by Kasper Fischer
OK. Friday I decided to finish the A-10 and my 1/72 scale Dragon M3A2 Bradley over the weekend. I fought long and hard but Sunday night I was still not done. This is as far as I got on the Bradley...
Showing posts with label A-10 Thunderbolt II. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A-10 Thunderbolt II. Show all posts
Friday, August 27, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Airfix 1/72 A-10 Thunderbolt II - Chapter 5
by Kasper Fischer
Finished for now. I won't work more on this model for now. I will leave it alone for now and move on to the next model and my diorama. But before I make the revile video for Basic Modelling's Annual YouTube Competition it will get some post-shading and some weathering...
Here's the latest pictures:
Finished for now. I won't work more on this model for now. I will leave it alone for now and move on to the next model and my diorama. But before I make the revile video for Basic Modelling's Annual YouTube Competition it will get some post-shading and some weathering...
Here's the latest pictures:
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Airfix 1/72 A-10 Thunderbolt II - Chapter 4
by Kasper Fischer
No matter what I say about this kit, I really can't complain about the amount of decals for the Airfix A-10. It took 38 decals just to complete the armament. The kit has 69 numbers on the decal sheet but most of numbers are 2 to 6 decals each. They may be off register, by almost 1mm, but luckily most of those I need, are only one color.
I am still not done with the decals but I will finish it all up tomorrow...
I spend all Saturday editing the footage for my new video and didn't get any modelling done.
Stuff have a tendency to take up more time than expected...
anyway fellas
enjoy
No matter what I say about this kit, I really can't complain about the amount of decals for the Airfix A-10. It took 38 decals just to complete the armament. The kit has 69 numbers on the decal sheet but most of numbers are 2 to 6 decals each. They may be off register, by almost 1mm, but luckily most of those I need, are only one color.
I am still not done with the decals but I will finish it all up tomorrow...
I spend all Saturday editing the footage for my new video and didn't get any modelling done.
Stuff have a tendency to take up more time than expected...
anyway fellas
enjoy
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Airfix 1/72 A-10 Thunderbolt II - Chapter 3
by Kasper Fischer
My plan was to paint the A-10 in the same Olive Drab paint-scheme as the Apache to practice my airbrush skills a bit on a cheap model but that idea got boring really fast. I spend some hours researching for alternative paint-schemes and found this winter camouflage, which i decided to try out instead.
I airbrushed some pre-shades, using Tamiya XF-1 flat black, onto all panel lines and gave it a coat of very light grey. Mixed from Tamiya XF-2 flat white and a drop of Tamiya XF-63 german grey. After it dried for some time i gave it a final thin flat white coat, still using the Tamiya, and sealed it with a layer of Model Master flat clear acrylic.
Again i let it dry for some time while i cut out some masking tape for the black camouflage. I have never tried this before on any kind of model, so i really didn't know what I was doing. I am/was a camo-virgin...
But, as you properly can see, i did a lot of over spraying because I'm a complete camo-noob. I tried to fix it by covering the black and spraying white again but that made it even worse. I got white dust in the black. Damn it. Now I have now given it a complete over-spray of Tamiya Fine Surface Primer to cover it all up and start over. This time doing what I set out to do in the first place. Practice the paint-scheme for the AH-64D Longbow I'm building next. OLIVE DRAB...
One step forward and two steps back!
and on a side note; I'm not sure why the American Army painted the aircraft like a Danish Holstein but it makes me feel comfy (:
My plan was to paint the A-10 in the same Olive Drab paint-scheme as the Apache to practice my airbrush skills a bit on a cheap model but that idea got boring really fast. I spend some hours researching for alternative paint-schemes and found this winter camouflage, which i decided to try out instead.
I airbrushed some pre-shades, using Tamiya XF-1 flat black, onto all panel lines and gave it a coat of very light grey. Mixed from Tamiya XF-2 flat white and a drop of Tamiya XF-63 german grey. After it dried for some time i gave it a final thin flat white coat, still using the Tamiya, and sealed it with a layer of Model Master flat clear acrylic.
Again i let it dry for some time while i cut out some masking tape for the black camouflage. I have never tried this before on any kind of model, so i really didn't know what I was doing. I am/was a camo-virgin...
