Worked on the 117 at TTR 37thTFW! The jet was NOT a spotless black jet! Ram panels and butter and all the normal leaks etc were the same on the black jet as any other! The difference was it wasn’t contrasted as much. Man when I built model back in the 80s no way did we have all these extra parts for cockpits etc. I honestly can’t believe how a kit is so expensive these days! Great job!
Hi Guys. Hope you enjoy the video of Academy's F-117A Night Hawk. I've added caption subtitles in this video so make sure you have them set to on and get them on screen
There are a couple of thing you could mention. The first is that they are trying to set up a London club and need volunteers to run once a month 3 hours model making sessions.they have a logo on their FB page. Could you please include it The second is that it is not just for Autism suffers but their carers as well.
Great build.. I hope you don't get too worried about the criticism.. I don't agree with some of your touches, yet I really appreciate you sharing YOUR build process and not trying to appease everyone in the comments.. Everyone doesn't have to agree on everything the way everything is done, yet everyone should agree that it's a great job and even better a big thanks for sharing... A lot can be learned and gained from watching someone else work... Looking forward to more videos!
I was building a 1/48 academy F117 never made a black jet before and I gave up on it but I see what you did and made me re think of continue the kit again haha hope you can make another one and this time you can explain the procedure and process love to see you make another one mate keep it up
Hello mister nerd!that HUD detail is amazing. The boxart is way ok.nice detailing with that resin.all in all great Job done.with sticky greetings. Christian
Thank you And yes it annoyed the hell out of me. I wouldn't advise getting this kit to be honest its disappointing in the details. Even those decals over a glossy finish managed to mess up
MrD53 Another fantastic build and paint work but there were at least 3 times when I thought you'd done enough and risked over complicating the paint work but you managed to produce a balanced and covincing end result very well done
hi great job ,just finished the same model.Well I painted it mat black and about to put decals on ,my son said how about some white wash and some weathering .I said nar it was black! then I watched your video ! back to the to the paints for weathering I go .lol justice is served I guess! Son said ,told you dad !bloody Utube lol🖒🖒🖒
I feel your pain with the gloss coat sanding. I've yet to get a consistent smooth high gloss finish. Thankfully, I like to sand my decals anyway to get rid of the edges, so I've learned to just take sanding/polishing of the gloss coat as part of the process.
Hi think the work on this was great...learned a lot..don't understand all the negative comments. Yes they are kept very clean, but eventually in combat will get really put through the torture test.
Not related to this particular model or video....do you have a video of your setup? I'd love to see it! And if you, or anyone reading this, has a suggestion for a prebuilt portable spray booth, I'd love to hear them :) I'm thinking about making one by just attaching a clear storage bin to a 20 inch box fan, stick it in the window and call it done.
Nice build, one suggestion on the decal silvering. Waterslide decals love a smooth shiny surface. Shooting a coat of gloss clear over the black, applying the decals, sealing them with a second thin gloss coat and then dullcoat the whole thing (except your glass). That usually does away with decal silvering like that. Also, use Microsol or Microset to help decals conform to the surface, you get a much better result. I've been building models for 52 years, been competing in IMPS and other contests for about 40 years. That's just one of the tricks I learned along the way.
Thanks for the advice. I do know this but it didn’t seem to work as well on this one for some reason. All of my other model videos have no slivering apart from when I started 3 years ago and didn’t know a thing about gloss coats etc
@@TheInnerNerd It may be the decals then. Sometimes I get that on an older Hasegawa kit made in the late 1980s or early 1990s. I use a lot of decal setting solution in that case. Some decals I will shoot with an acrylic clear with my airbrush to keep them from cracking. Have you ever used the Testors decal film and an inkjet printer? I have made my own nose art for some of my projects with that, if you have decals that are really shot that may be a good way to get a new sheet for an obsolete kit. That Aries cockpit is amazing, I got mine today for an F16I Sufa project for later this summer. Looks so much better than Verlinden.
Yeah….ummmm….decals need a SMOOTH surface to prevent silvering, not necessarily a glossy one. As evidenced in this build. If the surface isn’t smooth before glossing, you can still get silvering. Things have changed in your ‘52 years’…I don’t gloss before decals, and rarely, if ever, have had a decal silver on me….
