Engines were painted with
Humbrol Metalcote Steel which is superb stuff. It goes
on as a very flat dark grey but when polished up it takes
on a very convincing metal look. The engine nozzles were
done in two different shades of Testors Metalizer. Basic
airframe (or is that spaceframe??) colour is Gunze H338
Light Gray FS36495 because, as everyone knows, US Federal
Standard colours are used throughout the known - and unknown
- universe. I used the kit decals for most of the markings
though did elect to paint on some of the brown areas.
Oooh... a shiny new penny!
These are my first attempts at painting figures since
I were a wee nipper. The dark grey I used as a wash shows
up black here for some reason, perhaps I should have gone
with a slightly lighter grey but what the hell, it still
looks okay I think. R2 is done with decals of course,
as much as I'd like to take credit for that paint job.
Note that despite FineMolds' supposedly meticulous research
they managed to mould the pilot figures in mirror image;
the flare(?!) belt around the lower leg should be on the
right leg, not the left. Yeah, that's a bit pedantic of
me I know....
Hmmmm.... is it me, or
does that look suspiciously like the lower half of a Tamiya
logo, albeit with reversed colours?! FineMolds did an
exceptional job of recreating the studio models, right
down to the bits cannibalised from kits such as the rear
deck from a German tank (left side of pic) that the original
model makers used. Also note how well the decals on the
R2 unit fit.
Intakes were painted black, I
then punched holes in pieces of tape and cut these
in half to produce masks. Normally I would paint
lighter colours first, but in this case I found
it much easier to mask this way and then spray the
light grey over the black. Only minor touch ups
were needed afterwards as you can see in the right
hand picture.
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