Academy 1/48 F86 Sabre, HAF 341 squadron

Started by John vd Biggelaar · 235 · 5 months ago · . 1/48, Academy, F86, HAF, Sabre
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    Alfred van Paaschen said 6 months ago:

    Nice progress, John!
    Did you protect the NMF with a gloss coat before masking?

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    John vd Biggelaar said 6 months ago:

    @alfred, thanks a lot, Alfred. Yes I did, I didn't want to take any risk.

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    Eric Berg said 6 months ago:

    I just caught up with your Sabre WIP and that NMF looks excellent. I agree with George about accenting some of the panels. What did you use for the gloss coat? @johnb

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 6 months ago:

    Excellent looks so far, my friend @johnb!
    Demasking went well!

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    John vd Biggelaar said 6 months ago:

    @eb801, thanks a lot, Eric. I have used Vallejo clear coat.
    @fiveten, thank you, Spiros. Now on to masking the tail stripes.

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    George R Blair Jr said 6 months ago:

    Good luck on the tail stripes, John (@johnb). I am sure they will go well and will look really good.

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    Carl Smoot said 6 months ago:

    It looks excellent John (@johnb). I'm glad you didn't have any issues with paint pulling.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 6 months ago:

    @gblair, thanks, George. I definitely need some luck to get them done as nicely as yours.
    @clipper, thanks a lot, Carl. Fingers crossed for the paint pulling for the next mask sessions.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 6 months ago:

    Masked the tail section where the stripes need to be applied. I used a 9mm wide area as indicated by George @gblair. To get the yellow on more easily, I painted the area entirely white at first.


    Next the yellow went on quite well, even two rounds were sufficient.

    I will let it dry now for a full day before masking and applying the red stripe.

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    George R Blair Jr said 6 months ago:

    Looks good, John (@johnb). It is a real test of patience to wait for the final result.

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    Alfred van Paaschen said 6 months ago:

    Nice piece of masking and painting, John!
    Looking forward to seeing the end result.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 6 months ago:

    Looks excellent so far, my friend @johnb!

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    John vd Biggelaar said 6 months ago:

    @gblair, @alfred, @fiveten, thanks a lot all. Hopefully some more progress today.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 5 months, 4 weeks ago:

    After the yellow dried sufficiently, I masked the tail for the red stripe being 1/3 of the entire width.


    Repeated the same but this time for the black stripe.

    Removing all the masks was the most exciting part. First, to see how the stripes looked like and hoping that they all had the exact same width, second, that no chipping occurred.
    Only a tiny piece of paint seemed to got loose and a little bit of paint bleeding needs to be corrected.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 5 months, 4 weeks ago:

    Excellent job, my friend @johnb!