Model Aircraft – August 2019

silver hatches on the engine exhaust. After that

I lightened up the outer exhaust rings with

Sunin7 S60 Stainless Steel Mirror and Clear Blue

for burnt metal efect. I also used Burnt Umber

and brown oil paint to simulate leaking oil on

engine hatches.

I also tried a new painting method on this

build, so irst I directly sprayed on Gunze 338

Light Grey FS36495 as I want the inish as thin as

possible. Next, I painted the entire aircraft with

Gunze 338, and simulated paint fading by using

diferent tones of Grey, and added cold/warm

variations by using Clear Orange and Clear Blue.

I then masked and painted the nose cone and

tailin tips with Gunze 305 Grey FS36118 and

used Gunze 27 Interior Green for inner parts of

air-brake and laps. The gun ports were painted

with Aluminum, Gunze 08 Silver and Gunze

1000 Stainless Steel for the hatches behind. I

also use Burnt Iron for some colour variation on

the metal plates.

In terms of markings the J-15 doesn’t have

much in the way of decals, especially stencils so

I used some third-party ones for the common

stencils. Like always, Trumpeter’s decals are thin

and awesome, and with just one layer of Mr

Mark Softener they settled down well. I then

sealed and protected them with a Gaia Clear

Coat before adding and AK Interactive Paneliner

for Grey and Blue Camoulage. I mostly use AK

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