Work in progress

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July 3, 2014
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July 4, 2014
Dry fitting of the instrument panel.
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July 4, 2014
First drops of glue used 🙂
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July 5, 2014
That's all I got for now. Need thinner brush or bigger scale 😉
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July 6, 2014
Time to seal the cockpit.
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July 6, 2014
Time to seal the cockpit.
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July 6, 2014
Time to seal the cockpit.
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July 6, 2014
Time to seal the cockpit.
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July 6, 2014
Time to seal the cockpit.
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July 22, 2014
I would like to call this a repair. Next time I will be more careful with the clear coats.
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July 22, 2014
I would like to call this a repair. Next time I will be more careful with the clear coats.
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July 22, 2014
I would like to call this a repair. Next time I will be more careful with the clear coats.
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July 22, 2014
Three Green for the rescue! I couldn't use lead pellets here so this sticky lead stuff came handy. Thanks to Uschi van der Rosten for this sweet product!
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July 22, 2014
Front fuselage glued together.
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July 22, 2014
Tiny PE part in the front gear well.
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July 22, 2014
Nothing fancy here. F.O.D.s to the rescue! 🙂
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July 22, 2014
I love this part. Real LEGO.
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July 22, 2014
I love this part. Real LEGO.
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August 3, 2014
Six hours of playing with these.
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August 27, 2014
Surfacer
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August 27, 2014
Surfacer
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August 27, 2014
Surfacer
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August 27, 2014
Surfacer
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August 27, 2014
Surfacer
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August 28, 2014
Here's my first preshading ever. Done with shaking hands.
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August 28, 2014
Here's my first preshading ever. Done with shaking hands.
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August 28, 2014
Here's my first preshading ever. Done with shaking hands.
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August 29, 2014
Color preshading.
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August 29, 2014
Color preshading.
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August 29, 2014
USN White coat.
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August 30, 2014
Playing around with the black.
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August 30, 2014
Playing around with the black.
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August 30, 2014
Playing around with the black.
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September 1, 2014
Air intakes masking.
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September 1, 2014
Result 🙂
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September 1, 2014
Result 🙂
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September 1, 2014
USN Light Gull Grey coat.
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September 1, 2014
USN Light Gull Grey coat.
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September 1, 2014
USN Light Gull Grey coat.
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September 5, 2014
Corroguard and some post-shading.
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September 5, 2014
Corroguard and some post-shading.
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September 5, 2014
Gear wells and corroguard on the leading edge.
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September 5, 2014
Ordnance WIP
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September 5, 2014
Gear legs WIP.
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September 8, 2014
The Walkways: Making of 🙂
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September 8, 2014
The Walkways: Basic Black coat
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September 8, 2014
The Walkways: Masking of the black outlines. Next time I will use 1 mm Tamiya tape or custom made die cut masks.
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September 8, 2014
The Walkways: Hemp with a drop of white coat.
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September 8, 2014
The Walkways: After a first batch of repairs - first attempt was horrible - thick outlines, bright color of the filling. I've masked outlines, preshaded the edges and panel lines and applied Light Gull Grey (same as the top camo color).
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September 8, 2014
The Walkways: Second attempt was much better although I had to make the outline thinner on two spots. Then I've noticed that corroguard on the port side is ca 3 mm short, so another batch of repairs 🙂
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September 8, 2014
The Walkways: Here's the result. I'm happy with the non-rigid filling, looks more natural. I also finished some details on the gears and ordnance.
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September 10, 2014
Gloss coat before decals, right-of-way lights, tiny parts wash. Waiting for die-cut masks.
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September 10, 2014
Gloss coat before decals, right-of-way lights, tiny parts wash. Waiting for die-cut masks.
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September 10, 2014
Gloss coat before decals, right-of-way lights, tiny parts wash. Waiting for die-cut masks.
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October 1, 2014
Die-cut masks applied, blue coat today 🙂 Hopefuly.
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October 1, 2014
Coat of blue 🙂
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October 4, 2014
I'm done with the masks. Now the gloss varnish and decals.
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October 4, 2014
I'm done with the masks. Now the gloss varnish and decals.
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October 4, 2014
I'm done with the masks. Now the gloss varnish and decals.
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October 4, 2014
I'm done with the masks. Now the gloss varnish and decals.

