Tamiya Douglas F4-D Skyray

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Thomas Mayer
Simply wow! A clean, well maintained Skyray. Light and angle of photograpy: perfect!

6 January 2017, 18:57

Gary Brantley
Hey, thanks Thomas! It's good seeing you here. Who's watching the "store"? 🙂
Gary

6 January 2017, 21:05

Thomas Mayer
The forum? Not me! I get not paid on weekends! 🙂

7 January 2017, 13:23

Burkhard D
Awesome! 👍👍👍

7 January 2017, 13:45

Gary Brantley
Well Thomas, you deserve that time off! 🙂 Thanks Burkhard, much appreciated I assure you.

7 January 2017, 14:15

Gary Brantley
I added 4 more photos today 🙂

2 February 2017, 15:12

Bryn Crandell
Nice looking Skyray.

2 February 2017, 17:51

Gary Brantley
It turned out okay. Thanks for commenting Bryn! I appreciate it. 🙂

2 February 2017, 18:32

Stephan Ryll
Very clean build 👍

2 February 2017, 19:06

Gary Brantley
Thanks for the kind comment Stephan!

2 February 2017, 20:22

Thomas Mayer
It turned out ok? Man, it´s a beauty!

2 February 2017, 20:56

Gary Brantley
@Thomas: 🙂

2 February 2017, 21:01

Choppa Nutta
Nice looking🙂

2 February 2017, 21:03

Gary Brantley
Thanks Choppa! Appreciated!

2 February 2017, 21:13

Choppa Nutta
and well photographed too, it presents well 🙂

2 February 2017, 21:47

Gary Brantley
Thanks; I think the airport makes a great setting for photographing the models. I'm fortunate to have easy access to it for these photo shoots. It's hard to beat the natural light as well. 🙂

3 February 2017, 00:44

Album info

This is my second Tamiya kit to finish and it was well-engineered and thoughtfully designed. I took it out to the Cameron Airport for a little photo-session. We have a new hangar out there and I wanted to use it for a background. It was quite hot even in the time I was there, 10-noon, building up to a heat index of 108 in the afternoon.

The gull gray on top and insignia white underneath are Model Master enamel, and the wingwalks are Humbrol dark gull enamel. The leading edges were done with Humbrol matt aluminum. Paint was applied with my Paasche H using CO2. The paint scheme was deceptively simple at first but turned out to require a lot of masking, compounded by several mistakes on my part. The final finish is MM semi-glass acrylic clear and Future was used for a gloss-coat for decaling and weathering with Flory washes and pastel chalks. I used the kit decals for the most part with a few from my decal spares stash. EZ Masks were used for the canopy. It is pretty much all out of the box, with tape seatbelt

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