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David H

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  1. They do look a lot better and should be much more sturdy.
  2. Its a little hard to tell from the angles, but it looks like you caught the non specular sea blue along the wing leading edges before transitioning to the semigloss sea blue for the rest of the wing. Most people miss this. -d-
  3. Hooray! We've made it to Primer. This time the primer was made from decanted Tamiya White Surface Primer (Instead of Mr Base White 1000) that was tinted with XF-4 Yellow Green. i went with a much lighter coat of primer compared to the first one, partly because the upper fuselage/solar cap itself is gonna be all white primer (which is then sanded down and clear coated with a gloss). Up next is a Seek- and- Destroy campaign to identify and eradicate surface glitches. Somewhere in all of this chaos there's a Buccaneer waiting impatiently to get finished, and my Phantom is feeling neglected again.
  4. Thanks for doing the independent testing, Casey!! Even if the first run is off, adding Super Clear into the mix has definitely improved the gloss and made the paint more durable. In the mean time i think i will update my Vickers VC10 posting...
  5. I will go back and try the 2:1 XF-17/X-16 mix when i get home. I too thought it looked a little too purple at first and increasing the XF-17 should fix that. I can see the differences in paint samples above, the differences in the purple are more obvious to me than the differences in the blue. -d-
  6. I'll be curious to hear your thoughts as well. -d-
  7. So, in order to make an accurate looking 623 using your formula, i need to start off with the "Bad" Batch of XF-17?
  8. I just tried out Troy's formula of XF-17 and X-16, but i don't have any photos yet. I'll post my results next week when i get back from Florida.
  9. The Humbrol 104, Oxford Blue is new to me too. I always thought their Midnight Blue would be the closest match...
  10. The pronounced "slant" of the upper streaks may be attributable to the spiraling slipstream of the propellers, interacting with the wing leading edge. All the engines were interchangeable, and all turned clockwise. Counter-rotating propellers were kind of exotic and required extensive re-gearing. On the upper side i think what we're looking at is oil. Leaks around the overhead valve covers were common, so that applies to every cylinder. Obviously, gravity will also carry oil to the lowest point in the cowling before being drawn overboard, too. It all seems to begin behind the cowling flaps and go from there. So, anything upstream of the turbosupercharger exhaust on the undersides i'd recon would be a very dark grey. As for the exhaust outlet, i'd say a combination of very dark grey, a little bit of rust brown, and a very light grey to depict a lean fuel-air mixture (lots of lead in those olde-time aeroplane fuels; very high compression ratios, so very high octane ratings). Just my observations from a pilots perspective....
  11. Wow, i love it. Lots of different colours and markings to break up the monotony of those big wings. I presume somewhere along the way we're gonna see lots of oil streaks emanating from behind the cowl flaps?
  12. I don't have a personal copy of the Elliot book but i'm very familiar with it. One thing i *do* know for sure is that ANA Sea Blues and the later 15042 derivatives are deffo not the same thing and that's a widely held misconception i'm trying to clear up.
  13. Thanks Casey, This is largely a validation/ test for what will probably be El Corsair Grande, Numero Quatro. It all got started while fumbling for a semigloss sea blue that contrasted well enough with the non spec that goes on the wing leading edges of a Birdcage to be painted in the so called "Norfolk Scheme". Then we sort of wandered off the reservation. One thing that remains unknown, is how the colour looks in daylight; it's rather cloudy here today. My biggest concern being the blue is so dark that there isn't enough contrast, with the adjacent Insignia Blue. Troy is concerned that the "wrong" XF-17 in the 23 ml jars have too much green in it, but you go with what you've got. My jars are the smaller ones so i may have dodged a bullet. -d-
  14. Having re-read your earlier comments about the jar sizes, mine is in the small jars so i think its the *better* version. The colour looks dark, but i haven't examined it yet in daylight. -d-
  15. Well, here is Casey's ANA 623 formula. Well, i think my curiosity has been largely satisfied. I need a drink.
  16. i just tested a batch of Casey's ANA 623 mix. Editing the photos now.
  17. You could also use Tamiya flat white. I only use the white surface primer because it's more heavily pigmented and i love its sanding properties.
  18. No, i meant the formula that goes on the leading edges (ANA 607, mislabled ANA 606).
  19. Did you evaluate the Tamiya paint mix that i tried on the leading edges of the Corsair tailplanes??
  20. 1) I too consider the Elliott book to be (so far) the definitive reference. 2) Deck Tan. Wow. I will paint up another cowling, and report back. -d-
  21. What i want is a mixing formulae using Tamiya Acrylics for ANA 623. I want to see with my own eyes how they differ. I will try XF-50 with gloss added to assess what *that* looks like.
  22. Tamiya XF-50 Field Blue is a new one on me (ANA 623). -d-
  23. So, for anybody who is interested..... I have done another, larger sized "All-Up" test of the Replikator ANA 603 formula... I painted up a set of cowling pieces and placed them on the F4U Birdcage powerplant and propeller, which explains the white cowling flaps. Again, i blended in a lot of Mr Super Clear UVCut gloss to add a semigloss to the finish. Stands to reason, that it also makes the paint a bit more durable. After dumping in the SuperClear, the mix needed another round of thinning. Keep in mind that Sea Blue does not photograph all that great, indoors. In the name of seeking knowledge and its sweetheart son truth, i couldn't stop there. So, i painted an equivalent set of cowling panels using Tamiya AS-8, decanted into a jar and thinned with Unicorn Tears... It dries quickly (as one would expect) but not much gloss to speak of. One aggravation of this process, is the blue finish highlights some rather prominent mold parting lines on the upper and lower cowling segments that should be eradicated. Comparisons between the two colours are not exactly being conducted under laboratory conditions, but here is a side by side comparison. Since the contrast was not leaping out at me, i tried piecing the two parts together.... After taking both samples outside and examining in daylight, the takeaway is the Tamiya AS-8 closely mimics the ANA Non Specular Sea Blue, but not the ANA 603. This is to be expected since the two colours aren't the same. The Tamiya AS-8 in my view is perfectly acceptable for the *Flat* Sea Blue on fuselages, and the leading edges of wings and tail surfaces. Having said that, Tamiya calls for using AS-8 overall on the F4U-1D versions, which is no bueno. There is one more suggested paint mix for an ANA 623 that i would like to try out. Right now i'm working on the assumption that 623 is just a glossy version of 606, but i've been proven wrong before... -d-
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