Very tricky bird to paint. Great work! I think weathering may have varied a great lot during service, as the special paint, which in association with special materials used at some parts provided about 15% of its radar signature attenuation, had to be carefully maintained ll times. The two occasions I saw the F-117 from a very close distance the black painting looked quite pristine, but those were in the US, not at battle fronts with heavy sorties schedules.
Thank you And yes I found this one particularly tricky due to the paint colour. The reference images ised were form active service aircraft so were much more bleached than those based on US soil. I like to pick each model based on getting a new challenge and this was definately a challenge!
I worked on these jets back in 1998 down in new mexico... "Holloman afb".... I loaded gbu 27's as a weapons loader :) Cool jet had a ton of fa18 in it... I could tell you some good stories.... It leaked fuel all under it when it came back from flight.....
@@raydolinger1980 I was with the 49th OSS but deployed with the 9th FS every time they went somewhere. We probably unknowingly went to some of the same places.
I honestly thought you were going overboard on the weathering, but that's been part of my problem, is not trusting the process. Looks really good. One thing I would have done differently though. The canopy & radar glass should have been smoke and amber. Heavier on the amber.
It's a heart stopping moment when you add all the oils to the paint job. But if you've clear coated well enough and everything is cured alls you have to do is use thinners to get off the oil. That's why they are so good to use because you have that imaginary "undo" button if it all goes wrong 😎
I'm not sure if he used it in this build but I know clear nail foil can be useful for that iridescent look on the canopy, it also looks good on heads up displays too.
Just one quick thing that I'm not sure if it would work for the model, but they used it in the real aircraft. If you can't find aftermarket landing gear or ejection seat, just look for f-16c gear and seat.
Посмотрел с удовольствием. Но декали от академа надо сразу в мусор выкидывать, безумно толстая подложка для этого масштаба. Покраска и везеринг в вашем исполнении восхитительны. С уважением.
Hi I'm very impressed with your attention to detail. I read all the comments criticizing your weathering techniques and I understand what you were trying to accomplish. I believe you did a marvelous job. I do have a question though. I bought the resin cockpit set you used and after several rounds of sanding and dry fitting I got it to fit snugly. The bottom of the resin however prevented me from closing the two haves of the plane because the roof of the front wheel well kept hitting the bottom of the resin cockpit. I sanded both until they were almost paper thin. I had to cut about 1.5 mm off the roof of the front wheel well to close the two fuselage halves. I then had to resort to cutting a hole for the main lading gear column up through the pilot seat in order for the landing gear to be the correct height. How did you do it? Also the trapeze system seems to lack the detail of some aftermarket sets I've seen in 1/48 and 1/32 scale. I gave up trying to figure out how to scratch build that. These aftermarket set are nicely detailed but have crappy instructions and are not always designed to fit into the model without a lot of work. Thanks again for a great video.
Thank you for the kind words. I think some people are getting upset because it's not what they remember this aircraft to look like and havent seen the exact combination of images I was copying from as reference. But hey now they know what not to do! So yes, I agree that some aftermarket products are an incredible pain to fit into the model they were designed for - especially this one! I believe I had the same issue too. I think I remember taking off most of the roof from the gear bay and floor form the cockpit in order to make room them inside the fuselage. The cockpit floor was wafer thin by the time I had made enough space. So I don't have some magical answer for you unfortunately on that one. The Trapeze system I scratch built from a steel ball and inserted after making some room for it usign Styrene sheet. I basically made an L section for it to sit in which appeared to be more in scale and then dropped the ball in.
Thank you. It's a very useful technique but you have to be very careful when layering paint over the top. If you go too thick all of the marbelling underneath disappears. It helps a lot with more weathered aircraft as the tonal variances is far greater than spraying evenly over the model. It beats pre shading hand down for me
It's difficult to show solely on film but it does have an effect on making more tonal variances in the top coat of paint. There is a fine line between covering it enough and too much. Black aircraft are difficult to paint as the darkness kills pretty much everything you base it with. If you watch some of my other videos they will demonstrate the benefits of black basing and marbelling vs pre shading. My video on the F/A-18 will show it working better ruclips.net/video/L-HeG_ojDMg/видео.html
Very nice. How to manage to maintain clarity of the clear part after spraying? My clear parts always fog up when I try it, even with transparent colours.
