Managed to get some work done tonight. I’m on a roll I guess. 🙂 First I laid blutack around the demarcation lines. I originally laid some masking tape over the darker gray before the blutack to prevent overspray. Too much work though so for the rest I just went straight with blutack. To make sure …...

I’ve decided on the color scheme! Nope, not going with splinter camo this time… 😀 For the darker shade of gray, I’m using Life Color Light Gray (FS 36251). The camo was done freehand. This is actually my first time I’m airbrushing Life Color and I have to say that while it hand brushes very …...

Painting continues. First I masked off the bottom to prevent overspray. Then the lightest shade is sprayed. This is Model Master Neutral Gray. I think I’ll switch to white primer from now on. It’s so hard to differentiate the gray of the paint and the gray of the primer I have on the kit. 😛 …...

Painting begins. First up I sprayed the bottom an overall Gunship Grey. The outside of the vertical tailfins were likewise painted in Gunship Grey. I decided not to preshade this time round. Notice the hole I drilled onto the bottom of the kit to prepare for the rod and base. Yep, it’s slightly off-center. And …...

Work has resumed. I’ve been playing around with the line art to come up with some interesting camouflage schemes: Right now I’m leaning towards #07 or #09 but I’ll see how it goes. Meanwhile, I’m finally done with the endless putty + sanding. The top was given a grey colored primer while the bottom was …...