Nils Steyaert after 3 years of gathering dust on a shelf, i have restarted work on this project.

Patrick Hagelstein I have this one also planned, so I will follow this with interest.

Marco Preto I'm currently also working on one of these! Be sure to have nice reference photos as the instructions can mislead you.
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Nils Steyaert after almost 3 years of gathering dust on a shelf, i have restarted work on the Growler.
started by marking up the tail and painting the jammer pods. i aso restarted work on my 1/144 Australian F/A-18F.

Nils Steyaert Update:

this project is turning into a disaster at a rapid pace

first thing that went wrong last week was that the cockpit windows started to cloud up due to paintfumes from fitting in the noseweights. the more i tried to fix the issue the worst it got, so i had no choice but to paint it up.
to make matters worst, less then a day later, the cabin windows were starting to cloud up too! after trying to fix it with clear, with no avail, i thought "f*ck it".

now, i wasnt ready to give up just yet, thought i could make it at least presentable when the coat of white paint was sprayed on, but event THAT didnt go without problems. after removing the 1.25mm tape, i found out that the paint managed to creep through! i didnt have the courage to remove the rest of the masking tape, i will try to fix this by going over it with a fine piantbrush, but if anymore problems like these show up, im throwing the whole build in the trash and give up.
the rest of the build will be hand painted.

Greg Baker Stay the course!~ you can do it!

Nils Steyaert Finished

Greg Baker You need a few more pics here... I know you have them...

Nils Steyaert Update:

more airbrush work done today, started off with the blue for the tail and the trims.
everything went good, the blue is on very nicely, that was until i started on the aluminium for the wings...

i had to learn the hard way that spraying Humbrol and Revell metallic enamel paints is a real pain in the ***.
i didnt matter how much thinner i used, it was still to thick and almost gummed up the works.
when the time comes to spray the bottom of the fuselage, i think im going to go back to handpainting for that part.

anyway it was a nightmare to spray on and an even bigger one to clean up, as the nozzle of the brush started to leak.
in the end, i managed to get it done somewhat right.
the white will be sprayed on as soon as the fuselage assembly is done.

Greg Baker Sign me up~

Treehugger I wish the props weren't molded in one piece (four blades and spinner). I have a similar version. A nice looking model still. I wish I found a Tu-95KM variant, as I also had that modeled in 3d for a cold war CGI scene. The KM variant, has a big chin dome and a funny looking cruise missile for the earlier time period.

Treehugger If you can handle a gloss coat, I can recommend a light layer of wash to make the panel lines pop. If you add an acrylic gloss coat, you can easily add an enamel wash on top, as the two don't mix and don't blend, which is good. Probably a good idea to dilute the wash, to avoid an overly dark panel line color.

Maciej Bellos This will be fun watching!

Greg Baker Ohh... sign me up!

Matthew A Getting into 1:144