Luft46's Blog

As a break from serious kits I have started this old clunker rescued from the crap pile at the Wollongong show last year. I passed on attending this year as it was somewhat lacklustre. Hopefully I will get there next year and it will be back to its usual variety.
I built this kit way back in my youth around 12 to 16 years old so in honour of that I am going mostly old school. I am not going to do much cleanup and finessing as it would be more like lipstick on a pig. I will probably airbrush and I’m using Milliput but tarting up will be kept to a minimum. I remember using the old technique of glue plus sprue as a filler then , back then this was a new technique, though I do recall it smelled and sometimes worked too well.
Attached below are some quick progress shots ending with where I am up to now, sanding off the first layer of Milliput. As it is all raised panel lines many of these will disappear but I am not going to try and fix this. The wheels are painted matt black tyres and gloss black inners as I did back in the day. I will be mostly following the instructions even down to colour choice. It is a pity I can’t use some of the horrendous Duck Egg blue shades from Airfix from those days but i switched from enamels years ago. I expect that my splinter camo won’t be quite authentic as in those days of brush painting the demarcation lines would be quite raised as the paint came up against the lovely thick masking tape I would have used.