One step forward and two steps back!
and on a side note; I'm not sure why the American Army painted the aircraft like a Danish Holstein but it makes me feel comfy (:
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Airfix 1/72 A-10 Thunderbolt II - Chapter 2
by Kasper Fischer
On with the build. I discovered the weakly sculptured pilot's back was about 15-30 scale centimeters from his seat so some fitting had to be done. I got him into his seat after wrestling a bit with it and i give some basic modelling tips on using files on scale models.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Airfix 1/72 A-10 Thunderbolt II - Chapter 1
by Kasper Fischer
Well, there is not really much to say about this video. It's straight forward on the Airfix build. It's all coming along according to planes on the A-10 Thunderbolt. It's always a good idea to test-fit your parts before gluing but it's especially important when you are building an old kit like this. It's all basic modelling tips and tricks but check the video out for yourself...
Well, there is not really much to say about this video. It's straight forward on the Airfix build. It's all coming along according to planes on the A-10 Thunderbolt. It's always a good idea to test-fit your parts before gluing but it's especially important when you are building an old kit like this. It's all basic modelling tips and tricks but check the video out for yourself...
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Airfix 1/72 A-10 Thunderbolt II REVIEW
by Kasper Fischer
I made this review some time ago but had to re-upload it to my Modellours Workshop channel because I still had the kit and had decided to build it myself. This is a discontinued kit which Airfix has stopped producing and when you look at the kit you know why. With that being said, I also have to tell that I got the kit so cheap i bought tree of them. I'm a BIG A-10 fan. I'm a big fan of all aircrafts with A in the description...
The first model was build very quickly and with out any hesitation, which turned out to bi a big failure. first because the parts in the Airfix kit are way past their golden days and are really having problems fitting together but secondly because I wanted to airbrush plane and it was my first 1/72 model and the first aircraft to airbrush. In fact, it was only my second scale model after 20 years away from the hobby so my control of the airbrush was, and still is, very limited and i completely fucked the paint-scheme up. I made it into a toy for my cousin and gave it to him. It's the model with the British markings, i use in the video.
The second A-10 I gave away to to Lasse at http://www.youtube.com/user/myhuxpo for his third place in my weathering competition. I'm still waiting to see the finished result from him...
The third on I'm building for myself but I will still paint it in a fantasy paint-scheme to practice for the Italeri Apache I'm building next so it's gonna be a one colour Olive Drab paint-scheme with some heavy pre-shades.
I made this review some time ago but had to re-upload it to my Modellours Workshop channel because I still had the kit and had decided to build it myself. This is a discontinued kit which Airfix has stopped producing and when you look at the kit you know why. With that being said, I also have to tell that I got the kit so cheap i bought tree of them. I'm a BIG A-10 fan. I'm a big fan of all aircrafts with A in the description...
The first model was build very quickly and with out any hesitation, which turned out to bi a big failure. first because the parts in the Airfix kit are way past their golden days and are really having problems fitting together but secondly because I wanted to airbrush plane and it was my first 1/72 model and the first aircraft to airbrush. In fact, it was only my second scale model after 20 years away from the hobby so my control of the airbrush was, and still is, very limited and i completely fucked the paint-scheme up. I made it into a toy for my cousin and gave it to him. It's the model with the British markings, i use in the video.
The second A-10 I gave away to to Lasse at http://www.youtube.com/user/myhuxpo for his third place in my weathering competition. I'm still waiting to see the finished result from him...
The third on I'm building for myself but I will still paint it in a fantasy paint-scheme to practice for the Italeri Apache I'm building next so it's gonna be a one colour Olive Drab paint-scheme with some heavy pre-shades.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
A-10 Warthog
A-10 Warthog TWIN 64mm EDF with RETRACTS! RC RTF Jet Flight Review.
This is one perfect sized A-10 Warthog! Exclusively available at http://www.bananahobby.com.
41.5 inch wingspan makes this a great size. It is extremely scale and has full mechanical retractable gear system! It is available in 3 colors. Standard Camo, Desert Camo and Black Lightning. Extremely fast speed and very stable at low speeds. This is a blitzRCworks product!
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