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Started by Leigh, December 09, 2006, 03:21:02 PM

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NARSES2

Leigh the weathering on that Hurri is superb - well done mate

Chris
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ysi_maniac

Very good Hurricane  :wub:  :wub:  :wub:  :wub:  :wub:  
Will die without understanding this world.

Ian the Kiwi Herder

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I love the way this has turned-out. Fantastic wok, Leigh.  :cheers:

Ian
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Leigh

Thanks guys, funny thing is flash on or off the dark green/dark earth seems to show up as two shades of brown in the pics :huh:
Alot of the weathering was done during the painting process, I preshaded the  all the panel lines with a dark blue before I did the azure blue underside and the beauty of the Aztek was that I could do the individual panels to different depth of colour/tonal qualities.
The paint chipping is my knew patented dry- sticking method. Just dipped a cocktail stick in silver and wioped most off then pricked or scratched at the model but what really worked well in places was rolling the cocktail stick.
And I finally learned how to mask canopies :dum: Never had much success with whatever medium I used including parafilm (which just ties me in knots). This time idiot me finally followed peoples advice down to the letter! They say always use a brand new exacto knife blade, which I've always done in the past, but then I go and cut a piece of the masking tape on a piece of glass before I trim it on the canopy which immediately dulls the blade. So now I'm using tamiya masking tape and a BRAND NEW exacto blade, which only trims the tape on the canopy! The tape is cut on the glass with another blade.
I consider this a competition level model and will be entered at my IPMS club so any or all criticism is welcome even rivet counting seeing as it's real world, even down to the state of my personal hygiene.

I invite all and any criticism, except about Eric The Dog, it's not his fault he's stupid


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