{"id":3138,"date":"2018-03-27T16:38:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T20:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/blog\/?p=3138"},"modified":"2018-03-27T16:38:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T20:38:52","slug":"modeling-pics-of-the-day-jumbo-stallion-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/modeling-pics-of-the-day-jumbo-stallion-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Modeling Pics of the Day: Jumbo Stallion Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was warm – for Michigan – it hit 50 degrees.\u00a0 So I decoded to mask my fuselage and spray Design Master Gray on the bottom of the fuse.\u00a0 I used this color on my B-52 last year and it works well.<\/p>\n

Previously, I had brushed on Future floor treatment on the raw tissue and then airbrushed some artist’s acrylic Titanium White thinned with water on the flying surfaces and fuselage.\u00a0 I could do that indoors, but needed it warmer outdoors to spray the stinky paint.<\/p>\n

Today I jumped in and finalized the method of doing the rest of the markings.\u00a0 I discovered that my color break between gray and white was about 1\/16″ too high.\u00a0 I decided to shift that line down by doing the red stripes in printed tissue.\u00a0 I already had decided to do the registration numbers in tissue and what better way to match the colors that to print all the red lines in addition to the lettering?\u00a0 I even thought of printing the gray where the letters overlapped the gray.<\/p>\n

But I knew the tissue would probably not be opaque enough to cover the gray line.\u00a0 So I decided to airbrush the back of the tissue with more white after I printed it.<\/p>\n

So here are the photos of the series (information in each caption).<\/p>\n

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Here is the right side tissue, color laser printed. The gray is way too dark to match the paint, so that had to go.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Taken through the overhead magnifying desk light, here I show how I tried to stay just on the outside of the white separation line.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I always start on the right side. I feel the left side is the side most people look at, so I try to correct any mistake I make on the right when I do the left side. This piece has a problem – there is a tear in the tissue starting at the bottom and going between the * and the S and crossing the middle of the S. This happened when I was putting glue on the back side. I used canopy glue and it just made the tissue too soft and it tore while I was putting the glue on.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Here is the right side. All of the stripes and letters are in place (except on the rudder). There are five pieces of striped and lettered tissue on each side. I used glue stick after the canopy glue debacle. Notice the Stallion logo on the fin. That is held on with 3M #924 transfer tape.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Another shot of the fuselage with a contrasting background.<\/p><\/div>\n

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and the full scale Stallion<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was warm – for Michigan – it hit 50 degrees.\u00a0 So I decoded to mask my fuselage and spray Design Master Gray on the bottom of the fuse.\u00a0 I used this color on my B-52 last year and it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-builds","category-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}