Don Flynn
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Our club web guy (Steve Stohr) did a bang up job, here's a link
http://www.cincyipms.com/articles.htm
Anyone wanting the winners list it's in the November Neweletter...feel free to check it out :)
http://www.cincyipms.com/index.htm
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My eyes!! My eyes!!! :D
Wow, the gelb areas really stand out at this point. I know that they will not look so bright when you finish the model. Still looks really great CD. Keep us in the loop.
I started glosscoating today, I'm wanting this done by the end of October but ain't pushing it..it looks to nice to mess up
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I prefer enamels for exteriors myself, I have used water based for interior stuff
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Latest work on this one
I airbrushed the RLM 04 over the weekend, after shooting white as a base. Next step is painting wingtip lights and pitot tube tip and I'll be ready for gloss and a light panel line wash
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5 days and a wake up :P
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I learned 1 thing over the years, never build a model for a contest on a deadline. My rule is if it ain't done 1 week before a show let it go...screwed up too many models years ago doing the 2 am nite before rush. I gots enough awards :P
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Very nice Don. I assume we will see this done at Cinci?
Not a chance, it takes me a couple weeks to shoot gloss and highlight panel lines then decal.
I'm hoping your show but won't rush it...it's looking to nice to mess up now
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Latest work on this one
"Base camo" is done, all I need to do is mask and paint RLM 04 (that's yellow for you non Luftwaffe types :P ) then gloss, highlite and the like.
I need to shoot white 1st as a base for the yellow so it'll be a few days before that's done. The camo really helped the look of the striping in my mind real-time....glad I toned it down now
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Very nice airbrushmanship! I'd be reluctant to try that with a huge-scale kit.
I'm thinking larger scale would be a piece of cake :P
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Another nice 109 CD. Very nice job on a complicated paint scheme. I also like your idea on using two brushes at a time to get the scheme right. I may try that with my next model if the need is there. I bought one of the Grex brushes at the Phoenix Nats. I have to get comfortable using it.
Getting the paint thinned with a Grex is the main thing, I need to run it a tad thinner than I normally mix my paints.
Dual hookup for the compresser I got at a hardware store
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Ok, Day 2 of torturing myself
I shot the right side striping then toned both sides down a tad figuring glosscoat darkens paint.
I then got frisky and did the RLM 02 mottle. Starboard side I can live with, port there are 2 areas bugging me I'll need to redo the strip then the mottle. I'll have to let paint dry overnite first.
I kind of wish I had waiting to tone both the RLM 71 and 02 at the same time but it'll have to do there.
After I fix the areas I mentioned I'll do the basic camo during the week. I figured it would be easier this way....I hope :P
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Excellent airbrushing! It's patterns like that one that have dampened my enthusiasm for building more Luftwaffe types. You're off to a great start and I look forward to seeing more progress!
GIL
I actually started doing 1/72nd scale Luft stuff cuz 1/48th was getting so easy (yeah, I've got myself fooled there :P )
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It's looking good Don...what type paint and airbrush set up are you using?
Mike
Aeromaster enamels, I've a large stash of them :P
The RLM 71 (green) I used a Grex pistol grip style airbrush, for the RLM76 touch up I used a Sotar 20/20. I run a dual rig so I can use 2 airbrushes at 1 time, help alot when I do Luft mottle work
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Hi, Don,
I like how you are trying to match the spray pattern from the photo onto your model. You are very close. Did you lightly trace the line in pencil on the model before covering it in paint? Now the big question: What does the other side look like; do you have a photo for that, too?
I wasn't aware that the Germans invented hand-held aerosol spray paint cans. :P
Ed
Hey Ed,
No tracing, I just starting shooting with 1 airbrush RLM71 then going back and touching up as needed with another loaded with RLM 76.
No photo of the starboard side the plane I want to do, I don't have a photo of it at all (that's a Emil in the pic I posted for the Bf 109 challanged :P ), I'm doing one from the Errormaster sheet
http://www.squadron.com/ProfileDetails.asp?item=EP72070
A/C 4 that sheet. I do have pics of other JG 54 birds starboard side so I'm doing the ol "Luftguessimatte" thing. Just doing it this scale is something I seldom see people do so I had to try :P
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Can't wait to see this one done. Fine Molds?
Of course, I cornered the market on those :P
I'm wanting to get it done by your show, if I do just hand me my trophy at the door :P
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I'm trying to get something similar to this
JG 54 was known for their funky "lizard scale" patterns
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30 days and counting :P
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Vendor area sold out FYI
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Don, I'll be there entering some stuff and looking for bargains.
Later,
Lee
If he's a member of my club then ask Dave my 2 favorite words.....slave labor :P
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Gil,
I have a sneaky feeling you & I would be charter members!
Where do I sign up :P
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And you were pushing for a "30 day before the event" limit. :D
One of these years we are going to make all the way down to Cinci.
Same here....maybe we'll hook up at R-5 this weekend, I might be coming up now :P Can't enter though...carpooling with a buddy and we're vending maybe if he can get off
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I've added this event to the public calendar, fyi.
You beat me too it (phone rang before and I forget :P )
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What the heck, save's me doing it later this summer :P
9 am to 4 pm
Scarlet Oaks Vocational School
Cincinnati Scale Modelers October 2nd Contest and Swap meet
3452 E. Kemper Rd.
Sharonville Ohio
Info may be found at our club website http://www.cincyipms.com
Contact Person
Don Flynn
513-777-6618
We'll have downloadable forms for the contest up by the 60 day mark, we're in the middle of remodeling the site and I lost the jackhammer :)
Contributing images of your event to IPMS/USA
in Contest Calendar: Upcoming contests/shows of interest
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I'll be contacting Mike 1st chance I get Dick. I've got a couple questions for him 1st. (we already have our show pictures loaded on a secure site....I'm wondering if there is a way to link them from that to the site...save having to load em twice :) )