Vic Balshaw
Major General
Keeping it simple ah Andy, wish I'd taken a bet with you at the start of this build, I'd be quids in now..............looking great though and some worthy modifications.
**** DONE: 1/48 Bf 109G-4/R6 "Yellow 11" of 13.(Slow)/JG 52 Eastern Front GB
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Crimea_River
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Thanks everyone. Kind comments indeed.
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Crimea_River
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Worked on making the decals and masks for the Yellow 11 and dashes today.
First off, I copied one of the profiles from earlier in this post into Photoshop and isolated the 11's and the dashes. Since the resolution was poor, I redid the black outlines in the editor. Once that was done, I deleted the background patterns and the yellow fill, which will instead be painted, leaving just the black outlines of the elevens and dashes. These were then scaled to the size I wanted and printed onto clear decal film and onto a sheet of paper (below)
Next, the paper ones were cut out slightly inside the black lines to form templates for the masks. These were then taped onto a piece of Tamiya tape as shown below. It so happend that two ones fit perfectly side by side.
Using a sharp x-acto blade, the tape was cut along the templates:
...revealing the finished masks:
The plan is to then apply the masks to prepainted yellow areas, then once the model is completely painted, remove the masks and apply the black outline decals. The yellow areas have received an initial coat of yellow. Once again, I'm having significant problems with the Pollyscale acrylic in the new airbrush, so I'll need to allow this to cure, sand it down and touch up before applying the masks.
Thanks for checking in.
First off, I copied one of the profiles from earlier in this post into Photoshop and isolated the 11's and the dashes. Since the resolution was poor, I redid the black outlines in the editor. Once that was done, I deleted the background patterns and the yellow fill, which will instead be painted, leaving just the black outlines of the elevens and dashes. These were then scaled to the size I wanted and printed onto clear decal film and onto a sheet of paper (below)
Next, the paper ones were cut out slightly inside the black lines to form templates for the masks. These were then taped onto a piece of Tamiya tape as shown below. It so happend that two ones fit perfectly side by side.
Using a sharp x-acto blade, the tape was cut along the templates:
...revealing the finished masks:
The plan is to then apply the masks to prepainted yellow areas, then once the model is completely painted, remove the masks and apply the black outline decals. The yellow areas have received an initial coat of yellow. Once again, I'm having significant problems with the Pollyscale acrylic in the new airbrush, so I'll need to allow this to cure, sand it down and touch up before applying the masks.
Thanks for checking in.
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Benevolens Magister
Good stuff Andy !
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Nicely engineered Andy.
imalko
Chief Master Sergeant
8)
wow great work Andy, gave me a lesson if i have to do green 2's for a Jg301 subject, thanks
Great solution Andy!
T Bolt
Colonel
Sounds like a good plan Andy.
N4521U
Colonel
I'm gonna have to do the same for the 27 on my P-40. Good stuff.
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Well done!
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Crimea_River
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Thanks guys. Slow going at the moment. Yellow paint has gone on - not very well I'm afraid so a little polishing is in order. Also, got kinda tired looking at the wrong oil cooler louver and my OOB plans suffered another debilitating setback as I cut the thing up and scratch built some detail parts - after I painted the yellow. Pics soon.
Those of you thinking of making the 2's, at least I had nice, straight lines to deal with. Curves will be trickier but I know you're up to it!
Those of you thinking of making the 2's, at least I had nice, straight lines to deal with. Curves will be trickier but I know you're up to it!
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Crimea_River
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Here's what I've been up to:
First of all, we have the yellow bits sprayed. They're still a little rough at this point. I decided at this stage to cut out the oil cooler exit flap as it just looked wrong the way it was molded in the kit.
Here's a close-up of the cut out flap. Unfortunatley I didn't take a shot of the before situation. After cutting the opening, I glued in a piece of plastic card to represent the roof of the duct. Note how thick the plastic is where it was cut.
Next, the flap was cut from a sheet of card and glued in....
....and the area was finish sanded and a final coat of yellow 04 applied.
The yellow areas for the theatre band and a/c codes have been finish painted here and sanded down a bit with 2000 grit sandpaper to smooth out some of the roughness I experienced with the acrylic before masking the areas.
Same thing for the underside. In this case, the wing tips had already been masked so these areas are now finished except for any weathering to be done.
Here's a shot of the port side with the theater band mask on and the masks for the ones and dash in place. To locate these, I stuck the cross decal into position temporarily. Note the off-center placement of the dashes as shown on the profiles of this plane.
As it stands now, I've now oversprayed the yellow patches with a second coat of RLM 76 which is now curing overnight. The plan for the weekend is to get the camo colours on but we'll see how it goes. Pics if/when I get to that point.
Thanks for looking in.
First of all, we have the yellow bits sprayed. They're still a little rough at this point. I decided at this stage to cut out the oil cooler exit flap as it just looked wrong the way it was molded in the kit.
Here's a close-up of the cut out flap. Unfortunatley I didn't take a shot of the before situation. After cutting the opening, I glued in a piece of plastic card to represent the roof of the duct. Note how thick the plastic is where it was cut.
Next, the flap was cut from a sheet of card and glued in....
....and the area was finish sanded and a final coat of yellow 04 applied.
The yellow areas for the theatre band and a/c codes have been finish painted here and sanded down a bit with 2000 grit sandpaper to smooth out some of the roughness I experienced with the acrylic before masking the areas.
Same thing for the underside. In this case, the wing tips had already been masked so these areas are now finished except for any weathering to be done.
Here's a shot of the port side with the theater band mask on and the masks for the ones and dash in place. To locate these, I stuck the cross decal into position temporarily. Note the off-center placement of the dashes as shown on the profiles of this plane.
As it stands now, I've now oversprayed the yellow patches with a second coat of RLM 76 which is now curing overnight. The plan for the weekend is to get the camo colours on but we'll see how it goes. Pics if/when I get to that point.
Thanks for looking in.
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Benevolens Magister
I like it !
imalko
Chief Master Sergeant
Really nice work Andy. Excellent work with fuselage numbers. Are you going with white outlines for the fuselage crosses or with the solid ones? By the pictures it looks like they were full crosses (but gray not black) and not outlines only, though that one profile suggests otherwise...
Oh, just noticed... You're going with yellow underside cowling...!?
Oh, just noticed... You're going with yellow underside cowling...!?
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Vic Balshaw
Major General
That's a nice bit of work Andy, what that the tape your using for masking.
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