I think this one's going to be fun. I love building and by the time I get to weathering, I'm burnt out. I want to start something new and start building. This is the BMW 801 engine starting with the front and rear cylinder blocks. I built the Border models FW but this one I think is a couple steps up in quality. On this model, I think it will turn out much nicer if I paint stuff and detail it up before I glue it on. And yes I know three quarters of my work will get hidden but I just like building a whole lot better than all the nitpicky fiddly stuff you got to do at the very end of a build. I'm used to building radio control airplane kits back in the'90s. They didn't have no ready built planes back then. You had to build it yourself and then you learned a whole lot. Anyways. Primed in Tamia surface primer Gray and sprayed with flat aluminum. I brushed on lp3 thinned with Mr color leveling thinner 400 which, by the way, is absolutely fantastic stuff. I think I will paint the baffle plates on top of each cylinder a gloss aluminum to give it some sort of contrast. The next thing I have to figure out is the pushrod back piece. The top bar is supposed to be brass colored and Tamia has no brass paint so I think I will paint it first in Chrome silver and then with that dries on top of it I'll spray transparent yellow. I think that should do it, maybe
