Lancfan's Macchi Saetta ***FINISHED 23 HOURS, 47 MINUTES ***

[mjatx]

You're making great progress! I really like the scratch cockpit work. Very nice.

[jssel]

Nice progress. All is looking very tasty.

[iggie]

Great progress David, and as always an impressive amount of additional works as well!

[lancfan]

Some filler was needed under the fuselage at the trailing edge wing root.


This was rubbed down, the tailplanes were fitted and the cockpit was masked off.


The undersides have been painted in Revell Aqua Mid Grey 43.


David.

[splash]

Great progress I liked the look of that sand coloured plastic, I imagine it's quite nice to work with.

What's your plan with the top coats free hand airbrush or old school hairy stick?

Regards Splash

[lancfan]

The base colour will be airbrushed and the blotches will be brushed on Splash.


David.

[despondman]

Another great blitz. Looking forward to seeing it painted.

[splash]

The base colour will be airbrushed and the blotches will be brushed on Splash.

That sounds like a good idea, normally I just go freestyle airbrush but I think I would do the same as you in this instance.

Keep up the good work.

Regards Splash

[Old_Tonto]

She is coming together now mate. Can't wait to see the camo go on.

Are you doing an all night shift?

[Clashcityrocker]

Nice work so far.

Nigel

[Ian]

Morning David. Are you up yet? Or have you gone cross eyed? I did when I built this kit. So many little spots of paint!

[splash]

He must have over slept

[iggie]

It's looking that way.....I hope he's ok

[Old_Tonto]

Do we know what happened?

[lancfan]

I did have a couple of breaks during the night despondman, Splash, O_T, Nigel, Ian, iggie and life got in the way before lunch but I am back on line and this is the close of the Saetta Blitz.
The Revell Aqua Africa Yellow has been sprayed on.


Out with the brushes, the green and brown disruptive has been brushed on using Humbrol 29 and 78 thinnned with flow enhancer to give me time to work.



The White band around the fuselage was painted freehand. I was getting pretty tired by this time and did stop work to have a break.


Decals and varnish came next.


Last but not least came final assembly to complete the model.


Despite having a break I had to leave the bench a second time and the model was eventually completed with less than 15 minutes to spare.


Macchi Saetta Regia Aeronautica, Italy, 1941.






David.