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Salvadoran Magister (IAI CM-170K Tzukit)

Started by Weaver, January 17, 2009, 02:57:27 PM

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Captain Canada

#30
March 05, 2009, 08:29:53 PM
Haha....good call, Baz !

First time I've seen this one....and I like it !

:wub:
CANADA KICKS arse !!!!

Long Live the Commonwealth !!!
Vive les Canadiens !
Where's my beer ?

Weaver

#31
March 05, 2009, 08:51:09 PM
Quote from: John Howling Mouse on March 05, 2009, 07:21:44 PM
I have this feeling: the uneven surface will magically sand off into a perfect-looking weathered finish.
We'll all end up applauding your ingenuity and, by this time next week, we'll all be stealing your new 'technique'!!!   :cheers:

Well here's hoping..... It's not just the texture: the brown's gone white where the varnish is thickest, i.e. in the deepest corners and the hinge-lines of the control surfaces, which are exactly the bits you want darker, hence the intention to touch up with pencils. Alternatively, I might see how a thin ink wash does.

At least the kit's moulded in silver plastic, so if I do over-sand it a shade on edges/raised detail, it'll still look like weathering!
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

Ian the Kiwi Herder

#32
March 06, 2009, 01:54:51 AM
Humbrol aerosol varnish...... Ohhh the memories of my pre-airbrush days...... (Shudders)

Ian
"When the Carpet Monster tells you it's full....
....it's time to tidy the workbench"

Confuscious (maybe)

JayBee

#33
March 06, 2009, 02:53:28 AM
Heck, Weaver that is looking GREAAAAT!
I wish I had seen your masking technique a week ago, it would have saved me a lot of problems. Oh well, we live and learn as my Granny used to say.

JimB
Alle kunst ist umsunst wenn ein engel auf das zundloch brunzt!!

Sic biscuitus disintegratum!

Cats are not real. 
They are just physical manifestations of collisions between enigma & conundrum particles.

Any aircraft can be improved by giving it a SHARKMOUTH!

Weaver

#34
March 06, 2009, 04:57:17 PM
Quote from: JayBee on March 06, 2009, 02:53:28 AM
Heck, Weaver that is looking GREAAAAT!
I wish I had seen your masking technique a week ago, it would have saved me a lot of problems. Oh well, we live and learn as my Granny used to say.

JimB

Well it's not my masking technique - I picked it up off here..... ;D
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

chrisonord

#35
March 06, 2009, 06:26:32 PM
COME ON H!! I am dying to see this thing finished,
I have an old Airfix one of these, that will get the Honduras treatment, I won't be quite as adventurous though with the seating arrangement, it will stay a tandem CAS bird. Oh and the T-33 you got for me is nearly done as a forward air control jalopy.
Chris.
The dogs philosophy on life.
If you cant eat it hump it or fight it,
Pee on it and walk away!!

Weaver

#36
March 07, 2009, 04:44:48 AM
Okay, here we go. Not too terrible, but it'll need so much touch-up that it would probably have been easier to hand-paint it in the first place  :rolleyes:. I decided not to darken the darker green in the end - still not sure if that was the right call or not..... :unsure:















"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

JayBee

#37
March 07, 2009, 04:53:14 AM
Looks slightly faded after sitting out in that tropical sun.
Superb!
Alle kunst ist umsunst wenn ein engel auf das zundloch brunzt!!

Sic biscuitus disintegratum!

Cats are not real. 
They are just physical manifestations of collisions between enigma & conundrum particles.

Any aircraft can be improved by giving it a SHARKMOUTH!

Mossie

#38
March 07, 2009, 05:02:34 AM
Nice paint job, almost Israeli, if not quite!
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

ChernayaAkula

#39
March 07, 2009, 06:46:50 AM
That turned out really nice! :thumbsup:
Cheers,
Moritz

Must, then, my projects bend to the iron yoke of a mechanical system? Is my soaring spirit to be chained down to the snail's pace of matter?

Ed S

#40
March 07, 2009, 07:38:12 AM
Nice paint job.  It almost looks like the colors faded to pastels...

Ed
We don't just embrace insanity here.  We feel it up, french kiss it and then buy it a drink.

John Howling Mouse

#41
March 07, 2009, 08:22:44 AM
I wouldn't worry about darkening the deeper green----all your colors flow nicely together as is.
Hey, I just read your post in the Tips section re: your prior airbrushing problems----did you ever find an alternative to the spraycan propellant?
Styrene in my blood and an impressive void in my cranium.

chrisonord

#42
March 07, 2009, 11:27:10 AM
Very nice indeed!! She looks the part now. Looking forward to seeing it armed and dangerous.
The dogs philosophy on life.
If you cant eat it hump it or fight it,
Pee on it and walk away!!

sotoolslinger

#43
March 07, 2009, 02:05:45 PM
Well that turned out freakin neat ;D :wub: :thumbsup: :bow:
I amuse me.
Huge fan of noisy rodent.
Things learned from this site: don't tease wolverine.
Eddie's personal stalker.
Worshippers in Nannerland

nev

#44
March 08, 2009, 05:13:15 AM
Nice camo - now you need to weather the shiznit out of it ;)
Between almost-true and completely-crazy, there is a rainbow of nice shades - Tophe


Sales of Airfix kits plummeted in the 1980s, and GCSEs had to be made easier as a result - James May
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