PhantomBigStu

Stumbled across this now I’ve discovered I can brush Valair with a bit of care though my first branching out beyond the silver has been a minor disaster, old stock of 053 when it was labelled Dark Sea Green is quite a bit different, much darker then your measurements something akin to fs26044, of course Vallejo labelled is fs36118/ral7011, teach me for not looking at the bottle properly. Thanks again for your superb service

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Popped to my local to try a Vallejo air that was supposed to be good for extra dark sea grey based of measurements, turned out my local had old stock where it was labelled different and it’s way too dark for that (or indeed the grey Vallejo think it should be), least I also got an airfix mustang so it wasn’t a wasted trip

Nothing to say to say really its a nice kit aside from being older and if pit and seat details are your thing some aftermarket is needed, stencils decals are a pain though because italeri guide leaves a lot to be desired

Indeed, and true multiple choice tradition my first entry is none of the above though it should have been in the image I’d missed it, also just got myself an airfix kit that will be used for it as I’ll be fitting freightdog louvres

Forest Green on, now for underside blue, looks grey than xtracrrylix raf pru blue, best I've got is humbrol 230 so it will be that

actually ended up really confused seems RAF/RAAF Mustangs are mindfield and I need some help, is there actually any way of telling whether a particular aircraft is in the ANA paints or RAF paints? Found out I think Ive done previous mustangs wrong in the ANA and trying to find one that is it as such to do this time (and repaint the wrong one this time) edit: internet says the us paints are darker and found a IV that looks much darker than raf paints look so that's one sorted edit2: and it turns out I really confused myself, the one I thought was wrong I had actually painted it in the correct RAF paints.....lol and it looks like early mustangs I's and II's were only grey very briefly so I shall do one of them in RAF paints.

Absolutely hissing down so didn’t see it but a nice roar just now was itedified as cargo 747-400 on a eastern departure from Heathrow

Sorry to hear about the mishap, concur the comment about its size, when I received the kit I was expecting something a fair bit smaller than a shack, was quite a surprise

Gunship grey on

Happened to be next to the aforementioned diecasts so took a snap, look fantastic, until you turn them over…oh dear can see why I will improve and repaint them one day

Hobbyboss D with Airfix Canopy and xtradecal/spares box decals Hasegawa D with Tamiya decals Airfix D with (brand escapes me) decals Airfix D with Xtradecal/spares box decals Matchbox diecast D improved and with Tamiya decals Italeri A (with correct wing) with xtradecal/spares box decals Revell B OOB OO

Only have one mustang in the stash (Tamiya 1/72) though my local has fine selection of 1/72 so all bases covered, I also have 2 badly converted to wheels up diecasts that could be repainted and done properly as part of this. I have no real idea what I'm doing yet aside from one in RAF colours. I do have all my decals in a image file at least to help pick

Italeri F4U-7 French Navy Suez 1954, painted with AK Interactive Dark Sea Blue under gloss varnish

some xtradecal Vulcan decals yesterday and an promised trip to hobbycraft wasn’t as successful as I’d hoped from a browse of their website (was a smaller store.m than the one in the other direction I thought it would be), still left with some Revell paint, a mistercraft spitfire viii and storage diveder that turned out to be too big for my desk draw as intended, but ended up replacing a cardboard box and big basket underneath so can’t complain, also just missed out on an airfix trs2 on eBay tonight. Edit 29/02, thanks to ebays leap year special discount and some saved vouchers I've just got some more AK paint and the new Tamiya F-35A for little over 20 quid delivered, result

Not a heli guy but a quick looks at pictures shows a dark grey which would be dark admiralty grey

I must be mad to consider entering it given how long it took to get my victor done, but not got that much on the go and I've already purchased the decals so here it goes

Had hoped to get my Corsair in the proper gallery tonight but it was not to be, but had to temporarily move some builds earlier and a stand got damaged and it just so happened to be a boomer so here’s a terrible picture I just took of my Hasegawa French F100

Probably made with the colour blind baboon that helped with the Ammo range

I’ve purchased two of theirs and wasn’t happy, apple green 226 interior green and 96 raf blue grey that was more like violet grey

Decals on, final straight

Where I went wrong, my famous lack of patience resulting in very not thin coats, that and spraying in a shed in December I tried with Halfords appliance white over their primer, I have some hycoat white primer, might be worth seeing if I can find small test subject whilst I wait for Amazon to drop the price on the valiant again, though I definitely will not be entering it, haven’t pulled the trigger on the Vulcan yet but I’ve just purchased the eligible decals so a decision might not be far off

Bearcat from the previous page repainted with AK Dark Sea Blue to use the spare USN decals, as well as having some minor improvements (damaged tailplane realligned, asymmetric gear bays levelled, canopy made slightly less bulbous)

Decal ready though I noticed earlier I forgotten to paint the prop so that’s not yet done

Ready for decals, I have improved the canopy with shaving of the bottom, so it doesn't look so bulged.