**** DONE: Curtiss P-40M-5 Kittyhawk III, ‘Wairarapa Wildcat’, C’wealth GB

[Night Fighter Nut]

Looking forward to those pics.. Great work there Wayne..

 

[Wayne Little]

Time for colour squirting !

The squirting begins....

Up this morning to get started on the painting...

1) the interior green on the canopy frames....
2) a lightened Olive Drab on the upper control surfaces...
3) Lightened Neutral grey on the lower control surfaces...
4) Masked all the control surfaces....

 

[Wayne Little]

and stage 2 in the afternoon...

The Neutral grey lower surface and over the top too followed by the Olive Drab on the upper surface....the OD took 3 hours to apply in my usual pattern...

still got the darker strip along the edge of the white stripes to do yet....more masking and painting...maybe tomorrow....got a few things to do....besides modelling.

 

[rochie]

that looks great already

 

[T Bolt]

Looking great Wayne. I love that effect you do on the upper surfaces.

 

[vikingBerserker]

I gotta agree, the technique is truly remarkable.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Oh my, this is going to be a stunner and I like your technique, yet more little ideas to file away.

 

[Wayne Little]

Thanks Guys!

Ok more done today...masked the borders of the white stripes and used Darker Green and Grey to simulate the Dark taped border, when I took the tape off wasn't happy, didn't give me the desired affect I was looking for so will go to plan 'B' to solve this.

Removed the masks from the Ailerons, elevators and Rudder. The lighter Grey on the lower surfaces I was happy with, the upper surfaces were too light, but this is not a problem as this was easy to fix...a thinned Olive drab misting of the main upper surface colour took this to the desired contrast from the OD upper surface, also darkened the trim tabs on the elevators and rudder...

finally removed the white stripe masks....well on the way to getting done now but not by the deadline...

 

[ozhawk40]

Bloody lovely as per usual Wayne - well done

Cheers

Peter

 

[rochie]

amazing Wayne, as always !!!

 

[Wayne Little]

Thanks Guys....Mmm...the pictures loaded in correct order...but didn't display in the right order??

 

[Wildcat]

Amazing work Wayne, this is going to look fantastic when done!!

 

[B-17engineer]

WOw wayne!

 

[T Bolt]

Beautiful Wayne!

Thanks Guys....Mmm...the pictures loaded in correct order...but didn't display in the right order??

That happened to me too. I found you have to hit download after picking each picture to get them to display in the right order. Major pain in the a$$!! I hope they get it straightened out.

 

[Crimea_River]

I agree. Beautiful work Wayne.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Noticed the same thing myself last night, sent message to Horse this morning.

 

[Airframes]

Out of order or not, it still looks bl**dy good mate! Do you need a couple of days extension to the build? It's a 'short' month, so sure we can extend for those who need it?

 

[Wayne Little]

Out of order or not, it still looks bl**dy good mate! Do you need a couple of days extension to the build? It's a 'short' month, so sure we can extend for those who need it?

I will need at least the next 2 weekends plus time in between to finish....started on the panel line work today will take the rest of the week to do this right, so gloss coat by the weekend want some decals on by Monday next week or before!

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

That looks great there.

 

[Wayne Little]

Thanks Bill......working on them panel lines, snap a pic or two tomorrow....