Sunday, January 30, 2005 | 0 comments  
Focke Wulfe mean "Butcher Bird" in German. Yes.

So this is the gay plane i was talking about.



Actually the picture quality isnt so good too. I didnt bother to edit so if you really have time, go open up some prog like Photoshop and do an auto level on the pics.

I did the pre-shadin method of painting for this bird. Pre-shading is basically just spraying black on all the panel lines and interiors. I'll show you and example of pre shading later.


As you can see, i have no patience at all to painting cockpits so I just left it bare with only the basecoat. But i think it stillw ould look better with some drybrushing. But i'll do that during the wheathering stage. Notice the little white dot on the left wing? Well that's not paint. That's the bare plastic. Apparently some of the denatured alcohol which i use as a solvent for the Tamiya paints (they actually work better than the own company's thinner.. and cheaper...), dropped on the wing. I wiped it off... removing the paint too. Ah well.... wheathering will take care of that.


You can see the effects of the pre-shading in this pic. The subtle black lines painted unto the panel lines just makes the colour more interesting.... If only it wasnt THAT blue.


So yes, I know the blue is a bit contrasting so i filtered it to make it less contrasting by spraying a very thin mixture of black unto the wing. The effect can be seen here. If i were to spray more, the pre shading effect would be gone. The only way to recover is by sanding off the paint, scribing in the panel lines and then start pre-shading again.


I'm much happier with the bottom of the pane. Just see for yourself. I intend to repaint the gear wells (another blunder i made). So Manas... dont worry about the wells...



PRE-SHADING

This is an example of the first step of pre-shading. This is anohter plane model i'm working on (my own birthday gift actually); Hasegawa's 1/32nd scale Supermarine Spitfire MK. IVb. A huge plane, really. the wingspan alone is more than 30 cm. It's even bigger than a 1/35 scale King Tiger!. Ah Well...

Well then, Ladies and Gentlemen; the FW190 G-3.

"The Gay Bird."

Have a nice day.
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On the 28th of January 2005, I turned seventeen! Whoo!!!

Ok back to business.

Pictures of Manas' gay plane? Coming soon!!

Pictures of The Winter War? Coming Soon!!

Pictures of the Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausfuhrung J? Coming soon!!

Jim Carrey's new movie? Coming Soon!!

and guess what? I now have three comps in my household!
On in my sister's room, the other is in the dining room and the last one (the better one) is in my room cause you know why??

Cause it's mine!!! MINE!!! NO TOUCH!!!

And i had my wireless network connection set up this morning and now... i can play a real dogfight with two other players on IL2!!

Yeah ok. Ahem. Pictures coming soon. Maybe later.

Till Then, Have a nice DAy.
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Yes I know I've been absent for a very long time. New Year has passed (Happy New Year!)... my birthday's coming in a few days... Lots of my friends have gone to JC... the rest are working... I'm not and still owe my dad about a thousand dollars for a few things... yeah... And i've been pretty busy creating videos for a very fussy customer (North View Air Unit) and currently waiting for approval from NCC HQ to create a training video for them. I get paid.. yeah. But I think... I wont bet on it. NCC couldnt care less if one of their cadet died in an accident.. unless of course.. it was on thier grounds.

Anyways i was bored so i asked manas if i could build his FW190 that he has been holding for months already. ACtually I bought it for him (with his money, of course) cause little miss Catholic JC person here wanted to build one plane of his own. But he didnt have the thought that you need an air compressor, airbrush and brains to build a model. No... to build a decent model.

Well.. trying to be a kind Samaritan.... or Singaporean.... i helped a fellow North Indian to his plane. A couple of days later (today), I've finihsed laying the basecoat.

The plane looks gay.

Ew. Baby blue on a World War 2 German plane?????
And to think it actually terrorized the sky.....

Oh well. Pictures will be coming soon. My good old comp and XM2 camera is in school. It's been there since before Christmas last year too. I'll see if i can get it back tomorrow or something.

Untill then, Have A Nice Day.
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