Revell | No.85-5853 | 1:48 | F101-B Voodoo
2019/20: OOB build of the vintage '07 Revell 1/48 kit.
Initial stages of build. This kit was bought from eBay with no box - hopefully it's all there!
Gluing, clamping, forcing, coaxing, etc...
Hand painting detail to cockpit and wheel well - loosely based on reality. I just added colour and highlighted elements so it wasn't all green or red!
Endeavouring to add some tonal variations to inside of exhaust nozzles and detail to cockpit and wheel bays.
Cockpit and engine exhausts - I could have spent much time making correcting the nozzles - but choose not to.
Wheel wells, airbrakes etc all done.
Cockpit more-or-less done. This is all loosely correct(ish).
Adding detail back in on raised panel lines where I had to sand as fit was poor.
I should also have paid more attention to the swivelling missile rack - as mine didn't fit and the spindles that come with the kit are a joke. Going to try and make good with metal rods.
Panel lines shadows.
Now it's blended.
I decided in the end to hand paint over the top of exhausts. You can see some of the tonal variations in the grey, poor lighting doesn't help.
Very happy with rear exhaust effect I achieved, maybe a bit medieval but looks cool! I ended up ruining the fuselage formation lights, but more of that later on...
Humbrol Weathering wash - I'm not a fan of this stuff, but I bought it as it was cheap from a local store.
Decals weren't great - struggled somewhat to get them to sit flat and pull tight regardless of Microsol use.
Pretty happy with these details.
I choose to mask canopy - I usually hand paint. No expensive masking kits here!
Almost there, adding in finishing touches...
And we're done! 🙂
Comments
27 13 May 2020, 11:50
NeilThanks everso Gary ? I'm a bit heavy handed on the weathering I know and of course the colour/decals are wrong! But I learnt a lot on this build in terms of metallic effects and such. Appreciate your kind feedback ? well chuffed!
1 April 2021, 12:30
NeilThanks very much Grant. WhiteGlint and Glock, very kind of you both to comment with nice feedback 🙂 the build is one of my earlier ones 👍
7 September 2021, 20:21
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Hi there,
Thanks for stopping by to view my latest build #13 the F101-B Voodoo.
I build straight 'out-of-the-box' endeavouring to show the build journey in as few photographs as possible - this is my reason for utilising montage imagery to help reduce the image count of an album.
This build was uploaded on the 26th August 2021.
I hope that the you find my build journey informative and helpful.
