With a lot of work ahead of me I started by masking the transparencies and
sealed off all openings.
I airbrushed the model in the camouflage pattern of the
German Air Force which was retained on the Greek Noratlases
until their repainting in the TAC (Vietnam) scheme.Following the basic painting, I masked and painted the yellow section of the wing
and fuselage walkway area border lines. The red/orange stripes would later be
applied in decal form (detail A). I used White Ensign Models’ WMCC/ACS
(Light) Brown as my ‘‘faded yellow’’.
Next I masked and painted the faded Day-Glo Red areas of the
rudders, wingtips and outer sections of the engine cowls. A little later,
the extreme nose section followed suit.It went as follows: I used (again) White Ensign Models’
WMCC/ACS15 (Light) Brown as ‘‘faded yellow’’. I left the
areas painted to dry overnight.
Then I airbrushed a very light coat of Modelmasters’
Fluorescent Red-Orange over the yellow. As the paint was
still freshly applied and with a tissue moistened in alcohol
I wiped out some of the red-orange taking care not to
remove the yellow underneath. In this way I avoided the
‘airbrush effect’ of the red-orange...both colours now merged into a
single, faded-looking colour.I masked and painted the National insignia; the
roundels were positioned over the German Air
Force crosses in eight places on the wings,
fuselage and tailbooms. I used two shades of
blues according to the roundels’ relevant
positions on the model, for I wanted the upper
ones to look more faded than their lower
counterparts. I killed the white of the roundels,
adding light grey FS36622 into it, to cater for
scale effect. The model was declared ready for
‘washing’ and weathering.