Monday Paint!

 Nothing much to report today, except for a few hours this morning using my GSI PS-771 airbrush to apply the field applied topside green. Carefully sprayed around all the marking to make it look, well, field applied! And then an overspray of the green all over the topsides to blend it in. I think the real thing may have had a heavier mottle, but I'm stopping here for aesthetics! 

Gloss coat before washes next, see you soon!

Hamp Paintwork

 And so to paint! Initially the model was given a solid coat of AK Real Colours RC303 Amber Grey

With this done postshading was done using a lighter shade, in this case Mr Color H45 Sail Color

Mostly this was misted into panels, with some picked out specifically.

Then a darker colour was sprayed on, here using Mr Color H369 Dark Earth. This was not sprayed into panels as such, but more a general and random collection of lines and faded areas not following the detail for the most part. Both post shading colours were picked to hopefully by sympathetic to the base colour, in the hope that the result would be visible but not too starkly, and wouldn't need so much work to blend it in.

With this done the model had misted coats of the base colour applied to blend the shading in and make it look like weathered paint rather than something applied afterward. This requires care to not over - or - underdo it. 

As much of the base marking were than sprayed as possible using masks made on my Silhouette cutter and sprayed with lacquers. Although I did use the kit decals for the tail number and makers plaque on the rear fuselage.

All paints were thinned with Mr Color Rapid Thinner on this model so far.