This is Tamiya's fantastic 1/48 Grumman F4F-4. Painted with Xtracrylics and Vallejo, weathered with Promodeller weathering wash. OOB apart from Eduard seatbelts, decals from the spares box and fishing line aerials. I found this "Atlantic Camo" scheme while googling and thought it was more atractive than the kit scheme.























All criticisms welcome.

Hi Martin.
No critisism from me, I think its a cracker!
Really interesting paint scheme as well.
Nige

Hi Martin,

I think it is a great model and that it deserves to be on the frontpage of Aeroscale... photo feature maybe?

Jean-Luc

that looke real!! its an immense build,
in what way did you paint, and coat the kit? looks spot on

Thanks for the kind comments, much appreciated.





I gave the kit a primer coat of light grey, then airbrushed patches of white randomly. I preshaded the panel lines, and also along the lines of rivets with black. I mixed a little light grey into white just to take the brightness out of it and airbrushed the white areas. Then I freehanded the dark grey.

The preshading actually shows better than in the photos, especially the white areas which have been slightly bleeched out when I lit the model for the pics. Next a coat of Future, decals and another coat of Future.

The weathering was done with Promodellers Dark Wash. I covered the entire kit, allowed it to dry and started removing it with a slightly damp tissue. By varying how much I removed it gave a nice "used" look. Finally a matt varnish coat.

I you haven't used Promodellers Washes I can highly reccommend them. They can be used to darken panel lines, or as here to weather down paintwork. They are simple and relatively quick and can be rinsed off with water if you don't like the effect.