This is all so impressive not even considering that it is in 1/72. Just love that wood grain.
Warren Q
Cheers Warren
Slight delay in proceedings because the oil weathering started to eat into the varnish coat despite drying for a couple of days. I've had this occur before and it's usually down to scrubbing too hard or overworking the oil paint on the surface - bloody annoying.
Of course this meant there were little bits of varnish and stuff on my lovely smoothish surface so I wasn't happy; out with the turps to take off all the oil paint and varnish which then damaged the underlying PC10 (of course)
Anyway I decided to just pop the model down and step away for a few days. Usually I'd work on a different model at this point, but I've been trying to stick with working on just one model at a time so had nothing else to drop onto. Opening another box would inevitably mean that this one was put on the shelf of doom.
Fast forward to yesterday and I decided the turps/oil on the surface had had plenty of time to evaporate and I tentatively brushed a couple of thin coats of the original PC10 over the surface and let it dry fully. Not wanting to go through the whole varnish/oil routine again which always adds dust and bits to the surface I decided on a nother approach - when painting figures I usually work wet in wet to get the main areas of shadows and highlights and then use thin glazes to blend and add nuances of colour; would the same approach work on an aircraft? Only one way to find out . . .
I'm pleased to say that the same techniques work just as well on a wing as they do on a frock coat and enthusiasm in all things aircraft related has been restored
I do think the method has some mileage (for me at least) since it allows a for more artistic approach to painting aircraft that appeals to my creative side rather more than the prescriptive methods usually employed. (I appreciate that using an airbrush can give similar effects and probably more easily, but I only own a very basic second hand airbrush which is useful for blocking in and I feel more comfortable using hairy sticks whenever possible).
Right enough rambling I'm off to the local airfield to watch some big 'uns in a D Day celebration (although given the weather I suspect most of the time will be spent in the cafe next to the airstrip)
Paul
