I was browsing on eBay the other day and found this model of an assembled Corsair
I’m just astounded by this!
My models look like they’ve been assembled by a Chimpanzee by comparison. How did he pull off the weathering? How did he manage to color the fine lines between the body panels? How did he do the blackening around the cockpit control bases and the silver & black edging around the engine?
Obviously an airbrush is involved for some of the work but that’s about all I can discern.
-B
Airbrushed, lie you guessed, while still on the sprues, and most likely assembled with ACC instead of MEK so the paint doesn’t melt. Everything else is an exercise in judicious masking.
Heck of a lot better than I do with my trains, BTW.
Even by the standards of good modelling, that Corsair is awesome.
The weathering’s just patient airbrushwork. It looks like he did the top and bottom in light base colours and then added detail in slightly darker blues, tracing panel lines, and probably using a pin or knife to paint the inside of panel lines and joints. That’s how I would have done it, but I couldn’t possibly have done 1/10th that good a job. The guy is just a really talented artist.
The cockpit detail is probably done with magnifying lenses and a pin. With enough attention to detail and patience it’s not hard to do most of that.
The part I am really amazed with the wear on the underside of the cockpit control face, where the pilot’s legs are. It’s really extraordinary.
“How did he pull off the weathering?”
Airbrush probably
" How did he manage to color the fine lines between the body panels?:
applied a darker wash,then wiped most of it off.
" How did he do the blackening around the cockpit control bases and the silver & black edging around the engine?"
Standard drybrushing techniques.
decals and detail painting in the cockpit,plus he started off w/ a very good kit.