SPA Modeler

Inching along here! The flat coat has been sprayed onto the D-13. I use Model Master Flat Clear Acryl for my flat coats.

Beautiful work on the flat coat John!

Oh wow that looks great

Looks great John. I use the same stuff and it works great.

I'm at loss for words...

But got this....

Thanks guys! Trying to squeeze in some modeling work in between family obligations. Got my two daughters, a niece and a brother-in-law visiting so I'll probably not have a lot of time at the bench this weekend.

I did manage to get a salt fade layer onto the model. Sometimes used as a chipping technique, I like to use it to impart some fade wear onto the surface of the model. It kind of resembles the water marks left by rain on things stored outside. The dried salt crystals form a random pattern mask over which a very watery light color (Tamiya Deck Tan in this case) is sprayed.


Since it is hard to gauge the effect as you are spraying, I usually have to make some sort of adjustments afterwards. In this case, I'll be toning down some of the effects by gentle micromeshing.



Some of the external bits are being added onto the model at this stage including the exhaust tips and tail wheel. You can also see some minor chipping that I've added using a silver pencil.



I glued the landing gear legs into place using JB Kwik Weld, which gives me a bit of cure time to adjust the placement before the glue dries. The wing cannon barrels have also been glued in.





I fashioned a tension spring for the aerial wire from copper wiring. This will be mounted on the tail mast.

Very nice! That tensioning spring looks real good!

Fantastic details!

Wow! Such incredible detail.

I really have no more adjectives to describe this. Simply awesome.