OOB Me109G-6 No Build-just tweak and blow or Lazy Bugger Build 1

[noxioux]

I had an immediate, but fleeting urge to say, "ME109? (insert rude noise here). . ."  But after seeing that dio, my jaw hit the keyboard and broke my rude noise maker.

But if it was me, I'd stick the grass back in there.

[ysi_maniac]

That's a Matrixone quality 109 you've got there HOG! Looks absolutely perfect!

Brian da Basher

Agreed! TOO.

[sotoolslinger]

Yep ,too pretty to hate on.

[HOG]

hOYHOY`L
Started to add the winter wash and gone waaayyyy  over the top. All that nice delicate spraywork has dissappered under a thin wash of sprayed white. Still its not unredeemable and I think I need to put some figures together before I go any further so as to see whats white and wots not awight, right 









Thinking back to the original 1:72 dio, most of the "washed" areas are done in watercolour pencil (2 greys anna white) when I had got the figures sorted so you`d think I might learn somthink?. 
As an aside this was the sort of finish I was thinking of, another old dio in 1:72 of the Huma Hs132.





The streaky white on here is also water colour pencil.

Cheers
Gary

[sotoolslinger]

Is the white overspray waterbased    if so ,and I have done this before, you can actually rub it off manually with your fingers. It takes a while but try it.

[HOG]

hIYA SoTooSli`

Nah unfortunately its enamels all the way down thinned with cellulose thinners yet so slightly selfetched into lower paintwork/decal/plastic.  I was thinking if giving it a blowover of Tamiya acrylic clear before the white but..........  



gary
wow looks like a Glaswegian karate school practise day   (Ken ye mather sew...then stiech theis)

[McGreig]

Hmm - - - despite the intimidating behaviour of the Glaswegian Martial Arts Gang, I have to say that I think this looks fine as it is.  It looks close to the original 1/72 version and I prefer it to the Hs-132 (although that's probably just jealousy as my Hs-132 doesn't look anywhere near as good - - - )

[HOG]

Hi McGreig

Now I`ve had a day to consider my options on this build, it`s not such a disaster as I first assumed. The `white`coat is revell gloss enamel thinned as I said with enough cellulose thinners as to be virtually a wash coat sprayed as a fine mist at very low pressure through the airbrush. If you look closely at the pictures the white has taken on the appearance of a `fogging` coat over the original paint finish. What I think has happened is that due to the high amount of thinners the paint has seperated into pigment and gloss base resulting in the frosty fogged look with a high gloss top surface diffuseing the reflected colour to the eye thus giving this effect.
Therefore I think that by breaking up this reflective surface a suitable result may be achieced.


So I`ll bung on some matt varnish later an` see what happens.

[sotoolslinger]

Hog maybe try to lightly swab(Q-TIP)with thinner???

[HOG]

Bin there done that.

IT`S LATE AN`YOUR`E AN INVALID, WHY AINT YOU IN BED!

[sotoolslinger]

Well I have a spaceship to build ..... what the hell are you doin
Besides I have catcrotch

[HOG]

Me     I`s still awake,its 04.35 uk time and o3.31 forum time. just found this when I went online for some reasearch on the109X.

Space ship looks fine but not sure about those front winglets.  Looks a little like an anime butterfly roboty thing.

Nitenite SoTooSli, hope that bloody big bedbug on your lap don`t bite

cheers gary

[HOG]

Hoyhoy`l

I think I can work with this.








Thanks to SotooSli for suggesting thinners onna earstick. I had tried white spirit and that never touched it but I rememberd a small bottle of nail varnish remover  (acetone) I had which with some 1200 grade wet n dry and an old fibreglass pencil got me back on track.
More as an when
Cheers 
Gary

[sotoolslinger]

Cool glad that worked The winglets will have big effin guns on em

[Brian da Basher]

Looks like you nailed it to me HOG! Excellent!!!

Brian da Basher