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The one thing I've been working on since 1 jan this year : the VF1 Strike Valkyrie from G-star. Nearing the end fase....there's more on the how to thread. G.

Another angle : sideview. You can see the fuellines and other parts inside the legpack Backview

Sean, thx for the tip, it seems to work, now on with the pictures : Frontview : still need to glue in the trusters inside the tailassembly (are drying right now ). Detail Fast Pack : The right Fast Pack will be left open to show off the inner parts wich are extra detailled

After the detailpainting of the boosters and the tailassembly I finally could add the packs to the tailassembly. The only minor issues was the fit of the fastpacks. There are two indents on the packs for a piece of resin. These idnents are to large, so I added some sheet styrene to get a better grip Edit, can't seem to get any pics uploaded will try again later

On the menu for tonight, detailpainting the thrusterparts and touching up here and there. If I feel like it detailpainting the insides of the tailassembly and fastpacks. Till then, G.

Beam canon, note the 'nose art' on the nozzle of the canon. I couldn't resist putting this one on there EDIT : should read the manual, I can now add more then 1 pic

Some close ups from the fastpacks :

another angle

Groupshot, decalled, drybrushed and varnished fast packs next to the VF1. Note the dayglo details on the tailassembly

Once this was dry I washed the FP's with thinned lamp black oil paint. The darkening is drastic and gives, to my feel, the exact shade to stand ou from the rest of the fighter :

another one, top view

The Fast Packs where painted again using German grey and the details where handpainted. Here's the dual beam gun

Finished paintinjg, weathering and decalling the boosters. Detailpainting the tailassembly is on it's way but will take some more time when I feel like it. Anyhow, this is the end ersult prior to painitng :

Last one for now : topview of the Fastpacks

view of the tailbooster

next one : sideview

Great back on line. Now for some quick update : Fast Packs : I sprayed the legboosters with Tamiya German Grey and weathered them with black oil paint. Once I pieced together all the decals from spareparts I'll finish this off with Dull Coat (it'll be a new bottle this time ) and spray paint the insides from the thrusterparts. Tail assembly : Finally painted the camo part and inside from the tailthruster. Detailpainted the fuellines. Back Fast Packs : Almost finished with the insides Here goes the pics :

Back view

Almost forgot, the end result 1

Wonderbrush maybe ? some info, I used Testors Dull Coat and sprayed it two months ago on a warm sunny day (about 20°C). I sprayed the red paint this evening at a temp. of about 18°C and humidity was typical for Belgium so no problem there. I used an acrylic thinner to thin the Tamiya Paint wich sprayed normally. Thanks for helping me out

I let the red dry while I cleaned my airbrush and noticed that the crackling started to vanish . I took out my wifes make up brush and started 'drybrushing' it gently. To my surprise the crackling simply vanished completely. Did any one ever got this if so does this mean I have to strip the paint and restart all over (please say no) but more important, what the h#ll was this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Edit : the pic is somewhat blurry, but I checked again and it's still gone

Now I've had a strange thing happening here. I'd finished airbrushing the fowler flaps and slat inside when I saw I had some overspray on my wing. OK, this happens almost always while I'm airbrushing but anyhow, I noticed some wite crackling on my wing

Finished of the tailcolors. I decided to use Silver Metallic do give a nice contrast to the dull gray edit : I still need to do the yellow night lights. Revell Germany had a line of 'ghostships' with a fluorescent paint. I'll try to get a hold of a bottle and do the lights with this. Anyhow, the flash from my camera got the silver paint kind of blurry and not straight

Sideview

I even finished the two leg packs and dryfitted them in place. This changes the bird alot :