Zenrat's Flying Circus

[Rick Lowe]

Skyray is primed and i'm experimenting with pre-shading.
Hopefully it'll be subtle and not look ready to be scrapped like some models can when this is done.

I think the problem is that some modellers don't put enough of a layer of the final colour over the shading - or they shade with a Black, when a Grey would be more appropriate...
Maybe put a layer on, walk away and see how it looks after a while? You can always add another coat.

Not that I've ever done anything like pre-shading myself, mind you...

And yeah - how is the Missus?

Cheers

[NARSES2]

And yeah - how is the Missus?

Yup, back in the kitchen yet ? 

[zenrat]

Ha ha, good one Chris.
I do all (OK, 98% of) the cooking.  Always have done.  Sue has pretty much always got home from work much later than me plus I get to cook exactly what I want to eat.
We currently don't actually have a kitchen anyway.  I'm still building it.  Benchtops are 2 weeks off and then I need to organise the glass splash back before the plumber will connect the gas stovetop.  We still need to chose taps but the floor tiles can be ordered tomorrow and should take only 1 or 2 days to arrive.
Mrs Zs hand is healing beautifully.  It's a bit red still around the scar but we can see that when it's fully healed it'll look like an additional line on her hand.  Should be good to confuse palm readers.

I pre shaded the top half with black (to go under Dark Sea Grey (or is it Green - can't remember but the Trumpeter Wyvern paint scheme sheet is my guide) and the bottom half with darkened Sky (to go under Sky).
Today I masked off where the Suez stripes will be and airbrushed that with white to give a lighter base for the yellow.  I did 3 lightish coats and it has a satisfactory mottled look to it but not too over the top.
Yellow tomorrow.

Anyone built or had a good squiz at the Italeri 1/72 Me 323 Gigant?

[Thorvic]

Anyone built or had a good squiz at the Italeri 1/72 Me 323 Gigant?

Martin H has, done one as a Whif a few years back

[zenrat]

Thanks Thorvic.  Did a search but it didn't come up.

Yellow is on the Skyray.  Masking and black stripes tomorrow.

[Captain Canada]

Glad to here Sue is doing well, and that the kitchen will soon be done. That way you can have us all over for dinner 

Skyray sounds great, look forward to seeing that one.

Gigant eh ? I almost bought one as a kid, but my Dad talked me out of it. Said it was slow and useless and got shot out of the sky every time it took off. Ended up with a 32nd scale CF-104, and was a human reference for the build of that one. Sat atop our television at home for years.

[zenrat]

You're all welcome anytime you're in the area.

I sprayed the black stripes on the Skyray today.  It got under the masking tape in a big way so i've got a large amount of touching up to do.  I think I subconsciously didn't burnish the tape as hard as I should have because I was worried about it lifting the paint already on there.

[zenrat]

Cool cool cool.

The Italeri 323 kit i'm watching on evil-bay is going up rapidly so I won't be bidding.

Today, after getting home from work this morning I touched up the yellow on the Skyray stripes and then went and laid the kitchen floor tiles.  After lunch I polished the stripes with toilet paper and then masked over them (making sure I burnished the edges down hard with a cocktail stick) and sprayed the underside Sky.

[Captain Canada]

Now that is looking good ! And where are the pics taken ? The place looks huge !

[PR19_Kit]

If the Skyray wing shape didn't exist we'd have to invent it, it looks SO good! 

[Weaver]

It's the one way system in Ikea that does me in  The meatballs on the other hand 

Our local one (Ashton) has shortcuts through the Magical Mystery Tour, and you can go straight to each floor, incuding the cafe and the self-service/checkout area.

[Weaver]

Are the Skyray stripes not going to extend across the chord then? Looks great BTW.

[zenrat]

That's my shed Todd.  9m by 6m (a small one by Australian standards).  It's currently almost completely full with the contents of the house while I get on with finishing of the extension.  I took the picture standing just inside the door where I do my spray painting.  Modelling bench is in the opposite corner and the stash is spread around various cupboards.

Our Ikea has short cuts through the maze but they are not signposted and are easy to miss.

In the picture I found on the interweb I didn't like the stripes going all the way across the wing chord so I cut them short.  No fuselage stripes either because there isn't really a fuselage as such.  I got the Dark Sea Grey sprayed today.  Nothing else done because I was summoned to help my Sister-in-Law move some cupboards.  Her work is closing down and all the employees are scavenging the fixtures and fittings.  For my help I earned 2 large cardboard boxes of nuts, bolts & washers and one of those tubular jet like gas heaters.

[scooter]

That's purty. The Ford sure does look good in that scheme

[Captain Canada]

Oh that is gorgeous....good call on the stripe layout looks perfect.

That might be a small shed by Aussie standards, but still a good size ! I miss my old house where or detached garage was about 35' x 30', with doors to the rafters and a nice storage area up there.