Zenrat's Flying Circus

[PR19_Kit]

Don't know if you would call it heat treatment but if you look at the in flight pic of the French Hun you can see that the paint appears to have burnt off around the jet pipe.
Other pics on the interweb show this and I will be attempting to replicate it.

Yes, that's pretty much the same effect as the Danish ones, but it just seemed to stand out more from the overall green finish that they had.

[Later] Hmmm, actually it's much more obvious on MODELS of Danish F-100s than it is on the real thing. 

[zenrat]

...[Later] Hmmm, actually it's much more obvious on MODELS of Danish F-100s than it is on the real thing. 

Yes.  Some modellers really get carried away with the heat effects on either NMF or paint and seem to completely forget to look at their references.  Which is fine if that's what they were aiming for but not accurate and thus surely makes their builds whiffs (which I suspect they would hate).
I've seen the same on 1/12 bike builds where the builder has achieved some wonderfully artistic very cleverly done heat stained chrome effects on exhaust pipes going from blue to straw using the full range of Alclad heat effects paints.  Completely overdone and in no way representative of real life, but wonderfully artistic and very clever.
I am hoping to use the hairspray technique to give the suggestion of slight paint burning off.  The trick will be to not remove too much camo (or Trumpetfish) paint and just get the underlying silver car paint showing through.

In other news:
Kittyhawk undercarriage stood up to the poking finger and gun barrels got glued into wings.
Typhoon got first topside camo colour.
Wirraway got ventral engine intake.
Cyber Formula car got lots of assorted bits primed.
Kraz Tank Transporter trailer got paint worn away in relevant places (hairspray technique).
Apocalypse Post van got scratchbuilt 50 cal machine gun mount attached.
Super Sabre got filler.

i have started reading Air America by Christopher Robbins.  It's fascinating.  zenrat industries air fleet is inspired by Air America as keen eyed viewers will have realised from the font I chose to use for the decals.
I feel more zi builds coming on.

[zenrat]

Watching Hogan's Heroes on the idiot's lantern.  They steal the general's aircraft which is a Lanc as it takes off, transforms into a Condor, bombs an oil refinery and then reverts back to a Lanc.

Kittyhawk is finished and i've got both topside colours on the Typhoon.  Here are the siblings together.
2017-09-11_06-32-34 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
I might wait until I finish the 'phoon before I take beauty pics and then take 'em together.

[Old Wombat]

They're looking rather spiffing, what!

[zenrat]

Rather!

[zenrat]

Today I finished the scratchbuilt doors on my whiffed wardrobe...
Wardrobe - Finished by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
...and spent most of my modelling time foiling this '68 Mustang.
68 Mustang WIP 12-9-17 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[Old Wombat]

Wardrobe doors look good! Not so sure about the alien entity in the lower left corner ...


Mustang looks pretty good in that pic, too.

[zenrat]

Hmmm, yes, Mustang.  Thanks.  I moved it off the bench and then forgot about it today.  It's almost done except for a touch of weathering and some BMF on the scars under the bumpers where they attached to the sprues and some pearl white in the reversing lights.
It went together very easilly.  Being made from Revell's die cast moulds it screws together and a lot of the parts are trapped by other parts.  Some detail and scale veracity is lost but then the original metal model was designed to be flung together by underpaid 12 year olds in a factory somewhere in Asia.  Its still better than the AMT '68 though which has some odd proportions.

What I did do today was fiddle with the many aircraft WIPs and reattach a brake booster I had knocked off the Kraz tank transporter trailer.

I then had a rummage in the stash as I wondered what I had with North Korean markings, found the Eduard MiG 15 had them and then spent some time drooling into the open box at the sheer loveliness of the kit.
I then decided I wasn't up for doing an NMF finish and put it back.

[DogfighterZen]

... found the Eduard MiG 15 had them and then spent some time drooling into the open box at the sheer loveliness of the kit.

It does seem to have that effect on me too...

[PR19_Kit]

  Its still better than the AMT '68 though which has some odd proportions.

Have you seen the Heller '67 Mustang fastback? That's a pretty good kit, as are most of theirs, but rare as hen's teeth these days.

[zenrat]

I have no Heller car kits i'm afraid Kit.

Typhoon is cleared and ready to decal, Hun is undercoated and ready for me to get creative with the paint, Wirraway is at the fiddley bits stage and i've been painting random panels different shades of metal on the Me 262 "bomb" wile fighting with the launching trolley.

[zenrat]

Mustang will be completed tomorrow.
Typhoon has stage 1 of the decals on (markings and numbers).

i've also been looking in the stash for what to build in the Floaty McFloatplane GB.  I have a Kawanishi H6K5 which Mrs z bought me which is favourite as she complains I never build the models she gets me (untrue - I just build them much slower than anything else as I want to do a good job so she'll buy me more ).  I'm thinking Sky Pirates with a flying bridge and a couple of tinnies for boarding purposes.
I also have an Airfix Grumman Duck which may get forcibly mated with an inline powered monoplane.
However, by the time the GB begins I will have changed my mind many times.

[zenrat]

Mustang completed.  Another one for my Super Stock shelf.  I won't give it its own thread as its completely OOB apart from engine wiring.
68 Mustang 10 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
It's a Revell 1/25 1968 Mustang GT with the 428ci Cobra Jet engine.  Ford built 50 of these in '68 for Super Stock Drag Racing.  They were good, but not as good as the Hemi Darts and 'cudas (of which more later as I have a pair of Revell Hemi Darts in the stash).
68 Mustang 6 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
68 Mustang 7 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Today I mostly spent my bench time painting.  I drew a design onto the Hun yesterday and painted the first colour today.  It's a wrap round design in shades of green (not Trumpet fish inspired i'm afraid Womby - although that is in the files for possible later use).  That was time consuming but I also got some underside colour onto the Sciffy BF109.

[jcf]

  Lovely Mustang, Fred.

[TheChronicOne]

That looks great, bud!  The steelies on the back are a nice touch for the bigger sized rim.