{"id":740,"date":"2012-03-30T16:01:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T21:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=740"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:15:43","slug":"viper-the-final-touches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"Viper: The Final Touches"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"This will be my final update post on the Colonial Viper MKII. The next photos will be of her completed. But for now, here are a few photos of the weathering process. I’m only going to show the forward avionics bays to illustrate this, as there’s more going on in that section, detail-wise, than in the engines, and because I’m close enough to the end that I don’t want to show overall shots of her until completely finished.<\/p>\n

For washes I still like to use artists oils. I have, however, gotten away from using mineral spirits for thinner, and instead I use lighter fluid. It works just as well, but dries much faster. Using lighter fluid (naptha) allows the oils to dry in just a couple of days, instead of taking nearly a week. I did a general wash of the avionics bays, let that dry, and dullcoated everything. I then used acrylic bronze paint for some details, and once that dried I picked out further points of interest using a silver pencil.<\/p>\n

The next step is pastel chalk and weathering powders to dirty her up a bit, and some airbrushing of pure flat black for blast marks, engine residue, and gun smoke.<\/p>\n

That’s it. The journey is nearly over. Our yearly club show, MosquitoCon<\/a>, is next Saturday, and the Viper will be on the contest table. After that, she gets packed up and shipped to her new owner.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t