Clear the Bench! Zoukei Moura Bf-109G14 Non-Hartmann Build

[GazzaS]

1 hour ago, CANicoll said:

Looks great!!  Congrats on the lack of lifted paint.  Whew!!

Thank you!  Pre-sanding and using Tamiya paint as primer is virtually fool-proof.

[GazzaS]

Comrades...   no, not in the Bolshivist sense...

I know some of you are curious as how things will go now...   a bunch of photos to give you an idea what the rivets look like immediately after sanding the rivets.  But the story of the rivets doesn't end here.  I hope to use enamels or oils to make them fit better into their environment.

 

&*$@^#!!!  Another piece of carrier film missed until I hit it with sanding sheet.  Embarrassing.  Speaking of sanding sheet...   The most aggressive you want to use is 4000 grit.  Using 6000 or 8000 is even slower.  Water with a drop of liquid dish soap to lubricate as you sand.

 

 

Happy trails!

[DocRob]

Looking extremely good Gary. I will not rivet a plane, but will borrow your sanding technique on the corsair. This will help to blend in the colors and the sprayed stencils and markings, I hope.

Cheers Rob

[GazzaS]

1 hour ago, DocRob said:

Looking extremely good Gary. I will not rivet a plane, but will borrow your sanding technique on the corsair. This will help to blend in the colors and the sprayed stencils and markings, I hope.

Cheers Rob

Thank you, Rob.  I never thought I would do decals, either.  But then somebody else was and it seemed a plausible way to improve detail without turning the model into plaid affair.  As you can see...  not all rivets will be seen, or highlighted.   Hopefully just enough to add to the look of realism.

 

[CANicoll]

I'm really liking the look of those rivets and the work you've done with them.  At this scale, some will be seen, some not, but the effect is there and it is very effective (ha ha ha!).  Thanks for the closeups.  Really great to see all of the work you've done - esp with the paint.

[KevinM]

Gary those rivets are looking frigg'in Nice Sir!!They make it look like you are looking at the real thing

[GazzaS]

9 hours ago, CANicoll said:

I'm really liking the look of those rivets and the work you've done with them.  At this scale, some will be seen, some not, but the effect is there and it is very effective (ha ha ha!).  Thanks for the closeups.  Really great to see all of the work you've done - esp with the paint.

 

8 hours ago, KevinM said:

Gary those rivets are looking frigg'in Nice Sir!!They make it look like you are looking at the real thing

Thank you fellas!

[Bomber_County]

Gaz, this is above and beyond, absolutely stunning congrats, I definitely need a big 109 perhaps forego the rivets though…..

[GazzaS]

7 hours ago, Bomber_County said:

Gaz, this is above and beyond, absolutely stunning congrats, I definitely need a big 109 perhaps forego the rivets though…..

Thank you, Phil...  It's all part of the learning process.  Right now, I'm trying to weather the rivets so that they don;t look like pinpricks of light.

[GazzaS]

Hi everyone,
    Seems like ages since my last update.  A lot of those days, I just felt like I was spinning my wheels and accomplishing very little. 

All work done so far with oils.  And I haven't touched the RLM 76 areas at all.

I am torn between the armor modellers instincts to make the details pop, and the aero modellers instincts to jeep everything subtle...  so, my pin washes are all done in darker shades of each individual base color.  If you have a thought on what you see...  please feel free to share it.

 

Thanks!

 

[HubertB]

She’s looking good, Gary. I would never have thought I’d say that one day, but maybe you can try reinforcing the details by more wash ? If you can use a washable wash, then maybe you could reverse the effect if you do not like it ?

Hubert

[DocRob]

Like Hubert said, your 109 is looking very good. Other than Hubert, I like the contrast between recesses articulated lightly with washes and the prominent rivets.

Cheers Rob

[CANicoll]

Wow, really impressive Gary!  I was thinking "Awesome" actually.  Hmmm.  Hubert has a point, but I'm with Rob as well - I think the subtle work you have done is terrific.  I just spent more than five minutes just looking at your pictures, back and forth.  I think you delivered a master-class in the rivets and HGW needs to feature your work on their website.

You might want to take a look at the very front of the exhausts on the left side of the aircraft and maybe the black wing roots need just a bit of weathering to match the terrific job on the rest of the aircraft?  Perhaps the first stack needs just a little bit of touch-up, which you probably just have not gotten around to yet.  Honestly, that is all I can suggest!

You have me wanting to build a 1/32 109 now...

[BlrwestSiR]

Looks great Gary. Really nice job on the paint, weathering, rivets, well everything. 

Carl

[GazzaS]

14 hours ago, HubertB said:

She’s looking good, Gary. I would never have thought I’d say that one day, but maybe you can try reinforcing the details by more wash ? If you can use a washable wash, then maybe you could reverse the effect if you do not like it ?

Hubert

Thank you for your reply, Hubert.  I started with the brown areas using lightly thinned burnt umber.  Once dried and cleaned up, I decided that it was not dark enough. And added pthalo blue, and it looked much darker while wet.  Once dried and cleaned up, you get what you see now.

 I’m trying to refrain from using black as it doesn’t darken brown, but makes greater changes.

Darkening green takes more than just adding blue.  Again, adding black causes huge transition that I wish to avoid, but too much blue alone causes an unwelcome shift.  So I added burnt umber to it to get a more pleasing green.  
 

