Thanks guys! Always appreciate the comments.
Looks great. Watch for the field applied areas. The stencils were probably oversprayed as well.
Any areas that you've noted in particular Andy? It's had to distinguish the factory paint from the field applied areas. I need to extend the dark green on the bottom half of the fuselage beyond the green band. And there seem to be some paint repair marks that I might try to replicate. The Eagle decal instructions state that "some" stencils were present on Blue 16 but doesn't specify which. Most obviously is the yellow fuel triangle partially obscured by the "6".
I've decided to address the light color on the nose of Blue 16 with a repaint of the engine cowling after all. I haven't seen any online builds capture this possibility so I'm not sure how this will turn out. Fingers crossed! First I mask off the cowling.
The cowling is given a base coat of Tamiya Neutral Grey.
Preshading is applied next.
RLM 76 is applied on the lower half of the cowling. The RLM 77 is replicated by a random shade of Gunze Sangyo grey that I found. RLM 75 is applied as the secondary color.
While it is still masked off, I decided to do a little preliminary weathering on the cowl, similar to the rest of the plane. I'm hoping that there is a mismatch between the masked areas and what I've painted previously to help the cowling stand out, indicating painting at different factories or possibly a replacement.
I give that a quick coat of Alclad Aqua Gloss and pull of the masking. Doesn't look too strange!
Pretty satisfied with how the camo came out. Exterior painting is still not 100% complete but the essence of what this build is going to look like has been established.