And here we have the latest progress, 15 minutes of dusting, plus a bit of paint touch up on the tyres.
I applied a little black-grey pastel for the cordite stains from the guns, and a mix fo black, grey and a little brown for the exhaust fumes. For this I used quite a fine brush.
Then I give an overall dusting with a light grey powder, mostly to take the edge off the colours a bit and to blend in the darker streaks.
This generally doesn't take very long on a 1/72 WW2 fighter.
Having completely overdone the weathering on my Bf-109 with a wash, I'm back to the pastels, as I can easily wash them off. Also in 1/72 scale, less weathering looks better to my eye. I can see that more elaborate weathering looks good on 1/48 scale though (as Steve has ably demonstrated with the Mk XII in this very GB). I'll have to practice. I have a 1/48 scale Zero to do for the Pearl Harbor GB, and then there's the 1/48 Airfix Spitfire Extravaganza.
cheers
Andrew