AREA 88 : "The Final Showdown - Part 3" (F-20 Tigershark)

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May 7, 2019
No box... so we start with the sprues.
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May 7, 2019
The main pieces. I can leave the electronics out for now.
3
May 7, 2019
Assembled, and a friend... urm, enemy... drops by.
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May 7, 2019
Urm... there are some gaps.
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May 7, 2019
Nothing a ton of putty and some shims can’t fix, right?
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May 14, 2020
Shin is now in the pilot's seat!
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May 14, 2020
Well... some of him... it's a tight fit in the cockpit.
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May 14, 2020
Not back for a scratched up 1/144 control panel, right?
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May 16, 2020
Canopy on, and all sealed up and ready for some paint.
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May 18, 2020
First coat of white... the undershading looks okay.
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May 24, 2020
There's some pretty tricky masking to be done... and at this scale, there's not a lot of room to do it!
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May 24, 2020
Needs a few touch ups, but I can live with it!
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May 24, 2020
Yeah... that's looking better now.
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May 24, 2020
Had a friend drop by to see how's it going...
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June 7, 2020
All done but the tail marking decal... that's going to be tricky.

Comments

1 7 May 2019, 22:44

Greg Baker
I had to do a bit of work to rescribe he panel trenches. Even after very careful glueing of the fuselage, they didn't even come close to matching up over the seam. Looks much better now.

16 May 2020, 23:22

Greg Baker
Had to fight with the airbrush yesterday... so I think I'll need another coat of white paint.

18 May 2020, 01:59

Lost_Erik
Great looking paint results.

25 May 2020, 01:39

Nils Steyaert
nice paintjob 👍

25 May 2020, 06:45

Greg Baker
Thanks guys. Masking those thin lines was a real pain, but hopefully it'll be worth it in the end.

25 May 2020, 09:03

Gary Kitchen
Hi Greg. This project looks awesome but the whole collection is mind-blowing!! I'll be pulling up a chair whenever you're at the bench.

25 May 2020, 09:17

Greg Baker
Thanks Gary, there's always plenty of room, so feel free to stretch out and make yourself comfortable. I'm getting close to done on the F-20, but his is a dual build with a F-18 Hornet. That one's been side-lined due to a missing canopy, but a kind soul on another forum sent me a replacement, so hopefully the whole thing will get back on track soon enough.

25 May 2020, 10:28

Jeramy Boileau
Love your work Greg, your projects always make thing about the comics, sadly they never finished the story.

1 June 2020, 14:58

Greg Baker
Thanks Jeramy. I just really like trying to capture the essence of the scene off the comicbook pages. That's sort of why I include the artwork on the wooden bases... it makes me feel like it's jumping off the page and into my hands. 🙂

1 June 2020, 15:23

Jeramy Boileau
BTW where did you find that Shin figure in photo #13(2)?

1 June 2020, 16:25

Greg Baker
There are several 1/24 scale Area 88 figures that came boxed with the old Takara 1/100 boxes - strobez.ca/wp/index...-100-scale-projects/ - I started working on one of the Shin ones "off the side of the workbench".

1 June 2020, 23:26

John Thomas
More great work

1 June 2020, 23:54

Jeramy Boileau
Greg you are a Prince! Thank again for the info!

2 June 2020, 00:15

Chris Vandegrift
Really sweet work. Small stuff like this really shows off your skill. Looks like the paint could be on a 1/32 scale plane.

2 June 2020, 21:35

Greg Baker
Wow, Chris. That's some high praise indeed. I will say that I've put quite a bit of time into getting those tricky stripes painted well enough.

2 June 2020, 22:58

Greg Baker
So, this half of the project is basically done. I still have to struggle a bit with Shin's "flaming unicorn" crest on the tail. Getting homemade decals on anything other than a white background is always tricky. Let's see if I can outfox it this time...

7 June 2020, 14:51