GusMac Posted March 28 Author Share Posted March 28 Primer is on! Didn't take quite as long as I thought it might but still a good 90 minute session. There are a few small spots which are going to need a bit more filling and sanding but less than I thought there might be, so I'm pretty happy with that. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullArmor Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 45 minutes ago, GusMac said: Primer is on! Didn't take quite as long as I thought it might but still a good 90 minute session. There are a few small spots which are going to need a bit more filling and sanding but less than I thought there might be, so I'm pretty happy with that. Nice! In my opinion viggen is one of best looking deltawing planes. Also airbrake is quite unique. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Gus Primer - looking mighty good and only a few small spots to that need a bit of filling - awesome work for sure. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GusMac Posted March 31 Author Share Posted March 31 Touch-ups completed and flaps installed. The canard flaps are a breeze due to this nifty bit of engineering.... The 3D printed piece holds everything perfectly in place at the correct angle. The main flaps are a rather different story however! After much tweaking and swearing we got them in place with everything in reasonable alignment. Some of the actuators on the underside are slightly out of alignment but the upper side is good, so I'm going with that as it's the best achievable. And everything is now primed again ready for the painting.... the dreaded splinter cammo! If a coward so I'm starting with the underside. 😁 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 Gus Terrific progress and some mighty fine work in overcoming all the obstacles. Yup, the cammo pattern is surely going to be time consuming but my money is riding on you to pull it off without any issues at all. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GusMac Posted March 31 Author Share Posted March 31 Thanks Peter. I have the Maestro masks which should make things a bit easier I hope. I'm also following the method used by Aigore on his build on LSP, so his secrets will be revealed in due course. I'm looking forward to using the MRP as the brief experience with it on the cockpit interior was encouraging. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 Very nice progress Gus. Looking very much like a Viggen. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 13 hours ago, GusMac said: Thanks Peter. I have the Maestro masks which should make things a bit easier I hope. I'm also following the method used by Aigore on his build on LSP, so his secrets will be revealed in due course. I'm looking forward to using the MRP as the brief experience with it on the cockpit interior was encouraging. Gus Looking forward to the cammo work and have my front row seat. I've been using MRP paints for years and zero issues. I shoot them straight from the bottle with any of my air brushes with tip sizes from .2-.5 and always goes on smooth as silk. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GusMac Posted April 2 Author Share Posted April 2 Slight hold up as my jar of XF-63 German Grey which I was planning to use for preshading on the underside has dried out, so waiting on it and a jar of X-16 purple for the tail. In the meantime started removing and cleaning up the undercarriage parts. The gear bay doors have some pretty nasty print lines as they've been printed horizontal - look like grid lines on a topographic map, so started on fixing that. Ladled a mix of Tamiya putty thinned with lacquer thinners over the top. I'll let it fully dry overnight, give it a good sand and see where we are at that point. The underside isn't great but with all the detail it isn't possible to use this method - will just try and sand them as best I can. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Gus Yikes, seems to be a drawback of 3D printing on the flat. Fingers crossed the cleanup works like a charm. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Ooops, these gear bay doors look really ugly, hope you can fix that, Gus. The good thing with the splinter camo, as extensive the application is, it will hide the little bumps here and there for sure. Cheers Rob 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GusMac Posted April 3 Author Share Posted April 3 Given the gear bay doors a sanding and it looks hopeful. I'll throw on some primer and see for certain but I've got my fingers crossed. Rob, I'm certainly hoping that the splinter cammo will be distracting enough to take the eye off any inconsistencies. The detail on the 3D printed parts is lovely but the quality of some of the prints does seem to be a weak spot for JetMads. When you compare them to the sort of stuff that Laminar Flow Design and others are putting out now they definitely seem a bit crude. I've seen comments that the Stiletto is a whole heap worse than this, so don't seem to be improving unfortunately. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Gus, sure hope the finished gear aby doors equal the rest of the kit. Could be JetMads quality might be pushed to the limit as they are producing so many kits now. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GusMac Posted April 8 Author Share Posted April 8 We have paint! Preshaded using Tamiya XF-63 German Grey so the contrast isn't too stark and then on with MRP 175 Swedish Army Blue-Grey. Definitely liking the MRP - no thinning, coverage is good, only 3 half cups to cover all this and the smell isn't nearly as bad as some other lacquers I've tried. Once this is nice and dry then it'll be mask off the underside and off we go with the splinter! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 Gus, looking mighty good and I wish I could get my MRP to cover as well without using a lot of coats. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 Nice progress, what an epic build, definitely way beyond the range of my mental capabilities. Cheers Martin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GusMac Posted April 10 Author Share Posted April 10 22 hours ago, Martinnfb said: Nice progress, what an epic build, definitely way beyond the range of my mental capabilities. Cheers Martin Thanks Martin. I'm hoping a nice plod through it should be enough not to screw things up by rushing. 😆 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GusMac Posted April 10 Author Share Posted April 10 Masking is on the bottom, so we're ready to start on the upper splinter cammo. I've probably gone a bit OTT here with the masking but I'm only mildly paranoid! Ha. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 Gus A professional masking job for sure and besides from doing the job, looks so neat and clean 🏆 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 There goes the Kabuki . I´m the same Gus, I´m a coward, when it comes to large area masking jobs and can´t bring myself to add a stencil with the airbrush, without masking half a square meter around. Cheers Rob 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GusMac Posted April 11 Author Share Posted April 11 Yeah, don't know what Tamiya's profit margin is on the Kabuki tape but they must do pretty well out of it. They certainly do well out of me as I've never found the Vallejo or others to be quite as good. Rob, I still have nightmares of a build a few years back where I touched up a metallic section on the rear of an F-15 having, I thought, masked everywhere necessary and I found overspray on the opposite of the build at the other end of the fuselage! How the hell it got there I've no idea but since then I've always been paranoid about it. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 Gus & Rob I'm in the same boat and have gone through more Tamiya masking tape on the Tomcat then almost any other build, especially with the late painting addons after decaling was done. Sure wish Tamiya would sell stock in their Kabuki Tape Div. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 If you have a paint shop near you, see if they carry Blue Dolphin tape. It's the same as Tamiya tape but is much cheaper. https://www.dolphinsundries.com/product/washi-tape/ I got it at the local Benjamin Moore shop. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 I also recommend Tesa professional tape, which is a tiny bit less flexible and a tad stronger adhesive than Tamiya Kabuli, but works perfectly. Cheers Rob 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HubertB Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 1 hour ago, DocRob said: I also recommend Tesa professional tape, which is a tiny bit less flexible and a tad stronger adhesive than Tamiya Kabuli, but works perfectly. Cheers Rob … for a fraction of the price of Tamiya Hubert 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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