1/48 Tamiya F4U-1A Corsair |
Gallery Article by Steve Norton
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Dec 7 2003
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This is my first
posting on ARC. I built this kit straight out of the box. The model
was airbrushed first with a coat of Testors Model Master aluminum and then
airbrushed with white acrylic on the bottom and intermediate blue and flat sea
blue on top. The blue shades were Testors Model Master enamels as I was
unable to find correct blue acrylics in my area. I also added a little
white to the flat sea blue and lightly sprayed it on as a final coat to give it
an uneven appearance.
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Before painting the top coats I applied salt with a
wet paint brush and after the top coats were applied and had time to dry I
chipped off the salt. This revealed the aluminum and gave the
paint a chipped look. This was my first time using this technique and I
think that it came out pretty well although I may have done too much. Well,
I like it anyway. For the rest of the weathering I used burnt umber
water colors for the panel lines and various shades of gray artists pastels for
the exhaust and gun stains. Finally I airbrushed on Future and then a
final coat of dullcoat to dull the appearance.