Bluesteels Baltimore ***FINISHED***

[TimJ]

Great job so far.

[bluesteel]

Camo going on. The colurs look a lot lighter in the flash but they are actually quite dark in natural light. Dealing with any bleed onto the white is tricky as it takes a lot of small touch op coats to cover the darker shades.

[bluesteel]

A couple more coats of camo and a coat of matt varnish later:

[PaulBradley]

Very smart.

[TobyC]

The colours look good and the white is very sharp. Coming along well

[TomW]

Looks amazing Julian, makes me want to dig out my special hobby version.

Regards

Tom

[bluesteel]

Thanks for the kind comments everyone. It's not a competition winner, but slow and careful progress is being made and it's now starting to look like a FROG Baltimore as FROG intended :D

Engines mounted and the grey and stone squares and rectangles painted on the fuselage of the decals:

[bluesteel]

U/c and decals on. Nose glazing and u/c doors to go.

[bluesteel]

I'm calling that a finish. Quite please with the hand painted white, better than the camo I think.
May revisit the nose glazing sometime in the future as my Bete Noir is not the frame painting
but attaching to the fuselage. I used Krystal Klear but it oozed and because it's soft it doesn't
file down but tears out leaving gaps which are hard to fill.

[TobyC]

That has turned out very well.

[splash]

Well done it looks brilliant in those colours.

Regards Splash

[Martin R]

Julian,

Good result on an interesting aircraft in a cool scheme!

regards,

Martin

[Clashcityrocker]

Nicely done.

Nigel

[Zee28]

That looks really sharp! And it's great finish with a brush, very good indeed.

[despondman]

Excellent work with the white paint - it really does look exceedingly good.
Nice to see something a bit different.