Italian Stuka - From the Hasegawa kit in 1:32.
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Vic Balshaw
Major General
Those Vallejo paints are very good, leave a nice smooth silky finish and that shading certainly looks good.
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al49
Tech Sergeant
Hi,
I also did some progress on my Stuka.
First I spayed some "verde oliva scuro" (dark olive green) on areas on the fuselage and the fin where German signs where supposed to be. Surprisingly enough, for me, the shade of this Italian color (I used Misterkit) is very close to RLM 71 from Vallejo but the difference can be seen.
Then I sprayed-on the white fuselage band and the white Savoy cross on fin and rudder.
The portion on the fin is OK, but that one on the rudder was so awful that I had to clean it completly and start again. Here the pictures.
Then I had to simulate the over-painting on wing surfaces.
On the upper one, the German crosses were white, so there will be no problem in covering them with the "verde oliva scuro".
A different story for lower surfaces where the German crosses were black and I presume that over-painting with "grigio azzurro chiaro" (light blue-grey) would have left some black still visible, so I sprayed-on these crosses:
Tomorrow I should be able to cover them, hopefully with a good effect; finger crossed.
Any comment/suggestion is welcome as always.
Cheers
Alberto
I also did some progress on my Stuka.
First I spayed some "verde oliva scuro" (dark olive green) on areas on the fuselage and the fin where German signs where supposed to be. Surprisingly enough, for me, the shade of this Italian color (I used Misterkit) is very close to RLM 71 from Vallejo but the difference can be seen.
Then I sprayed-on the white fuselage band and the white Savoy cross on fin and rudder.
The portion on the fin is OK, but that one on the rudder was so awful that I had to clean it completly and start again. Here the pictures.
Then I had to simulate the over-painting on wing surfaces.
On the upper one, the German crosses were white, so there will be no problem in covering them with the "verde oliva scuro".
A different story for lower surfaces where the German crosses were black and I presume that over-painting with "grigio azzurro chiaro" (light blue-grey) would have left some black still visible, so I sprayed-on these crosses:
Tomorrow I should be able to cover them, hopefully with a good effect; finger crossed.
Any comment/suggestion is welcome as always.
Cheers
Alberto
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Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Neat work, looking good Alberto.
Looking good!
Crimea_River
Marshal
I agree.
Does look good!
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Beautifully done!
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al49
Tech Sergeant
Made some steps forward.
Re-done the rudder painting
and over-sprayed the lower wing crosses that can still partially seen underneath
Done also the over-spray of upper wing crosses but no good pictures available. I will try again tomorrow, hopefully with the sunlight.
Thanks for looking.
Alberto
Re-done the rudder painting
and over-sprayed the lower wing crosses that can still partially seen underneath
Done also the over-spray of upper wing crosses but no good pictures available. I will try again tomorrow, hopefully with the sunlight.
Thanks for looking.
Alberto
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Nice work Alberto.
Coming along nicely!
Crimea_River
Marshal
Lovely.
Vic Balshaw
Major General
I enjoyed doing one of these in 1/48 but in this scale I recon it would be even greater fun. Looks good.
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al49
Tech Sergeant
Hi, about the German crosses on the upper wing surfaces, as thy were white I thought that simply spraying a patch of Verde Oliva Scuro would make the job.
This was the outcome:
I didn't like this solution that, possibly, could also be historically incorrect.
Then it came back to my mind that I had this picture:
Showing not the same aircraft but one belonging to the same Squadriglia and where it's clearly seen that the white crosses were just oversprayed with something dark.
So I tried to replicate that:
What do you think?
Alberto
This was the outcome:
I didn't like this solution that, possibly, could also be historically incorrect.
Then it came back to my mind that I had this picture:
Showing not the same aircraft but one belonging to the same Squadriglia and where it's clearly seen that the white crosses were just oversprayed with something dark.
So I tried to replicate that:
What do you think?
Alberto
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Looks good Alberto. Maybe another coat to darken them a bit?
Crimea_River
Marshal
Nice!
Look good to me!
