Italian Stuka - From the Hasegawa kit in 1:32.

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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
 
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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
 
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
 

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