What's on your workbench?

[FreddBloggs]

I like the MI 1.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

I think it was gin & tonic, last time I saw you...

Still pints though, right?

[RMD]

There you go.......a silk purse.

Excellent glazed effect.

Cheers! I've been using that method for a while now - basically because whenever I've been in the air, I've found that cockpits on other aircraft look black (with a bit of glint) and not sky-blue, which is how most wargamers seem to do 'em. My early efforts (using just gun-metal on black) weren't brilliant, but adding a bit of silver does seem to improve the method:

[RMD]

I think it was gin & tonic, last time I saw you...

Still pints though, right?

It comes in smaller measures...?

[RMD]

I like the MI 1.

Yeah, she's a cutie. Those East German Nubee kits actually have plenty of detail and the moulding is pretty good. I've already got an Mi-4 'Hound' and an unmade Mi-6 'Hook' (which is HUGE). It's just that they tend to be fiddly bastards to stick together.

What I REALLY want is an Mi-2 'Hoplite' scout helicopter, as it's rather more 1980s than the Mi-1 'Hare' (which was first produced in 1951), but nobody does an Mi-2 in 1/100th. That said, the Mi-1 was still hanging on in low-category mobilisation units and Warsaw Pact armies and the book 'First Clash' refers to 'Hare' scouts rather than 'Hoplites', so that's good enough for me.

[Essex Boy]

Definitely works.

[grizzlymc]

I think it was gin & tonic, last time I saw you...

Still pints though, right?

It comes in smaller measures...?

What?

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

That canopy technique works really well (I suspect even more so when looking at them "normally" rather than from a close up angle).

[grizzlymc]

I have tried something similar, but less effective. The windows are painted gloss black, then I mix silver with a dash of metallic blue. The upper surfaces are wet painted, then a dry brush is put on the side once that is dry.

[RMD]

Well the Hare and the Kiowa are finished. Now got the Transall under the brush and the Pumas assembled and undercoated. I still need more Pumas (I've got three, but could use about six for the game), so if anyone's got any Heller 1/100th Pumas going spare, please let me know!