Viper progress

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December 7, 2017
Just test fit of remaining parts (upper and rear engine parts)
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December 7, 2017
Biggest gap which will need to be filled. The rest of the parts should be ok.
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December 7, 2017
guns cleaned and holes drilled
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December 5, 2017
main body closed and I'm adding more parts one by one
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December 5, 2017
The color of the cockpit is wrong (should be darker grey) but I will not change it now
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December 5, 2017
finished cockpit
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April 9, 2018
preparing for base coat
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April 9, 2018
probably will need to sand the joint wing - fuselage
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April 9, 2018
coming along very nicely
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April 17, 2018
PE piping replaced with lead wire
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April 17, 2018
same for the other side
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April 17, 2018
canopy in place, seams looking good so far. Ready for a coat of primer 🙂
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April 17, 2018
found two older picture of the finished cockpit ready to be glued to the fuselage
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April 17, 2018
and the other side of the cockpit
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April 18, 2018
Mr. Surfacer 1000 testing. I think that it went well
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April 18, 2018
seam checking - all the filing and sanding was worth it
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April 18, 2018
even the worst transition is quite nice in the end
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April 18, 2018
similar to the other side.
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May 4, 2018
white base and masked for the engine bits
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May 4, 2018
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May 4, 2018
Yes I know. The engine bits should be more like iron color but I like it so far.
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May 4, 2018
engine with several different colors of MR Paint metallic colors
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May 4, 2018
engine bits enhanced with Mr Color buffable Dark Iron
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May 4, 2018
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May 4, 2018
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May 4, 2018
everything glued together and ready for decals
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May 4, 2018
front decals were the worst the side are without any problems
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May 4, 2018
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May 7, 2018
all decals on place. ready for clear cote and wash
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May 7, 2018
If I should do this kit again in the future - red stripes will be airbrushed instead of using decals. it was nightmare to work with the decals in some places.
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May 7, 2018
but it looks nice in the end 🙂 I'm happy with the result
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May 7, 2018
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May 9, 2018
matt varnish sealed everything. spacecraft is officialy finished! 🙂
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May 9, 2018
since this is my (counting in my mind...) third proper plastic model, I'm quite happy how it turned out. (yes there are mistakes I know but I do not care at this point. 🙂 )
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May 9, 2018
now let's get the stand painted. Nice details on the front surface...
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May 9, 2018
... from the inside??? ehm... what? anybody any ideas?
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May 14, 2018
decals are in place. lower portion was painted MRP-153 Gold.
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May 14, 2018
not perfect (some cleaning of the gold paint of the "Map" could be better...
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May 14, 2018
only final coat of gloss and we are done 🙂
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May 15, 2018
final gloss coat in place (Pledge Floor care)
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May 15, 2018
I'm quite pleased with the result. This is my first real attempt for the gloss finish. Final photos coming soon.
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May 19, 2018
final result (more pictures in the DONE gallery)

Martin Frcka
Thank you very much. Regarding the kit itself, it will be challenge to put it together. some parts have loose fit but overall, I think that it is quite good. I had to fill and sand the gap between the two halves in the front section but other than that (so far) it is very pleasant build. The PE set from Green Strawberries is in my opinion must have.

6 December 2017, 08:20

Spanjaard
thanks a lot Martin!

6 December 2017, 20:05

Günther Debiscop
following

10 April 2018, 06:46

Rene Scheiblich
Nice! Looks good so far.
I'll take a seat. Have the moebius Mk II in my stash. Does the strawberry PE add this much?

17 April 2018, 11:17

Martin Frcka
It is worth it. I did not used half lot of parts (side engine pipelines; undercarriage parts) but the cockpit really shine with the upgraded panels.

17 April 2018, 11:55

Jozef Goos
Verry nice I like the cockpit

17 April 2018, 13:03

Spanjaard
good to know, i have the same kit and PE from Greenstrawberry 🙂

17 April 2018, 16:21

Rene Scheiblich
On my wishlist🙂 was originally going for Paragrafix along with their USS Voyager PE set... But can't find it here.
And the greenstrawberry stuff looks good!

17 April 2018, 16:29

Spanjaard
i doubted betwen paragrafix and Greenstraberry too... Paragrafix can be ordered from US which can increase the price considerably when going through customs.... so i avoided problems and got Greenstrawberry. set is pretty good

17 April 2018, 16:33

Björn Svedberg
Nice progress! 👍 I have the Moebius kit so I'm curious to see how it goes 🙂.

17 April 2018, 17:09

Spanjaard
looking good 🙂

4 May 2018, 06:17

Rene Scheiblich
Very tidy paintjob👍
Did you have trouble joining the fuselage together?

4 May 2018, 15:41

Martin Frcka
Thank you Rene. Fuselage went together quite easy and nice - no major problems there.

7 May 2018, 21:32

Rene Scheiblich
Nice👍
For the stand... Maybe brushpaint the raised parts and airbrush it over with whatever color you plan for the recessed areas 🙂

12 May 2018, 00:56

Spanjaard
if the detail is inside, do a short of very heavy panel line wash with some dark color, clean everything out out of the recessed lines, and then paint the rest in light color.
unless the detail is raised instead of recessed. in that case, you can try to paint in black, carefully remove the pain with a cotton bud in the details, and then paint in white.

12 May 2018, 10:00

Spanjaard
excellent result on the base

14 May 2018, 18:58

Jozef Goos
nice base for the viper MKII

15 May 2018, 11:42

Björn Svedberg
The base looks great! Really nice work! 👍

15 May 2018, 17:36

Martin Frcka
Thank you all. I'm really please with the result. The build was quite fun. Final photos coming soon.

15 May 2018, 20:12

Günther Debiscop
How did ye do the base? Painted the old first and then sprayed over with black?

16 May 2018, 11:28

Martin Frcka
Yes. The gold "map" was painted firts by hand, cleaned the edges as much as I could, masked the front side (so you can see the map) and several thinner coats of black everywhere. After that masked everything and bottom part get gold coat. After applying decals final clear gloss coat.
My hands were shaking while I was painting the gold map, and that's why it's not as clean as I would like.

16 May 2018, 12:13

Spanjaard
it looks fantastic 🙂

16 May 2018, 12:53

Günther Debiscop
I would have chosen to paint it from the bottom as there the black parts are the recessed parts and thus you could have filled the lower parts with the gold.. just mho, but still you're way also resulted in a top piece

17 May 2018, 06:53

Björn Svedberg
Final result is excellent! 👍
I'm going to look at this when I build mine.😉

19 May 2018, 11:06

Martin Frcka
Thank you kindly. I'm looking forward to see your build😉

19 May 2018, 11:08

Rene Scheiblich
Great work mate! I like how the base turned out along with the cleanish finish. Ready to roll the hard 6 🙂
Same as Björn, your build is a source of inspiration for my build 🙂 when I will start... Someday... One clean bird and one as they were at the end of the series.

20 May 2018, 12:21

Spanjaard
Me too😉

21 May 2018, 12:50