HARRIER GR.1/GR.3 EPISODE.6 In this episode we go over the fundamentals of bringing our fuselage together and to get the tricking moving engines to go in to our aircraft, we show you how to and what glues to use like Tamiya extra thin plus Mr.Cement SP Black. MC132 Mr. CEMENT SP Black is a black…
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F-14D SUPER TOMCAT EPISODE.12 Time for some decaling, which bills has a tricking one to lay down for you, it will need some cutting with the doors and pitot tubes to go around, he even gets round to dirtying up them wheels to add that nice bit of extra detail. Special Tools: Tamiya : Decal Tweezers…
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HARRIER GR.1/GR.3 EPISODE.5 Weathering the cockpit, is started by using ammo’s oil brushers, this time to bring out the finer details of the instrument panels and ejection seat, and to also give the hole cockpit a feathered dirty look, this is followed by adding a matt coat to bring all the areas together under one…
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F-14D SUPER TOMCAT EPISODE.11 This product has the correct colour to accurately represent the gritty surface used on the areas where the crew steps on to avoid slipping. Apply directly from the container and spread the paste with a brush. For optimal results apply two layers, the second layer perpendicularly to the first, in order…
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HARRIER GR.1/GR.3 EPISODE.4 With the 3d decals in place now, we can begin some painting, from basics to washes to highlighting, we will cover a bit of chipping and move along to adding photo-etch seat belts and then do oil wash weathering in the cockpit tube and ejection seat. Special Tools: Trumpeter : Tweezers Set :…
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F-14D SUPER TOMCAT EPISODE.10 Bill continues with the build by spraying down a gloss coat ready for decaling, but keeping to Tamiya LP paints just to try the gloss out there for the first time, he then goes in to some nice detail on how to weather up your exhaust cans, from the spraying to…
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HARRIER GR.1/GR.3 EPISODE.3 3D Decaling is what it’s about in this episode, but are they good or bad, is it better to stick with photo-etch, or maybe the Manufacturer “kits world” are just not up to the task, lets find out and get decaling, O and a bit more photo-etch to do as well. Special…
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F-14D SUPER TOMCAT EPISODE.9 Bill starts this episode of with spraying a nice filter on top of the upper top coat on our F-14, This is followed by sorting out all the little bits now, from spraying the black nose, finding the right colour matching yellow for our decals, to spraying the weapons on this…
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HARRIER GR.1/GR.3 EPISODE.2 Moving along with episode 2, I begin to add some contact points for our 3d decals to be able to be laid down on using some spare photo-etch we have left over, I also begin scratch building the rear of the cockpit because kinetic did not add any there. Special Tools: Eduard :…
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F-14D SUPER TOMCAT EPISODE.8 Moving along with the pre-shading bill starts to add the top coats, bill goes in to detail on how to not kill of pre-shading that has been done before hand, and how to keep them blues and browns to just keep showing though, this is followed by some final bleaching of…
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