Right then. Have a bit of time this AM so into the cave...
Lets get this out the way: Dear Mr. Airfix, I am soooo sorry for this:
Using my new found knowledge about thefaffing about drag reducing filling and smoothing of the wing rivets and panels, I set about deleting all the fine crisp detail that Airfix had made such a great job of adding.
Top of left wing.
...and the right one.
The ones I have 'missed' are the machinegun panels and other service points. Talking of. Anyone know what the groups of three 'cross like' things are and what their purpose was?
Most of the big parts are sorted already:
And now able to start throwing some paint around... When it gets here lol. I ordered some Yellow chromate for some of the areas that will be seen. The Cockpit will be Green though as even the American pilots hated sitting in the bright Yellow.. And not to mention it was rather toxic as well.
Sumising the info gleaned from the article Tim linked to, the zinc chromate was quite translucent. this affected the colour depending what it was painted over. It was, apparently, also photochromatic. The more sunlight it got the greener it got.
The green chromate used in the cockpit was made green by the addition of lamp black. (lol remember that from the 'night-black thread). I though have some cockpit green paint!
The two "sink marks" near the end of the corrugated hose are in fact details ! Beware.
The two sink marks in the recessed sides/panels are just that. sink marks. Top point for Airfix once built they are 100% out of sight!
Right now its putting smaller parts together and or cleaning them up.
Then getting them ready for primer...
Still tons of parts left on the sprues yet.
Comments as alwayz welcome.
Lets get this out the way: Dear Mr. Airfix, I am soooo sorry for this:
Using my new found knowledge about the
Top of left wing.
...and the right one.
The ones I have 'missed' are the machinegun panels and other service points. Talking of. Anyone know what the groups of three 'cross like' things are and what their purpose was?
Most of the big parts are sorted already:
And now able to start throwing some paint around... When it gets here lol. I ordered some Yellow chromate for some of the areas that will be seen. The Cockpit will be Green though as even the American pilots hated sitting in the bright Yellow.. And not to mention it was rather toxic as well.
Sumising the info gleaned from the article Tim linked to, the zinc chromate was quite translucent. this affected the colour depending what it was painted over. It was, apparently, also photochromatic. The more sunlight it got the greener it got.
The green chromate used in the cockpit was made green by the addition of lamp black. (lol remember that from the 'night-black thread). I though have some cockpit green paint!
The two "sink marks" near the end of the corrugated hose are in fact details ! Beware.
The two sink marks in the recessed sides/panels are just that. sink marks. Top point for Airfix once built they are 100% out of sight!
Right now its putting smaller parts together and or cleaning them up.
Then getting them ready for primer...
Still tons of parts left on the sprues yet.
Comments as alwayz welcome.