Ok Finally some progress ! No, not on the engine or cockpit parts (that I promised) something a bit better:
Panel Lines, again, I re-sanded and re-applied the lines, it turned out great on the tail section and the bottom section still looks a bit rough around the edges but I guess I'll leave it at that, the putty can't take much more sanding and it went from a shaky line from the previous update to a straight line, can't really ask for anything better:
First the Tail section, always double checking with silver paint
The Tail section's panel lines went together very well:
Bottom section:
Now the real reason for my update, I finally hit the paint booth
I decided on doing Q-102, since this model was in a "Dog Fight" and almost didn't make it to the booth.
I thought it'd be nice to make it a "beat up" aircraft (plus I hate not knowing the exact or similar color to EB-201 I was about to do a dark to medium blue grey for the airplane but I didn't bother to guess :S it just confounds me too much with numerous conflicting information on the aircraft, so Q-102 is a fitting substitute, since its airframe was used in EB-201s construction), I'll weather her to something near what this picture shows, not as much decay or damage, but we'll see how far I take it. Plus it'd be a shame not to use those very nice, 20-30 something year old Tamiya decals which are in excellent condition, so far I'll post the teaser right out of the booth :
This isn't my pic it was taken off the web (I beleive it was a file sharing site) of Q-102
Before:
After, I mixed a special batch of Grey Green for her, I had very little of the Tamiya Grey Green left, so a bit of Grey Green Tamiya, White and a Dab of a color I've had for ages, its called "bambus" a color very similar to a pale green grey, gives it that "aged" look. I picked it up at a local art store that was going out of business back when I was a kid.: