pickelhaube wrote:Man the pylon stubs look GREAT !! It looks like they grew on the helo . How did you match the paint ? How did you paint the nav lights ?
GREAT JOB !!!
Pickel,
After you and DeanKleines figured out you can get Home Depot to paint match and I successfully did my F14 with his make-up pad method, I decided to use this on the pave hawk.
When you go to Home Depot (I brought the rear tail elevator as it has all three colors) just ask for the "sample" size container of Acrylic and make sure you get the "flat" finish - I think it is Behr brand - he only asked if I wanted Flat or "semi-gloss" I think - so go for flat it matches great, especially after doing a ProModellers Wash over everything. The grey has some weathering that BBI did so if you don't weather afterwards you may have a lighter grey if you paint an area near their weathered grey. After I post weathered with ProModeller's Wash (black) I couldn't tell at all.
I didn't glue anything on yet, as I wanted the option to put on the extended range fuel tanks and their winglets, or remove the fuel probe. The window inserts fit snug enough to not need glue. On the center mounted FLIR pod or Radome, I cut your panel section off as it was just too thick and looked a little "toyish" and sanding it was taking to long so just trimmed it off completely.
For the Nav Lights, I tried unsuccessfully to do a clear light using various methods (glues, decopauge, etc..) I was going to paint clear red and clear green over these but could never get the right shape to the finished result so just used your (Pickel's) Nav Lights and used a ModelMaster Stop Light Red and a Dark Green.