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1/72 Eduard F6F-3 Hellcat Profipack


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  • 2 weeks later...

Paint, decals and flat finish are done. Will be doing some exhaust staining next. In the mean time I'm working on the gear so I can get it on its own legs.

 

Made some pseudo brake lines from copper wire. I can't come up with a good picture of the brakes or lines, so this is how I suppose they look. Good enough for me.

 

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Slow progress. Fall harvest is cutting deep into my hobby time!

 

Rick L.

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Here is one way I do exhaust staining. I start with a thin light pass of flat white. This is a good base as it represents what hot exhaust gasses do to paint. It oxidizes it, turning it chalky white.

 

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Then it's back to the pastels to blend some more custom colors for the exhaust residue.

 

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I have nice little plastic paint pallet I put a layer of foil over. Then blend the chalks with a stubby flat brush.

 

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When I'm done with them I pick the foil up and set it over a small plastic bottle about the size of a Model Master paint jar, and I cut a slot in the bottom of the foil. I chase the powder down through it into the bottle, put the lid on, and toss the foil. Clean and neat and I have the powder for the next project. Lasts forever.

 

I use a small flat brush and wipe it on an index card to clear most of the powder. Alot like dry brushing.

 

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I use the edge of the brush to make layers and streaks of the different colors. You can take a lot of it off with a cotton swab if you don't like it and start over. This still needs some more refining but its getting there:

 

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Rick L.

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Tiny bit of work done. And I mean tiny. The kit tail wheel is a solid chunk of plastic because of the molding limitations for something as small as this. But Eduard was good enough to leave the necessary impressions in the part so detail nuts like me can obsess about fixing it. With the help of several different sized micro bits and the tip of a new #11 blade I was able to get it to look like a real tail wheel assembly.

 

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Working on the belly tank now. Fiddly would be how I describe that piece.

 

Rick L.

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The photo etch straps on the tank are a real pain. I wish Eduard would have left off the plastic molding and done the entire strap in etch from end to end. I probably should have re worked it myself. I think the longer this goes, the lazier I get.

 

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Hopefully I can pop the tank assembly off and paint it with no damage from my fumble fingers.

 

Rick L.

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Suggestion on making that engine wiring look 'skinnier': Paint it flat black, then go back & dry-brush a steel or silver 'highlight' effect, just hitting the high points..

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Chris, it's sitting there waiting for me to Git er Done. I've found very little time to model lately, and right now I'm on the road at the in laws.

I'm going to Future the belly tank so I can use some oil paints to simulate.......... oil. Brilliant, I know. I've put a layer of Alclad on the prop which I will overcoat with flat black. I'll use fine wet sandpaper to polish the paint back to the aluminum on the leading edges and the outer part of the back of the blade. Simulates the paint wearing away like real life. It's hard to get the effect putting aluminum over the black.

Pictures when it happens.

 

Rick L.

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That darn leaky radial engine.

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Puked all over my nice clean belly tank.

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I used really thinned drops of Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umber oils which I then "blew" across the surface with my airbrush.

 

Rick L.

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Liiiiisten, to the dark sssssside. Feeeeeel its POWER! Join us and together we can rule......

 

Oh wait. Sorry. That's the target armor/treadhead guy's thing.

 

 

I, uh, look forward to... mentoring your first aviation build.

 

 

 

Rick L.

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