Pond Racer II – Electric Boogaloo 1/72 - Finished Pics Pg 5

[Dizzyfugu]

LOL, I can understand that. It's a pretty little aircraft, with a very unique shape.

[jalles]

Finished up the interior.

Here's the pilot, this is one of my better efforts at painting a pilot, which is good because he's pretty visible.

pond-racer-09 by Jason Alles, on Flickr

Cockpit interior parts all painted.

pond-racer-10 by Jason Alles, on Flickr

Everything installed in the cockpit.

pond-racer-11 by Jason Alles, on Flickr

Finally, with the canopy glued in place. As you can see it's a pretty tight space, luckily all my dry fitting paid off and everything fit inside.

pond-racer-12 by Jason Alles, on Flickr

[PR19_Kit]

SUPER stuff there Jalles! That pilot looks the BUSINESS! 

[KiwiZac]

Brilliant job. I'm really enjoying seeing this come together.

[Doug K]

Awestruck

[NARSES2]

Excellent pilot and I think it's one of those models that needs a figure to show how small the thing is.

[zenrat]

I wish I could paint 1/72 figures that well.
Excellent job.

[TheChronicOne]

Right?  Excellent "white boy" shade, too!! I've had problems nailing down painting white skin pigment.

[jalles]

Thanks guys 

Right?  Excellent "white boy" shade, too!! I've had problems nailing down painting white skin pigment.

Ha, I should thank Tamiya because it's just their Flat Flesh and then I gave it a Citadel flesh wash.

[TheChronicOne]

Ta!   

I've always tried mixing my own blend with my craft paints. The ones I prefer don't have an actual color that works right out of the bottle so I've been experimenting as I go along. Got a little closer last time by adding in a tiny bit of red. Anyway....  this process has left a trail of sort odd colored lil pilots... some look anemic, some look sun burned, etc. 

[zenrat]

I use tamiya wooden deck tan when I want a white australian pilot, flesh for pasty white europeans or slavs and custom mix a relevant shade for other races (africans were easy while my attempts at japanese had to be overpainted as they appeared racist).

[KiwiZac]

I wish I could paint 1/72 figures that well.
Excellent job.

I wish I could paint any scale figures that well! I'm too scared to finish my 1/8 Spider-Man from a company with Toy in the name because the paint is terrifying! And he's in a full costume!!!

[jalles]

A little bit of forward progress, the wing is now attached to the fuselage.

Electric Pond Racer by Jason Alles, on Flickr

Electric Pond Racer by Jason Alles, on Flickr

I'm a little worried about the amount of primer that now resides over the canopy mask. I thought since the Pond Racer will be mostly white, I'd use some white Tamiya primer I had sitting around. Unfortunately white does not cover well, so I had to put on much more than I wanted. What's done is done and now I'll wait until it's finished and I finally strip off the canopy mask to see how bad it is.

[NARSES2]

It's an incredible looking machine and without the cockpit wouldn't look out of place in an archaeological dig as some almost Bronze age tool ?

[PR19_Kit]

It's an incredible looking machine and without the cockpit wouldn't look out of place in an archaeological dig as some almost Bronze age tool ?

............or a Klingon Kleaver maybe?