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Straight back from the vacation, I went on oil dot filtering the parade side of the Messerschmitt. I think I've got something like two milliliters of thinner left anymore, luckily I had ordered more just two hours earlier.
As always, while working on it I felt like a horrendous mess. Drying up toned it down quite a lot already and I expect it to look nicer tomorrow. Or hope.
I am not entirely sure if I will do anything on the black grey underside, though 🤔
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I was pleased with the sepia lines on the top side, and today I gave snow white oil wash a go. As it happens I may have been too eager and tried to do all in one go, but I'll messify this more later anyway. We'll see.
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Oil paint time! Part 1/n, today I just used some too much thinned Abteilung's Sepia on the non-black parts of the plane. Pulling most of it away and blending around just on the gut feeling left the plane looking somewhat dirty.
That was a huge improvement over the clean plane. Next I'll try a white or off-white pin wash on the the dark side, hoping it looks decent. I expect that it will behave.
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I ended up doing a bunch more of the small ones and most of the fuckers silvered like nightmares. Never owning a drop of any decal setters I swore like a pirate. Some sources suggested saving methods, 99% of them said "just use microsol lol" which I wasn't going to get until Tuesday earliest.
So I went for something I had and some suggested: Tamiya extra thin. A couple of decals got bad, most improved. Could've been worse.
I still prefer stencils and painting over decals. #Me262 #scaleModeling
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While I'm outside my modeling comfort zone already, I decided to give the decals a(nother) chance. At least in 1:72 they are loathsome and I much prefer painting the markings. But what the hell, I could try these bigger ones.
Thirty plus minutes later I got the Balkenkreuze, red twelves, serial nr in the tail plus a couple of triangles. A few small ones tomorrow and I'll call it done. I will not use all the tiny ones anyway, especially on the black belly side
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Oh my. It's been over two months already 👀
Today I got the cleaned up airbrush out again, and started masking the upper wings. I blasted a bit of RAL8017 Rotbraun for the splinters I planned earlier. The I diluted some RLM78 Hellblau and stippled some pseudorandom splotches on the sides.
I probably aren't set for stencils so I may end up using those decals. I'll probably ruin them as usual. After that I can do oils and that I enjoy 😎
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Me-262 Schwalbe In Virtual Reality | NVIDIA 5090 + Pimax Crystal Super | IL-2 Sturmovik | WWII | WW2 | via Growling Sidewinder
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This is as far as I got for now. Tomorrow I'll take my airbrush for sonic cleaning etc. I wish I could say the cloudy pattern was purposeful but oh boy how it wasn't 😅 All I intend to add, paintjob-wise is some mottling on the airframe, maybe some splinter shapes on the wings, and the Balkenkreuze.
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Some airbrushing done. Black primer, dark grey on the underside, greyish blue over the airframe and light olive over the wings. Had I attempted a cloudy coverage I'd be happy. In reality I need to get that cleaned up, I lack tools myself.
Paint does make it look better and hides some of the crimes. I've still got plenty of chances to ruin it 😅
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Ugly patching done, all the little things installed. The long antenna in the bottom poses some challenges until I get the landing gear glued in. For painting convenience I just want that crap painted separately to avoid even more swearing 😅 Those radar antlers were way easier than I expected, which was nice.
I thought I could start priming today but masking the canopy took way too long. Tomorrow, then, for the last day of a four-day weekend.