Viper progress

Spanjaard
maybe it should be darker (no idea), but it certainly looks really good 🙂. what is your opinion about the kit so far?

Martin Frcka
Thank you very much. Regarding the kit itself, it will be challenge to put it together. some parts have loose fit but overall, I think that it is quite good. I had to fill and sand the gap between the two halves in the front section but other than that (so far) it is very pleasant build. The PE set from Green Strawberries is in my opinion must have.

Spanjaard
thanks a lot Martin!

Günther Debiscop
following

Rene Scheiblich
Nice! Looks good so far.
I'll take a seat. Have the moebius Mk II in my stash. Does the strawberry PE add this much?

Martin Frcka
It is worth it. I did not used half lot of parts (side engine pipelines; undercarriage parts) but the cockpit really shine with the upgraded panels.

Jozef Goos
Verry nice I like the cockpit

Spanjaard
good to know, i have the same kit and PE from Greenstrawberry 🙂

Rene Scheiblich
On my wishlist🙂 was originally going for Paragrafix along with their USS Voyager PE set... But can't find it here.
And the greenstrawberry stuff looks good!

Spanjaard
i doubted betwen paragrafix and Greenstraberry too... Paragrafix can be ordered from US which can increase the price considerably when going through customs.... so i avoided problems and got Greenstrawberry. set is pretty good

Björn Svedberg
Nice progress! 👍 I have the Moebius kit so I'm curious to see how it goes 🙂.

Spanjaard
looking good 🙂

Rene Scheiblich
Very tidy paintjob👍
Did you have trouble joining the fuselage together?

Martin Frcka
Thank you Rene. Fuselage went together quite easy and nice - no major problems there.

Rene Scheiblich
Nice👍
For the stand... Maybe brushpaint the raised parts and airbrush it over with whatever color you plan for the recessed areas 🙂

Spanjaard
if the detail is inside, do a short of very heavy panel line wash with some dark color, clean everything out out of the recessed lines, and then paint the rest in light color.
unless the detail is raised instead of recessed. in that case, you can try to paint in black, carefully remove the pain with a cotton bud in the details, and then paint in white.

Spanjaard
excellent result on the base

Jozef Goos
nice base for the viper MKII

Björn Svedberg
The base looks great! Really nice work! 👍

Martin Frcka
Thank you all. I'm really please with the result. The build was quite fun. Final photos coming soon.

Günther Debiscop
How did ye do the base? Painted the old first and then sprayed over with black?

Martin Frcka
Yes. The gold "map" was painted firts by hand, cleaned the edges as much as I could, masked the front side (so you can see the map) and several thinner coats of black everywhere. After that masked everything and bottom part get gold coat. After applying decals final clear gloss coat.
My hands were shaking while I was painting the gold map, and that's why it's not as clean as I would like.

Spanjaard
it looks fantastic 🙂

Günther Debiscop
I would have chosen to paint it from the bottom as there the black parts are the recessed parts and thus you could have filled the lower parts with the gold.. just mho, but still you're way also resulted in a top piece

Björn Svedberg
Final result is excellent! 👍
I'm going to look at this when I build mine.😉

Martin Frcka
Thank you kindly. I'm looking forward to see your build😉

Rene Scheiblich
Great work mate! I like how the base turned out along with the cleanish finish. Ready to roll the hard 6 🙂
Same as Björn, your build is a source of inspiration for my build 🙂 when I will start... Someday... One clean bird and one as they were at the end of the series.

Spanjaard
Me too😉