(FINISHED!) United Federation of Planets Historical Society Beechcraft Bonanza

[zenrat]

That could be a very big jar...

What tape are you masking with?  Tape meant for painting houses tends to be a bit thick to follow the contours on a model.
I use model masking tape for the edge (burnished down with cocktail sticks & cotton buds) and then fill in the rest with the DIY store stuff.

[TheChronicOne]

That could be a very big jar...

What tape are you masking with?  Tape meant for painting houses tends to be a bit thick to follow the contours on a model.
I use model masking tape for the edge (burnished down with cocktail sticks & cotton buds) and then fill in the rest with the DIY store stuff.

3m Scotch Blue painters tape. Sure enough, not specifically made for models. I can't wait to get my hands on some Tamiya 3mm. 



This stuff here is what I use although the stuff I have isn't half as wide. One thing I like about it is it comes back off nicely without leavhing adhesive residue. I have a roll of some other tape thats even made in USA but I have to use paint thinner to get the residue off when I take it off my models.

Thanks for the tip on the tape..  I'll get me some good tamiya for the then use my 3m stuff like you said, for the parts away from what comes in direct contact with the paint. 

Meanwhile, I did finish the painting yesterday. I thought about going for the gusto and finishing it last night but I already had probably 4 hours of model building in for the day and it was at the point where I was satisfied with what I had accomplished but forcing myself to continue would have taken some of the fun out. So.. I put it down.

I plan to finish it today.   

[TheChronicOne]

 

I was so close...  I had less than 10 minutes of work left when I did THIS:




SIGH.        I was drilling out those little holes... they were already there but just needed to be slightly larger because of the paint and glue, etc.   I was being really careful but that didn't matter.. it split me fuselage in half and I actually had it pretty decent. For me, it took a lot of work to get it that decent becase using filler and stuff is a new skill I'm working on.

Now,I either leave it like this or spend another couple hours fixing it.  I was so excited to be done with this to post pictures for you all. I have all the decals on, all the little fiddly bits concerning gear and gear doors, etc. All I had to do was glue on two anetennas, on lightbulb, and one "step" thing that looks like a kick start for a motorcylce. Then, wings to fuselage. Now, it'll probably be another couple days because I'm just going to put it down.

[zenrat]

Ouch.

Putting it down is best.  Walk away, chill, be calm etc.
Better than throwing it at the wall.

That blue tape is what I use for the big areas.

[NARSES2]

I use Tamiya tape (6mm and 18mm) for most of my masking. I also have various roles of very narrow masking tape I've picked up at shows that comes in various widths down to 0.5 mm. Very usefull for canopy frames. I use the tape it'self painted and then stuck to the canopy. Need to hand paint some curves with a sharpened toothpick, but it works for me as I never, ever have success masking a canopy. I can even have problems with bespoke masks  So the tape method is best for and suits me.

[TheChronicOne]

Ouch.

Putting it down is best.  Walk away, chill, be calm etc.
Better than throwing it at the wall.

That blue tape is what I use for the big areas.

Right on. She almost took *actual* flight.  LOL

Ah hell... I'll get back at it probably tomorrow.. I guess... I'll run a bead of glue down the crack, then top it off with thin filler after it dries...then sand it....then mask it..... then paint it... and.....hopefully it will blend. On the bright side.... on the whole.. it turned out pretty nice.

[TheChronicOne]

I use Tamiya tape (6mm and 18mm) for most of my masking. I also have various roles of very narrow masking tape I've picked up at shows that comes in various widths down to 0.5 mm. Very usefull for canopy frames. I use the tape it'self painted and then stuck to the canopy. Need to hand paint some curves with a sharpened toothpick, but it works for me as I never, ever have success masking a canopy. I can even have problems with bespoke masks  So the tape method is best for and suits me.

I'll have to try that!!  My canopy masking leaves a bit to be desired. I usually wind up with "steps" in my frame work because I don't do all the masking at the same time...I'll mask a little bit, paint, then remove the tape, mask another bit, etc. It keeps from having to make so many small and intricate pieces of tape but leads to the stepping problem when I go over an area twice. Not exactly accurate.   

[TheChronicOne]

Damn Klingons!!!!   Turns out they sabotaged the Historical Societies ancient drills they repaired to use on the plane! No wonder!!

