Hughes 300

Prepped and ready for priming

Primer and base coat of red done

SMS Super Silver

Red parts coated in Tamiya clear red through the airbrush to make the red loo deeper.

Seats done with MIG Acrylic Cremeweiss. The manual suggested brown, but looking at all the reference photos most seemed to have cream seats. Base is Tamiya TS-66 Grey.

All parts wet sanded and ready for decals. After that will be a clear coat to seal.

Tamiya clear acrylic brushed over this decal to represent the glass covering

Decals on the egg

I hate decals

Deacals on the tail rotor

So I completely forgot to put the control panel in the cockpit before sealing the egg, so I had to crack it open, breaking the seal and all of the dried decals.

All back together. I touched up the decals with white paint and the egg with red paint.

Decided to paint the tips instead of using the decals.

Right after these photos were taken the model did a backflip onto the floor and broke to pieces. Glued it back together as best as I could. Clear coat to come and then I'll be glad to see the back of this one.

Comments

11 15 September 2021, 22:26

Spanjaard
interesting subject, really looking forward seeing what you do with it 🙂

15 September 2021, 23:07

Peter Hardy
A fun build if ever I saw one!

16 September 2021, 09:22

Peter Muldoon
Yeah, thought I'd smash out an easy one while the final parts of the Kawasaki dry. Lots of fun so far, although taping the clear egg canopy has been a nightmare. Yet to remove the tape, but dreading what's underneath.

17 September 2021, 00:58

Peter Hardy
I have heard said that egg planes ect are for kids and not for the (accomplished) modeller but from my experience you can treat it eggactly as a "proper" build. I have uttered as many profanities with egg planes as anything else I have built!

17 September 2021, 23:16

Peter Muldoon
My thoughts eggactly! 😅

18 September 2021, 08:49