Thank you. I heavily thin any paints applied over clear parts. Using acrylic paint I recommend Mr Color Self Levelling Thinner. It levels the paint to become very flat once dried
great build! I love how you used markers to pick out details on the control panel and seat; I'll definitely be using it on my Tamiya F117. Is there any way to dull down white paint to make it seem more grey? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hello and thank you. I would suggest you add a small amount of a medium grey. Going straight to a black to darker white is too much of a contrast and the white would just go grey. So if you want to do it gradually I would add a lighter grey and work darker until you have the tone
Thank you. NATO black is a very dark grey so you would be okay to use this. Compared to black it's about 2 shades lighter I would say but no tint of green
Oh this is a cool Nighthawk build. The weathering was an interesting way to add some variation to what is essentially a flat black triangle. Not entirely historical of course, but it serves its purpose for giving some depth to the paint job :). I really wish I had an airbrush, they're just so damned expensive.
Thank you. I can recommend this setup, it's not too expensive as you can get both airbrush and compressor for the price of my H&S airbrush alone! www.sealey.co.uk/product/5637173584/gravity-feed-air-brush-kit www.scalemodelshop.co.uk/product/airbrush-compressor-as18/?gclid=CjwKCAjw07qDBhBxEiwA6pPbHsIEUYlMbN6tg5kGPINlAt9d22GOnd8cMlUIEdYjDwl74PGnqFV1yxoCfpEQAvD_BwE
@@TheInnerNerd Oh wow those are far cheaper than what I'd been looking at, granted I've always had expensive tastes 😅. I'll keep that setup in mind though, I just need to sort out a spray booth in the garage or something as I tend to do my modles in the kitchen which I guess isn't ideal for spraying.
It's difficult to show solely on film but it does have an effect on making more tonal variances in the top coat of paint. There is a fine line between covering it enough and too much. Black aircraft are difficult to paint as the darkness kills pretty much everything you base it with. If you watch some of my other videos they will demonstrate the benefits of black basing and marbelling vs pre shading. My video on the F/A-18 will show it working better ruclips.net/video/L-HeG_ojDMg/видео.html
@@TheInnerNerd Yeah, I saw the F18 video already. That was very nice! Your technique gave a very real texture/weathering to the craft. That model looked good enough to be in a movie!!
They all kinda do, the difference between something like an Academy model of Hasegawa model is the quality of plastic. Revell has fairly brittle and not very nice plastic making it hard to work with, and they have pretty large margins for excess, but companies like Academy and Hasegawa have much tighter tolerances and much nicer plastic
Thank you. It does appear so but it's the angle of the tail making it look so. Square-on it is level to where it should be. The angles of this plane throw it some distorted images... makes sense really since its stealth
What would you suggest? I was thinking this too but was struggling on not ruining it. The real aircraft are rather subtle though too so doesn't open up many options...
@@TheInnerNerd maybe the primary color of the model could have been a bit lighter so that you could have applied a dark wash to the intakes? Maybe even made the model with the intake covers on?
I'm not sure as my Dremel has a numbered setting and bot RPM. I would guess around 800? It's on setting 18 of 22 so it's spinning pretty fast but not stressing the motor. I kind of used my ears to tune whether it was running fast enough
@@TheInnerNerd Thanks. That still helps give me an idea :). I have a 4300 model and should be able to figure it out. I would need to rewatch the video to see if you show your model.
@@Myoldaccount-mu7of Mine is actually from Maplin so it's not the "Dremel" brand. I'll see if I can find out what if the numbers translate refer to an RPM next time I'm in the shed (I mean studio 😎)
@@TheInnerNerd Not a big deal :) But thanks! I was trying to figure out that sweet spot. I usually end up melting plastic with mine instead of cutting lol.
Because if I speak you can't mute it and still know what I'm doing. Plus I've just got a microphone so check out my latest video ☺ music won't be everyone's choice. Imagine asking EVERYONE their music preference 😂
I desagree with Peter Budavari! I like the movie, I like the build, and I like the music because it is in accordance with the spirit of the jet plane: shrouded in mistery, secret opperations, elite pilots. Nice build! Keep up the good work!
