Nice camp Shorty. Are you going to mottle the fuselage sides?

John and Thomas: Niceley done camo!

Thomas: I like Your mottling already very much! But I am irritated about the sequence of painting the sides of your model. Is this correct: First black green, than grey and subsequently the mottling?

Oliver

Keith, nice work on the interior paint so far. Don't worry too much, I've never been known as a stickler for strict finish dates. I'd much rather see a build finished and on display than half-baked in a box and buried in the stash. Just get it done in your own good time and keep posting here as you go (I will be here keeping you company with my own build!)

Cheers, D

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Fantastic finish Joe. The fading looks great to my eye.

Which Gunze and Model Masterpaint numbers did you use for the topside colors, and did you mix colors to get those shades?
Did you fade them with oils?

The reason I ask is that my results with that scheme usually ends up looking too stark.

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mike i used gunze rlm 81 brown violet acrylic and MM rlm 82 green enamel. i added 3-4 drops of white when thinning them down and after shooting each color i added a few more drops of white to fade the colors and sprayed a light coat in the middle of all the patches. then glosscoat and decals followed by the flory wash. the flory wash is water based and real easy to use. finally a dullcoat to seal and dull the finish. i also used tamiya weathering powders set with the soot in it to add some powder marks to the gun ports and ejectors and a few hatches. the underside was first sprayed with tamiya light blue from the can then after panel hilighting another coat of MM rlm 76. unfortunatly it covered up all the panel lines so i used the flory wash which turned out pretty good.
joe

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Joe,
Thanks for the detailed description.
My Gunze 81 (acrylic) is much darker, I will have to try your lightening ratio. The MM (acrylic) 84 I have is nowhere close to that color. I am not much of an enamel airbrusher.
I certainly cannot argue with your results. They are fantastic.

Mike

Joe: Great Job on your cmpaign entry. Awesome modeling an paint work. You did very well on fading this beautiful camo and it`s showing a decent weathering at all. And the open canopy is always an eye-catcher.

Damian: Nice little tutorial about "how to do a putty".
And good work on the nacelles. When comes the bird?

John: I like that splinter camo Very clean and smooth painting and already a decent fading. As for the mottle I agree that this is hard to apply and needs full mental concentration. One thing: all the cockpit interior should be RLM66, will you go for it later? And is the gap at the right rear wing/nacelle connection a typical kit issue?

Thomas