Zenrat's Flying Circus

[ericr]

Blue Roundels are used by air wing of the United People's Party of Uranus.  Or UPP Uranus as they are commonly known...

I'll be sticking with the red ones as those for the fuselage and upper wings are printed in one with the yellow.
Here's where I got to today.  It's a slow process as I have to keep stopping to let what I have put on adhere or i'll knock them out of position.

ah yes, of course, Uranus 

it seems to be a remarquable decal experience !
I nearly never use any decal (which means I have a quite enormous collection of decals of all the kits I butchered^^^^^^^ transformed over time) but I remember lovingly making the effort for this one :



it is all a matter of motivation, and somehow giraffes motivate me 

[DogfighterZen]

Blue Roundels are used by air wing of the United People's Party of Uranus.  Or UPP Uranus as they are commonly known...

That phantom would be an amazing sight at an airshow... or anywhere else!

[zenrat]

As decaling experiences go this one is certainly is remarkable.
And very time consuming.

The Giraffe Plane looks good.  I too like Giraffes Eric.  Have you ever fed one?  They have remarkably prehensile tongues.  My nephew is a trainee zookeeper and he once organised for us to hand feed the giraffes and a rhino.  It was a very memorable experience.

Decals day 3.  Got all the yellow onto the plane (there is still some to do on the drop tank but I haven't cleared that yet).

[ericr]

As decaling experiences go this one is certainly is remarkable.
And very time consuming.

The Giraffe Plane looks good.  I too like Giraffes Eric.  Have you ever fed one?  They have remarkably prehensile tongues.  My nephew is a trainee zookeeper and he once organised for us to hand feed the giraffes and a rhino.  It was a very memorable experience.

thanks for the giraffe plane :it is just out of thebox, not even Whif 

I haven't had the chance to feed a giraffe, but did notice that their tongue is blue (kind of), which needless to say goes very well with their red (kind of) patterns on yellow (kind of) background.

By the way, I got your point that red roundels were included in the decals, and too hard to extract ; but then, who knows?, what about adding, on top of them, UPP Uranus ones?  that would add a touch of cold color in the overwhelming heat.

It does of course already look tremendously good !

[kerick]

Blue Roundels are used by air wing of the United People's Party of Uranus.  Or UPP Uranus as they are commonly known...

Stop making me choke on food!!!
LOL

[zenrat]

I'm going to stick with the red ones Eric as I want it to be plausibly JASDF.

Decals Day 4 - no pic as there wasn't really much to show as all I did was put decals on the fin (big cats) and sides (stencils) and brushed more microsol on some of the more stubborn decals from earlier days.

[zenrat]

Decals Day 5.  The top side is finished.  With all those stencils it looks like it has had an outbreak of some technological skin disease.

The underbelly is next.  No yellow, just hinomarus and stencils.  Lots and lots of stencils.  So many stencils that it makes the top side look nekkid.

[dumaniac]

Love the flying clog

and the bold colours on the jet

[NARSES2]

Slightly colourfull old boy, eh ?   

[zenrat]

Colourful is good.  Nothing against camo and military shades but sometimes (especially at this time of year) you just need to inject a good dose of brightness into your (modelling) life
No modelling done today other than to smear a tiny bit of filler on some stubborn seams on the Bansheeeee.
Instead I reassembled (cutting down shelves to fit in the process - who knew they were hollow?) a shelving unit which I first built from a flat pack in Croydon (London not Melbourne) in the late 90's and which has since then moved South with us being assembled and reassembled twice in the process.
Tomorrow I shall set up the record player on them and spin some vinyl.

[NARSES2]

a shelving unit which I first built from a flat pack in Croydon (London not Melbourne) in the late 90's and which has since then moved South with us being assembled and reassembled twice in the process.

Didn't know there was a Croydon in Australia, but I suppose it's not supprising as there is an Addiscombe and an Ashburton, my old Alma Marta. Talking of Croydon, it made the nationals the other day and not for the usual reasons   The National Trust has started walking tours ! Apparently it's a good example of post WWII modernist architecture, especially of when that architecture didn't work. To a certain extent it had to be rebuilt after the devastation of the Blitz and then the V1's. Must admit I took some American friends on a walk through early one Sunday and they were fascinated by the mix of architecture, from mid 1540's (the Alms Houses) to ultra modern.

[zenrat]

Southern House - the railway offices where I worked - is apparently architecturally interesting.  Can't say I ever saw that.

[zenrat]

Underside decals started on the Red Phantom.  No picture today.

[NARSES2]

Southern House - the railway offices where I worked - is apparently architecturally interesting.  Can't say I ever saw that.

Can't say I can see it either and I walk past regularly. Mind you I suppose you never do notice the things you walk past every day, plus when do you ever look at an entire building in your home town ? Visiting somewhere different you look at things, home town ? No chance

[Captain Canada]

Love that F-4 and the colours on it, especially all the stenciling. Great stuff.