My buddy and I are building the same A/C, the Trumpeter 1/32 Hornet. I’m going for a show winner. If you see something that may need improved toss it out there. I really want this to be good. My weak points in the past have been on assembly based on comps I’ve entered. Seems that’s where i fall short. Now most of that is done at this point but suffice it to say I’ve spent gobs of time cleaning up stupid mold marks and getting the fuselage to fit cleanly. Now it’s all about the paint. Let’s take a look at progress to date
Look just at the front of the vertical tail slot, see that damn mold line. Jeez Trumpeter! There was one at the back as well.
Crazy out of proportion without the slats and flaps isn’t it!
This was tough but at least the line over the top was a good design choice Trumpeter.
Even on the bottom I’m gonna clean it up.
Wait for it…say it with a British accent
And now i return you to our regularly scheduled program. You’re all caught up
So far everything looks like it’s heading in the right direction for contest quality.
I’ve got almost 30 hours into drawing squares and rectangles so far. At least i learned along the way. Initially i did the light ghost grey masks, cut them out and found it took an entire football game sunday afternoon to apply them to both wings. Jeez that was monotonous. Now i learned how to draw in layers in the Silhouette software. So i do an outline, then a layer for each color, light and dark ghost grey, blue, and black. Cut those out and then i can overlay each color much quicker.
