here's an in-progress shot of my "Sandy"





enjoy!

Looks you've build the Italeri thing quite nicely. The softedged camo looks very well done!
Just a few comments,
First of all you have severe silvering on the tail decals.
I noticed that you've overdid the exhaust stains and gun-stains a little. I know these skyraiders had a huge exhaust stains, try making them a little smoother they look kinda rough. I'm not sure anout those MG stains.
Do you have any reference?

Q

Darktrooper,

Looks very good built, your Sandy...
Just a suggestion about the decal sealed on the left of fuselage in the bottom of the cockpit "Rescue", it must be lightly smoked as the exhaust stains on the fuselage. There is also a light silvering of the tail decal, I had sealed it on after a glossy varnish coat and I'd use Microscale Microsol to make softener the decal on the model, after that I sprayed a Testors Dullcoat and it looks good for the decal, no more silvering.

Hope that helps
Francois

PS: Waiting to see your Sandy building progress!

Francois, when I noticed that the ET have silvered... I'll look for some microsol the next time I hit the LHS.

Did you use future or varnish before you added the decals??

I put two coats of testors glosscote on prior to putting the decals on.

As for the gun stains and exhaust stains, I like 'em. although the Tamiya smoke, didn't work out the way I hoped....... I was going for the used and abused look.

Hi AJ!

For the decals I have a simple technique to avoid silvering, specially on straight letters: cut the clear decal away! I know it can be fastidious but it is effective!

The camo is well done but I would have sprayed the exhaust rather than brush them... but I don't think it's too heavy! The Skyraider was a dirty plane!

Jean-Luc