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Crimea_River
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The decal performance is fine Michael. It's the design of the shapes in the particular instances noted above that lacked adequate thought. I can't vouch for other 1/72 Airfix kits as this is the only one I've ever tried.
Thanks again for looking in guys. Today, I had more time than I had thought I would to move the project forward so I took advantage of that. Here I masked the area for the anti-glare panel
...and how it looked after I removed the masks. I didn't realize that I used gloss black for the panel until after I sprayed but it doesn't matter as the model will be matte coated anyway. In the pic below, I had already run some wash over the seams but have not removed the excess as yet.
Here are two other views of the model after receiving the panel wash and before removal of the excess.
With the excess wash removed with a damp cloth, I then glued on the refuellng probe in preparation for the matte clear coat.
One last inspection was done and a few tiny spots were touched up with grey in my airbrush before switching over to the final clear coat. I decided to keep it fairly flat for this model though I understand the actual paint was a semi gloss. I think for such a small model, the flat will look better so that's what I did. Below is an overall shot of the model with the flat coat on and the canopy mask removed, There was some turbulence when I sprayed the bottom and some of the flat coat pooled in the red area where the slat goes. I'll need to fix that.
Here's a close-up of the starboard wing with the flat coat on.
And of course, removal of the canopy masks revealed some dust particles on the inside of the clear part. Ain't that always the way? Where do these things come from!!!!???? I will also need do a little tweaking of the anti-glare panel demarcation line at the canopy pillars
Next it will be on to the fiddly bits and application of final weathering. Thanks again for following the build guys. I appreciate it.
Thanks again for looking in guys. Today, I had more time than I had thought I would to move the project forward so I took advantage of that. Here I masked the area for the anti-glare panel
...and how it looked after I removed the masks. I didn't realize that I used gloss black for the panel until after I sprayed but it doesn't matter as the model will be matte coated anyway. In the pic below, I had already run some wash over the seams but have not removed the excess as yet.
Here are two other views of the model after receiving the panel wash and before removal of the excess.
With the excess wash removed with a damp cloth, I then glued on the refuellng probe in preparation for the matte clear coat.
One last inspection was done and a few tiny spots were touched up with grey in my airbrush before switching over to the final clear coat. I decided to keep it fairly flat for this model though I understand the actual paint was a semi gloss. I think for such a small model, the flat will look better so that's what I did. Below is an overall shot of the model with the flat coat on and the canopy mask removed, There was some turbulence when I sprayed the bottom and some of the flat coat pooled in the red area where the slat goes. I'll need to fix that.
Here's a close-up of the starboard wing with the flat coat on.
And of course, removal of the canopy masks revealed some dust particles on the inside of the clear part. Ain't that always the way? Where do these things come from!!!!???? I will also need do a little tweaking of the anti-glare panel demarcation line at the canopy pillars
Next it will be on to the fiddly bits and application of final weathering. Thanks again for following the build guys. I appreciate it.