1/48 A-7B VA-93

[speedgraflex]

Hey! Looking good! Are you going to brush paint the exterior as well??

[Stikpusher]

Thanks Bruce. No brush painting on the exterior. White, especially acrylics, is way to much of a bear to hand brush nicely. I will be setting up my airbrush to do the external colors.

[speedgraflex]

Nice! I was wondering about brush painting since the cockpit was painted so well with brushes. You are definitely right about white - brush painting white acrylic is tough. Thanks for the explanation.

[Stikpusher]

The cockpit is easy with brushes. Grays, blacks, and greens usually give great one coat coverage. I have yet to find a white acrylic (at least since Polly S went away) that gives proper one coat coverage with a brush. Especially with any of the brushes that I seem to find nowadays. As it stands right now, it takes too many coats to get a good white base handbrushed. Especially on larger areas such as the surfaces of a 1/48 or larger scale aircraft.

[speedgraflex]

Similar to painting the white exteriors of most “2001 ASO” spaceships, you have to use what will work best. Look forward to your next moves.

[Stikpusher]

Very true

[Medicman71]

Very nice Stik! I really like the gun sight.

[Stikpusher]

Thanks Mike. It’s getting there, slow but sure.

[Stuart]

That's a great bit of scratch-building Carlos - nice work!

[Stikpusher]

Thanks Stuart. Just a bit of time sanding, drilling, and filing. I suppose that since I used kit sprue, it still counts as “out of the box”