@I don't know what to name myself Spend hundreds of millions of dollars developing a single-seat, twin-engine stealth attack aircraft. Gets Shot down by a cheap surface-to-air missile developed in the 50's. Lol rekt
Thank you. Yes I probably went a little too overboard on this one but it was the first time I'd done an all black aircraft. Maybe my interpretation of some references was slightly out, but its all part of trying something new with each model made. Thanks for watching :)
overweathered and frankly quite unrealistic. haven't seen any photos of the the real f117 with patches of grey white smoky pattern splotched throughout like a moldy underside of a kitchen sink. especially around the cockpit hatch, etc...
Pictures of real ones like this are few and far between, but they are mostly of ones in the air, not on the ground or in museums. Had to get the idea from somewhere didn't I? images.app.goo.gl/CG7pk9exxqaG26WA9 images.app.goo.gl/49A7AWgkbp3RLYnV6
Get outta here with that “no crew chief would ever..” bs! Have you seen a million dollars? Do you believe a million dollars exist? Even IF he didn’t have photo reference, don’t you think it would be boring if we all built plain old black jets?
Oh, okay. So how do you explain these? instagram.com/p/BgubQmpB3lm/?igshid=hzukc5d67t66 instagram.com/p/Bwo7bmih7KO/?igshid=1iskem00hkn9v instagram.com/p/Bvke0gbFDPi/?igshid=1d2r4ssyh7lam instagram.com/p/BeqtTAWg61Z/?igshid=464nplnuc2on instagram.com/p/Boydt7sidbd/?igshid=pejwk8gx2d5c instagram.com/p/BoiAzGwgy1b/?igshid=1s055eeuw44g1 ACTIVE SERVICE F-117s with VERY SIMILAR weathering. Not all aircraft look clean and newly washed...
Worked on the 117 at TTR 37thTFW! The jet was NOT a spotless black jet! Ram panels and butter and all the normal leaks etc were the same on the black jet as any other! The difference was it wasn’t contrasted as much. Man when I built model back in the 80s no way did we have all these extra parts for cockpits etc. I honestly can’t believe how a kit is so expensive these days! Great job!
Hi Guys. Hope you enjoy the video of Academy's F-117A Night Hawk. I've added caption subtitles in this video so make sure you have them set to on and get them on screen
Great video and a lovely video! I am looking forward to the shoutout!
Very nice job mate, the video has certainly helped with a couple of issues I would have run into. Great job!
There are a couple of thing you could mention. The first is that they are trying to set up a London club and need volunteers to run once a month 3 hours model making sessions.they have a logo on their FB page. Could you please include it
The second is that it is not just for Autism suffers but their carers as well.
Great build.. I hope you don't get too worried about the criticism.. I don't agree with some of your touches, yet I really appreciate you sharing YOUR build process and not trying to appease everyone in the comments.. Everyone doesn't have to agree on everything the way everything is done, yet everyone should agree that it's a great job and even better a big thanks for sharing... A lot can be learned and gained from watching someone else work... Looking forward to more videos!
Sure... you Right... Have a nice day!
I was building a 1/48 academy F117 never made a black jet before and I gave up on it but I see what you did and made me re think of continue the kit again haha hope you can make another one and this time you can explain the procedure and process love to see you make another one mate keep it up
Thank you and thanks for watching :)
Absolutely amazing you have given me so many ideas as well on how to do wiring with pens etc. Thank you so much, thoroughly enjoyed it. Mike Harris
That’s Amazing! So impressive!
Another great build.....beautifully executed and presented. Congratulations....a most enjoyable watch!
A masterpiece again!!!! 😲
Hello mister nerd!that HUD detail is amazing. The boxart is way ok.nice detailing with that resin.all in all great Job done.with sticky greetings. Christian
great job on the painting and weathering shame that those decals silvered
Thank you And yes it annoyed the hell out of me. I wouldn't advise getting this kit to be honest its disappointing in the details. Even those decals over a glossy finish managed to mess up
Is there a better f117 kit out there?
MrD53
Another fantastic build and paint work but there were at least 3 times when I thought you'd done enough and risked over complicating the paint work but you managed to produce a balanced and covincing end result very well done
hi great job ,just finished the same model.Well I painted it mat black and about to put decals on ,my son said how about some white wash and some weathering .I said nar it was black! then I watched your video ! back to the to the paints for weathering I go .lol justice is served I guess! Son said ,told you dad !bloody Utube lol🖒🖒🖒
Excellent build. Hope I live long enough to get that good.
