Thanks for the kind words all, hopefully this latest crop of photos will bear out your support.
I've maybe gone about the masking a bit bass ackwards but being a hairey stick merchant, I thought it might be easier to mask off the area for the white strips & do them after, like I've done here before I applied the 1st top colour. Time will tell.
Both top colours on now, as well as the MSG undersides. I'm doing KW-R out of the box, according to my prowling around the googlesphere, it had a different camo pattern to most SEAC Thunderbolts so I'll go with the kits pattern which seems to match some bigger scale ones I saw built up. I'll also use the kit decals if they behave, the colours aren't too far off the Rising Decal & Airfix Hurricane roundels I have, a coat of matt varnish should tone them down a little. I'm not real pleased with the Freightdog SEAC decals, the center pale blue is quite a lilac colour. For the Dark Green & Dark Earth, I've used Hu102 & 110 as being slightly lighter shades of acceptable hue/tint, especially when scale effect & fading is taken into account.
Some white stripes now, still needs another coat even after two so far, but I think my masking scheme is not so bad, I'm doing the stripes free hand using the camo edge as a guide. I'm OK with it, some touching up still required in a couple of areas though.
More next week, I'm back at work for the next 3 days. :(
Steve.
