Had a pretty torrid time with the airbrush this evening. It was in a mood and just didn't want to play. I eventually got a coat of Vallejo ModelAir 71029 Dark Earth on, but it was way too dark so I over sprayed it with Tamiya XF52 Flat Earth. While that was drying for a couple of hours I made some paper masks by drawing round the wings and fuselage onto a sheet of A4 then just cut them out and folded and roughly taped them in place. I then sprayed on Tamiya XF81 RAF Dark Green.
I decided to do the spraying now to avoid having to mask all of the glazing if I did it once the aircraft is put together. Any seam lines or such like that result from the construction can be touched in with paint by hand later.
The bottom wing shows the paper masks roughly taped in place as I said. I wasn't too worried about getting hard edges on the camoflage and use some small bits of Blue-Tack to raise the edges in some places.
And with the masking removed.
Remember that the bottom 2/3rds of the fuselage will be over painted Matt Black and also much will be lost with the addition of the invasion stripes, and then added weathering, so I was not after a pristine finish here - fortunately
This definitely has the traits of a limited run kit and will need some serious modelling in places, but hey, they can't all be shake 'n' makes can they?!
Cheers
Al.
