SPA Modeler

I’ve been contemplating it and experimenting, too.

Check this out:





I sprayed my Tamiya Zinc Chromate over the black. Then hit it with Tamiya Clear. Then I blasted it with hairspray. Next came a rough approximation of Insignia White, which still looks a little too white to me. After that, I moistened a sharp cotton bud and went to town. I was happy with the effect, but unhappy with what happened to the Zinc Chromate underneath. It turned interior green on me LOL This is a function of that color being sprayed over black. Now, if you spray enough on there, it’ll look like yellow Zinc Chromate. But I’m willing to wager that during the chipping process, some of that color came off along with the white, thus dropping the opacity too much and letting the black show through, turning it green. Okay. Fine. Windex the bastard and try again. Which is precisely what I’m doing. This time I’m going to spray silver over the black. Then, I’m gonna bomb the living Bejesus out of those wheel wells with the Zinc Chromate. Then let it rest and set up extra long. After that, the hairspray, and then Insignia White.

So stay tuned for the Do-Over. I’ll document each step here.

That’s rad!

Also, thank you for sharing that link with me a few comments back! Those pictures are great!



Such good stuff!

That would certainly take it up a notch, Bruce. There wouldn’t be flatness. You know how stuff can buil-up, right? That’s what you’d be simulating along with the chipping. And it’d probably be pretty awesome.

And yep. On the redo, I’m not going to be as aggressive. Debris doesn’t hit that metal in a side to side motion. It doesn’t rub pint off like that. It’s a front to back, and bouncing around type of thing I bet.

Bro. This is so much fun to think about and try out.

It is FUN



Are there any cables — splatter paint separately then glue in place...

The 1:48 kit’s details in the wheel wells aren’t all that well-detailed. God damn limitations of Polystyrene... on my To-Do list is learning how to scratch-build the finer details like that. Because sooner or later I’m gonna want to do BIG HOG in 1:32 and you better believe that Corsair Do-Over is gonna be super-detailed. Super-Corsair, like my Super Emil Jr. idea.

Also, Bruce, the Corsair is fast becoming my favorite airplane. I’m not saying it’s surpassing the Emil. I’m just saying I’m glad we have Axis and Allies, because I need more than one favorite aircraft.