Klingon Bird of Prey AMT
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Initial hull sections glued, wings dry fitted
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Vallejo sand grey primer - sprays well but tended to peel and does not like sanding! Even after 48hrs curing. Will use Stynelrez next time...
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Primed hull
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First coat of Tamiya cockpit green
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Initially worried the green I chose was too dark, but after washes and varnish it looks good
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Masking, masking, masking! Simple to build model but painting was a challenge
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After initial contrast coats to hull: zinc chromate and Nato green
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After gloss coat and initial UMP dirt wash
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Nearly there, final washes, decals and attaching wings
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That cloaking generator, really pops. I sprayed a thing coat of Tamiya metallic brown, then a light dusting of Vallejo light rust. I gives it a nice 'glowing' effect - an experiment that worked well
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Close-up on radiator baffles, used various washes and weathering to get a slight heated steel effect, its hard to see here but a subtle colour effect.
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Simple decals (four in total) but they were a bugger to put down. Thick as leather belts, needed heaps of micro sol and set... not happy with them, but they look worn and faded like the paint effect...
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Warp nacelle finally painted
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Basically finished... but wait...a possible display option awaits...
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Docking mag lock port using Gundam stand and scratch built dock
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Yorumlar
5 19 September 2016, 09:55
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seems like the same one of your other album, but it still is a nice model. Don't want to know how much shares you had in the modeltape company, but I guess your divident was large 😉
All kidding aside: very nice model...
19 September 2016, 11:18
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Yeah sorry, I'm a noob with this thing, original album would not let me attach to a newly created project... Thanks for the comments...
19 September 2016, 12:57
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Wow, this whole album thing takes some learning... finally have the right preview pic. Main construction finished, some fit issues with left wing (it dropped off - the locating pins snapped off, not a great design) Re-glued with thick CA and spot welds of Tamiya extra thin..
19 September 2016, 13:18