Great job. Amazing weathering black bird.
I feel your pain with the gloss coat sanding. I've yet to get a consistent smooth high gloss finish. Thankfully, I like to sand my decals anyway to get rid of the edges, so I've learned to just take sanding/polishing of the gloss coat as part of the process.
Wow , that is a lot of work for 1/72 scale model.
beautiful ! love it ! from Seattle USA !
Thank you and thanks for watching :)
Extraordinary work!
What a nice scale model!
Hello, congratulations from Italy ... really nice, so much effort on your part for a great result, really good !!
I built the same kit a few years ago although not to the same standard as yours. Very nice mate
Hi think the work on this was great...learned a lot..don't understand all the negative comments. Yes they are kept very clean, but eventually in combat will get really put through the torture test.
Посмотрел ролик с удовольствием! Супер! 😎👍👍👍
Canopy coat is something unbelievably realistic
Not related to this particular model or video....do you have a video of your setup? I'd love to see it! And if you, or anyone reading this, has a suggestion for a prebuilt portable spray booth, I'd love to hear them :) I'm thinking about making one by just attaching a clear storage bin to a 20 inch box fan, stick it in the window and call it done.
Nice build, one suggestion on the decal silvering. Waterslide decals love a smooth shiny surface. Shooting a coat of gloss clear over the black, applying the decals, sealing them with a second thin gloss coat and then dullcoat the whole thing (except your glass). That usually does away with decal silvering like that. Also, use Microsol or Microset to help decals conform to the surface, you get a much better result. I've been building models for 52 years, been competing in IMPS and other contests for about 40 years. That's just one of the tricks I learned along the way.
Thanks for the advice. I do know this but it didn’t seem to work as well on this one for some reason. All of my other model videos have no slivering apart from when I started 3 years ago and didn’t know a thing about gloss coats etc
@@TheInnerNerd It may be the decals then. Sometimes I get that on an older Hasegawa kit made in the late 1980s or early 1990s. I use a lot of decal setting solution in that case. Some decals I will shoot with an acrylic clear with my airbrush to keep them from cracking. Have you ever used the Testors decal film and an inkjet printer? I have made my own nose art for some of my projects with that, if you have decals that are really shot that may be a good way to get a new sheet for an obsolete kit. That Aries cockpit is amazing, I got mine today for an F16I Sufa project for later this summer. Looks so much better than Verlinden.
Yeah….ummmm….decals need a SMOOTH surface to prevent silvering, not necessarily a glossy one. As evidenced in this build. If the surface isn’t smooth before glossing, you can still get silvering. Things have changed in your ‘52 years’…I don’t gloss before decals, and rarely, if ever, have had a decal silver on me….
Great work, another awesome video 🤙🏻
Very tricky bird to paint. Great work!
I think weathering may have varied a great lot during service, as the special paint, which in association with special materials used at some parts provided about 15% of its radar signature attenuation, had to be carefully maintained ll times. The two occasions I saw the F-117 from a very close distance the black painting looked quite pristine, but those were in the US, not at battle fronts with heavy sorties schedules.
Thank you And yes I found this one particularly tricky due to the paint colour. The reference images ised were form active service aircraft so were much more bleached than those based on US soil. I like to pick each model based on getting a new challenge and this was definately a challenge!
Excellent video mate
Nice kit!!! I give a like
I worked on these jets back in 1998 down in new mexico... "Holloman afb".... I loaded gbu 27's as a weapons loader :) Cool jet had a ton of fa18 in it... I could tell you some good stories.... It leaked fuel all under it when it came back from flight.....
8th or 9th?
Hey brian... 9th " Flying Knights" :) not the black sheep :/ lol
@@raydolinger1980 I was with the 49th OSS but deployed with the 9th FS every time they went somewhere. We probably unknowingly went to some of the same places.
Ray Dolinger 👍🍻
Nice build mate, 😉👍
I honestly thought you were going overboard on the weathering, but that's been part of my problem, is not trusting the process. Looks really good. One thing I would have done differently though. The canopy & radar glass should have been smoke and amber. Heavier on the amber.
