Würger family 1/48
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Kalakan
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Vic:Great looking work Gerry. I've never had the option to use laser printers for decals so your experiment is good advice for all. When I have used ink jet printing I always duplicate my decals so that when I place the decal on the model, I overlay with the second decal to help give a better depth of colour.
Yeap, it's also an alternative work in order to see if some of the preshading works can also be applied this way.....
We will see shortly during the paint works.....
Have a nice one my friend!
Gerry
Crimea_River
Marshal
An interesting and novel approach. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out with camo applied.
fubar57
General
As am I
Nice work so far!
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Kalakan
Senior Airman
Hello my fellow modelers:
It has been a productive week so far. I have still two days more on leave (without any office work) and I intend to complete the D-11 as far as possible, as well as with details on the two other kites.
So far, this is the weekly update where several mistakes were detected, and to be corrected on the Ta-152 kite scope. This was the main idea to at least advance as much as I can in the Dora model in order to continue with the 152, especially with the decal location works.
First things first, decal location works. And before any painting, the sanding works with a 2000 grit at least in order to hide the boundaries of each decal panel as can be seen in the following images:
Once the decals were located satisfactorily, then a light gloss clear kote was applied, to further loose the decal boundaries and integrate them to the fuselage:
Then I noticed that the upper cowling needed to be detailed further more, and some decals were also applied after the grey priming works:
And now, decide the pattern used on this kite, and as reference I found the following image as reference:
And with this idea on mind, the following paint works were performed on the kite belly:
Stripes of different widths and detailing the ailerons before attaching them to the wings. Also some preshading works were performed before the paint:
and voilá. Several tones of red were applied in order to gain some contrast:
And then with a lot of satisfaction, the masking was removed:
After finishing this phase, I decided that more metal surfaces were needed and proceed with the basic masking works in the canopy, the tal attack surface and on the wing roots:
As this was my first intent using the Alclad II lacquer paint and being honest, it's one of the best paints I've ever used for metallic paints:
Taking advantage that I had the Alclad lacquer ready on the airbrush, also the belly of the 152 (and the triceratops lower jaw) were painted:
Now, the moment of truth. In the engine cowlings and tail rudder, I used the RLM 76. This was also applied almost on the complete surface of the A-4 kite.
And for the main fuselage I used the Model Master enamel 65. As several drawings of this kite found on the Doras of the Galland circus book by Eagle Editions. As can be appreciated in the following image, and also under the knowledge that there are no images of the Rot 2 kite (as far as I'm aware):
Before applying the blue colours on the fuselage, some fluid masking was applied to the recently painted metallic surfaces (despite that some real aluminium was applied on the connection for the tail assembly, that also received some liquid masking), in order to emulate the weathered surfaces.
Let's see how both surfaces looks after finishing the complete paint works:
And this is how it looks now both kites during the 76 and 65 enamel paints works:
And this is the final result so far gents:
Only 20 images per post.
The final results with the decals painted continue in the next post...
It has been a productive week so far. I have still two days more on leave (without any office work) and I intend to complete the D-11 as far as possible, as well as with details on the two other kites.
So far, this is the weekly update where several mistakes were detected, and to be corrected on the Ta-152 kite scope. This was the main idea to at least advance as much as I can in the Dora model in order to continue with the 152, especially with the decal location works.
First things first, decal location works. And before any painting, the sanding works with a 2000 grit at least in order to hide the boundaries of each decal panel as can be seen in the following images:
Once the decals were located satisfactorily, then a light gloss clear kote was applied, to further loose the decal boundaries and integrate them to the fuselage:
Then I noticed that the upper cowling needed to be detailed further more, and some decals were also applied after the grey priming works:
And now, decide the pattern used on this kite, and as reference I found the following image as reference:
And with this idea on mind, the following paint works were performed on the kite belly:
Stripes of different widths and detailing the ailerons before attaching them to the wings. Also some preshading works were performed before the paint:
and voilá. Several tones of red were applied in order to gain some contrast:
And then with a lot of satisfaction, the masking was removed:
After finishing this phase, I decided that more metal surfaces were needed and proceed with the basic masking works in the canopy, the tal attack surface and on the wing roots:
As this was my first intent using the Alclad II lacquer paint and being honest, it's one of the best paints I've ever used for metallic paints:
Taking advantage that I had the Alclad lacquer ready on the airbrush, also the belly of the 152 (and the triceratops lower jaw) were painted:
Now, the moment of truth. In the engine cowlings and tail rudder, I used the RLM 76. This was also applied almost on the complete surface of the A-4 kite.
