Hallo friends,
here is some picture of my latest work:
I paited the propeller
Here is how I did it:
Gray primer
- Base: TAMIYA XF-78 Wooden Deck Tan
- grain done by drybrushing with acrylics in tube "raw umber"
- covered with Vallejo Wood Grain 70828
- finished with "Satin" Mr. Toffano (great transparents for brushes)
Group picture of cockpit and its elements. The internal rigging is real and not resin casted...
I glued the forward block (ammo container and fuel tank - I think)
In this picture you can see how much distorted the resin piece was...
More detail on the cockpit elements I prepared so far.
I would have preferred a warmer wooden tone on the interiors with respect to the propeller, so I used a different base (yellow ochre) and for the grain I used Raw Sienna , but in the end when I passed the Vallejo Woodgrain everything gets flattened to the same tone. I should change the strategy, I know Vallejo has different wood tones but are they "transparent" like this? In rder not to cover the grain drybrushed beneath it?
Any advice? ...
Then I decided to work on the engine, I painted and glued the pieces that did not require extra attention:
Here is the back face of the engine with the valve stems on it.
Too short, d'you remeber? they did not reach the head of the cylinders, and too thick!
So I cut the stems away (I measured and they are 0.75 mm)
to replace them with a plasticard rod diameter 0.50 mm (in the picture is the thinner rod on top)
Here is the central part glued at its place
Here are the new stems cut and glued at their place (in foregroud are shown again the pieces I removed).
Now I will go on with other details in the cockpit. I'd like to close the fuselage this weekend...
Ciao! And thanks again for the attention!
AnDonio