It's a heart stopping moment when you add all the oils to the paint job. But if you've clear coated well enough and everything is cured alls you have to do is use thinners to get off the oil. That's why they are so good to use because you have that imaginary "undo" button if it all goes wrong 😎
ohh i'm loving it. okay. i got too much subscription but this time i must got your channel. pretty nice work you did! cheers
Thank you and thanks for watching :)
great vid ! do you find the looks of the "F" 117 grow on you ? It's not working for me ........... models always look nice though .
Amazing bro
looks great. would you care to share how you made the clear iridescent paint for the canopy?
I'm not sure if he used it in this build but I know clear nail foil can be useful for that iridescent look on the canopy, it also looks good on heads up displays too.
All I can say excellent.
Thank you and thanks for watching :)
Una maravilla, maestro tu eres
Just one quick thing that I'm not sure if it would work for the model, but they used it in the real aircraft. If you can't find aftermarket landing gear or ejection seat, just look for f-16c gear and seat.
Thanks for the tip. Both CMK and Aires however do sell an array of resin detail ups for this kit
Other best work Inner Nerd!
Посмотрел с удовольствием. Но декали от академа надо сразу в мусор выкидывать, безумно толстая подложка для этого масштаба. Покраска и везеринг в вашем исполнении восхитительны. С уважением.
Not one of your best ones but still a really nice job. :D
Hi nice video of the f-117a
Nice build. Would have been nice to have had some description, such as what paint etc you were using.
Thank you. There are subtitles in this video if you use the "CC" button :) All paints are listed there as well as some level of description
Hi I'm very impressed with your attention to detail. I read all the comments criticizing your weathering techniques and I understand what you were trying to accomplish. I believe you did a marvelous job. I do have a question though. I bought the resin cockpit set you used and after several rounds of sanding and dry fitting I got it to fit snugly. The bottom of the resin however prevented me from closing the two haves of the plane because the roof of the front wheel well kept hitting the bottom of the resin cockpit. I sanded both until they were almost paper thin. I had to cut about 1.5 mm off the roof of the front wheel well to close the two fuselage halves. I then had to resort to cutting a hole for the main lading gear column up through the pilot seat in order for the landing gear to be the correct height. How did you do it?
Also the trapeze system seems to lack the detail of some aftermarket sets I've seen in 1/48 and 1/32 scale. I gave up trying to figure out how to scratch build that. These aftermarket set are nicely detailed but have crappy instructions and are not always designed to fit into the model without a lot of work.
Thanks again for a great video.
Thank you for the kind words. I think some people are getting upset because it's not what they remember this aircraft to look like and havent seen the exact combination of images I was copying from as reference. But hey now they know what not to do!
So yes, I agree that some aftermarket products are an incredible pain to fit into the model they were designed for - especially this one! I believe I had the same issue too. I think I remember taking off most of the roof from the gear bay and floor form the cockpit in order to make room them inside the fuselage. The cockpit floor was wafer thin by the time I had made enough space. So I don't have some magical answer for you unfortunately on that one.
The Trapeze system I scratch built from a steel ball and inserted after making some room for it usign Styrene sheet. I basically made an L section for it to sit in which appeared to be more in scale and then dropped the ball in.
Nice build, great to watch it come together. I did have to mute the music tho it’s crazy loud.
Thanks for watching and making me aware of the music. I'll be sure to lower the levels in the next one
nice phantom on decals
Nice looking stelth-eee bird. 👍👊
Simply, WOW!!!!
Which brand are those white and red pens you used in the cockpit? The white one cover so well!
The detail is in the captions on the video if you have them set as on. The pens are Uniball POSCA 1MR.
Awesome aircraft btw what are the names of the songs you used in the video and the artist? Please
Thank you. All artists are credited at the end ☺
Amazing job. I’ve never seen the benefit of a marbling coat however.
