Re: 1/48 A-7B VA-93
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 11:39 pm
Hey! Looking good! Are you going to brush paint the exterior as well??
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Re: 1/48 A-7B VA-93
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 8:46 am
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.
Re: 1/48 A-7B VA-93
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 9:31 am
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.
Re: 1/48 A-7B VA-93
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 10:11 am
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.
Re: 1/48 A-7B VA-93
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 1:12 pm
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.
Re: 1/48 A-7B VA-93
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 1:56 pm
Very true
Re: 1/48 A-7B VA-93
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 2:03 pm
Very nice Stik! I really like the gun sight. 
Re: 1/48 A-7B VA-93
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 3:47 pm
Thanks Mike. It’s getting there, slow but sure.
Re: 1/48 A-7B VA-93
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 5:37 pm
That's a great bit of scratch-building Carlos - nice work!
Re: 1/48 A-7B VA-93
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 6:44 pm
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” 