Gunship of the Valley of the Wind
1December 6, 2021
2December 6, 2021Pink primer airbrushed.
3December 6, 2021Details of the faces with acrylics and a brush.
4December 6, 2021
5December 6, 20211/72 is just so tiny even with "anime-eyes".
6December 6, 2021
7December 6, 2021Faces are ready.
8December 6, 2021liquid mask for protecting the faces.
9December 6, 2021I forgot Nausicaä had back hair. I must avoid it when painting clothes. Also I didn't put putty in the back because I though it won't show when sitting in the cockpit.
10December 12, 2021Mito's base color was airbrushed while Nausicaä was hand brushed entirely.
11December 12, 2021Rest of details hand brushed with acrylics.
12December 12, 2021Liquid mask removed from Mito's face. Needed to fix the boundaries.
13December 12, 2021Mito fixed. Shame all the flaws are shown in the picture but in real life they were difficult to notice.
14December 12, 2021Figures are ready after black wash and matt varnish.
15December 12, 2021The Gunship itself is under construction. Cut off most of snap-fit pins for easier dry-fitting.
16December 12, 2021The rocket fits very loosely so it is safe to paint. Its diameter is about 3,7 mm.
17December 12, 2021Almost only additions I built from scratch are the tiny levers of the control stick. There wasn't enough room to drill holes so I glued them on the surface.
18December 12, 2021
19December 12, 2021Interior parts painted and first varnish layer applied.
20December 13, 2021Just checking. It is not possible to insert Nausicaä afterwards through the open cockpit.
21December 13, 2021Front seat assembled according to the instructions. The guns are not glued because snap-fit.
22December 13, 2021The guns needed to be removed because I couldn't add Nausicaä otherwise. Good I didn't glue them.
23December 13, 2021Now the front seat is ready.
24December 13, 2021Everything that comes inside the fuselage is in place. Not glued, because I trust snap-fitting here.
25December 13, 2021I didn't add any extra to the back like levers, tubes or other controlling devices, bacause they would not have shown and Mito takes most of free space.
26December 13, 2021Fuselage halves glued together.
27December 13, 2021Surfacer 500 added on the seams and started to make wings.
28December 19, 2021Not much new. The central seam of the fuselage is smoothed and primer was added before attaching the wings.
29December 22, 2021Painting flaps beforehand.
30December 22, 2021
31December 22, 2021
32December 22, 2021Attaching wings and flaps.
33December 22, 2021
34December 22, 2021
35January 2, 2022Back from vacation! Some preshading with white.
36January 7, 2022Main color coming up little by little. I usully avoid mixing paints, but the Vallejo Air 71.420 Earth Yellow was too brown for my taste so I had to mix it with some white and yellow.
37January 7, 2022Windscreens coming up. I felt lazy and masked them with liquid mask that may retaliate.
38January 7, 2022The front window was nasty surprise and needed gap filling.
39January 7, 2022After painting I noticed how bad one seam was so it needed to be sanded and repainted.
40January 7, 2022
41January 9, 2022Hopefully the paint is now ok, so I airbrushed the first clear varnish layer.
42January 9, 2022Landing gears are in good shape so they got their clear varnish layer also. One landing gear panel was unlucky and its paintjob needs to be fixed.
43January 18, 2022Weathering ongoing. Chipping with sponge method.
44January 18, 2022Testing A.MIG shaders.
45January 18, 2022
46January 18, 2022Fault of snapfitting. I pushed the cover too hard unevenly and so it cracked.
47January 21, 2022Too much snapfitting so I'm now scared of using glue, so the projectiles are installed with blue tack.
48January 21, 2022Masks are removed. I'm not happy with the deep little window, so it is filled with Micro Kristal Klear.
49January 21, 2022Last minute decision to fill the bottom hole. Nice 2mm wide and 8mm long hole filled with styrene strips and super glue.
50January 22, 2022Now it is fixed.
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55January 22, 2022My camera skills doesn't make honor for this model. Color settings varies so much.
56January 22, 2022
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66March 5, 2023Over a year after completing this model, some marker marks (number 8 in the picture) has come visible. Strange phenomenon. I don't remember, was this marker mark under or over the primer...
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Two-seater fighter jet from the film "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" ("Kaze no Tani no Naushika", 1984). It has a jet engine, the pilot is located in the front cockpit and the co-pilot is in the aft cockpit managing engine. The thrust is generated with giant "blown flaps" similar to Hunting H.126 and Ball-Bartoe Jetwing.
