Model Aircraft – September 2019

rudder and

elevators were

again pinned to the

plastic parts for extra strength. The

loats and landing gear legs had a metal

insert, cast in the resin, that made them strong

enough. That was a really clever solution from

Signiier. The biggest itting problem was the

attachment of the wing to the fuselage, and

here I had to use all my building repertoire,

including regular putty, CA glue, stretched

sprue and plastic card. I decided to close the

nose compartment, but the resin hatches were

designed to be posed open, so I had to build

new ones from scratch.

Painting started after masking the windows

and again I relied on the ‘black basing’

technique to represent worn paint. Then A

coat of Ammo by MIG One Shot Black Primer

was followed

by a sequence of Mr

Hobby Aqueous paints as follows. Representing

a weathered white colour is not easy, and my

attempt started with an Of-White ‘marbling

coat’ covered with a translucent coat the same

colour. Next pure white was applied to the

inside of every panel and red brown post-

shading was added to speciic lines where I

wanted a dirtier look. All this was then blended

with another translucent coat of the original

of-white. Not a quick process, but I was really

satisied with the result. The next colours

were applied in a more direct way, with just a

‘marbling’ pre-shade and an overcoat of the

inal shades, these being irst Intermediate

Blue and then Navy Blue last. All the

coats were always airbrushed

using very thinned paint, as

that’s the best way to take

control over the coverage

and opacity of the layers.

After a coat of Aqua

Gloss to sealed in the

painting work, I moved

to the decals, which were

incredibly thin and reacted

quite well to Ammo by MIG

Decal Set and Fix solutions. Then

another Aqua Gloss layer protected the decals

and I could start working on some weathering.

Unfortunately, there’s not much reference

material available on-line for War-era JRF-5s,

and despite being an amphibian aircraft,

most of images I found didn’t show much

A Dark Brown wash helped to

accent the details and give

some depth to the interior

components

With all interior components

complete, it was time to it

everything inside the fuselage

I had to improvise

new doors

for the nose

compartment

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