Hello,
I thought you all might like to watch me get myself into trouble with this very expensive Wingnut Wings kit. This is going to be a lot of firsts for me. Most expensive model ever, first WWI kit, first airplane build, first build log post, first attempt at painting something to look like wood out of plastic, I could go on and on, so lets get on with it because I'm excited.
I've actually been messing around with stuff in scale since I was 9, some 382 years ago. I started with simple HO scale stuff, and have been bouncing around ever since, but I never seemed to land on airplane models (pun not really intended). Finally I discovered Wingnut Wings a while back, but I never could seem to bring myself to splurge on one of their kits. Then one day I came into a bunch of money and decided it was time. I ran across the Felixstowe on E Bay and got a good deal from the seller. He also suggested I post my build here. So here I am. I hope you like it.
To pay homage to the moderators, here's a picture of the massive box for this fine collection of plastic, and this sucker is HEAVY!!
The forum mentors would also like me to show some of the sprues, but unfortunately, the first thing I like to do is rip all those plastic trees to shreds. It always seems that if I leave the parts on the sprues, they get damaged. So I run through the instructions and cut and glue a lot of the parts together and pile everything into sub assemblies. Yeah, I'm one of those guys that can't follow instructions, so I end up with this...
So far, all I have done to actually build anything per the instructions is lay down a base coat of Tamyia XF-60 Dark Yellow on all the interior woodwork. After a lot of research on all the fine folks who post how they do their woodwork, this seemed like the best starting point for some of the weirdest model painting ever...oil paints. Now I didn't actually go to Bob Ross' Web site for guidance, it just didn't seem like the right thing to do. The closest I've ever come to putting oil paint to plastic is that technique of puking little dots of oil paint all over like miniature confetti to break up a monotone paint job. works great, but this is different, using it to make fake wood. I hope it works, but I'll have to wait until next weekend to find out. Till then, see ya.