Thank you. It's a very useful technique but you have to be very careful when layering paint over the top. If you go too thick all of the marbelling underneath disappears. It helps a lot with more weathered aircraft as the tonal variances is far greater than spraying evenly over the model. It beats pre shading hand down for me
It's difficult to show solely on film but it does have an effect on making more tonal variances in the top coat of paint. There is a fine line between covering it enough and too much. Black aircraft are difficult to paint as the darkness kills pretty much everything you base it with. If you watch some of my other videos they will demonstrate the benefits of black basing and marbelling vs pre shading. My video on the F/A-18 will show it working better
ruclips.net/video/L-HeG_ojDMg/видео.html
top build 👍👍
Hi, can you please tell me which mix of paint you used for canopy glass painting, Thank you
ive got this model kit it looks beutiful
Thank you and thanks for watching :)
Nice build Great watching you work but a little to much weathering for my taste but a great job
Very nice. How to manage to maintain clarity of the clear part after spraying? My clear parts always fog up when I try it, even with transparent colours.
Thank you. I heavily thin any paints applied over clear parts. Using acrylic paint I recommend Mr Color Self Levelling Thinner. It levels the paint to become very flat once dried
@@TheInnerNerd Thank you ^-^
I kept mine close to my yugoslav models but it just dissapeared
great build! I love how you used markers to pick out details on the control panel and seat; I'll definitely be using it on my Tamiya F117. Is there any way to dull down white paint to make it seem more grey? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hello and thank you. I would suggest you add a small amount of a medium grey. Going straight to a black to darker white is too much of a contrast and the white would just go grey. So if you want to do it gradually I would add a lighter grey and work darker until you have the tone
@@TheInnerNerd , thanks! is there a ratio you could recommend?
I'm not sure, depends on how dark you want to go. I would try with one drop off a paintbrush into about 3 drops of white and see where that takes you
it's like your painbox at school............mix a tiny bit of grey in it !
The Outer Nerd
Nice build! What black did you use? I'm tempted by Tamiya NATO black which i think is more of a dark green.
Thank you. NATO black is a very dark grey so you would be okay to use this. Compared to black it's about 2 shades lighter I would say but no tint of green
Can you please share with me what kind of marker brands did u use? Good job man impressive
I use Unibal POSCA PC1-MR. The come in various sizes but these are the smallest tips at 1mm
what tool you are using for polished! 20:23
Hello. Its a Proxxon Micromot 60/e www.proxxon.com/en/micromot/28500.php
Chicken salad out of chicken shit...love the weathering
Oh this is a cool Nighthawk build. The weathering was an interesting way to add some variation to what is essentially a flat black triangle. Not entirely historical of course, but it serves its purpose for giving some depth to the paint job :). I really wish I had an airbrush, they're just so damned expensive.
Thank you. I can recommend this setup, it's not too expensive as you can get both airbrush and compressor for the price of my H&S airbrush alone!
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@@TheInnerNerd Oh wow those are far cheaper than what I'd been looking at, granted I've always had expensive tastes 😅. I'll keep that setup in mind though, I just need to sort out a spray booth in the garage or something as I tend to do my modles in the kitchen which I guess isn't ideal for spraying.
At 12:32........................What's the point of adding in all that texturing when you seem to paint over it heavily later?
It's difficult to show solely on film but it does have an effect on making more tonal variances in the top coat of paint. There is a fine line between covering it enough and too much. Black aircraft are difficult to paint as the darkness kills pretty much everything you base it with. If you watch some of my other videos they will demonstrate the benefits of black basing and marbelling vs pre shading. My video on the F/A-18 will show it working better
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@@TheInnerNerd Yeah, I saw the F18 video already. That was very nice! Your technique gave a very real texture/weathering to the craft. That model looked good enough to be in a movie!!
Looks like Academy has the same mold as Revell
They all kinda do, the difference between something like an Academy model of Hasegawa model is the quality of plastic.
Revell has fairly brittle and not very nice plastic making it hard to work with, and they have pretty large margins for excess, but companies like Academy and Hasegawa have much tighter tolerances and much nicer plastic
Very nice but is the tail decal crooked on the left side?
Thank you. It does appear so but it's the angle of the tail making it look so. Square-on it is level to where it should be. The angles of this plane throw it some distorted images... makes sense really since its stealth
The Inner Nerd cool, well excellent build and I’ll be sure to check your others.
I feel like you could have spiced up the engine intakes. When you look at the model they kind of disappear into the background. Otherwise, fantastic!
What would you suggest? I was thinking this too but was struggling on not ruining it. The real aircraft are rather subtle though too so doesn't open up many options...
