1/48 HobbyBoss F-105 Thundercheif (Thud)

[Edbert]

Go away NSA, nothing to see here, these are for my toy airplane.



I'll need to touch up the yellow part, I put the O-rings on before the paint was dry enough. Getting used to Tamiya acrylics, but the yellow is MM enamels which take a while.

 

[BarleyBop]

Kinda look like minnows... that bite

 

[Steve Ski]

Sadly enough, you do have to clarify these dayz,.......................

 

[Edbert]

Never knew I had a thing for Viet Nam subject matter, I am more of a 1940s-50s guy.

But the F4B, and Mig21, followed by a Thud, well that sorta seals it right?

 

[BarleyBop]

Will have to read up on this one... any pointers?

 

[Edbert]

Will have to read up on this one... any pointers?

If you like "shorts":





(this is the stuff I put on the tube while I'm at the bench)

 

[Edbert]

Depending on your attention span (no disrespect!):

 

[Edbert]

I thought I was being all smart with the blu-tack masking the wheel wells. That stuff is not easy to get out as I expected!

Typically I'd use tape and foam as I did on the nose-wheel. But these are wide and shallow, no good way to use either. Maybe liquid-mask is a better idea, or just paint them after the underside is done.

 

[BarleyBop]

Depending on your attention span

Ha! No issues with attention span, got through 3/4 of the first long video... amazing aircraft, I can see why the guys that knew her loved her.
The next ones will make good viewing at the bench!
Thanks a bunch.

 

[Jakko]

I thought I was being all smart with the blu-tack masking the wheel wells. That stuff is not easy to get out as I expected!

You can get it out by dabbing a blob of Blu-Tack on it and pulling it away again. Repeat until all of it's gone.

 

[RayRay39.rs]

Pre shading worked out nice, very well done.

 

[Edbert]

This kit might have been a breakthrough for me, I'm excited that I may have a solution to my problem with enamel washes eating my acrylic clearcoats.

My limited understanding of acrylic paints had me thinking they were impervious to turpentine. But if I used Mr. Color leveling thinners that proved untrue. I switched to AK brand thinner for the AK acrylic clear varnish and that did not help.

But I just tried using Tamiya gloss acrylic (X-whatever number) and X20A thinner. I think it is holding up!

I take this to mean that "AK acrylic" is an enamel, oil based, or lacquer paint. So I will use what I have up for things that will not have any washes or panel lining work done with oils or enamel, then never buy it again.

 

[urumomo]

I take this to mean that "AK acrylic" is an enamel or oil based paint.

NO

 

[Edbert]

Well...thanks for the help...

Three color camo applied, will clear coat it too tonight, maybe tomorrow.



In the background...I never realized that the inner set of road wheels on a Panther had thin strips of rubber and only the outer wheels had the more normal thick layer.

 

[BarleyBop]

I'd wondered about the underpainting... I've seen some on here with mask sets, or is it pretty safe to just follow panel lines as it is a subtle effect?

 

[Edbert]

I'd wondered about the underpainting... I've seen some on here with mask sets, or is it pretty safe to just follow panel lines as it is a subtle effect?

The only time I've seen masks used for panel lines is on Stealth aricraft. That is because RAM tape is used to cover those lines, it sorta becomes the new panel line.

What I did here is just called pre-shading, and one can control how visible or subtle they are by applying thin color coats and gradually building it up to opacity.

 

[Jakko]

I never realized that the inner set of road wheels on a Panther had thin strips of rubber and only the outer wheels had the more normal thick layer.

They don't — the tyres are the same thickness on all of them. However, the inner wheels do have an extra steel flange that the outer ones lack, because that side runs against the track teeth.

 

[Edbert]

They don't — the tyres are the same thickness on all of them. However, the inner wheels do have an extra steel flange that the outer ones lack, because that side runs against the track teeth.

So I learnt two things!