Opmerkingen

3 July 2014, 17:09

Leandro Krindges
Watching closely!!!

3 July 2014, 17:21

Pierre-Christian Baudru
I love this bird ! I will follow your build too !

4 July 2014, 07:14

David Lengyel
Minor progress: first steps 🙂

4 July 2014, 21:38

Vincent
good luck for the build, you will see, the pieces come together nicely.
actually i'm currently building this model and about to prime it.

4 July 2014, 22:23

David Lengyel
@Vincent Thank you mate. Good luck for you too. Would you share some pictures? 🙂

5 July 2014, 05:55

Vincent
I thought to post pictures after completing the kit, but here you have:
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5 July 2014, 12:08

David Lengyel
Some minor progress again 🙂

5 July 2014, 22:24

Clifford Keesler
I'm watching. How is the kit? Have wanted to build that one forever.

6 July 2014, 02:53

David Lengyel
@Vincent Wow, it takes a shape already. I'm not even remotely there. Looks great so far mate 🙂

@Clifford Tamyia has to be some branch of LEGO, that's what I am thinking about since the first dry fitting😉

6 July 2014, 05:31

Vincent
@Clifford That's my 1st Tamiya kit and i'm really surprise to see how well the pieces fit together.
@David Nice detailed cockpit so far, what kind of glue did you used for the photoetched instrument panel?

I would like for the first time to "bleech" the paintjob but I don't know how to deal with the white underside. Should I start with a light white/gray coat and then paint the center of the panels with white or use a different technique for those white areas?

6 July 2014, 08:29

David Lengyel
@Vincent I used small drops of super (cyano) glue. There's not enough room for every PE part in the Eduard's set tho. I suppose that the seat has wrong shape either. I'm 100% sure that this is my last 1/72 kit with such detailing 😄 I have no experience with the bleaching, still learning 🙂

6 July 2014, 08:59

Pascal GARAT
Great work... and GREAT choice!!
One of my all time favorite: I already built 6 and started the 7th!!
Can't wait to see more.😉

6 July 2014, 10:28

Christian Ristits
What a great work - looks really amazing!

6 July 2014, 11:27

David Lengyel
Thank you mates! I'm not very pleased with the cockpit finish, but that's all I got at this moment.

6 July 2014, 19:52

Jens
modellboard.net/index.php?topic=49949.0 ???????????? 😄 😄 😄

6 July 2014, 19:57

David Lengyel
I'm about to update that thread Jens😉

6 July 2014, 19:59

Martin Weinpold
vypada supr ...😉

6 July 2014, 20:04

Jens
I know, I'm just too fast 😄

6 July 2014, 20:19

Es-haq Khosravi
Great job!

6 July 2014, 21:52

David Lengyel
Thanks chaps 🙂

7 July 2014, 09:41

David Lengyel
Some progress again, Skyray is taking a shape 🙂

22 July 2014, 23:16

Jose Miguel Rodriguez
Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

23 July 2014, 01:30

David Lengyel
Not dead yet 🙂

3 August 2014, 15:48

John Thomas
Nice work

4 August 2014, 12:05

Clifford Keesler
Nice Job!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 August 2014, 02:26

David Lengyel
I can't believe it's more than month that I posted last picture in this album. I've done some work since then - prepared all remaining parts for surfacer application which is now done and I am about to make some preshading. I wanted to mark some rivets but the test results were not satisfying as I expected so I'll leave it for the bigger scale 🙂

27 August 2014, 11:07

Jens
What a great work 👍 👍 👍

27 August 2014, 12:05

David Lengyel
Thank you Jens😉 One step closer to the finale - preshading.

