UV-22J Osprey, JMSDF - FINISHED!

[Taiidantomcat]

  I should have thought of that We have USAF CV-22s where I am. Great progress Nev 

[Maverick]

I'll be keen to see your Gunship interpretation too Nev.

Regards,

Mav

[nev]

Don't hold your breath for that one mate!

[Mossie]

You could do a Gunship that dian't go as far as Mav's profile with the Apache nose, just add a gun up front plus a few greeblies.  Either stick some guns out the side, or do it as a Special Forces taxi.

[nev]

Right, several coats of Halfords White Primer later....




Will be breaking out the Halfords Appliance White tomorrow (weather permitting)

Next is question is how to paint the engine pods.

1)  As per the profile
2)  Overall white
3)  Overall dayglo orange (common on wingtips of JMSDF/JSDF birds)

[Mossie]

Innovative use of yoghurt pots Nev!  Either red & white or dayglo for the engines.

[chrisonord]

I am going to keep my eye on this one Nev, 
One of my faves, here. I have built 2 versions of V-22, one a gunsip with a quad launcher of Hellfires on the starboard front fuselage, and the other is a Navy anti ship version.
Here the are.



I am looking forward to seeing this one finished thats for sure.

[nev]

Well I spent 2 hours playing with masking tape last night   Worst part is, I know there will be a tiny little gap somewhere that I've missed that will result in some red/orange creeping through onto the white - we'll just have to wait and see where it is, won't we?


Note the grey stickers under the wings - these are from one of the boys wooden models, for its wheels, but are the perfect size for masking a Hinomaru


And then it was out with the Halfords Dayglo Orange   This is for the nose and ramp, but I did the whole thing because the main red colour has an orange hue which I wanted to show

[Mossie]

Need the on!

[Mike Wren]

nice progress Nev, you can never have enough dayglo... 

[nev]

So, one coat of Halfords "Fiat Red Orange" later.....




Remove the masking, et Voila!




The colour is a pretty close match to the orangey-red used on the real thing, even if I do say so myself

However....



Grrrrr.....most of the areas of creep have arisen around the raised panel lines & rivets on the model   Thankfully they're proving to not hard to carefully remove...

[Mossie]

Tip for the future Nev, I've found that spraying or painting the base coat over the masking before you spray the new colour helps eliminate most of the runs.

Don't confuse this with having the runs.  Using this approach the morning after a curry could be double messy.

[John Howling Mouse]

Very cool, Nev!  Going to be a striking, handsome bird when she's done.   

[nev]

Decals on & nearly there!  May replace the fuselage Hinomarus as they are a different shade of red to the ones I used on the wings

[Mossie]

Looking good, nearly there!