The Lansen restoration project (3 x Heller 1/72)

[PR19_Kit]

Pink undercoat does work with a brush, yes, but you still need LOTS of coats of yellow to finish it off.

[NARSES2]

Pink undercoat does work with a brush, yes, but you still need LOTS of coats of yellow to finish it off.

Yup pink does work, but you need to experiment with the shade of pink to use. It tends to depend on whose yellow you are using 

[Scotaidh]

Following some advice from one of you blokes, I bought a large rattle-can of "appliance white" and find that does really well as a base coat for most light colour final coats ... like yellow. 

I intensely dislike the whole 'masking for spraying' evolution, which is why I'm a member of the 'Hairy Stick Club,' but even I can't deny how smooth a finish is provided by the spray.  So, I've come to use the white for all my "prototype" builds - either for the entire model or as the undercoat for the yellow under-surfaces. 

[NARSES2]

Yup, Appliance White is one of the few sprays I use, also being a hairy stick user. I also find that Halfords white primer produces a surface that with a couple of coats of Klear is almost as good.

For yellow I tend to use a very pale pink undercoat, applied to white primer. Find that then means far less yellow top coats. What is it about yellow 

[Pellson]

This thread is in dire need of an update, it seems.

As mentioned in my blog, the three Lansens are now decalled and varnished. They will now get a matt layer on top and some details painted that should be gloss, such as camera ports, f.i.
I will also have to dig up and complete the backstory embryo I started on last spring.

[Pellson]

Continuing revival of ancient project threads, all three Lansens are currently waiting for their respective loadouts, otherwise being finished. I like them a lot, and I feel the two tone Draken camouflage really works well.

The strike attack A32D below for show

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[chrisonord]

Nice. I am currently working on a lansen, but it's back story and new name are not so Swedish. 

[Captain Canada]

That looks awesome ! Nice work.

[Andrew Gorman]

That is a sharp looking Lansen!  I've always liked them.

[Dizzyfugu]

The small wing roundels on the D look odd but cool! 

[zenrat]

It's not struck me before but the Lansen and the Swift share a look.

[PR19_Kit]

It's not struck me before but the Lansen and the Swift share a look.

And an engine. 

[Pellson]

The small wing roundels on the D look odd but cool! 

It's to provide some low vis against the ground. In actual life, however, I've found that the markings on top of the wings were to be overpainted in wartime, but I found that just a tad boring.. 

It's not struck me before but the Lansen and the Swift share a look.

And an engine. 

Actually - no. The Hunter and the Lansen does, as they're both powered by Avons. The Swift used the Sapphire, right?

[NARSES2]

It's not struck me before but the Lansen and the Swift share a look.

They do, don't they

[PR19_Kit]

Actually - no. The Hunter and the Lansen does, as they're both powered by Avons. The Swift used the Sapphire, right?

Noooooooooo, the service Swifts all used Avons of one mark or another, 109s on the early ones and 114s, with afterburners, on the Mk4 - 7s.

I'll admit that Swifts LOOK fat enough for a centrifugal Ghost or similar, but that's a hang-over from the prototype 510 etc. which used Nenes.