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Hi all, here is another one of my
F-5E adversary tiger. This is my second submission to this fantastic site,
feel free to have a look at my other Black F-5E jet.
This jet was made just a few years
ago when I was back in college.
This one wears the beautiful
desert/tan wrap around scheme which appears on both Marine and Navy jets.
It
is one of my favorite schemes.
I had originally set out to make a
Navy VFC-13 F-5E however I had a change of heart and decided to go with this
Marines' jet flying out of Yuma.
The entire jet is built out of the
box and given the extreme lack of details in this kit's cockpit as well as the
2 rods which suppose to represent the complex F-5E canopy actuator, and also
given the black box cockpit is extremely hard to get my hands on and currently
going for over $70 , I've decided to go with the cockpit closed. I must
say given the beautiful lines on this jet whilst parked with the canopy
opened, the focal point becomes the cockpit partly due to the long nose, the
cockpit is almost in the middle of the plane, hence I personally think this
jet is best displayed with its canopy open.
Another disappointment with the
cockpit is that the ejection seat is completely wrong, given my frustration at
the entire cockpit, I decided to cover it all up with a coat of tint on the
canopy ( I know F-5Es never had its canopy tinted).
The model was airbrushed with
Gunze Acrylics with a base coat of a mixture of tan and yellow, and the
patterns were generated through masking with paper cutout attached to the
model via Blu-tac (this provides me with the elevation needed for a more
fluffy edge, this will do until I get a better airbrush!).
You can't see it on the photos
clearly but I have attempted at mimicking the fading of the brown paint by
airbrushing another lighter coat of the same brown over the pattern, this was
the first time that I had tried to do this and I think with more practice it
will be quite an effective technique.
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I weathered the plane lightly
using very thinned black paint and a sponge (I don't recommend this method as
the paint forms droplets which is not what you want, I need to work on my
weathering techniques!), I lightly sanded the model to create more of a fading
weather effect and it worked on some parts of the model, and again I don't
recommend this to be done, it was more or an experiment.
The more recent adversary jets are
usually kept in very clean conditions (given most of them had just been given
their new coats with in the last few years), however the ones in service from
the late 70s to the 90s actually experienced substantial weathering and
patches of replacement paint of similar but not identical colors are seen
dotted on many adversary F-5Es and especially the older A-4s.
This model is again no where near
the caliber of most of the other ones on this site, however I still hope you
enjoy the many schemes on this wonderful bird.
Stay tuned for alot more Adversary
F-5Es coming yourway! Thanks!
Jacey
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