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fubar57
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Looks like me when my wife is away
EDUARD 1:48 F6F HELLCAT BINGE BUILD
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Crimea_River
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Oh, but they do look nice when finished.
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fubar57
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True. Intermediate Blue on. I didn't lose as much white as I thought but there will be touchups
Vic Balshaw
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Nice George. 
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fubar57
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Thanks Vic. Touch ups done. I should have mentioned my Intermediate Blue mix. Tamiya XF-18 Medium Blue and XF-2 Flat White: 3/1. Anyhoo....I finished with the touch ups on the bottom and had some left-overs. I just finished watching this video, How to airbrush Tamiya paints guide (for newbies) which I'm sure many know about mixes etc. so I thought I would give it a try and free hand some white camo on my mule. Not the best but better than anything I've tried to date. Ignore the tail, I was blowing out residual
Crimea_River
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Thanks for the mix and the video. Never had a dislike for the smell of Tamiya paints but everybody is different.
One thing that was not mentioned and that I experience is that when thinning to such high ratios of thinner to paint, the adherence of the paint goes down A LOT. Without an immediate clear coat to protect it, the paint scratches very easily and can come off on masks.
One thing that was not mentioned and that I experience is that when thinning to such high ratios of thinner to paint, the adherence of the paint goes down A LOT. Without an immediate clear coat to protect it, the paint scratches very easily and can come off on masks.
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With you on the smell, I don't even notice it. I can remember John Kim struggling with his masking as he used super thinned paints to create his weathering. I'm struggling right now with this Hellcat; never had so much paint come off. As mentioned, white is touched up and when I get out of camp, I'll spray the NS Sea Blue and then touch up the rest
i see 3 colours on there, you mention a 4 colour scheme, 4th colour ?
i have a Corsair i want to do in these colours but thought it was only 3 ??
looks rather good too !
so a bit of googling and i found this !
www.britmodeller.com
USN Tri color scheme
Greetings Gentleman I have decided that my next victim/subject will be the Pro Modeler 1/48 Helldiver. I have chosen the tri color scheme of light grey, intermediate grey-blue and non specular sea blue or equivalent. My question is are my assumptions correct? As for the light grey which grey is m...
www.britmodeller.com
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fubar57
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That's a good one. Still trying to figure out what "....5 percent aft from the leading edge of the airfoils...." is for the NS Sea Blue.
yeah seems far too complicated, FAA scheme looks better 
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air scoops, another detail i ignore !I didn't add the leading edge colour for my GB Corsair as I figured it would be added when the rest of the camo colours were added.rochie I just found out that the Corsair Mk.lll didn't have the fuselage air scoops added; perfect for the scheme I want to do
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Dark?
George is doing a USN kite, i kind of hijacked the thread a little
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Karl's will be FAA. I'm doing an FAA Corsair much later
Snautzer01
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OK. I see.
According to the SR-2c specification ....the US Hellcats , the fuselage top and some adjacent vertical surfaces reaching the tops of the wings also the leading edges of the wings and tail fins ... ANA 607 Non Specular Sea Blue - FS 35042. The wing tops and the vertical stabilizers of the same colour but of the semi-gloss tone ... ANA 606 FS 25042. Other horizontal parts of the fuselage, fin and rudder ... ANA608 Nonspecular Intermediate Blue FS 35164. Undersides of the ANA 601 Nonspecular Insignia White ... FS 37875.
Regarding the 5 percent aft from the leading edge of the airfoils ... the chord of the wing airfoil at the wing root in mm /100x5. The same for the wing tip. And the same for the tail.
