Some progress

Did a little work on the cockpit this weekend.  I mostly worked on my 1/48 Eduard Fokker EV, which I started about 6 months ago.  Slow progress.  Also wanted to work on my 1/32 Roden Fokker Dr. 1, but didn’t get around to it.  I have way too many projects going on at the same time.  No wonder it takes me forever to finish a model.

So far there are no issues with the cockpit.  I painted the interior with Vallejo Air Wood.  Then pulled out the oil paints – Burnt Sienna, Vandyke Brown and Yellow Ochre (my preferred method to simulated wood). After the paint dried, I spread Burnt Sienna all over the wood areas.  After few several minutes I started to wipe the paint away until I got a wood grain effect.  Lastly, I added a few dots of Vandyke Brown and Yellow Ochre and blended it into the Burnt Sienna (this represents the dark and light parts of wood).

I am not totally happy with the final result.  In fact, I came back the next day and wiped away more Burnt Sienna so that it wouldn’t end up too reddish (this is why I love oil paints). Still not 100% happy with the results, but am moving on.

I then painted the wood slats with Yellow Ochre.  I let the oil paint dry a day and sprayed everything with Model Mater Acryl Semi-Gloss.

One thing I would do differenly is not gluing any of the parts into the cockpit before painting.  It was hard to wipe away the oil paint as there was not much room to work with. 

Lastly, the ammo box was painted with Vallejo Model Air Metallic Aluminum.  I am pretty impressed and is now favorite acrylic metallic color to use.  Typically, acrylic metal colors have sparkle due to the flakes and looks horrible.  The Vallejo is solid looking and there is no fear when washing with black oil paint / thinner.  I still would not use it to paint natural metal finishes, but as to interior parts I would not hesitate to use it again.