I discovered my new favorite oil wash quite by accident. I was going to mix a bit of black acrylic in tap water, and I grabbed the first big brush I could find. It just so happened to be holding some yellow dye leftover from the F-16 canopy, and lo and be
It would have taken me somewhere around 5-8 hours to go in and do all the piping myself. The kit's pipes are actually raised ridges, but you wouldn't have known that had I not told you.
While the kit's simplified landing gear gives novices a huge boost in overall aesthetic quality in their finished product, they have some major accuracy issues.
I build a sidewall control panel by running some wires through a rectangular piece of scrap, and clipping them short enough that they look like buttons.
The completed cockpit tub. All in all, I think it looks 90% as good as a resin kit would have, especially considering some of the scratchbuilt handles I put in.
The panel lines and rivets are being filled in with a blend of about 50% acrylic black, 25% golden airbrush medium, and 25% water. You can see the panels before they are cleaned up in the top right of the picture.