A sidestep from panzers and BattleMechs, I started on a 1:72 #Revell F-15E I got from Santa. This'll be the first of three, and I have nerdily obvious and silly paintjobs in mind for them. I mean, that's the only reason I wanted a semimodern jet to begin with 😅
To avoid decals I went for a jeweling effect on the numerous MFDs on the instrument panels. No one'll see them when the set is sealed, but it was fun anyway. It'll be days before I get to paint anything, I imagine.
Progress on the nerdy Strike Eagle, transformed with a bit of red primer from bits of plastic into something slightly more planelike. The kitchen lights and the phone camera make it look a bit radioactive, but in a couple of days it'll be sporting a grey basecoat, maybe even metallics before I start masking.
Let's see how that goes, it'll be another "feels correct to me" 😄
Said F-15E got so very boring with a layer of Vallejo USAF Medium Grey but fear not, it _will_ be nerdified!
I just need to decide on the painting and therefore the masking order. Lots of ddg'ng has been spent on checking sources, which has led me to feel I've got a few choices to make.
#ScaleModeling #WIP #nerdiness
After spending way too many decimeters of masking tape between three airbrushing sessions the regocnizable paintjob part is done for the first of three F-15s in this megaproject of mine. Seeing this makes me surprisingly happy 😄
I've still got to do the metallics, fix a few bits where the crappy painter's tape failed, and the roundels. How in the Empire do I do those? Print some on an A4 and cut out as stencils? 🤔
Another long masking session with a few minutes of airbrushing done yesterday. I fixed the previous few oversprays and covered the engine platings and nozzles with Vallejo's gunmetal. That left some tight spots to be fixed with a brush later, but that's ok.
Maybe the landing gear bays with the wheels and a few darker grey panels next?
One could think I have invested in shares of the masking/painter's tape manufacturers. I made some silly tape-based stencils. It started as a scaled-down and printed insignia, which I used for cutting a piece of 0,5mm styrene into a template for reusability. All this for a few silly blasts of airbrush 😄 I just hope the result looks like Decepticon icon.
Also, attempt at heat staining on the engines. Mostly stippled blue wash and some violet one later.
Visible fun additions are pretty much done for the F-15E, and I guess everyone and their grandmother can now tell it's #Starscream, one of the three foremost #Decepticon #Seekers. Before the gloss varnish I'll add the wheels and drop tanks.
And yes, I know, I took some, eh, liberties with the Decepticon roundels to get them airbrushed on. I only added the eyes afterwards, I don't trust my freehanding enough to add the rest by hand. So it's more G1 cartoon style than of perfect repeatability 😄
Instead of a finely controlled and elegant pin wash I covered the whole F-15E model in a dynamic thinness wash of Abteilung's Sepia. After a bit of time I cleaned it mostly up. There's still more to do, and I'll use some dot filtering and/or buff later on some bits, and a bit of Industrial Earth on the underside. I think 😄
The drop tank gluing sucks badly, and the left landing gear came off. This fiddliness aggravates me to no end.
#WIP #ScaleModeling #OilPaints #weathering #Decepticon #Seeker
And then one of the cats knocked the damn thing to the floor. Nose wheel broke and the repair looks like it was AI-generated 😅
I applied a yellow-grey-buff dot filtering on the top, used some Industrial Earth on the bottom and satin varnished the thing. Too shiny, will do a matt one later. And after that I'll drybrush some black on the Vulcan port, maybe the vents too.
#ScaleModeling #WIP #OilPaints #weathering #Decepticon #Seeker
One third of my wonderfully silly #Decepticon #Seeker project is done with a 1:72-scale #Starscream - hooray!
I'm quite happy with him, even if the model suffered a couple of setbacks. These final photos need cleanup, but I guess this shows the result well enough to celebrate :D
Now I need to buy, build and paint the other two Seekers!
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