28 August 2014, 13:25

David Lengyel
More bad news 😄

29 August 2014, 08:07

John Thomas
More nice work

29 August 2014, 11:56

David Lengyel
True colors 🙂 Now I'm about to mask and airbrush the walkways, gears and gear wells. There will be also some aluminium finish on the leading edges of the wings.

1 September 2014, 11:45

Bill Gilman
Tamiya's FORD is a sweet little kit, and you're doing a great job! The worst part of this kit are the decals. When I built mine, the decals needed gallons of solvent to settle down, and I mean the strongest solvents I could find, like Mr. Mark Softer undiluted. They eventually settled down, but it was not a pleasant experience. Plus, they tended to stick immediately when applied, and were hard to move around for final placement. If I were to do this again, I would get an aftermarket decal sheet.

1 September 2014, 13:02

David Lengyel
Thanks for the heads up Bill. I've decided to airbrush as much as I can because my friend warned me. Unfortunately I've also decided to make this Skyray in the marking of VF(AW)-3 which means large decals. Luckily, I have two sets of the decals. Wish me luck 🙂 And thanks for your kind words.

1 September 2014, 13:06

Bill Gilman
Same markings that I chose! It's one of the nicest Skyray schemes, I think. Here's one thing you could try, if you want to airbrush as much as you can: Mix up a blue that matches the decal for the vertical tail, and then paint it on, including the spine. Cut the individual markings out of the decal sheet (even the stars) and place them on one at a time. Crazy! Believe it or not, that's what I ended up doing! Matching the blue was the hardest part.

1 September 2014, 13:29

David Lengyel
I'm considering that 🙂

1 September 2014, 14:45

David Lengyel
Slowly getting there. Applied corroguard on the leading edge, paintjob done on the nozzle and the nozzle rim, gears and gear wells. Used Eduard's BRASSIN AIM-9B (WIP) and some stencil drybrush on the gear legs.

5 September 2014, 07:37

Soeren R.
Awesome! Nothing more to say... Ok maybe that I'm a little bit jealous of you skill level as a "beginner" 😛

5 September 2014, 07:42

David Lengyel
Haha, thanks Sören. It really takes just a bit of patience😉

5 September 2014, 07:45

Soeren R.
Can you tell me who the kit was so far? Is it "good" to built, because I saw this kit at Ebay yesterday and was seconds away of buying it!

5 September 2014, 07:47

David Lengyel
It's Tamiya, which is japan word for LEGO😉 There's minimum to none filing and sanding, it goes together very well and the engineering of the kit is top notch. I don't recall anything you could worry about, well, apart the decals which are sturdy according to some. I didn't work with them so far, but there are 3 marking options, so you can go away with some decent scheme instead of the fancy VF(AW)-3 blue tail fin 🙂

5 September 2014, 11:48

Ulf Petersen
Wow, this is going to become a masterpiece! Stunning work so far. 👍

10 September 2014, 10:02

David Lengyel
Thanks Ulf, I'm doing my best 🙂

10 September 2014, 11:11

Soeren R.
I wouldn't even be near this, if I would do my best (in my current experience stage). But yeah it looks really great 🙂

10 September 2014, 11:17

David Lengyel
Oh c'mon, it's not such stellar work 🙂 It's okay, not great. You know what I mean? Just go and do it 🙂

10 September 2014, 11:29

Soeren R.
For me it is really great 🙂 But yeah my first airbrush work is getting started soon and then we will see 🙂

10 September 2014, 11:39

Es-haq Khosravi
Can't wait for the rest! 🙂

1 October 2014, 15:14

Clifford Keesler
Looking very nice

1 October 2014, 17:16

Wim van der Luijt
I'm impressed by what I've seen so far...count me in for the rest!

1 October 2014, 18:03

David Lengyel
Thank you chaps. Coat of blue is done. I've added masks for stencils and painted black letters on the nose and the wing. Tomorrow I will paint white stencils and maybe insignias 🙂

1 October 2014, 23:50

John Thomas
Very nice work

2 October 2014, 11:56

Clifford Keesler
Very nice indeed.

2 October 2014, 20:08