Scale Aviation Modeller International — February 2018

(Jacob Rumans) #1
A Black primer coat set up things for the camouflage colours to come

The Hataka Hobby paints works very well......

....the pigments are extremely fine and the colours spot on

The decals settled very well

fuselage and wings is actually
pretty good, and only a small
amount of filler was needed
in places. The tip tanks
were glued in place, and I
cut off the moulded-on
navigation lights on the
tips and then using clear
plastic sprue I sanded a
new pair of lights and added
them to the tanks. All of the
control surfaces are moulded
separately, allowing you to pose
the flaps, slats and rudder in
any position you want. I
glued them in place with
only small elevation.
As with all my builds,
I airbrushed on a Black
primer coat, to provide
a good base for the
camouflage colours,
starting from dark
to as light. The
Hataka Hobby
paint comes in
plastic dropper
bottles, like
those used by
other brands, and
for better mixing, there’s a steel
ball inside each bottle. The paint
is not ‘ready for airbrushing’, so
must be thinned with Hataka Hobby

Lacquer Thinner. I’ve been using
acrylic paints for several years
now and what strikes me first is
how smooth the flow of the paint
is compared to what I am used to.
The pigments are extremely fine
and the colours seem spot on. Also,
the drying time is very short, and
the paint appears to be quite strong
when handled after drying. I started
with the Tan colour, followed by
the Medium Green and then the
Dark Green. The underside was
painted the painted with Light
Grey. I used Blu-Tac ‘sausages’ to
separate the camouflage colours,
along with masking tape. I added
a few drops of Black to the Dark
Green to separate it a bit more

“THE HATAKA HOBBY PAINTS REALLY


IMPRESSED ME AND I WILL BE


USING MORE IN THE FUTURE”


To create more depth I applied oil dots to
several places on the airframe.....

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