**** DONE: GB-53 1:48 Bell P-39N - Eastern Front

[Vic Balshaw]

Some nice Evergreen strip if you have it Geo, slip into the gaps with a touch of glue and a little sand down "voila".

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far George!

 

[fubar57]

Thanks Hugh

 

[fubar57]

Camo sprayed, pics in a bit. The decal instructions note that they are unsure of the colour beneath the stars though the profile shows blue. To make things easy, they provided templates for the wing and fuselage stars so all I needed to do was measure and transfer to the circle cutter. Shown are the fuselage circles cut out of Oramask film

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For the underlying circles I'm going with a light gray over Neutral grey and a darker green over Olive Drab

 

[fubar57]

Did and done. I've never sprayed back to back colours before. Took a while to get the grey out before I shot the green. The colours may not be correct but I like it

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Gloss coat later

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[Vic Balshaw]

Looks to have turned out very well, a nice subtle shade of green.

 

[Jamoliva]

Looks really good...

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wayne Little]

Cool....!

 

[Bustedwing]

Nice work on the paint ! Looks great.

 

[fubar57]

Thanks all. I did gloss coat before I left for camp

 

[Gnomey]

Nice work so far George!

 

[Wayne Little]

Should be well and truely dry before you get back....

 

[Totalize]

Wow Geo you are just blasting through this build. Great stuff and some find work here. That circle cuttter is very cool never seen anything like it. Where did you pick up that beauty?

 

[Crimea_River]

Found his reply in Don's FW190F-8 thread. Musta had a tough week.

 

[fubar57]

Crap

 

[Crimea_River]

Ok, a CRAP week.

 

[fubar57]

Back in the right thread. Totalize Shadow Hobby |home

 

[fubar57]

Testing, testing....check, check. Good, still the right thread. Four more decals, sticky-outy bits and done. Hopefully finals tonight

 

[fubar57]

All decalled up save for the victory stars; I make out six

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A bit of silvering to deal with and then I can clear coat the decals