**** DONE: GB-42 1/48 Fieseler Fi156 Storch - MTO II

[le_steph40]

Really nice work

 

[Airframes]

Shaping up nicely - another great model in the making.

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks guys. Amazing that it's such a large aircraft. I'll post it next to some other models at some point.

 

[Wayne Little]

Shaping up real nice Andy, like it..!

 

[Airframes]

Yep, it is quite a large aircraft - as I found out once, many years ago, when I fell off the strut when re-fueling one at the local airshow !!
The culprit is shown below (poor scan from a 35mm slide) !!

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far Andy!

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks friends. After giving the airbrush a good cleaning I mixed up a batch of RLM 79 and started the wave pattern. The mix ratio for the paint was close to XF59:7 + XF64:2 + XF7:1 to match Merrick's paint chip though it could have been lightened a touch with white. I chose not to as it would have meant an hour round trip to the LHS and the wave pattern would not have revealed much of a difference anyway.

I started with the horizontal stabs to get the hang of it since these could be easily repainted if I screwed up. As it turned out, things went swimmingly until I got to the vertical stab, at which point the paint was getting low in the cup and thicker. I stopped at this point as the spray pattern was getting unreliable.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Airframes]

Beaut job Andy.

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks guys. Plugging away small sessions at a time but not much more done yet so more later. I must say that even after leaving the wings off, trying to get the airbrush behind the landing gear supports is proving to be difficult.

 

[fubar57]

Great job on the camo

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks Geo. Stalled for a bit but will restart "soon".

 

[Bustedwing]

Paint looks fantastic ! I wish I could replicate that in 1:72 scale !

 

[Wurger]

Paint looks fantastic ! I wish I could replicate that in 1:72 scale !

IMHO it is possible with the Bluetack.

 

[fubar57]

I can never get that stuff to stick to a model very well

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks Graham. I would suggest that it's possible with a quality 0.2mm tipped airbrush with proper pressure and ratios.

 

[Bustedwing]

Thanks Graham. I would suggest that it's possible with a quality 0.2mm tipped airbrush with proper pressure and ratios.

Oh believe me I have tried all sorts of things. I can get my airbrush to spray about a mm wide but no matter what ratio of paint to thinner or air pressure I can't get it to do it consistently enough to do squiggles. I bought a set of paint pens to try out. I've seen some people do some great work with them so I thought I would give them a go.

 

[Crimea_River]

I end up unscrewing the tip and cleaning off the needle every 30 seconds of spray time to keep the pattern clean. Even so I do get oopsies. Here's the progress as of now:

 

[Airframes]

That's looking the canine acoutrements !

 

[fubar57]

Lordy, that's commitment. Well done