Viper - Finished!

And here's the final result, on both the Mark II and mark VII.

Started in August 2014 and abandoned several times along the route. Finally finished early 2019.

Kit(s): Colonial Viper Mark II and VII
Scale: 1/32
Manufacturer: Revell & Moebius
Price: $25 and $40
Number of parts: ~60 and ~50
Time spent: ~40 hours
Project completion time: 5 years

Paint: (Vallejo)

Mark II

• White primer - entire model (10+ layers)
• US Grey (71.047) - cockpit
• Aluminium, steel, gold, silver ... - details

Mark VII

• Black primer
• Base colour was trial and error mix of
• 35% Pale grey blue (71.046)
• 35% US grey (71.047)
• 20% Insignia blue (71.091)
• 10% aluminium (71.062)
• Black, aluminium, steel, gold, silver, ... - details

Other products:

• Alklad II klear kote (semi-matte)
• Abteilung 502 oil
• 180 - Copper oxide blue
• 070 - Dark rust
• 050 - Olive green
• 060 - Light rust brown
• 215 - Flesh shadow
• 160 - Engine grease (brownish)
• 510 - Starship filth (dirty green)
• 170 - German grey highlight

Findings or issues:

• Not sure you can call it an issue. I misplaced some of the smaller inserts, like for the nose of the Mark VII.
• The front landing strut on the Mark II was warped, but nothing a little hot water couldn't fix. Nowaday's, I would use a heatgun, but I didn't have one back then.
• The Moebius building instructions leave somewhat to be desired, but the Revell instructions can be found online.
• The Moebius cockpit could do with a few more decals. It's pretty bland in there now.
• Red decal stripes on Revell's Mark II are a bit short to cover the entire length. You'll need to match the paint color and do touch-ups. (Humbrol #19 is a perfect match)

I took these pictures outside in bright sunlight. I only spotted afterwards that the models have collected quite an amount of dust in the year they've been in the bookshelf already.
More and better quality pictures will be in the Facebook album.