Blackadder's Scratchbuilt Thunderhawk

[Kirsten]

wow, that is very very impressive.

[Blackadder]

Surprisingly I did not get one thumbs down on my choice of colour scheme.

[Blackadder]

Basic Painting 101

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Years ago when I began this project in my naivete I thought the Thunderhawk was able to transport a Land Raider. I did not know the FW model was too small to have that capability. So my son and I based our model on the size of a Land Raider slung beneath the seeming cutout in the belly that ideally fit the tracked APC to the flying APC.

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Today I began painting the Land Beastie after a preliminary assembly used a light gray spray primer to paint the interior which was fast and easy (took about five minutes)

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I heartly recommend doing your base coating with cheap spray paint as opposed to expensive GW Citadel paints as so many are wont to do. $0.99 cents a can at Walmart, fast drying and plus it provides a durable base coat for your more expensive detailing acrylics.

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So here we have the Land Raider neatly tucked up under the the Thunderhawk albeit in it's slick mode as I used most of the armament on the Thunderhawk......whoops!

[Blackadder]

Yeah I know someone building a Land Raider is about as exciting as watching ice melt but I'll try to make it interesting.

After spray painting the interior gray I proceeded to apply a coat of black primer to the exterior of the hull.

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I left as many parts as I could removable; I had no idea Land Raiders were so complex. Seems like they're built like a house of cards and the front loading door is a masterpiece of engineering, kudos to that. I'll have to keep that trick in mind for a future scratch project.

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After the paint dried I began applying the Grey Knights Aluminum Metallic powder.

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So you're telling me Blackadder that after all that we're gray again.....

[Morgrim]

You're making the weird bend on the bottom of a Thunderhawk look sensible, ye gads.

How are you applying the powder? With a brush or with a cloth?

[Blackadder]

You're making the weird bend on the bottom of a Thunderhawk look sensible, ye gads.

How are you applying the powder? With a brush or with a cloth?

Sometimes I use a rather stiff flat tip brush but I find it puts too much powder on the surface. Main it just touch my fingertip to the adhering to the jar lid and spread it on the surface with my finger. This has the added benefit of rubbing the powder into the flat paint plus the oils from my skin impart a nice patine to the finish. Once rubbed in the model can be handled without disturbing the powder and I have even taped over the finish and not removed the finish. The metal can be painted over if needs be as when I applied the red paint to the nose ramp.

[Blackadder]

Fifteen Minute Paint Job:

Sidetracked as I've been with the election primaries I've missed working on my Landraider so today I bit the bullet and painted er coloured up the whole tank less the armament which is still in the mail from Australia.

Granted I did have the whole tank primed with flat black but swear to Gawd it took fifteen to twenty minutes to paint er colour up this tank and no drying time. Of course there are pro-painters that can fault this tyro effort but you cannot beat the speed of the result.

So here's a few views you might find interesting:

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Yeah that's copper powder I put on the track as an experiment. I've had the stuff lying about for years and decided to give it a go.

[Lord Tothe]

Copper powder looks pretty good, although this means you might need to add some of it to the T-Hawk now too.

My advice: Ditch politics and play games instead. You have far more power to control the outcome of your hobby life than you do to effect political outcomes.

[Blackadder]

Fifteen Minute Paint Job Part two:

BTW the shadows on the model are in the finish, it isn't the lighting and I still have to brush off the excess metal dust.

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Sorry for the shaky image I haven't mastered the art of the selfie.

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Or the two handed hover for that matter.....

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That's a little better....

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and blew it again........sorry

[Blackadder]

Fifteen Minute Paint Job Part Three:

Last night I masked of the entire tank and sprayed the front end with rust primer. The masking took the better part of an hour but the painting but a couple of minutes............

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Kyrlon Rust Primer is no longer made which is a pity because it provides a deep base for reds and oranges so when dry brushing on these colours the primer provides shadow.

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