Lockheed P-38 J Lightning 'D-Day Invader'

"VIRGINIA MARIE" 5th FS, 457th FG, 1944

1/48 scale, Hasegawa kits

Wowww, tha´s an incredible job Yu, your paint job is fantastic, I like it a lot, very nice really

excellent kit and beautiful photography. It is very interesting to see the model grow like this

Beautiful airplane

Looks great. A very nice natural metal finish.

Nice choice of colour scheme - thanks for sharing

Fantastic job , I like the natuarl metal finish .
Cheers

Thanks the praise

Please describe the Natural Metal Finish and how it was done. What other paints did you use? Please describe the weathering technique. Thanks

Uses CUNZE Mr.WHITE SURFACER 1000 to make the foundation treatment first, then polishes gently with the 2000th sandpaper. The finish coat is GUNZE NO.8 85%+GUNZE CLEAR15%, then spray coating CUNZE CLEAR, then processes each kind of sign and the line, uses GUNZE CLEAR again spray coating, what must pay attention, in uses GUNZE NO.8 85%+GUNZE CLEAR15% times, certainly must maintain the paint is the quite thin condition, if sticks thick, cannot achieve the superficial quite bright and clean effect, moreover, GUNZE CLEAR cannot be too thick. In the weathering process, dilutes after the black 40%+ brown 60% oil color carries on the decency, and maintains the model surface carry-over few decency liquid, do not scratch is too clean. With the black 40%+ brown 50%+ brown color 10% paint modulation smoke color, spouts each kind of mist and dust the effect. On finally quite thin GUNZE CLEAR makes the protection. Entire process probably so.

Nice colors. Great build.