Abufletcher,

i posted more of the pics at the "show us your best scale pics" thread or whatever its called on this site: http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/Best..._509567/tm.htm.

well, in regards so scale painting; thats the only thing i had experience in as im and 'artist' in the sense that, well, i do 'fine art' and have experience with brush and paint. So this whole thing was artist's oil paint and brush including the emblems. First the plane was brushed with primer and painted with primer. To weather the plane i first sanded down the emblems a bit to look weathered then hand rubbed bits of burnt sienna/grey into areas, then sprayed the whole surface (everything) with a very thinned-down grey to give allusion of a scale plane [ you know, that formula where atmospheric haze dulls the colors and contrast the further away object is]. Then went back over with hand and brush and rubbed in more 'dirt' using more brown sienna with a little yellow ocher. After that i made some oil stains with brush at selected areas and let dry matte. Then in the end added some 'fresh oil' runs and drips from the spinning engine spray etc using high gloss alkyd medium with just a tint of brown to look like engine oil. When this dries it stays totally glossy like it’s still wet. Now, this thing needs no fuel proofing so I could get away with all of this.

The Cowling was covered with layers of aluminum paste then sprayed with a type of modern faux real silver metalizer used for plastic models. it comes with aluminum powder which you rub on which i used fully on the engine itself to look really shiny. then i made a whole bunch of little grinders out of nails with bits of sanding sponge taped to ends and put in drill and went to it.

It was all very tedious. Like I said, it took allot of experimentation with samples of the fabric and also cowling to finally settle on a technique that looked best. Pain in the butt and 2 years after the painting i don’t quite recall exactly the whole process but I think I covered it pretty much. would have have better effect with an airbrush but never ended up getting one of those. even my 1/48 models are painted by hand. i know, i know,. but i never thought id get this far into this!

I ran out of energy to finish 2 years ago as i then realized the wings should have been under cambered. Oh well. All I had to go by was little 3-views in one of those data file books. the books with the Fock Wolf Eagle logo. There were now pictures in real close-up so i had to guess on how for instance the rear tail skid configuration looked like as well with the control horns for the entire tail assembly and details of the main undercarriage, and compass, and top deck etc, etc, etc,

Mike