Cheers chaps, always nice to have some early interest
Matt,
scale eh? Heard it called many things- God scale, one true scale etc, but never pinkwafer!
Still, it's proved to be a lovely kit so far, I'd highly recommend it. From what I've seen online, it looks to be a scaled down version of their 1/48 kit (or vice versa), so would be a pretty impressive beast in quarter scale I reckon
Right then, progress has been slower than I had hoped, due largely to double points weekend on Call of Duty, and a wee cold yesterday, but the interior is now essentially complete. The cockpit was sprayed black and for the fabric, I added a bit of white to some Hu 73 to give the pinky colour and sprayed it all over, before beginning the arduous task of picking out the geodetic structure in silver (In fact, I couldn't be arsed with the rear fuselage as it was a bit of a pain, and it won't be visisble anyway). I made more than a few mistakes here, so had to touch up the red oxide after. The main floor and bomb bay structure were sprayed silver, with the the wooden areas hand painted with a mix of dark earth, white and orange, before having raw umber oil paint smeared about. The colour looks better in real life than the pics, and is my first go at trying to replicate wood. Not entirely satisfied with the outcome, but it will be barely visible once the fuselage is buttoned up. In fact, so little will be visible, all of this is largely wasted effort, but it's nice to know it's there
That said, I'd have normally given it all a wash, but didn't feel it would be worth the effort. The panels and details were picked out in various colours before a bit of silver drybrushing here and there.
Et voila!
As you can see the detail in the kit is rather lovely, (though I can't vouch for it's accuracy) with the only slight disappointment being the lack of the nose crew position.
The transparencies have all been given a dip in klear and masked off, with the fuselage windows glued in place. Annoyingly, I had to fit the waist guns prior to final assembly, so they're now an accident waiting to happen..... The rear turret and engines have also been painted and now await assembly.
All in all, not bad progress, and I should now be able to make a good crack of getting the assembly sorted over the next few days. Early dryftitting shows the fit to be largely excellent, so am not anticipating too many problems here.
Thanks for looking, all comments welcomed
Cheers
Shaun
