Cobra Crimson Guard Blood Dagger Fighter/Interceptor continued................

After the final coats of satin burgandy were applied to the body pieces, it was time to move on to the detail paint applications. The cockpit, engine area, landing gear and landing gear areas, rear thrusters, missiles and drop tanks all received detail paint apps. Here's the front landing gear complete assembly:

.....and the part that took the most time to do was the cockpit/engine piece. Using fine tip detail brushes in various sizes and multiple colors of paint, the piece came together. I used a few pictures of real fighter jet interiors and engine areas for referance points and went from there.

For the missiles and drop tanks, all I added was silver trim around the ends.

And for the rear thruster piece, I added silver to the raised fin areas on the outsides.

To finish the interior pieces off and give it that added realism look to it, I painted the inside areas of the upper and lower body pieces as well as the inside of the rear stabalizer wing with flat black. Every area inside that could be seen when the cockpit, engine access hatches or landing gear where open received the flat black paint apps and the leading edges of the wing surfaces received flat black as well.

Then after all the detail paint apps had dried, it was on to reassembly and then sticker application.

Custom Cobra Crimson Guard Blood Dagger Fighter/Interceptor "recipe"

Entire Jet - Cobra Python Patrol Conquest X30 (2008 25th Anniversary Target exclusive Python Patrol Conquest X30)

Stickers - Original Python Patrol Conquest X30 from Hasbro and cobrastickers.com Crimson Guard logos and white Hiss Tank numbers

custom printed out stickers for squadron banners on rear wings and lady riding missile nose art

Paints used:

Flat Grey Primer Spray Paint

Krylon Fusion Satin Burgandy Spray Paint

Krylon Fusion Satin Black Spray Paint

Tamiya X-1 (Gloss Black)

Tamiya X-2 (Gloss White)

Tamiya X-11 (Chrome Silver)

Tamiya X-12 (Gold Leaf)

Tamiya XF-1 (Flat Black)

Tamiya XF-2 (Flat White)

Tamiya XF-3 (Flat Yellow)

Tamiya XF-7 (Flat red)

Tamiya XF-16 (Flat Alluminum)

Tamiya XF-19 (Sky Grey)

Tamiya XF-63 (German Grey)

Tamiya XF-66 (Light Grey)