Woo Wurger thank you so much
your references are gold.
I was building through the week a bit and this weekend for Halloween I went to my wonderful partners over this weekend and got some building in with her.
The week went something like this:
Oct 29 - Tamiya XF-71 IJN cockpit Green applied to both sides of the fuselage, this is treated as the base coat to which I'll apply a lighter coat.
Oct. 30- Tamiya Flat Aluminium applied to the seats and interior center section, using the references provided by Wurger we can see there is a darker paint applied to the fuselage and a silvery center section and seats. It is awesome to actually have this drawing as nothing else appears online about this aircraft.
Front and Rear sections.
Oct. 31 -The seats and the interior in a zip lock bag (to prevent any parts getting lost again to the carpet monster)
Applied a second coat of flat aluminium on the seats etc. And this is a pic after they dried will need to retake at assembly.
Applied Tamiya XF-21 Sky dry brushed onto the fuselage, this color better reflects the color that appears to be provided on Italian aircraft cockpits and will serve as the most visible color, while I chose the darker IJN cockpit green in specific sections to act as the weathering. Croatian aircraft saw a lot of action and I thought it would be nice to give this kit a little flair.
Cockpit colors are from STORMOs site the following green was chosen,
That's all for today I'll try and update tomorrow if I get around to more building, loving this kit a lot so far.