AndrewR's Weary Warhawk **Wescued**

[Ian]

She's looking very nice.
What's with the funky camo on the Pz.IV?

[AndrewR]

She's looking very nice.
What's with the funky camo on the Pz.IV?

It's one of Graham's ready built tanks , so I think a little artistic licence went into the paint. The battle for Normandy is raging over the train layout...
The kitchen table was Hogwarts yesterday...

[ShaunW]

That's looking very good Andrew and there's no shortage of targets for it to strafe there by the looks

[fredk]

Looking good.

[Dazzled]

Looking good Andrew and a nice change from all the Airfix new-tool P40s (good as they are) being built recently

It's turning out better than I expected, looking at the sprues

I still have to do a desert Kittyhawk though.

I thought that as soon as I saw one

[AndrewR]

Canopy frames handpainted with US OD from the Vallejo Model Colour range.



Still needs a bit of tweaking.



And on the stand...

[Dazzled]

Good job painting those canopy frames by hand Andrew. Looks as good as a masked off paintjob.

Is this one in the finished pile now?

[AndrewR]

Good job painting those canopy frames by hand Andrew. Looks as good as a masked off paintjob.

Is this one in the finished pile now?

Not quite Darryl. A toothpick clean up on the canopy, some exhaust and gun stains and attaching the propeller and canopy. One more session at the bench, I hope.

Then I must crack on with the Harriers in SB-land.

Cheers

[ShaunW]

Very nice and good work on the canopy. Hand painting the frames and cleaning off excess with a cocktail stick or toothpick is still my preferred method on small scale aircraft - I just can't be bothered messing about with all the additional masking on top of that I have to do on the main airframe!

[AndrewR]

Very nice and good work on the canopy. Hand painting the frames and cleaning off excess with a cocktail stick or toothpick is still my preferred method on small scale aircraft - I just can't be bothered messing about with all the additional masking on top of that I have to do on the main airframe!

I picked up some 3 mm masking tape at the model show recently, and it was great for masking the vertical lines, so I sprayed those. I unmasked and masked the canopy edges with the tape and then hand painted the lower edges. So a bit of both techniques!

cheers

Andrew

[AndrewR]

All things now stuck on.




I may have to put a bit of PVA glue in the gap under the canopy.

I've done a bit of pastel shading for the exhaust fumes and also powder stains from the guns. As a paid up member of the "Less is More" school of weathering, I intend to leave it as is now.

[Dazzled]

Woo hoo.

Another finish. Well done Andrew. The finished Warhawk looks terrific.

[AndrewR]

I'll get some photos with a proper camera for the gallery!

[AndrewR]

I'll declare the Weary Warhawk "Wescued"

Now, where is that weaselly wabbit?

[Stuart]

Very nice - P-40s are the coolest looking aircraft...