AndrewR's Frog Mustang II in 1/72 **finished**

[AndrewR]

I will try not to assist in further lowering the tone of this thread by refraining from:

a) pointing fun at those who like to be sure as to how many rivets there are on any given surface of any given aircraft.

"Legitimate targets..."

[lancfan]

Dzus fasteners if you please David. And on this kit they are 0.05mm too small in diameter. I cannot believe the designers at Frog got that crucial dimension wrong. No wonder the company went bust.

I must say that Frog stand is very stylish. I have to admit that I've never built a Frog kit and have never seen one of their stands. Whisper it, but I think it looks nicer than the Airfix ones.

Shawn, forgive me for naming them by function and not by name, I stand corrected. on the other point I always thought the Frog Stand stylish and more stable than the Airfix item.

David.

[ShaunW]

Please don't take my comments regarding your description of the rivet/dzus fasteners seriously David, I certainly wasn't having a go at you, more taking a pop at the JMN brigade

[lancfan]

shawn, wasn't serious in my last post- another attempt at humour gone flat (must stop trying to do that, I'm just not funny)

David.

[AndrewR]

And that's the end of the Dzus

Now for the weather...

[JohnRatzenberger]

And that's the end of the Dzus

Now for the weather...

You mean of course, "That Dzus it..."

[PaulBradley]

Boy, that joke's a Dzuszy.....

[lancfan]

And this all really 'Dzus' take the biscuit.

David.
(I'll say it before anyone else does- GROAN )

[AndrewR]

A man's gotta Dzus what a man's gotta Dzus...

[ShaunW]

Dzus cannot be serious!

[AndrewR]

So having got the Dzus jokes out of collective system, now we can get on with the serious modelling.

I masked up, sprayed some matt varnish to seal the edges and then sprayed the black on the invasion stripes, late in the evening:



The prop also got a squirt of the black stuff, after masking off the yellow tips.



They came out pretty well, I think. Much better than decals, which never quite do it for me in the realism stakes.
Tomorrow, once the black is thoroughly dry, I'll mask up for the Medium Sea Grey undersides. At some point I have to do the sky half band on the rear of the fuselage, and the prop spinner too.

cheers


Andrew

[ShaunW]

The stripes look fine to me and I agree that painted on stripes are generally superior to decals and it's worth the faffing about with masking tape etc etc.

[Molly-new]

The stripes look fine to me and I agree that painted on stripes are generally superior to decals and it's worth the faffing about with masking tape etc etc.

Absolutely agree. Having spoken to a gent who did this for real in the war, he said they used to paint them on with an old mop, so even if you use the hairy stick to paint them on, and leave brush strokes it all adds to the realism.

[AndrewR]

The "rough and ready" way the stripes were often put on does make me much more relaxed about doing them, and not worrying about perfection!

Tamiya 6mm tape is your friend in 1/72 scale, I just use it straight from the reel.

Cheers

Andrew

[PaulBradley]

Agreed about the stripes - doing it yourself yields a much more realistic look, especially as you can control the density of the paint - making them look a little rough and ready. Decals are too clinical, and I always have difficulty applying them anyway.