The womb
09-23-2009 :: Undercoating
Then I tried something new.
Some 20 years ago, there was some decent LHS in the town I lived in and the guy always boasted this or that. One day he told me "You know Bill Horan? he spends only a couple of hours painting his figs, he just undercoats them with thinned down black oil paint, waits for a night and then wipes the excesses with some brush and adds highlights"
Sounded pretty crude, and then i learned after that BHoran uses only Enamel.
Whatever, i decided to give it a try with some thinned down dark green oil paint with turpentine to see how it would look like
09-23-2009 :: Oil painting...
So i waited for one full night removed the excesses and painted some highlights..
Oh dear, the turpentine turned the thing in a ultra glossy base and whatever the light I was working on, either day or artificial, everything was reverberating so much i had some deep troubles ending the job!
So maybe I should have use some white spirit instead, I dunno..
Not really sure the trick was that good, but then I set up only spending 2 hours on the painting
In the end I got this:
You may notice a big highlight zone on the right foot!
09-25-2009 :: Painting the 2 halves
First painting the 2 halves, Valejo gunmetal for the guns, a mix between greens and blacks for the rest. Nothing too well done either..
09-25-2009 :: Fitting the gunner in the ball turret
.. because in the end what will we be able to see from the interior?
09-25-2009 :: Closing the 2 halves of the ball turret
Time to close the 2 halves and trim and sand etc..
09-25-2009 :: Trapdoors and pipes
You may notice I had the round opening PE part ready on the glamour undercoated pics.
I managed not to loose it which is pretty impressive by my standards.. For the rest it was just a matter of filling with white Squadron putty which is why you can't see much joint.
The ball turret is getting its complement of trapdoors (lead foil) and pipe plugs..
09-25-2009 :: Masking tape
What a mess!! that was not easy to fill the turret with masking tape! I had to litterary *fill* the whole thing as I don't want my oh so finely painted pilot ending up looking like a silvery space adventurer.
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