A British Aeronef

[gamer Mac]

Reddy brown, sort of!
I liked the pictures of one painted by thunderchicken recently.

[Plynkes]

I think it looks real good in the dark grey it is now, at least for the metal parts. Wooden decks, of course.

[Gluteus Maximus]

I agree, the grey scheme looks far more "British". TC's colour scheme is splendid, though, it looks very "Jules Verne" to me - which can only be a good thing 

[Ray Rivers]

I have now started the paint.
One hint, if you are ever going to be as silly as me and build something like this. Paint the area before you cover the whole side of the lower deck in netting. It is impossible to paint!

Sounds like you need on of my "L shaped brushes"...



 

[gamer Mac]

I think it looks real good in the dark grey it is now, at least for the metal parts. Wooden decks, of course.

Its not dark grey at the moment that's just a crappy can of GW Chaos black that never worked very well, half the thing was black, half was white/grey. I am intending to do a lighter colour wooden deck.

I agree, the grey scheme looks far more "British". TC's colour scheme is splendid, though, it looks very "Jules Verne" to me - which can only be a good thing 

I think the colour scheme just screams VSF. I am not sure if grey would be a bit boring.

Sounds like you need on of my "L shaped brushes"...



 

Have you got a patent pending for that idea 
I might have to steal it

[Furt]

Reddy brown, sort of!
I liked the pictures of one painted by thunderchicken recently.

I like the brown as well - the deck looks good.

A hard choice me thinks?

[gamer Mac]

The pictures of the painting before were not very good so I took another couple.





I am intending to paint the rivet strips around the edge a brass colour. The deck will be painted a light brown. Most other bits will be the reddy brown, brass or bear metal. The only bit of colour will be the blue, white and red rudders.

[OSHIROmodels]

RED!!! 

Brill, looking good 

cheers

James

[Malamute]

Looking excellent already.

[OSHIROmodels]

Am I right in thinking that the red is from a spray can?

cheers

James

[gamer Mac]

No GW Dark Flesh pot

[OSHIROmodels]

Looks a nice smooth coat 

cheers

James

[gamer Mac]

The painting is taking a lot longer than I thought. It makes me wish I had an airbrush. Trying to get an even coat of paint over the large surfaces has been murder.



I am getting there though. Starting to get a better idea of what it will look like when it’s finished.



Still got a lot of the details to do but I thinks it’s starting to come together. I will get there eventually.

[Wirelizard]

Looks great so far!

When it's done, take it outside somewhere for pictures - by far the best light!

[OSHIROmodels]

Looking cracking mate     

Find the biggest and softest brush you have and use that for the drybrushing and build it up slowly, I find that tends to ease the problem of large blank areas.

cheers

James