RF-20 Super Tigereye; Another FAR conversion

[FAR148]

It's been a while since I've updated this thread. Not much has happen. Be fixing a bunch of panel lines I was not happy with. Just like the drop tank, most of the fuselage will have tiger stripes on it. I got a coat of euro gray on her and soon it will be silly putty for her stripes. Here you can see I added a blade antenna and the refueling probe.



For the underside, I will not have the stripes "wrap around" . It's just going to be neutral gray. To break up the all gray bottom, I preshaded the panel with plain jane flat black. I ran into a problem on the rear. Remeber the rear is Monogram's super dark gray plastic, preshading flat black on it is useless. So I shot the area with some light sea gray. Later today I will go back and preshade the rear.



Thanks for watching and until next time,
Steven 

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Moving-along very nicely, Steven.

Ian

[Supertom]

Oh my gosh this is stupid awesome. Keep up the good work.

[FAR148]

Thanks Ian and Supertom

Well...I few things happened since I last posted. Since last time, I painted her(neutral gray w/ euro gray tiger stripes), was not happy with the results  , stripped the paint completely. And this morning I got around to preshading her. I am no longer going to do a tiger meet scheme. I am going to do a three color camo with a gray bottom.

Here's a few pics of her as she is now.





Thanks for watching and still more to come,
Steven L

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Here's a few pics of her as she is now. Thanks for watching and still more to come,

Steven L

There'd better be !!

Ian

[Captain Canada]

Three colour camo with a grey bottom ! YES !



Usually I'm sorry to hear of painting woes but not this time 

[Old Wombat]

Whatever you do, I know it's going to be awesomely cool, Steven!

[Daryl J.]

Excellent call!

[FAR148]

Thanks guys 
Things has been a little slow on the build due to it's summertime and airshow season. I did manage to get her first color done today. And no, she will not be Israeli.






Thanks for looking,
Steven L

[nighthunter]

You're such a tease, Steven! LOL!

[Captain Canada]

Oooh she looks good ! Almost like an old bird in the boneyard right now.

[FAR148]

Thanks guys

It's been a while since I posted anything on this build. Well... she sit just like last posted, with one of three colors painted on her. Been distracted by the summer. Been to a few airshows as well as work has been super busy. Makes for more fun money. More fun money = more future projects. I'd like to share a few of them with you all. The first came to me as I was looking for a new paint scheme after my tigermeet scheme incident  I was looking at PantherG´s profile thread cause he always comes up with some very interesting paint schemes. The paint scheme I chose for my Super Tigereye is base on one PantherG's OV-1profiles.  >>>Look Here<<< I really like the second one and will be use it. But while looking at it, I thought " Boy, that really looking like a WWII German nightfighter!" My first idea was to change out the engine and use the same wing. But what I'm going to do is use the wings, engines, along with it gear from a Bf-110. Going to make her a tail dragger and remove the center tail.



On to new future project no# 2. I have always loved the look of the Blohm & Voss BV 141. Now that Hobbyboss made one in 1/48 scale, It's going to be a great starting point for my asymmetry fighter. It will have the same feeling as the Blohm & Voss BV P194 but without the jet engine. Not too sure about paint scheme but I'm pretty sure about the armament. She will have a 50mm! 



And last but not least, as we all know Revell release their beautiful new tooled 1/48 Tornado earlier this year. Now I can make one of Darth Panada's ROKAF Panavia Tornado. I do know it will be a IDS and not a F3 but what scheme All look wonderful. I am looking for a pair of 1/48 Tornado hindenberger tanks. Any help would be greatly appreciated




Until next time,
Steven L 

[silverwindblade]

Glad to hear you've had an exciting summer, I know the feeling about leaving your models standing for a while with all the other stuff distracting you. I've had one much the same!
I'm excited for your new projects as well though - be interesting to see everything that comes out of them. I'm always following your threads.
Good luck finding the Hindenbergers - I was looking for a pair a while ago with no luck, so if you do get hold of any, please let me know where!

[Daryl J.]

 

[Go4fun]

Fantastic work!  

Re the cracked window, there's always the Whiffjitsu option: instead of letting it go and saying nothing about it, let it go but make up an outrageous tale in the back story to account for it. Result: you still don't have to fix the crack, and you get some back story "colour" as a bonus.

For instance: you could do it in Chilean colours, then say this is what it looked like after hitting a condor over the Andes, the compensation being the look on the bird's face in the last photo the plane took before it hit it...

Q: Was was the last thing to enter this bird's mind?
A: It's tail feathers!