give it an under coat or not...



This is the store I was talking about, which, unfortunately, I can't photograph very well because I don't have a suitable lens. It's a countermeasures dispenser based loosly on the Wallop Masquerade, which is basically a CBLS (practice bomb carrier) loaded up with chaff and decoy cartridges instead. There are 21 pieces in this little puppy - am I mad? 

[John Howling Mouse]

Mad?  More like crazy (as in "crazy like a fox")!   

[sotoolslinger]

Yes, yes you are

[cthulhu77]

crazy in a great way !   

[Weaver]

Bombed out on the rattle cans tonight, so...

If you can't win the game, change the rules: I was shopping for rattle cans because I didn't have an airbrush. To be precise, I did have an airbrush, but it was 20 years old, gummed up and missing bits, so as a last resort, I went into Hobbycraft to see if I could buy enough bits to get it going again. I couldn't, at least not for less than the price of a new airbrush, so....

I am now the proud and only slightly terrified owner of a new Badger 250, and some tins of paint that bloody well DO match that there boat......

[cthulhu77]

ooooh ! Love the 250 !

[sotoolslinger]

Me too , the Badger 250 was my second airbrush , you will love it.

[Weaver]

The Fask is now in the paint shop with an initial undercoat of rattle-can white going on (and I am now going to have to buy some more).

A pox on white-plastic model kits! Every damn bit of grey putty is acting like pre-shading and showing through - going to take LOTS of coats of white before anything else goes on....

[Brian da Basher]

Just a suggestion, but I'd try using a gray primer coat and then put the white over that. The gray should cover up the putty nicely and give you a nice starting point for the white top coat.

Brian da Basher

[Amphion]

I don't think the "white" in that camo-pattern is white, but rather a very light grey. If that helps any. 

[Weaver]

Couple more coats of white did the job, ta. Finish isn't the best, but the clock is ticking....

Here it is with it's destined-to-be-white bits masked off:





Next, a bit of airbrushing practice, and then a coat of stone, (gulp) and then a trip to the LMS for some more thinners...

[Weaver]

Couple of coats of Light Stone with the airbrush:

[BlackOps]

Looking good, I always love to see the transformation that comes at the painting stage of the build.

[Weaver]

Stone areas masked up. It's now in the paint shop with the first coat of topside grey drying. Not sure if the grey-over-stone is going to work or not, but it's too late to mess about now - running out of time!