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Top Gun Tiger

Construction (cont.)

For paints, I used all Testors Model Master enamels. The camouflage is made up of Dark Ghost Gray (F.S.36320) and Dark Green (F.S.34079). Before painting the camouflage, though, I determined all the locations of the markings where I was going to do positive / negative masking and painted those areas in the colors that the markings were supposed to be. Then I masked off the markings and painted the actual camouflage. I used rub down transfers to mask the lettering and Scotch brand Magic Transparent tape for all the other markings. The national insignia were the hardest to do. When I unmasked everything, the results were what you see in the pictures. This is a simplistic description, but it conveys the idea of how I did it.

SuperScale made the decals for this aircraft on sheet #48-317, sort of. The problem is that they also have about eight other aggressor aircraft on the same sheet. With that many aircraft on one sheet, needless to say, only the very basic unit markings were provided. I supplemented the SuperScale sheet with scrap decals for the data markings, in addition to the masked and painted markings.

I used a combination of thinned down enamel paint washes and airbrush shading to weather the airframe. A final dry brushing of silver to pop out the surface details completed the weathering.

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