PeteF Posted December 4, 2020 Author Posted December 4, 2020 First round of exterior weathering...fade and highlights. 6
BlrwestSiR Posted December 5, 2020 Posted December 5, 2020 Looks great Pete. Seems like it went together nicely too. Carl 4
Jackster Posted December 5, 2020 Posted December 5, 2020 Very very nice work Pete! Excellent weathering technique! Cheers Kev 3
PeteF Posted December 5, 2020 Author Posted December 5, 2020 On 12/5/2020 at 3:08 PM, Jackster said: Very very nice work Pete! Excellent weathering technique! Cheers Kev Expand Thanks, The light I'm using is pretty bright so over-does how it looks in natural light. I'm finding weathering armor to be super fun. 3
PeteF Posted December 6, 2020 Author Posted December 6, 2020 Here are some shots of my Ferret being worked on...you can see how much weathering 61 years of use has created. 5 1
Administrators Clunkmeister Posted December 6, 2020 Administrators Posted December 6, 2020 Neat projects Pete. Cool 1:1 and cool build as well. Exquisite work as usual! 2
PeteF Posted December 7, 2020 Author Posted December 7, 2020 The kit has incredible brake, marker and turn signals. The light lenses were to be glued on to painted silver backing. I used canopy glue but the seal became air tight. I don’t know if it will ever dry clear 4
GazzaS Posted December 7, 2020 Posted December 7, 2020 On 12/7/2020 at 1:10 AM, PeteF said: The kit has incredible brake, marker and turn signals. The light lenses were to be glued on to painted silver backing. I used canopy glue but the seal became air tight. I don’t know if it will ever dry clear Expand It looks great! I started to use canopy glue until I discovered it never really hardens... dries clear but rubbery. I use kitchen foil for the backing of lights...gives a bit more reflection than paint. And if you don;t like foil, the Molotow Chrome pen works really nice, too. 3
PeteF Posted December 7, 2020 Author Posted December 7, 2020 To show how small a Ferret is, here it is "parked" next to my same scale (1/24) Mosquito in my office: iun 3 1
Bomber_County Posted December 7, 2020 Posted December 7, 2020 On 12/4/2020 at 2:17 PM, PeteF said: The photo is a bit deceptive. The real Ferret is about the size of a regular car so the model is “small” but the scale is large. It’s about 6” long. Expand This is looking stunning, great to someone else owns a set of Schaedler rules, aren’t they just beautiful..... 3
PeteF Posted December 7, 2020 Author Posted December 7, 2020 On 12/7/2020 at 5:44 PM, Bomber_County said: This is looking stunning, great to someone else owns a set of Schaedler rules, aren’t they just beautiful..... Expand My wife and I were traditional graphic designers prior to switching to Mac in 1987. This is one of the few things we have remaining from that era of our lives. 2
Bomber_County Posted December 7, 2020 Posted December 7, 2020 Traditional graphic designers are few and far between. Many years ago I worked for Pentagram in London with the great Alan Fletcher and all the original partners, very talented guys...... 3
HubertB Posted December 7, 2020 Posted December 7, 2020 On 12/7/2020 at 5:49 PM, Bomber_County said: Traditional graphic designers are few and far between. Many years ago I worked for Pentagram in London with the great Alan Fletcher and all the original partners, very talented guys...... Expand Whilst not a graphic designer by trade, I only got rid of my Staedtler drawing table in the last house move ... Still has the Rotrings however. I am still an old school thinker when it comes to computer graphics, though. Which is why I am utterly lost with softwares like Blender ... WOT ? You do not start with dimensions and tolerances ? Hubert 4 1
GusMac Posted December 7, 2020 Posted December 7, 2020 I know where you're coming from Hubert. My son uses Blender all the time and it just seems totally counter intuitive to me but he does produce some stunning stuff with it. 3
Bomber_County Posted December 8, 2020 Posted December 8, 2020 I learnt my trade similar to Peter over a drawing board or layout table, talk to young designers about first and third angle projection and they look at you as if you have three heads............ 2
PeteF Posted December 8, 2020 Author Posted December 8, 2020 Even though I was "done" I wasn't quite done. Worked on the straps on the engine hatch today...last little details getting taken care of. 4 1
DocRob Posted December 9, 2020 Posted December 9, 2020 On 12/8/2020 at 10:55 PM, PeteF said: Even though I was "done" I wasn't quite done. Worked on the straps on the engine hatch today...last little details getting taken care of. Expand Having the real one in the backyard, there are no excuses for less attention to the details . Your build looks like the real thing as far as I can tell, bravo. Cheers Rob 4
Administrators Fran Posted December 9, 2020 Administrators Posted December 9, 2020 Really cool!!! Thanks for sharing!! 3
PeteF Posted December 9, 2020 Author Posted December 9, 2020 On 12/9/2020 at 10:59 AM, DocRob said: Having the real one in the backyard, there are no excuses for less attention to the details . Your build looks like the real thing as far as I can tell, bravo. Cheers Rob Expand Considering I'm building for the guys who are doing the restoration, they'd totally notice anything that wasn't scale...certainly puts extra pressure on it. There is typically a water "Jerry" can on the left rear fender. The one it the kit didn't fit well but I have it modified to go so I just need to paint it and attach it. 5
PeteF Posted December 10, 2020 Author Posted December 10, 2020 Still noodling. Added the ubiquitous water can. 3
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