Bloody h**l I'm a bad photographer... Hrmodeller, you asked for lighter photos...I give you...tada...still as dark but now also blurry pictures...
well I thaught there had to be some more recent photos than a 6 months old one so here are some progress.
Here's the underside without the painted black sections mentioned above. "engine" is done and whole part is slightly weathered. Exhaust is AlcladII polished aluminum and Tamiya X-32, heat stains with tamiya clears.
Body shell is painted with Tamiya TS-49, a few mist coats and then I had to put on three wet coats to get rid of some areas where I had not been careful enough and got some dull spots. Let's see how the panel lines turnes out after such a treatment... Protection at the lower part is made as mentioned above and so far painted TS-14 black, will be treated with some semi-gloss clear after clear coating the whole body.
As the protection is added on to the body with styrene there is a bit of a lip that I wanted black. Masking tape would have covered some of this area but I got the tip to use Bare Metal Foil for masking off the nearest area and it turned out very well.
Paint doesn't look any good on these pics, it is in fact deeper and not that pink...
Most minor parts are painted. Working on the details of the dash for the moment. Have some minor cable work to do and seatbelts. Here are some of the more worked parts. CF tank and door sides plus mirrors and the weathered transmisson parts. Fire exstinguishers are sanded, painted, decalled and then got some black tape as straps.
Seats got decals from the kit and transkit and were then sprayed with Modeler's flat clear (I can really recommend their line of clears)
Sorry for the lousy detail. CF on doors and mirrors turned out great after some hints from Phil (thanks) but I must admit the tank has some weak spots.
Well, we'll see what I can bring on til next time...perhaps some photographic skills...
best regards
Joel