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I gently sanded through to the

CDL layer here and there.

I then removed the masking

tape patches and replaced them

with little squares or rectangles,

made from a single ply of Kleenex

tissue, and attached with thinned

PVA glue. These were then darkened

with some light brown and outlined

using X-19 Smoke, which does

a very good impression of the

glue used to attach the patches.

Voila! One tatty aeroplane.

TATTY, TATTIER, TATTIEST

Once I’d applied the few decals

appropriate to the scheme, I felt the

need for some more weathering.

This was mainly aimed at the

enormous crosses, whose whiteness

offended my eyes, but also added

to the variety of hues to be seen all

over the airframe. I started with

some gentle passes of the airbrush,

containing X-19 Smoke, to take the

edge off things. This was followed

by some random dusting of Tamiya

weathering pigments, mainly

Sand and Mud. These were also

applied to the finished wheels.

THE SHINY BIT

With the fuselage mostly painted

and weathered, I could no longer

avoid addressing the cowling

with its turned metal finish.

Fortunately, the WNW website

has some suggestions on how

to achieve the silver-on-silver

effect, which seems to have

appeared on all Jeannin’s Taubes.

I started by masking off the

area, followed by a base coat of

black to ensure that there would

be no unevenness in the silver

to come. WNW recommend X-

Aluminium Matt as the base colour.

The squiggly lines were then hand-

painted in X-11 Aluminium Bright.

It was time consuming, and I think

I got the two shades of silver mixed

up, but it seemed to work well.

MILES AND MILES OF

RIGGING

Actually, that’s a bit of an

exaggeration. The rigging on the

Taube is all on display and as a

result looks rather intimidating, but

fear not. It’s a monoplane and all

of the rigging is easily accessible,

which makes a huge difference.

I dealt with the fuselage

first, and the only tricky bit was

fitting the shrouds that control

the tailplane, and this was only

a problem because they attach

to free-floating brackets which

simply hook onto the control

cables. The trick is to get a pair of

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