And for the main fuselage I used the Model Master enamel 65. As several drawings of this kite found on the Doras of the Galland circus book by Eagle Editions. As can be appreciated in the following image, and also under the knowledge that there are no images of the Rot 2 kite (as far as I'm aware):
Before applying the blue colours on the fuselage, some fluid masking was applied to the recently painted metallic surfaces (despite that some real aluminium was applied on the connection for the tail assembly, that also received some liquid masking), in order to emulate the weathered surfaces.
Let's see how both surfaces looks after finishing the complete paint works:
And this is how it looks now both kites during the 76 and 65 enamel paints works:
And this is the final result so far gents:
Only 20 images per post.
The final results with the decals painted continue in the next post...
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Kalakan
Senior Airman
Continues from above.
Blue paint applied above the decals in order to see how this detail looks like:
And yes, the final result is that the rivets are clearly visible behind the paint. Guess that this kind of lightning does not serve well in order to see the rivets more clearly. But again, as commented earlier, the idea is that not all the rivets will be seen clearly.
Batter pictures will be taken with natural light tomorrow. But guess that the idea stands correct that it is possible to use decals as rivets:
Lessons learned from this first work:
- All the decals has to be cut orthogonally to the fuselage with more precision and better to look for joints in the fuselage to cut each decal.
- It's better to avoid using decal stripes. Best if used in a complete panel.
Now it's time to continue with the green colours on fuselage and wings.
I have a question for all the forum experten modelers in this matter:
Which of the following camo colour (violet/green or the the light/darker green) is more likely to have been applied on this kite?
These images are both examples that I guess were likely used on the Rot 2 kite:
I'll post more advance as soon as possible.
Hope that anyone can help me decide which color is most likely used.
Best regards.
Gerry
Blue paint applied above the decals in order to see how this detail looks like:
And yes, the final result is that the rivets are clearly visible behind the paint. Guess that this kind of lightning does not serve well in order to see the rivets more clearly. But again, as commented earlier, the idea is that not all the rivets will be seen clearly.
Batter pictures will be taken with natural light tomorrow. But guess that the idea stands correct that it is possible to use decals as rivets:
Lessons learned from this first work:
- All the decals has to be cut orthogonally to the fuselage with more precision and better to look for joints in the fuselage to cut each decal.
- It's better to avoid using decal stripes. Best if used in a complete panel.
Now it's time to continue with the green colours on fuselage and wings.
I have a question for all the forum experten modelers in this matter:
Which of the following camo colour (violet/green or the the light/darker green) is more likely to have been applied on this kite?
These images are both examples that I guess were likely used on the Rot 2 kite:
I'll post more advance as soon as possible.
Hope that anyone can help me decide which color is most likely used.
Best regards.
Gerry
Vic Balshaw
Major General
My goodness me Gerry you have had a busy week and it all looks amazing. Well done.
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Kalakan
Senior Airman
Thank you very much for your kind words Vic.My goodness me Gerry you have had a busy week and it all looks amazing. Well done.
Let's see how the upper green camo turns out.
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Kalakan
Senior Airman
Thank you for your quick response Wurger.
I agree with the RLM 82/83 scheme.
Best regards
fubar57
General
Love that red
Crimea_River
Marshal
The decal experiment has come out well.
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Kalakan
Senior Airman
Thank you sir.
And now, came the moment to apply the RLM 82 and 83 base colours.
First things first, masking again. This time with a product that I've never used before, its called Tak and has an incredible adherence to the kite surface (as we will see).....
Then the RLM 82 cession:
After the first hands, I applied a slightly darker hand to lower the intensity of this base colour. And in the process of removing the TAK, it came along with several areas of the RLM 76. This surfaces will be worked and detailed again after finishing the green base colours (guess while applying the green mottles):
And then the RLM 83 result:
Here is appreciated the frontal cowling where several of its surfaces received some liquid masking to be removed after the paint works, and here is how it looks showing the aluminium color and the natural one on different areas of the kite....
I'm aware that some aluminium blotches will be worked a little in order to make them more believable (guess I see them quite large even for a maintenance crew)......
And here are some photos with the detail of the rivet decals on the wings.....
As commented earlier for the 152 kite, the decals will be applied separately in each panel to avoid more sanding works. This is, avoid applying any decal stripes, just large surfaces as possible.... lesson learned indeed
Now it's time to apply some mottling on this baby.... as well as for the reglementary weather works.....
Regards
Gerry
fubar57
General
Awesome
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Kalakan
Senior Airman
Thank you sir.
Let's see how it looks like after the mottling works............
Regards
Vic Balshaw
Major General
I would have said awesome as well but George beat me to it. So, all I can say is "You beauty".
Crimea_River
Marshal
I like the colours Gerry. Nicely done.
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Kalakan
Senior Airman
As always, thank you my friend.
