Focke Wulf Ta152 1/72 Revell (ex-Frog)
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Yes - another project started.
This one is a bit of an experiment.
I was looking at another 1/72 build on a modelling website where the builder had used a cut down paintprush to achieve what to me looked like a very good mottle effect. I though this cheap and cheerful "oldie" might be a good test bed for me to try out his technique. German mottle camouflage is normally done with an airbrush but my airbrushing skills are too crude to get a realistic effect in this scale.
As for the kit itself, it's a 2000s Revell boxing of a kit originally issued by Frog way back in 1970 so is pretty basic and crude in many areas. There is no interior detail of any note apart from a very unrelaistic representation of the pilot's seat. I don't intend to make any attempt to improve matters so to fill the space, I am painting the pilot and popping him in the cockpit. The detailing of the pilot figure is a bit blobby so there isn't much that can be done to make him look any better. However, you won't be able to see much of him anyway under the thick plastic of the canopy.
None of this bothers me as the aim here is to get to the main painting stage as quickly as possible so I can try out the mottling.
And basic assembly already accomplished. On to the painting -
This one is a bit of an experiment.
I was looking at another 1/72 build on a modelling website where the builder had used a cut down paintprush to achieve what to me looked like a very good mottle effect. I though this cheap and cheerful "oldie" might be a good test bed for me to try out his technique. German mottle camouflage is normally done with an airbrush but my airbrushing skills are too crude to get a realistic effect in this scale.
As for the kit itself, it's a 2000s Revell boxing of a kit originally issued by Frog way back in 1970 so is pretty basic and crude in many areas. There is no interior detail of any note apart from a very unrelaistic representation of the pilot's seat. I don't intend to make any attempt to improve matters so to fill the space, I am painting the pilot and popping him in the cockpit. The detailing of the pilot figure is a bit blobby so there isn't much that can be done to make him look any better. However, you won't be able to see much of him anyway under the thick plastic of the canopy.
None of this bothers me as the aim here is to get to the main painting stage as quickly as possible so I can try out the mottling.
And basic assembly already accomplished. On to the painting -
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