**** DONE: GB-36 1/48 Macchi C.202 Folgore - Axis Manufactured Aircraft of WWII

[SuperFire]

Italiano camo is not-ah hard! You justa have ah some wine! Then ah-paint! Then a little more wine! Then-ah you paint! After awhile you take a nap! Then you have-ah some more wine! Great looking bird guys!

 

[Crimea_River]

I'll have to do some Italian models then. I like wine.

 

[turbo]

Italiano camo is not-ah hard! You justa have ah some wine! Then ah-paint! Then a little more wine! Then-ah you paint! After awhile you take a nap! Then you have-ah some more wine! Great looking bird guys!

Good advice! Wine and/or beer is a normal part of my painting routine so no problem there!

 

[Airframes]

I like Italian models too - Gina, Carla, Maria ....................

 

[Wurger]

He, he, he...

 

[turbo]

OK, time to get cracking on this camo! Started with pre-shading. I incorporated some panel to panel variation to help define panels and represent repaired or replaced areas.

I wasn't so fussed about the upper side as the camo here will be dark and busy so will obscure most of the pre-shade. I went over this more quickly, concentrating mainly on the cowl and where the white stripe will be.

Thanks for riding along guys

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Looking forward to the next step.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice work so far!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Looking challenging.

 

[parsifal]

The wine is agreeing with you I see Kirby. Nice work sir....

 

[turbo]

The wine is agreeing with you I see Kirby. Nice work sir....

Yup, that sort of pre-shading comes out better if you've had a few.

 

[Airframes]

Half a bottle of Nuit St Plonk, and a masterpiece is possible !!

 

[parsifal]

get your coat terry!

 

[turbo]

Thanks guys! Decided to do a little trial to try and decide how I'm going to approach this camo. Alternative horizontal stabs for the later Serie options were supplied with the kit, so I decided to use these as mules for my test. I sprayed them Giallo Mimetico and then marked out the camo pattern with pencil on one and used Blu-Tack to mask the pattern on the other.

I then free-handed the marked one with Verde Mimetico and sprayed over the Blu-Tack masks. The Blu-Tack masks left an edge I felt was too hard and required feathering free-hand, which sort of defeated the purpose but was still a lot quicker than full free-handing.

What do you think? I wasn't 100% happy with either method as I hadn't quite dialled in the thinning ratio and spraying pressure, but both could work. Once I got a bit of a better handle on paint and air pressure, I flipped the stabs over and started playing around painting some random patterns free-hand.

That could work. I'm leaning towards free-handing but will need to chew on it for a bit. Any opinions welcome...

 

[Wurger]

Looking quite good I would say. Also you may try to revert the order of applying colours. I mean the green first then the masking of the green areas and applying of the sand spots...

Of course the free-hand applying is the best way but requires some of patience and accuracy.

 

[Crimea_River]

It looks like freehanding will give you a better and more satisfying result. I'm with Wojtek that maybe do the green first.

 

[Airframes]

Definitely freehand - it takes time and patience, as you've guessed, and thinking ahead, so that one section doesn't overlap the next, but certainlygives good results.

 

[turbo]

Thanks guys. Wojtek and Andy, spraying the sand yellow over the green would definitely be quicker and easier but, as discussed above, looking at the reference pictures I don't think this is the way it was done in real life so I'm thinking to do it green over sand to replicate the camo pattern as realistically as possible. I'm concerned if I do the sand over green the sand will just turn out looking like mottles rather than the pattern you can see in the references.

Maybe I'll do another trial with sand over green while I'm doing my next session to get white onto the airframe...

 

[Donivanp]

Good advice! Wine and/or beer is a normal part of my painting routine so no problem there!

I think whisky is in order here. Love this build Kirby. I have the same kit and because of this build I just ordered the Undercarriage kit and the PE saws. You are doing much better then I might but that goes without saying. As for the paint, I'll down a two liter bourbon bottle on this before I start!

Here's to your health and a great build.