Gunship of the Valley of the Wind
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Pink primer airbrushed.
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Details of the faces with acrylics and a brush.
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1/72 is just so tiny even with "anime-eyes".
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Faces are ready.
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liquid mask for protecting the faces.
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I forgot Nausicaä had back hair. I must avoid it when painting clothes. Also I didn't put putty in the back because I though it won't show when sitting in the cockpit.
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Mito's base color was airbrushed while Nausicaä was hand brushed entirely.
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Rest of details hand brushed with acrylics.
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Liquid mask removed from Mito's face. Needed to fix the boundaries.
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Mito fixed. Shame all the flaws are shown in the picture but in real life they were difficult to notice.
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Figures are ready after black wash and matt varnish.
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The Gunship itself is under construction. Cut off most of snap-fit pins for easier dry-fitting.
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The rocket fits very loosely so it is safe to paint. Its diameter is about 3,7 mm.
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Almost only additions I built from scratch are the tiny levers of the control stick. There wasn't enough room to drill holes so I glued them on the surface.
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Interior parts painted and first varnish layer applied.
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Just checking. It is not possible to insert Nausicaä afterwards through the open cockpit.
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Front seat assembled according to the instructions. The guns are not glued because snap-fit.
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The guns needed to be removed because I couldn't add Nausicaä otherwise. Good I didn't glue them.
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Now the front seat is ready.
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Everything that comes inside the fuselage is in place. Not glued, because I trust snap-fitting here.
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I didn't add any extra to the back like levers, tubes or other controlling devices, bacause they would not have shown and Mito takes most of free space.
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Fuselage halves glued together.
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Surfacer 500 added on the seams and started to make wings.
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Not much new. The central seam of the fuselage is smoothed and primer was added before attaching the wings.
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Painting flaps beforehand.
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Attaching wings and flaps.
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Back from vacation! Some preshading with white.
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Main color coming up little by little. I usully avoid mixing paints, but the Vallejo Air 71.420 Earth Yellow was too brown for my taste so I had to mix it with some white and yellow.
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Windscreens coming up. I felt lazy and masked them with liquid mask that may retaliate.
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The front window was nasty surprise and needed gap filling.
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After painting I noticed how bad one seam was so it needed to be sanded and repainted.
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Hopefully the paint is now ok, so I airbrushed the first clear varnish layer.
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Landing gears are in good shape so they got their clear varnish layer also. One landing gear panel was unlucky and its paintjob needs to be fixed.
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Weathering ongoing. Chipping with sponge method.
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Testing A.MIG shaders.
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Fault of snapfitting. I pushed the cover too hard unevenly and so it cracked.
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Too much snapfitting so I'm now scared of using glue, so the projectiles are installed with blue tack.
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Masks are removed. I'm not happy with the deep little window, so it is filled with Micro Kristal Klear.
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Last minute decision to fill the bottom hole. Nice 2mm wide and 8mm long hole filled with styrene strips and super glue.
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Now it is fixed.
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My camera skills doesn't make honor for this model. Color settings varies so much.
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Over a year after completing this model, some marker marks (number 8 in the picture) has come visible. Strange phenomenon. I don't remember, was this marker mark under or over the primer...
Комментарии
33 6 December 2021, 21:38
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amazing, I built this kit and it was very fun to build. Your looks awesome, please keep posting!
13 December 2021, 04:34
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Great progress, the figures I like very much and enhance the model again very much, excellent 👍
14 December 2021, 15:08
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Great paint work so far!
Nice pre shading and your figures are fantastic!
Love this project😄
2 January 2022, 20:58
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Project is advancing a bit slowly. I have been uncertain what kind of weathering I would like.
18 January 2022, 12:43
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Nice progress 👍. On the weathering, just go with your gut. There was no weathering in the movie, at least as far as I remember. Good luck with it.
18 January 2022, 14:22
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Thanks, Alec 🙂 I think now the weathering is done after some pore shading. Unfortunately one landing gear cover got damaged and I need to fix it. Otherwise this could be ready in this week.
18 January 2022, 19:58
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Landing gear looks good. 👍 I hope you have no problems fixing it. The crack does not seem so bad in the picture.
I have a feeling you went for some subtle weathering.
19 January 2022, 20:38
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Thanks, WhiteGlint! I just put some cement into the cracks, sanded them smooth and painted again.
19 January 2022, 21:32
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Very nice step-by-step. I really, really like the painting, i.e. preshading and the small details. This will be a top model 😎
22 January 2022, 09:23
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Thanks, Tom and TWN! 😄 I have to say that preshading worked, but postshading on few parts made this better. The model is now ready.
22 January 2022, 18:59
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Beautiful gunship!
The details are great and the subtle weathering is a nice touch.
22 January 2022, 20:05
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Added this to my « chest and try to copy » list for my upcoming projects… so sweet.
24 January 2022, 07:05
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really good job mate!
looks so fantastic, i am very happy that you shared this with us!
24 January 2022, 16:53
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Added photo 66 to demonstrate how some marker marks (like the number 8 in the picture) have came visible a year after completing this model. I marked these parts because the four flaps were very similar and difficult to differentiate.
5 March 2023, 20:18
Album info
Two-seater fighter jet from the film "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" ("Kaze no Tani no Naushika", 1984). It has a jet engine, the pilot is located in the front cockpit and the co-pilot is in the aft cockpit managing engine. The thrust is generated with giant "blown flaps" similar to Hunting H.126 and Ball-Bartoe Jetwing.