Zenrat's Flying Circus

[PR19_Kit]

What's 'the hairspray method' please? I don't think I've heard of that before.

[zenrat]

Using a non water based paint you paint the model the colour you want to be exposed by the weathering.  In this case I used silver car paint from a rattle can as I wanted it to look like the paint had weathered off exposing aluminium.
When dry you spray the model with hairspray.
When dry you paint the top colours using water based acrylic paint.  In this case Vallejo Model Colour.
When dry you remove the paint by scrubbing or picking at it with a wet rag/old toothbrush/finger nail/piece of wet and dry.
The water soaks through the acrylic paint into the hairspray which lets go of the bottom layer of paint allowing the top colour to come off exposing the base colour.
This is the technique I used on the JetRex Kawanishi N1K1.  On the Falco I have done it in a much more restrained fashion just weathering some patches rather than stripping most of the paint off.

I did nothing more to the Falco today, allowing the decals another day of drying.

Dagger is finished.  I will take some beauty pics tomorrow probably.

In addition to some PSR on the BoB Lamington I felt it was time I built one of the bigger kits in the stash (as well as building one of the Italian trimotors I seem to have collected) and so have started a Savoia Marchetti SM81 Pipistrello.  It will be civilian with turrets removed and absolutely no torpedoes.

[kerick]

Thanks folks.
Stencils on and then 24hrs later a couple of coats of clear over them.  I had some issues with silvering but microsol (set? the one with the red label anyway - the stronger one) dealt with that.
Not that you can see the stencils but here's a new pic.

No F-102 has ever looked like that before! Outstanding!

[zenrat]

Thanks Kerick.  Theres a new thread in the "Aircraft" section.

[zenrat]

Falco is complete apart from some bombs I decided to add at the last minute and the rest of the back story.  It's another aircraft from the Studio zenrat Anime My Sky the Free Wind.  There should be beauty pics before next year.


And I have started painting the D9.  I just can't get my head round the armour modellers technique of glueing the whole thing together before paint so i'm making it in big pieces which slot together but which can be taken apart to get paint into corners.
The Whiff aspect of this is that it will have a crane on the back.  It'll be in a well worn blue zenrat industries colour scheme and will eventually be displayed on the back of Mrs z's xmas present to me..


The SM 81 is also progressing (no pics though).  I have added some detail to the interior including floor, steps and a platform for someone to stand on to open the top hatch (where the dorsal turret used to be).
Wings had some massive sink marks on the upper surfaces above the engraved flap lines and there are a couple on the top of the fuselage as well.  To be expected given the age of the moulds.

[PR19_Kit]

Falco is complete apart from some bombs I decided to add at the last minute and the rest of the back story.  It's another aircraft from the Studio zenrat Anime My Sky the Free Wind.  There should be beauty pics before next year.

WHAT is that??? 

Looks awesome, to say the least. 

[zenrat]

It my world it's a Consolidated P3Y Falco Long Range Patrol Bomber Flying Boat of the Amorican Cofederation Navy but when Aoshima made it they put it in this box.

The Flying Boat Falco from the anime Future Boy Conan.

[zenrat]

Disaster struck!
In a CTA (Cabinet Top Incident) involving a windbourne reindeer Mrs z's Fathers Whif Ute (what if he had got the one he always wanted before he died) lost a wheel.
Luckilly help was on hand to repair it and its precious cargo got through.

[NARSES2]

 

[Spey_Phantom]

 

[Captain Canada]

Great stuff ! Love the flying boat, and the wee Lego dio is too funny !

[ericr]

The Flying Boat Falco from the anime Future Boy Conan.

ah ! that one ! it's on my list, for sometime when stash goes down a bit ...

I guess it builds and fits very fine?

long live seaplanes !

[zenrat]

It went together well Eric.  Just a spot of filler on the halves of the hull.
Just as well as there are loads of lovely rivets you wouldn't want to sand off.
Figures are a bit under scale.
There are 2 sets of "glass" so you can build it with or without guns.

[zenrat]

Picked up the SM 81 again.  It's been sitting there staring at me with bright yellow filler on it's seams (the wing to fuselage joints are particularly gruesome) but I just haven't felt like sanding.

I'm on Uncle duty this weekend so no modelling.  Instead I have been chief armoured to The Boy.  We have built a morning star and a battle axe.  The trick is to make them sturdy enough for play but of materials which will not cause too much injury or damage if he gets carried away.

But the best news this weekend is that I have got my reference books out of storage.  Woohoo!

[zenrat]

Finally got the camera into the shed.

I've finished painting some (elheim) figures to use when photographing models.
All 1/72.
Guv, Whitey, Jean & Lenny.


Bob, Big Phil & Sanjay.


I've also knocked up a Hells Angel (with a sore back) on a Kettenkrad...


...a civilian Schwimmwagen...


...and a Sestapo secret undercover unmarked van.

All vehicles 1/72 Hasegawa.

And here's where the SM-81 is at.

Fit of the wings is a shocker (it's a repop of an old Supermodel kit - I knew it wouldn't be good but I can't resist Italian trimotors).  Still more PSR to do which means even less raised panel lines will remain when it's done.  I've removed the ventral turret and faired over the hole.  The upper turret will be replaced by a hatch with a platform beneath it on which a crew member can stand should they wish.  It'll be finished in zenrat industries colours and will be a civilian machine which can mount a few defensive guns if required (should the natives get restless for example).