Either way, back on track now and she's ready for surgery.  Couldn't keep myself from at least doing SOMETHING yesterday so I lightly pried the gap open, the put glue all off in there, then let it close back up. I think it welded well enough that I won't have to use any filler. Hopegully I can put my needle file on it then sand it down and just hit it with white and problem solved.  I really don't want to put any more primer on it because I don't want to create difference in thickness of my finish.. so, I'll try this first.

Wish me luck, everyone!  Going to get that second cup of coffee going and start surgery.

[TheChronicOne]

Filed, sanded, and washed!

I'll re-mask in a few then try the paint. Well, maybe... it's raining in our paint booth right now.   lol

[TheChronicOne]

Hide your shame, ma'am!!


Bonus kit this time is my 1962 U-2A from Hawk. I'm trying to locate a windscreen at least or a full canopy set then I can build it for the Old Kit GB.



Just have to paint now! If this goes off without a hitch.... all I need to do is glue on 2 antennae, one light bulb, the propeller, the little step, then glue the wings onto the fuselage.

She's 90% done.   

[TheChronicOne]

Well, it didn't work. I should have known. The way I did it.. had a noticeably more brilliant shade of white and definite border around the edged. I tried to solve the problem with paint thiner but couldn't

Oh well!  I'm learning here so I'm not going to fret. I'll remask but this time I'll re-paint the entire roof area,  I'll mask just below where it curves down into the sidewalls so that the paint will naturaly taper down to the correct height and the "transition" will be less noticeable. 

Klingons are trying real hard to sabotage this one again but we don't take no baktag off no 'ay' veQ rIgh.   



EDIT:   It's about half an hour or so later and instead of making a new post, I'll just add to this one.



BAM!  That's better... I hope it works out. I already sprayed it and the paint went down well... I'm about to take off all the masking and see what I have.

EDIT2:   Back again... I took off all the masking and still had a ridge in certain areas at the edge of the tape.... THIS TIME, light light very light rubbing with thinner took care of it.  It' still not perfect but I can live with it now! I'll someting to show you all by the end of the day.   

[TheChronicOne]

I finished it!!!  There at the end we were having storms roll through and 100% humidity so the last things I did were taking forever and a day to dry up/set up so it's late now and I'm feeling far too lazy to set up the pictures and all that..  But, I will say, for a CHRONIC MODEL it turned out nice!!  My model skills are garbage compared to you guys but this thing turned out nice on the whole. Get too close and the flaws come out but even at just at an arms distance she looks NICE!   

I think you will like it!!

Stay tuned, I promise to get finishing pictures posted by the end of day tomorrow.   

[zenrat]

I use Tamiya tape (6mm and 18mm) for most of my masking. I also have various roles of very narrow masking tape I've picked up at shows that comes in various widths down to 0.5 mm. Very usefull for canopy frames. I use the tape it'self painted and then stuck to the canopy. Need to hand paint some curves with a sharpened toothpick, but it works for me as I never, ever have success masking a canopy. I can even have problems with bespoke masks  So the tape method is best for and suits me.

I'll have to try that!!  My canopy masking leaves a bit to be desired. I usually wind up with "steps" in my frame work because I don't do all the masking at the same time...I'll mask a little bit, paint, then remove the tape, mask another bit, etc. It keeps from having to make so many small and intricate pieces of tape but leads to the stepping problem when I go over an area twice. Not exactly accurate.   

I paint them by hand with a thin brush in acrylic paint.  I then use a toothpick to scratch off where I overstepped the bounds.  Being acrylic the paint comes off very easilly.

[NARSES2]

I paint them by hand with a thin brush in acrylic paint.  I then use a toothpick to scratch off where I overstepped the bounds.  Being acrylic the paint comes off very easilly.

Some days the hand/eye coordination is up to it and other's it isn't. Especially since my current eye problem made the situation worse 

And to think I used to detail paint 15mm wargame's figures....when they were 15mm 

[TheChronicOne]

I'm going to be trying that on the next "busier" canopy I come across.  My hand brushing has improved over the weeks and I think it will save time.

Pictures inbound! I think I found some neat stuff to us as a background.