1/32 Hasegawa Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate

[jeaton01]

Splendid, Doogs

[doogsatx/]

Tail stripe done. Still a bit more mask work to go on the wings and cowl.

[Leon]

The body color and chipping look great Doogs.

[doogsatx/]

Knocked out the rest of the masking work tonight! Apart from some very minor stuff (prop stripes, drop tank mounts and so on) principal painting is wrapped!

[bbd468]

Lookin mighty fine Doogs! Clean - precise build....bloody sweet bird she is!

[bullardino]

Yeah, awesome job, Doogs. I really love the wear and tear amount on this one.

[doogsatx/]

Some more limited-scope work tonight on the props. After painting them the prescribed green last night (and streaking with a lightened mix of that same green - Gunze C319), I carefully masked and then went to town with C69 Offwhite, followed by Orange Yellow.

[Leon]

Really looking the biz now Doogs,very nicely done.

[Deleted]

Love the paintwork on her buddy, real colourful and super neat 

[bullardino]

Truly wonderful, Doogs

[doogsatx/]

Update!

With the main paint done, and no fussing with decals on this build (!), I turned next to salt fading. Generally, I'm a fan of this technique. But it went a bit off the rails on the Frank.

First...spray things down with warm water with just a bit of dish soap to cut the surface tension. Apply salt from a grinder (you want different, random sized crystals), then use a hairdryer to evaporate the water.



Next, use VERY THIN PAINT, and spray a light coat over everything. If you overdo it, it'll look funny. I've found going first with a lighter color, typically a gray-brown, works nicely. I use Gunze Mr. Color because Tamiya, for some reason, absorbs the salt and so you get these weird little discs wherever salt is present. Enamels work well, too.

Once you finish the coat, rinse the salt away and gasp in horror as your build gets "salt fog":



Never fear. Just put down more water, more salt, and load up a darker mix (dark gray-brown-blackish). DO NOT SPILL IT ON YOUR AIRCRAFT'S WING.



As diluted as the paint was, it basically acted like acid, eating into the paint and plastic beneath, but not doing jack to the salt. Lovely.

Scrounging about, I remasked and resprayed.





But my attempts to blend the now-clean area with the rest failed and so the starboard meatball looks substantially dirtier.



After all that, I sealed everything with some Gunze Semi-Gloss Clear.

Next up, oil dot filtering. I'm using several oils for this build - transparent white, yellow ochre, Naples yellow, Prussian green, olive green, and I believe the color is "Green Bean Gray" or something. It's literally a grayish pea color. Awesome for this kind of work.

I managed to get the wings and stabs done tonight. Hopefully the tonal differences between them and the fuselage are relatively apparent.





More to come...

[bullardino]

Great save, Doogs. It's a nice technique, if I'll ever do a plane again I'll defo try it

[doogsatx/]

Wrapped up the oil filtering. Pretty pleased with how it tossed some variation into that topside green. Now I get to give it a few days to set up.



Also, for kicks, the drop tanks.

[Deleted]

The oil filters have certainly made a difference to the paint finish  for the better 

[bullardino]

Stunning job

[doogsatx/]

Creeping toward the finish line. After our epic 6+" of rain last night, it wasn't raining tonight so I chanced some Gunze Flat on smaller parts and, what the hey, the cowl too. The Flory washes I prefer for panel lines grab far too well into flats, so the main airframe will get a gloss or semi-gloss prior to that stage (after a few more days for the oils to set a bit more.

Anyway, apart from some oil stains the cowl is more or less a wrap.

[bullardino]

The cowl looks cool

[doogsatx/]

Thanks! Getting excited to get this one wrapped. My upcoming projects are starting to whisper sweet nothings...

[fightnjoe]

got to say you and dave are sure providing some heavy inspiration. oils, weathering, scratchbuilding. some really good stuff.



this looks great to me.



joe

[doogsatx/]

Final flat coat (Gunze Flat Clear) sprayed tonight, and the legs installed. Letting it sit overnight for the epoxy to cure.

[bullardino]

Awesome finish

[fightnjoe]

she looks outstanding.




joe

[doogsatx/]

Lots of home-stretchy fun tonight...

- Cowl + Engine installed
- Wing cannons installed
- Flaps installed
- Gear doors installed
- Wing lights installed on underside
- Drop tanks installed (the two smaller anti-sway brackets are short...grr...have an idea to fix, but PITA)
- Exhaust stains painted using a thinned mix of Tamiya Black, Khaki, NATO Black and NATO Brown









At this rate, I'm guessing the Frank will be wrapping this weekend...probably Sunday.

[Deleted]

Nice    Looking forward to Sunday  

[bullardino]

Great progress, doogs

[doogsatx/]

Finished the Hayate tonight. Finished build thread is here: modelerssocialclub.proboards.com/thread/6197/32-hasegawa-nakajima-ki-hayate

[bullardino]

Great job doogs

[bullardino]

Great job doogs

[fightnjoe]

stunning finish.




joe

[venom1]

Another stunner from Doogs yet again!

Nice save with the accident, by the way! Wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't pointed it out.

Cheers,

Sam