And for the yellow areas I had to avoid black totally as it would look very unnatural to me.  
 

In total, this is all a learning exercise as I try to thread my way between art and reality.  I would like to find a talented artist to talk to about creating shadows that look like shadows.  Perhaps this is something I can find online.

[belugawhaleman]

Looking great Gary...!

[GazzaS]

18 hours ago, DocRob said:

Like Hubert said, your 109 is looking very good. Other than Hubert, I like the contrast between recesses articulated lightly with washes and the prominent rivets.

Cheers Rob

Thank you, Rob!

16 hours ago, CANicoll said:

Wow, really impressive Gary!  I was thinking "Awesome" actually.  Hmmm.  Hubert has a point, but I'm with Rob as well - I think the subtle work you have done is terrific.  I just spent more than five minutes just looking at your pictures, back and forth.  I think you delivered a master-class in the rivets and HGW needs to feature your work on their website.

You might want to take a look at the very front of the exhausts on the left side of the aircraft and maybe the black wing roots need just a bit of weathering to match the terrific job on the rest of the aircraft?  Perhaps the first stack needs just a little bit of touch-up, which you probably just have not gotten around to yet.  Honestly, that is all I can suggest!

You have me wanting to build a 1/32 109 now...

Thank you, Chris.  Honestly I haven't even detail painted the exhausts, yet.  And the exhaust smudges are one of the very last effects I add to a model.

12 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:

Looks great Gary. Really nice job on the paint, weathering, rivets, well everything. 

Carl

Thank you, Carl!

11 minutes ago, belugawhaleman said:

Looking great Gary...!

Thank you, sir!

[Peterpools]

Hi Gaz

Just starting to catch up after my absence from the forum and finally posted my first P-40 build update.

Just blown away by your progress and attention not only to the details and those lovely rivets (I would never have the patience to even attempt them) but they look fantastic. Painting and weathering are brilliantly done - bleaching and paint wear looks so good.

  

 

[GazzaS]

1 hour ago, Peterpools said:

Hi Gaz

Just starting to catch up after my absence from the forum and finally posted my first P-40 build update.

Just blown away by your progress and attention not only to the details and those lovely rivets (I would never have the patience to even attempt them) but they look fantastic. Painting and weathering are brilliantly done - bleaching and paint wear looks so good.

  

 

Thank you Peter!  Glad to see you back!  Had I riveted the whole plane, I would have gotten tired of it.  It doesn't take long to lay the rivets...   but waiting 8 hours for them to dry...   that's the killer.  It's also another reason I have more than one build on the go.  I always have something on which to turn.

[Peterpools]

Gaz

Now that's good thinking and the way to go

 

[GazzaS]

Thank you for your attention, friends! 

I had the day off, so I devoted a significant amount of time to modelling....   and watching Monday Night Football.

On to the fun stuff...

Someone else had the idea to show the two rows of rivets along the cockpit sill...   so, I copied the idea with middling results.

Some of the rivets drifted out of place and will have to be fixed later.  HGW transfers have a knack of working just less than 100% of the time.

And...   succumbing completely to the seductions of the dark side, I pulled out my beading tool and drunkenly applied rivets to the wheel well covers.

It's not the best picture.

The rest of my efforts were aimed at weathering the white parts of the markings and the lighter shade of RLM 76.

I used white on the upper reaches of the white areas to lighten, and a shade of blue gray on the lower reaches. 

And I used pale gray to highlight some details of the RLM 76 areas.

Around the nine...  it looks rather untidy.  I think i will need some air brush touch up here.

Anyway...   that's it for now.

[Peterpools]

Gaz

Oh, those rivets - they must be giving you nightmares about now. Sitting back and studying all your photographs, the effect is amazing and so well worth all the effort and work. Weathering as always is so effective and the hues and tones blend so well, which I think is the key in replicating reality.  

Can't believe Washington beat Philadelphia. As a NY Giant fan, the division now tightens up even more.

 

[GazzaS]

9 hours ago, Peterpools said:

Gaz

Oh, those rivets - they must be giving you nightmares about now. Sitting back and studying all your photographs, the effect is amazing and so well worth all the effort and work. Weathering as always is so effective and the hues and tones blend so well, which I think is the key in replicating reality.  

Can't believe Washington beat Philadelphia. As a NY Giant fan, the division now tightens up even more.

 

Thank you, Peter.  Actually, I’m feeling like a more complete modeller by using the rivets.  I just hope that results will improve as I go.

 

 I’m glad the Commanders put up such a good game.   I  feared the game would be another lame prime time contest.  We have had a lot of them this year.

 

 I think my Lions face off against your Giants next weekend.  But I could be wrong.  But we’ve already played the rest of your division, so it will happen sooner or later.

[Peterpools]

Gaz

Those rivets are going to be the unsung hero of the build as they will add so much but yet blend in without overpowering the rest of the build.

Hard to believe the Giants with a new coach are 7-2 in a tough division and next up is the Lyons. Hopefully, we'll pull off another win and reach the 8-2 record. As a Giant fan, the eagles and Commanders are our arch enemies. 

 

 

[Martinnfb]

I like the rivet detail, but the position of the top crosses seems to be slightly shifted towards the fuselage. I might be wrong.