Various subassembles primered with mr finishing surfacer 1500 primer . Wet sanded with Tamiya 1500 sanding sponge . For the metal i mixed a bottle of 50% Mr color super metallic super fine silver and 50% Tamiya LP-11 . Tail and underide of the back wing section was sprayed with Tamiy XF-54 Dark sea grey . FOD covers an d crew ladder sprayed with Tamiya tape . I decided to use the Armory Resin wheels on the build. They cleaned up pretty easy. I clipped tht nose strut axel off and drilled them out . Wheels will be attached with a metal pin in the end .
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Spent a week getting the vertical and the tail wing painted. Sprayed first the Tamiya XF-54 Dark Sea Gray . Then I used a 0.5 mechanical pencil to draw the demarcation line for the camo . Free handed sprayed the Tamiya XF-811 RAF Dark Grren . On the trailing edge there is a small composite looking peice that was masked ioff and sprayed with a mix of Tamiya TAn and Tamiya Kakhi . Armory wheels was primed with Mr finishing surfacer 1500 .Wheel hubs sprayed with my metal mix and tired painted with mr colot tire black .
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Finally getting back on the Jaevlin build . Test fitted the tail to see how it looked after it was painted . Now i ready to start spraying clear gloss for decals . Need to finish the cockpit up next glued the lower window frames in the open position .
Always loved the "flying flat-iron" since I first built an old Frog kit of it when I was a nipper. I've been tempted to get the Airfix 1/48 kit but I don't know where I'd put it. That said, your beautiful build, F-104nut
, isn't helping me crush the urges! Your photos really show off the quality of the mouldings.