Author Topic: Modellers question III (Read 543 times)

frank3 · « **on:** June 09, 2004, 08:10:09 AM »

I'm making a Consolidated PBY-5a Catalina.
The top is navy blue (or blue/grey) and the bottom is white.

The top I weathered using tape and chipp the paint off (with alluminium coat underneath it)

Chipping the white paint will be a bit useless since the metal will be hard to be visible over white so Im planning to use some darkish chalk to 'dirty-up' the bottom.

What color chalk do you suggest? Burnt metal? Black? Brown? Greyish?

Thanks alot!

Scootter · « **Reply #1 on:** June 09, 2004, 08:35:36 AM »

I am building the PBY5 now and I used a very thin gray black wash to bring up the engraving and to look like the surface dirt (I wiped off in the direction of the airflow).

The Navy keep things well touched up due to the salt spray was not good on aluminum so ge easy on the chipping (I did only a very small bit)remember these were flown off wate most of the time so not as much chipping as the land planes.

I am doing the gear in the up position and am having one prop turning (clear disk lightly painted, glued to hub with blades removed) and the other in the feathered position. I will be putting this up in the EAA hanger meeting room.

Remember they faded and got dirty but not much chipping IMO

Have fun

frank3 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 09, 2004, 09:57:58 AM »

Haha, just when I got over-excited and chipped alot!
Oh well it looks pretty good anyway...

Thanks mate

debuman · « **Reply #3 on:** June 09, 2004, 10:08:13 AM »

These posts need pics!:)

xrtoronto · « **Reply #4 on:** June 09, 2004, 12:20:59 PM »

geez frank, when I saw the subject line... I thought you were dating a model:lol

frank3 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 10, 2004, 05:47:40 AM »

I'll post em when it's ready Debuman, in about 1 week tops.

You know nothing yet squid

frank3 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 10, 2004, 12:39:02 PM »

Here are some previews, the quality of the pics are VERY bad because my hi-tech digital camera couldn't handle the macro zoom....

These are of my PBY-5 Catalina and B-26B under construction.

frank3 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 10, 2004, 12:40:30 PM »

Once again, sorry for the quality, blaim my camera

gofaster · « **Reply #8 on:** June 10, 2004, 12:56:00 PM »

Nice job on that bombsight and swivel machine gun!

Did you "drybrush" the silver highlights to bring out the detail? Looks good!

One thing I have never been able to master is painting the fuselage and wings prior to assembly/mating. I usually reserve the painting of the major parts until the wings and fuselage have been mated, so that I can sand the seams down to match, and then paint the whole thing at one time.

I like the weathering you've done on the top wing. I just hope you don't lose some of it when you have repaint the wing after the wing is joined to the fuselage. Or do you have the ability to do small touch-up with the airbrush?

frank3 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 10, 2004, 01:10:40 PM »

Here are some better ones.

gofaster · « **Reply #10 on:** June 10, 2004, 01:30:54 PM »

Excellent work!

Except for this part:

A small dap of cement would fix that right up.

frank3 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 10, 2004, 01:53:36 PM »

Yeah the gap...

unfortunately, the model was from Airfix, and Airfix isn't well known for it's high quality models...the gap, along with some other manufacturer mistakes I couldn't hide...

For instance, the bottom fuselage doesn't seem to really join together.

The .50 machine guns for the waists looked awfull, so I scrap-built 2 of them.

I used 2 machine guns left over from an other modell, I cutted hundreds and hundreds of small pieces of metal wire, representing bullets and glued em onto a strap of paper representing the bullet belt

Also the waist-gunners compartiment hadn't got any detail, so I made some bulkheads, walk-path and fuselage ribs from paper.

frank3 · « **Reply #12 on:** June 10, 2004, 01:59:20 PM »

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Originally posted by gofaster
Nice job on that bombsight and swivel machine gun! Did you "drybrush" the silver highlights to bring out the detail?

Yes, well you know how it works.

The bombsight I did with masking everything except the parts you want painted...hell who am I explaining to, guys like you give ME modellers tips

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Originally posted by gofaster
I like the weathering you've done on the top wing. I just hope you don't lose some of it when you have repaint the wing after the wing is joined to the fuselage. Or do you have the ability to do small touch-up with the airbrush?

Well that wouldn't be a large problem, I can't really 'touch-up' with my airbrush (it's a monster

) But I can just spray over the messed up part and do the chipping all over again.

I first applied a coat of Alluminium, then a coat of Future to protect it against the chipping.
Then the base coat and started tearing up with tape!

Great fun btw

slimm50 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 10, 2004, 02:47:46 PM »

It's gonna look pretty realistic when ya finish it, but it's gonna look like ya rescued it from the airplane graveyard in Arizona, or somewhere.

But certainly a better modelling job than I've ever done. Good job.

frank3 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 10, 2004, 02:52:13 PM »

Yeah well I got a little over-excited with the chipping, I never done it before and it worked fine at the first time! You can imagine how much fun that is