**** DONE: GB-63 1/48 Macchi C.202 "Folgore" - Stormy Weather

[Vic Balshaw]

Great effort Andy and I admire your pluck.

 

[Totalize]

Very nice effort there Andy. Your Folgore is really coming together.

 

[Wurger]

Doing well.

 

[Wayne Little]

Nice work Andy, a tough paint job.....a thinned mix of your Brown inside and out of the rings will help clean your edges and a bit on the heavier marks of green to tone them back a bit, that you may or may not be happy with ? to semi fix it, then a repeat of some of the green would then top things off, if your game....thats what I would do BUT it's your model...! I feel your pain on the care and application and cleaning frequently to achieve the goal.

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks for the support everyone. The smoke rings were a challenge that I was keen to try and, though being far from perfect, I'm fairly satisfied with how it's gone so far. Lots more to do yet before I'm ready to call the camo finished.

Nice work Andy, a tough paint job.....a thinned mix of your Brown inside and out of the rings will help clean your edges and a bit on the heavier marks of green to tone them back a bit, that you may or may not be happy with ? to semi fix it, then a repeat of some of the green would then top things off, if your game....thats what I would do BUT it's your model...! I feel your pain on the care and application and cleaning frequently to achieve the goal.

That's exactly my plan Wayne, thanks. I want to get all the greens laid down before going back to the brown and going over the rough spots. Taking my time and doing lots of breakdowns and cleaning. It's amazing how quickly things go to hell in a handbasket after starting so nicely with pencil-thin lines. It's tough to find that "fine line" between success and disaster.

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far Andy!

 

[fubar57]

Really like this Andy, tough camo for sure. I feel your pain about the gloss coat. I'm still stuck on brush painted Future and not too happy with this. Waiting for Winsor & Newtons Gloss to show up in PG as I am very happy with their Semi-matte and Matte

 

[Vic Balshaw]

I have a similar problem getting a good gloss finish so just checked out your Winsor & Newtons Gloss George. Hefty price at A$56 for 250ml so out of my price range, but I did find a Jasart Byron Gloss Medium & Varnish at a snip (for Aussie) at A$14.95 for 250ml. May give that a go.

 

[fubar57]

A$45ish including shipping here Vic.... Winsor & Newton Galeria Art Acrylic Painting Mediums Gels Varnishes 250ml Artist | eBay

Or better yet.... Winsor & Newton Galeria Acrylic Mediums Paint Varnish SATIN, MATT or GLOSS 500ml | eBay

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Thanks George.

 

[fubar57]

I have the 250ml bottles and when you compare the price to a 10ml bottle of Tamiya paint, not too, too bad

 

[Totalize]

I don't think my skills would allow me to get such nice smoke rings. I would probably go the lazy route and buy smoke ring decals.

 

[fubar57]

Totalize The Italeri version of this kit comes with smoke rings.

EDIT: Sorry, that was for the C.205

 

[T Bolt]

Great job on those smoke rings Andy

I just can't seem to get mirror finishes when gloss coating. This time I used some Vallejo stuff and it didn't work well at all.

I Have not been able to get a good gloss finish over flat paint since Future changed their formula. For the last few years after one coat of Future I do the decaling using Future to wet the surface under the decal instead of water. I blot the decal down with a bit of damp paper towel, clean up around it with a cotton swab dipped in Windex, use decal setting solution if needed, clean up again with the cotton swab,(the Future sometimes turns whitish from the setting solution and has to be removed) then seal the decal with Future. When all are finished, I brush on another coat of future all over before I do the panal line work and finish it off with dull coat. I have had no silvering at al since I started this.

 

[N4521U]

Thank-you gentlemen, too kind.

Another session today. The nozzle needs to be cleaned after every ring and the airbrush drained and cleaned after maybe 5 rings. Plenty of warts despite this but I continue to plow through.

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Those smoke rings, good lord!!!!!!!
You did Okay man!

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks my friends.

Well, I've made a pass of thinned brown and another go-over with thinned green and can call the camo more or less done.

OK, how does it survive the close-ups? Let's have a look....

Yeah, I can still see a couple of spots now that I look at but I went ahead and sprayed a gloss coat over everything so I can let it sit til Sunday when I next have the opportunity to work on it. This time I used Alclad AquaGloss and it's still wet.

Thanks for looking in.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Berny5664]

Very nice Andy. Making smoke rings, it's not easy at all, but you did them very well.
My compliments

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Strewth Andy, that looks amazing. Well done mate.

 

[fubar57]

Very nice spritzing, Andy. Very close to the decals. Ya done did good