Tradewing finished old school style

ironmike8 · September 4th, 2009, 4:01 am #1 2009-09-04T04:01

I decided to stay true to the era of this kit and brush painted it even the future coat before the decals. The only real modification I did was I re shaped the spinners with some green putty since they were too short and too blunt. I did spray it with a semi gloss coat afterwards. Yellow tips on the prop blades are hand painted with no masking. I guess my hand was pretty steady that day

shogun66 · September 4th, 2009, 12:34 pm #2 2009-09-04T12:34

... Imagine that in 1/48th ?!?!? WOW.

What scale is yours? I'm assuming 1/144?

_Hatter_ · September 4th, 2009, 2:16 pm #3 2009-09-04T14:16

I decided to stay true to the era of this kit and brush painted it even the future coat before the decals. The only real modification I did was I re shaped the spinners with some green putty since they were too short and too blunt. I did spray it with a semi gloss coat afterwards. Yellow tips on the prop blades are hand painted with no masking. I guess my hand was pretty steady that day

She looks really nice!

Falcon50EX · September 4th, 2009, 11:40 pm #4 2009-09-04T23:40

I decided to stay true to the era of this kit and brush painted it even the future coat before the decals. The only real modification I did was I re shaped the spinners with some green putty since they were too short and too blunt. I did spray it with a semi gloss coat afterwards. Yellow tips on the prop blades are hand painted with no masking. I guess my hand was pretty steady that day

Well, that makes 3 Tradewinds so far for the year: Yours, Bill Dyes, and Rato Marczak's.

Very advanced technologies, very odd looking aeroplane.

WHO will be next??

Cheers,

david

Erik_H · September 5th, 2009, 4:29 am #5 2009-09-05T04:29

I decided to stay true to the era of this kit and brush painted it even the future coat before the decals. The only real modification I did was I re shaped the spinners with some green putty since they were too short and too blunt. I did spray it with a semi gloss coat afterwards. Yellow tips on the prop blades are hand painted with no masking. I guess my hand was pretty steady that day

Good build!.............nt

Bravosierra001 · September 5th, 2009, 2:36 pm #6 2009-09-05T14:36

I decided to stay true to the era of this kit and brush painted it even the future coat before the decals. The only real modification I did was I re shaped the spinners with some green putty since they were too short and too blunt. I did spray it with a semi gloss coat afterwards. Yellow tips on the prop blades are hand painted with no masking. I guess my hand was pretty steady that day

Super job on the "old school" finish! Looks like it was fun, and it looks great!!

Brandon

940735 · September 6th, 2009, 3:33 am #7 2009-09-06T03:33

I decided to stay true to the era of this kit and brush painted it even the future coat before the decals. The only real modification I did was I re shaped the spinners with some green putty since they were too short and too blunt. I did spray it with a semi gloss coat afterwards. Yellow tips on the prop blades are hand painted with no masking. I guess my hand was pretty steady that day

nm

ironmike8 · September 8th, 2009, 1:14 am #8 2009-09-08T01:14

thanks guys......nm

MattP38 · September 9th, 2009, 1:24 pm #9 2009-09-09T13:24

I decided to stay true to the era of this kit and brush painted it even the future coat before the decals. The only real modification I did was I re shaped the spinners with some green putty since they were too short and too blunt. I did spray it with a semi gloss coat afterwards. Yellow tips on the prop blades are hand painted with no masking. I guess my hand was pretty steady that day

Nice job Mike. I keep hoping for a larger scale kit to be tooled someday.

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