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ensure the paint cured fully.

The next step was to add a gloss

coat and for this I used Alclad 2

Aqua Gloss. I added a medium

coat of this through a 0.4mm

nozzle on 20psi. This dries very

quickly and can be handled in

as little as twenty-minutes.

This makes it relatively quick

to add a gloss coat to the upper

and lower sides of the aircraft

with handling. I did leave

this overnight to fully cure

as I didn’t want any potential

reactions using decal solutions.

The decal stage was next,

and I used an aftermarket

product by a company called

Monokio from Korea. These

behaved impeccably and were

nice, thin and sat into the

recesses/rivets nicely with a

little decal setting solution.

Once completed, I sealed these

in with another Aqua Gloss coat

followed by a lat coat. After

this had dried overnight, I

started the weathering process.

For this I added a mixture of

Lamp Black and Raw Umber

oils heavily thinned and used

this as a pin/panel line wash.

Once completed I thinned

the mixture again and

added a ilter wash over

most of the model. This

gives subtle

tonal colour

changes to the

paint and also

provides a weathered

appearance. I left the oils

to dry overnight and looked to

inalise the weapons and stores.

I said earlier I had glued the

required parts to make the

weapons and now it was

time to prime and paint.

I decided to paint the

bands on the various bombs and

sidewinders by using red and

yellow through the airbrush.

Once dry I added masking tape

over the colours before adding

the main colours. They were all

then gloss coated, decals added,

sealed and varnished and

inally weathered with some

oil paints. At this point I was on

the home straight and only had

the undercarriage to assemble,

gear doors, the Master Model

pitot tube and inally the

cannon gun at the front and

the build was complete.

The decals went on

without any drama

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