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Thanks Wojtek!
I'm on a roll now, so to speak. So I decided to take the painting to the next stage.
Since the Sanger Decals just don't look usable (and they are rather poorly printed and there are no individual markings, since the whole sheet is coated) I decided to take another route.
I got some low tack sheets from work (which we use as an adhesion foil to put lettering on shop windows) this stuff is more or less a gigantic 3M post it note, but with the adhesion all over the back. I leaves no residue whatsoever and can be easely cut as it's some kind of coated paper. Unfortunatly, I can't be bought at a regular shop.
So here's what I've done.
The model was fisrt covered in a thin layer of Future (Sols Plus here in Belgium) to act as a sealer for the paint.
Then I cut some discs from the sheet and aplie these to the model. I used Hasegawa's 1/72 scale painting and decaling guide of their kit for this. Sanger has the wing Hinomaru right for diameter, though those for the fuselage are too big.
Next I added more self adhesive paper to the wings to act as a mask, since I didn't want to risk any overspray.
Paint went on next. I used Vallejo acryl paint for this and used Isopropyl alchol (99%) as thinner (as it dries super fast)
I used Vallejo's flat white first to act as primer for the red and also to prevent any possible bleeding of the green paint.
Red was aplied next, with some chocolate brown added.
Pannel lines where lightly accentuated using the base red colour with some more Chocolate brown added and then some white was added to this colour to give a somewhat bleeched out red. I didn't want the colour ro be too bright.
The undersides where treated a bit different. Less white was added, as the underside markings don't get any direct sunlight. So this red is a bit brighter.
The fuselage markings have a white border. This is more tricky to do. I added a white disk and the smaler red one will have to be aplied on top of it. I still have to think about a good soloution to aply the red disk. Though I have an idea...
Due to the changing less saturated light, it's ofcourse hard to judge any of the colours on a monitor.
Though to my eyes the colours look good. I'm sure the weathering proces that will follow the coming week(s) will alter the apearance of these colours even more. As this is my first IJAAF aircraft, it's a bit a search colourwise. I've only did a A6M3 years ago. (and my memory is a bit foggy on that build
)
I'm on a roll now, so to speak. So I decided to take the painting to the next stage.
Since the Sanger Decals just don't look usable (and they are rather poorly printed and there are no individual markings, since the whole sheet is coated) I decided to take another route.
I got some low tack sheets from work (which we use as an adhesion foil to put lettering on shop windows) this stuff is more or less a gigantic 3M post it note, but with the adhesion all over the back. I leaves no residue whatsoever and can be easely cut as it's some kind of coated paper. Unfortunatly, I can't be bought at a regular shop.
So here's what I've done.
The model was fisrt covered in a thin layer of Future (Sols Plus here in Belgium) to act as a sealer for the paint.
Then I cut some discs from the sheet and aplie these to the model. I used Hasegawa's 1/72 scale painting and decaling guide of their kit for this. Sanger has the wing Hinomaru right for diameter, though those for the fuselage are too big.
Next I added more self adhesive paper to the wings to act as a mask, since I didn't want to risk any overspray.
Paint went on next. I used Vallejo acryl paint for this and used Isopropyl alchol (99%) as thinner (as it dries super fast)
I used Vallejo's flat white first to act as primer for the red and also to prevent any possible bleeding of the green paint.
Red was aplied next, with some chocolate brown added.
Pannel lines where lightly accentuated using the base red colour with some more Chocolate brown added and then some white was added to this colour to give a somewhat bleeched out red. I didn't want the colour ro be too bright.
The undersides where treated a bit different. Less white was added, as the underside markings don't get any direct sunlight. So this red is a bit brighter.
The fuselage markings have a white border. This is more tricky to do. I added a white disk and the smaler red one will have to be aplied on top of it. I still have to think about a good soloution to aply the red disk. Though I have an idea...
Due to the changing less saturated light, it's ofcourse hard to judge any of the colours on a monitor.
Though to my eyes the colours look good. I'm sure the weathering proces that will follow the coming week(s) will alter the apearance of these colours even more. As this is my first IJAAF aircraft, it's a bit a search colourwise. I've only did a A6M3 years ago. (and my memory is a bit foggy on that build
)
, bring a tremendous job done. I liked the application of the colors of your airplane and form of paint the Hinomarus is an excellent reference for my futures Nippon models. 
