Oh! Man! Another
skyrider...and a Monogram one!! We will call you back...next one
please!!! Ok, after tender work on this, I think it deserves to be
seen. This kit is a classic, that said.......I remember building it when I
was 9...unfortunately, the original decals where useless, so I got the
Superscale set for 2 raiders. I wanted to do the camo one, but then I
realized that the folding wings up would be nicer. Great, I have to cut
the wings for that and hollow the plain pieces on the ends as I wanted the
machine guns to be seen. Those came from a B-24. I scratchbuilt the
folding mechanism and as I usually do with this kind of kit, I cut
every moving part: rudder, ailerons, flaps and the airbrakes. The
difficult part of this is to fill what is under. This is triple trouble
with the raider, but styrene sheet an some detailling do the work quite
quickly. Assembly went pretty fast, no gaps little fill, some sanding and
decaling.
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Raiders are known as
dirty beasts, when weathering, I tried to made it smooooothhhh....I
failed. This plane wants more and more. I use Humbrol enamels
and oleos washes mostly in rust tones. For the fuel tanks I did the
"salt trick": first paint it rust, then put some water with a pencil
wherever you want, split salt and finally paint white. Rip the remaining
salt and voila!
Hope you like this
one and please, give classics a chance!
Pablo
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