Military Illustrated Modeller – September 2019

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 Military Illustrated Modeller - September 2019

At this stage, I also painted the canopy. This was
previously masked with Eduard masks from the
outside and Montex masks from the inside. As the
latter are made of foil which has a tendency to peel
off from rounded surfaces, I also had to apply Solid
Scale’s ‘Liquidscale’ fluid here and there.

Now I had to deal with the control

surfaces. Once I’d removed the masking

fluid from the ailerons, I masked the

adjacent areas with Tamiya tape.

This allowed me to add the

shadows, highlights and some

further discolouration, in order

to give the surfaces a more 3D

appearance. These were created

by airbrushing Tamiya’s XF-60

‘Dark Yellow’, XF-15 ‘Flat Flesh’

and XF-55 ‘Deck Tan’ with

different intensity.

The wheel wells and inner surfaces of the flaps were painted with ‘Aotake’ colour from

Mr.Hobby range.

The demarcation of the anti-glare panel was masked with

Tamiya ‘Masking Tape for Curves’, whilst the adjacent

areas were covered with pieces of standard Tamiya tape.

A layer of masking fluid was applied over the windscreen.

The shape of the anti-glare panel was determined on the

basis of the relevant decals supplied with the kit.

The basecoat was applied with Mr.Hobby H12 ‘Flat Black’. Next, I added some highlights and meandering lines with a mixture of the base colour and H44 ‘Flesh’.