Small Scale Military Headquarters

Kit is from Hasegawa in 1/32.

Love the flaking on the anti-glare panel! You have a fabulous collection of models!

Axis Nightmare wrote:Love the flaking on the anti-glare panel! You have a fabulous collection of models!

Thank you Axis.
This kit is old and cheap. I think it's a good kit for beginner to try out for their 1st model.

Very nice Oscar. What color/brand yellow did you use for the wing I.D.?

USCGMK2 wrote:Very nice Oscar. What color/brand yellow did you use for the wing I.D.?

Thanks.
I used Tamiya and mixed Yellow & Red to get that color since the instructions said to use yellow orange color for that section.

Very nice!

How did you get the realistic "paint chipping" effect?

Looks very good

Thank you guys.

tman,

I did the "paint chipping" by first painted it with aluminum silver, waited a day for it completely dry, then painted that section with top color ( black in this case), then immediately I used an aluminum tape (very sticky) or any tape that sticks well, then applied to the section that I wanted the "chipping" to appear, and pulling it out real fast, and repeated it until I satisfied with the result. The black paint while still not dry yet, would stick to the aluminum tape, and left behind the bare metal silver. I hope I explained that well.
There are few ways to do it i.e. hairspray, salting...etc...Just google in youtube and they will come up.

cnq wrote:Thank you guys.

tman,

I did the "paint chipping" by first painted it with aluminum silver, waited a day for it completely dry, then painted that section with top color ( black in this case), then immediately I used an aluminum tape (very sticky) or any tape that sticks well, then applied to the section that I wanted the "chipping" to appear, and pulling it out real fast, and repeated it until I satisfied with the result. The black paint while still not dry yet, would stick to the aluminum tape, and left behind the bare metal silver. I hope I explained that well.
There are few ways to do it i.e. hairspray, salting...etc...Just google in youtube and they will come up.

That is very helpful! I've seen a variety of different methods about how to do the chipping effect. I've simply "scratched" chips on using silver paint and a stiff brush. It works well on small surfaces, but doesn't look as good on larger ones... Your method seems a simple (and realistic) way to achieve the effect

tmanthegreat wrote:

cnq wrote:Thank you guys.

tman,

I did the "paint chipping" by first painted it with aluminum silver, waited a day for it completely dry, then painted that section with top color ( black in this case), then immediately I used an aluminum tape (very sticky) or any tape that sticks well, then applied to the section that I wanted the "chipping" to appear, and pulling it out real fast, and repeated it until I satisfied with the result. The black paint while still not dry yet, would stick to the aluminum tape, and left behind the bare metal silver. I hope I explained that well.
There are few ways to do it i.e. hairspray, salting...etc...Just google in youtube and they will come up.

That is very helpful! I've seen a variety of different methods about how to do the chipping effect. I've simply "scratched" chips on using silver paint and a stiff brush. It works well on small surfaces, but doesn't look as good on larger ones... Your method seems a simple (and realistic) way to achieve the effect

You're welcome.
Now when would we be able to see the big B17 you've been playing with

Progress on the B-17 has stalled the past few weeks, largely due to some increased demands with my job I'm hoping things will quiet down soon and then I'll be able to get back in the groove of things with that model. Now that the weather is warming up and is a little less wet, conditions are getting perfect for model building