Rusty Shackleford

Very well done! What a beautiful bird.

Sunlight (UV rays) wreaked havoc on OD paints. It would seem there is almost no wrong way to weather your model, using a wide range of dulled olive greens, tans, pale khakis, and mixtures thereof. Thanks Troy for posting exemplary images above! I'm loving that patchwork of tones on that G model, second photo down.

BTW, Lindberg packaged the Monitor and Merrimack together, along with a vacu-formed water base complete with cannonball splashes so you could display the battle of the iron-clads! I believe all the Lindberg ( and thus Pyro) tool inventory is now the property of Round2 Models, though someone more knowledgeable may have more exact info.

Lindberg got a hold of most, if not all, of the Pyro molds many many years back. It made for some frustrating purchases back in the late 90s -early 2000s when Lindberg was tooling up some decent kits in the automotive genre, but also packaging those old Pyro kits at the same time. I recall having been impressed with the Lindberg '61 Impala, Ford Crown Vic police car, '53 Ford Ind Pace Car, and so on, so I happily swiped up the "Lindberg" '48 Lincoln, only to cry with disappointment to see the old multi-piece, toy-like appearance of the Pyro kit within. The box art was a photo of the real car, so no clues given. I still taste the bitterness.

Revell has a much newer F in 1/72 scale, but this ol' gal is nearly as old as the Monogram G, in fact it is well documented how Revell blatantly used the Monogram kit to make their tooling, only changing it to an F so as not to be too conspicuous. Monogram's kit was a runaway sales kingpin when it was released, and remained so for many years. Revell wanted a piece of that cake, but without all the homework, etc. They were slapped pretty hard for it, though not nearly as hard as they could have been. Monogram's big chief made it very clear that this sort of thing should: NEVER. HAPPEN. AGAIN.

Looking good! Love your plywood floor effect; very convincing.

Love it! Good gawd, you boys dig deep! Keep me on the straight and narrow...

Basing my response on this, it reads to me that the aircraft were part of a British order that was diverted to China BEFORE delivery to Britain. https://media.defense.gov/2010/Oct/28/2001330217/-1/-1/0/AFD-101028-007.pdf (Scroll down to page 9, about midway.) This would indicate they would be wearing colors right from the Curtis factory, would it not?

Very nice work!

The posts referring to British-purchased planes seems to be irrelevant to the OP's intentions, if I read right, and you are building one of the AVG Flying Tiger machines. These were absolutely in US spec finishes. Those planes were purchased directly by China. Zinc Chromate likely on all surfaces per your question. BTW, ZC is not a color mixture, but the natural result of its chemical mixture as an etching primer. It was (and is) a primer used on metals that don't take paint well. (Aluminum, stainless steel, brass, etc.)

Very nice job.

That's a beauty. First time I've seen that scheme, and I'm in love with it! Well done.

Absolutely beautiful; both the plane and the model! A perfect example of what a good brush in the right hand is capable of. I'm always impressed with a good brush job, and this is exemplary. Very well done!

A good read! Clancy's characters had nicknamed the stealthy planes " the Frisbee" as I recall...I think his description more closely resembled the Italeri/Testors design. Fun stuff!

I actually like the look of the nose without the canards! I recall an article where an aircraft design engineer was making fun of the imagined "stealth" designs back when, as most had canards, and he thought it was hilarious, as canards give a radar return " like a bus". He reckoned no canards for a genuine stealth design. Looking forward to how yours turns out; liking your approach over all!