Supermarine Spitfire F Mk.22
Here doing the rivets, side by side with another spit from my colection
Using RB productions rivetter and pigments to check the progress, all free hand.
Detailing up some bits
The brothers, there are more spits on my stash wanting to join the party.
Basic paint with Mr Hobby 8 silver very nice color to reproduce the High speed silver paint from the original.
Painting some dudes to go along the plane
Decals going down with Micro sol and set
Rivets showing nicely, but I found the decals do not like to let them show trough.
Decals down, looking nice
Some subtle color modulation showing trough.
getting ready to receive some weathering, the wing tip navigation lights were cutted of, clear plastic glued in place and shaped to size, than masked for painting
Here I did a mistake, I glued the numbers in the same orientation, they should be in oposite orientation, nothing I can do about it now.
Weathering the plane with some panel line washes from Tamiya I painted the exhaust stains but didn´t like the shape, they looks strange to me
Looking some pictures, I saw there were no black stains around the front pipes, and the shape should be longer and pointing down folowing the air flow over the wing
This shape too straight and ending abruptly does not show the true.
Some pictures showing the exhaust stains that I want to represent, note the second plane in the line how long and dark the stains are looking, also we note how it is clean right next to the exhaust pipe, specially the front ones
that´s camuflaged and another version but still we can see the shape of the smoke and how dark the stain can be, in this case it ends abruptly.
So I loaded my airbrush with some silver to correct the exhaust stains
Cleaned the area around the exmaust
Sprayed lightly the silver to cover the black.
The exhaust is now reshaped, looking better
some pictures show this stain very dark and long, I wanted to do that, the contrast of the camera is not representing the true, it shows too much contrast
Some more pigments on the exhaust, some fuel spill stains in front of the cockpit
I though if I should weather the spinner but I like the read so much that I´ll just keep as it is
Comments
1 3 March 2019, 18:32
Cesar MunizThanks Bob and Christian, I have finished this about 2 months ago but still haven´t uploaded the pictures, I'm getting lazy
3 March 2019, 19:50
NeulingI agree with everyone above except Cesar! I would never dare say he`s getting lazy.
4 March 2019, 18:33
Dave FlittonNice work, looking at the pilots, the one sitting looks like he is 60 years old!
4 March 2019, 19:38
Cesar MunizThanks all! Dave, I though the same about the pilot, it is the Airfix kit the pilot sitting is the one provide by the kit and the one standing is from hasegawa figure set, I´m still working on my figure painting skills, there is much to be improved.
5 March 2019, 07:35
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Supermarine Spitfire F Mk.22 from airfix in 1/72, painted with Mr hobby silver 8
