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Originally Posted by Tcoat
This one I built when I was about 11. The two mangled antennas are stretched plastic sprue and although brittle survived almost 40 years in a box with other stuff piled on top of them.
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Those are really good skills for an 11-year old. Very impressive. I think i've seen some other pics of the models you built - all very well done! weathering is an art all on its own. i can appreciate your work. i used to built mostly airplane and armour as a teen through college, then just stopped due to lack of time. i had them all displayed in a glass case but when i moved to the states i left them all behind. that's the result of living in 4 different countries - can't take everything with you.
this past week, one of our friends gave my son (who just turned 8) a present, and i was wondering why he apologized to me when he gave it to him wrapped. turned out to be a revell 1/48 corsair. he knew my son hadn't started building models yet, so he knew i'd have to take the lead on it. i hadn't built an airplane in about 25 years, and many of my paints were old, but i was able to 'wing it' and put it together. at first, i was just going to slap it together for my kid without painting it, but i decided to put a little bit of effort into it (which turned out to be about 10 hours). i'm definitely a bit rusty, and don't have an airbrush anymore (nor the right paints so i even used some of his kid acrylics and mixed them), so it wasn't up to my old standards (no putty, filling, sanding etc); but then revell isn't tamiya or hasegawa either
The weathering is a quick and dirty dry brush job.
my son was happy with how it turned out, so all's well that ends well. here are some pics of it.