OLD CROW was painted olive drab green at the beggining, then all the paint was striped out on the field and was left in bare metal, this model was done following the instructions on Mr Anderson website, so if he says it was bare metal wings, who is more qualified to say that that the pilot himself
Airframes, sorry to tell you that SNJ is out of the market in USA, no one is producing it, but i found someone that sales some aluminum polishing powder over EBAY in the UK.
waterman, i dont use any sealer over decals when i use ALCLAD, what i do is airbrush some satin or flat model master...
Thanks to all of you for your kind words, the NMF was made with ALCLAD II paints, then over it i rubbed SNJ aluminum polishing powder, to get the real metal look
i dont know if the nose is short or not, is as it came in the model, and so far no one has complained about the lenght of the nose in the great wall kit so far
beside the decal, i added the Big Ed photoetch from Eduard, the tires dont remember from who, and if you have the box for the glass nose widow you are ok, if you have the first one you will need the corrected cowlings for the engines, cause the ones from the model have the inlet diameter wrong...
in the fuselage i used only 2 shades of alclad, in the wings i used 4 shades, right now the only one i remember is Polished Aluminum, the other 3 i can't remember i builded 2 years ago
T-bolt, the primer i use was model master gloss black very diluted and apllied in several coats till you get the black yuo want, let it dry for at least 3 days, and then you can use the alclad