its Done .. "Gutless" F7U Cutlass

As of December 16, 2012 this 1/48 Hobbycraft Chance Vought F7U Cutlass is done.

and took sometime last night to snap some completed photos..

a model that i can close the 2012's modelling book with and looking forward to a better 2013 ahead (unless something happened in 21.12.12) :lol:

For this year i completed 6 models
1. 1/35 Trumpeter AS-90
2. 1/35 Italeri M8-Greyhound
3. 1/35 Italeri Leopard A2
4. 1/72 Kangnam RA-5C-Vigilante
5. 1/48 Trumpeter F9F-2 "Panther"
6. 1/48 Hobbycraft Chance Vought F7U Cutlass

where some of it did have a link in my blog :D

anyway on to the photos..

"Gutless" F7U Cutlass - decalling issue!

Urgh... today is the day 12.12.12! :D

So let see who is hiding somewhere..

anyway.. just a little progress on my "Gutlesss" Cutlass... not the decal stage.

The decal Hobbycraft decal is thin and register very well on the aircraft... IF you manage to get it off the backing paper.

I soaked the decal in lukewarm water, also no go.. so armed with 2 twezzers i manually and intricately "operate" on the decal and the result as follows...

unfortunately, not all decal survived the "operation", here are some of the casualties... they just wont come off the backing paper and this is a PITA to see....

So my Cutlass will have to live without these decals... next step is to assemble all the sub assemblies landing gears, landing gear doors, canopy tail-hook etc.

hopefully my next update on this would be the finish shots..

until then... oh BTW: enjoy the 12.12.12 :D

"Gutless" F7U Cutlass - silver shading - WIP

A little updates...

a continuation of my Cutlass Cutlass build entry

a shading process of the Silver Cutlass to make a bit of character out of the boring silver scheme..
the shading achieve by using a Tamiya Flat Aluminium , i would prefer nor mal Aluminium but Flat variant is all i have so Flat shading it is...

oh and excuse the green tape on the plane surface, it was meant for the next step, the masking of the decal since i foresee the decal that i have is not good so i'll opt to spray on the decal instead..

enjoy...

until later... :D

"Gutless" F7U Cutlass - bling-bling version WIP

Today update with related to my hobby for a change.. its been a while i updated something which is related to modelling..

This time around i'm doing the short lived Chance Vought F7U Cutlass in Natural Metal Finish (hence the bling-bling version)

The box art

After treatment with Mr Surfacer 1000 and painting the leading edge red

Before painting the Natural Metal color, need to prepare the base color with gloss black so that the resulted NMF finishing would be shinier and glossier... will show the effect in a bit.

After 2 layers of Tamiya X-11 Chrome Silver, this are the result.... and noted that this is my first time playing with this elusive chrome paint..

bottom

i expected it to be more bling-bling.. have to wait for another layer or so...
if given a choice i would get the Aclad Silver but time requires me to test this paint... so far so good..

Stay tune...