@@TheInnerNerd maybe the primary color of the model could have been a bit lighter so that you could have applied a dark wash to the intakes? Maybe even made the model with the intake covers on?
How much was the total cost for the kit + resin parts and pe?
£34 all in. No paints etc. Obviously
Anyone else feel that this aircraft would be perfect for a modernisation of Blastoff from Transformers?
What's the deal with the ball bearings?
Adds weight to the model and also adds more authentic reflection and texture to the radar.
Vaibhav Gupta is right, if you turn on the closed captions it explains why too. Thanks for watching
What are those pens showing at 6:39 called?
activa los subtitulos bro, ahi entrega los nombres de todos los productos que usa :)
They are Uniball POSCA 1Mr. If you turn on the CC for the video then everything is explained there ☺
What is your camera setup?
At about the 20 minute mark all I see is painting with bird poop. HAHA
Building is remarkably similar to auto detailing.
Sorry we did not know that he is invisible. Do not fly over Serbien (1999)*
Boss!
DETAIL IT ACURATED IN REAL PROPER IN THIS SCALE.
At 2:22, what speed are you using?
I'm not sure as my Dremel has a numbered setting and bot RPM. I would guess around 800? It's on setting 18 of 22 so it's spinning pretty fast but not stressing the motor. I kind of used my ears to tune whether it was running fast enough
@@TheInnerNerd Thanks. That still helps give me an idea :). I have a 4300 model and should be able to figure it out. I would need to rewatch the video to see if you show your model.
@@Myoldaccount-mu7of Mine is actually from Maplin so it's not the "Dremel" brand. I'll see if I can find out what if the numbers translate refer to an RPM next time I'm in the shed (I mean studio 😎)
@@TheInnerNerd Not a big deal :) But thanks! I was trying to figure out that sweet spot. I usually end up melting plastic with mine instead of cutting lol.
Good job, but decals and canopy :(
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фонарь кабины не естественно выделяется
buddy why don't you just speak instead of just putting up his horrendous music?
Because if I speak you can't mute it and still know what I'm doing. Plus I've just got a microphone so check out my latest video ☺ music won't be everyone's choice. Imagine asking EVERYONE their music preference 😂
Try turning your speakers down OR mute the sound!
I desagree with Peter Budavari! I like the movie, I like the build, and I like the music because it is in accordance with the spirit of the jet plane: shrouded in mistery, secret opperations, elite pilots.
Nice build! Keep up the good work!
Made in USA
Destroyed in Serbia
😂
@I don't know what to name myself Spend hundreds of millions of dollars developing a single-seat, twin-engine stealth attack aircraft. Gets Shot down by a cheap surface-to-air missile developed in the 50's. Lol rekt
@I don't know what to name myself not all 😂
I don't know what to name myself Yeah let me repeat that. *BILLIONS OF DOLLARS SPENT TO GET SHOT DOWN BY OBSOLETE TECHNOLOGY*
@I don't know what to name myself *HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS. JAMMED BOMB BAY*
lol
@I don't know what to name myself A heavy price paid nontheless. A hyper-inefficient loss.
Перемудрил
Great build but too much weathering for a flat black aircraft.
Thank you. Yes I probably went a little too overboard on this one but it was the first time I'd done an all black aircraft. Maybe my interpretation of some references was slightly out, but its all part of trying something new with each model made. Thanks for watching :)
overweathered and frankly quite unrealistic. haven't seen any photos of the the real f117 with patches of grey white smoky pattern splotched throughout like a moldy underside of a kitchen sink. especially around the cockpit hatch, etc...
Pictures of real ones like this are few and far between, but they are mostly of ones in the air, not on the ground or in museums. Had to get the idea from somewhere didn't I?
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Get outta here with that “no crew chief would ever..” bs! Have you seen a million dollars? Do you believe a million dollars exist? Even IF he didn’t have photo reference, don’t you think it would be boring if we all built plain old black jets?
Sir hi, I must say, you have done the weathering TOO MUCH, you have over done it. trying your best you have ruined a well made model, what a SHAME.
Oh, okay. So how do you explain these?
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ACTIVE SERVICE F-117s with VERY SIMILAR weathering. Not all aircraft look clean and newly washed...
so rude
stop complaint it
if you don't dislike it. don't watch
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