BevanBrooks

Nice one Brent, saw this one over on LSP. Taking it to Expo this year? Haven't got anything at the mo to put up in the catagory! Cheers Bevan

Wow! Now that's a looker! Great camo work. Cheers Bevan

Looking really nice Cees. The windshield came up a treat, great stuff. Cheers Bevan.

Looks great Jeroen, keep it up! Cheers Bevan

Great start.

Excellent result. Are you planning on doing more weathering? Cheers Bevan

Looks cool as Jeroen! Cheers Bevan.

That is stunning....... very inspiring. Cheers Bevan

Noice!

That's cool as, very nice work. Cheers Bevan

Looks great , keep going man! Cheers Bevan

Excellent work Danny. Love the look of the pit, your scratching has really paid off. Cheers Bevan

Holy cow! Awesome work, your cliant is a lucky man to have found you to do this for him. Cheers Bevan

Weapons are in place......... She's pretty much done now just got to take some shots of her. Thanks for looking in cheers Bevan

Looking good Danny. Cheers Bevan

That pit looks the biz....did you use chipping fluid on it?

Great job Kent, like those RLM shades.

Like it? Love it!

When installing the wing pylons I discovered that some of the holes needed to be filled and a couple drilled to accept the weapon load I chose. I fixed the holes with some plastic rod using super glue and snipped them off flush with my sprue cutters I sanded smooth with a piece of sprue with some 600 wet and dry super glued to the end and cut down to a smaller size to keep the repair as small as possible. And blew it back in. And with the pylons in place. Cheers and thanks for looking in Bevan

Thanks! Your too Kind.

That wood grain looks excellent, I bet your glad you re did it. Really nice so far. Cheers Bevan.

Some weathering to the ordnance..... The fuel tanks received a stippling oil wash of black and burnt umber which is really hard to see. I then sealed with acrylic clear and started on the leaks out of the filling points. A thicker mix of the oil wash was used for this. Flat coat is Humbrol enamel flat coat. Sharp Derwent colour pencils were used for light scratches and Testors Aircraft Grey was used with a sponge for further detail. Prisma colour water colour pencils were used for the streaking of the fuel stains. I used Tamiya's "dark brown" enamel panel line colour for the missiles then flat coated with Humbrol flat coat. Not sure what to do with the exhaust area... bank it off .....paint black? Cheers Bevan

That sounds awesome, go for it! Thanks Pete, Yeah $50 was a steal! Will look forward to the next instalment on the D9

Looking good Cees and hell yeah, she's going to be a big'n

G'day to you too Dennis.... Exhaust cans hmmmmmm lets see if I can remember. The very first thing was to find reference for them. I've never built a jet before so this was new territory for me and ref was a must. First layer was Gunze burnt iron sealed with clear. Next I gave them a titanium white oil wash but kept a bit thicker than normal but not over the whole can, trying to keep it random. Stippling with a piece of old rag is a good way to get it uneven and more organic looking but it takes more than one go at it lol. Once I was happy with the look it was cleared to seal it in. Tamiya enamels next, brown , a darkish grey was made up again random and using the stippling method, sealed. For the bluing I dropped Tamiya blue x8? into some acrylic clear and was happy with the results. I do feel they are a little overcooked with the weathering powder added but you learn from your mistakes I guess. All of this was again sealed with clear ready for a pin wash of black and burnt umber oil paint. Final layer was Testors Dullcoat. Phew I think that's it, pretty sure I've forgotten something but you get the gist of it. Hope this helps. Cheers Bevan