It’s summer here in Sydney and supposedly it should be hot beach weather, at least that was my plan for this week. It looks like that is not very likely. Over the last few days of holidays I have been doing a lot of modelling and other leisure activities like losing to my son at Monopoly, he’s almost as gracious a winner as I am ( not) and seeing the new Star Wars like half the western world and JOY with Jennifer Lawrence who looks like a young Zellwiger in this.
Anyway belong is a quick summary of where I am up to. Nothing is finished and despite the bad compressor I have been pushing on with my painting.
First up is the P1000 from Takom after it’s second coat of Tamiya TS3 Dark Yellow spray can paint. It needs a third coat and a little sanding for a paint run and a large hair before I add any other colours. I chose the spray can as I know these are good as I always use their undercoat. I don’t know how they compare to the legendary Halfords from the UK but they do the job.
Next up is the Natter which I did in IJA Grey, not sure whether it should be IJA or IJN but as it is J46 who cares. This is again in Tamiya spray can but I have had lots of issues with the canopy masking and will be decanting some spray for touchups.
The Toad BV P202 is still progressing with RLM 75 added to the main body and the wing via airbrush. The masking again let me down a little here – something I need to work on though this may be more of an airbrushing issue. I need to do RLM 82 then touchups with RLM 76 for the above mistakes.
Lastly is the BV 40, this kit is coming along nicely and just needs a single spray of 82 via airbrush. Again the humidity is killing me on this one.
So given the weather I am going to hve to do more construction work , first stop may be some part finished kits – watch this space.And finally something less serious
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