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Thon's a quare job Deano, so it is.

Just beautiful

Lovely job!

I'm so sorry Tim, I sit here corrected! I confused myself! I tried to remember that they *look* upside down but they aren't but failed to remember when I posted. Keep up the good work.....

Be careful, in all of the pics your dry-fit of the intakes are upside down. Great work otherwise!

Absolutely gobsmacking so it is!

Unfortunately, the Black Dog of depression has prevented any happiness from arriving at my shore for a few years now. It is truly a place that any healthy-minded person can never begin to imagine. I can see nice things, watch nature, even laugh at some things, but they don't "make me happy" My advice, all those things that have been mentioned on this thread, appreciate them even more! I wish I could. Sorry if I've lowered the tone.

Very true Duncan, lots of food for thought. As you mention, they're all fairly different, and not any technique I've tried up til now. Misting might be a good "quick fix", but isn't modelling all about trying to improve your technique for the next model? Both pastels and oils sound like good advice, I have used oils before, but only the two shades of brown I use for oil stains and grime like that. I might actually try the oil route on this one, the technique I have slightly more experience with. I'll post up how it went on here just in case there's any interest. Thanks everybody.

Yeah, think I might experiment on something else first just in case.... I'll let you know how I get on.

Now there's a thought......

OK it worked. Now, remember I'm haven't started a lot of the dirtying and weathering yet as I thought the paint was too dark, and the model is shiny after the Klear coat for the decals, I'mm be matting that down big time stylee. But compare with Alex's link above and you can see the difference. That green patch below the cockpit is meant to be the darker of the two greens in the camo scheme!!

I have applied a bit of a browny grime wash to the panel lines as in the pic Alex above linked to, but again I think it needed to be a lighter shade.... I'll see if I can work out this photobucket thingy and show you what I'm dealing with.

Grey Beema, that's fantastic work, especially the wing with the original "clean" roundal area compared with the rest it. That's exactly what is needed! Cheers Alex, I have that pic and that's exactly the look I was trying to get, although as I say, I used the correct paints but didn't bother my ars head to lighten them a touch. As you can see though, it does get really sun bleached! In fact, that is the actual airframe I'm building...

OK you've all convinced me, I'll attempt a light mist. Light grey rather than some sort of light sandy dust colour, for a really dirty, faded Greek machine?

Really nice work!

Thanks for replying. So, on a three-tone colour scheme, would you spray a thin light mist of each colour, rather than say, an overall mist of light grey or white? I hear what you say about doing a bit at a time though, I'd be scared of overdoing it on the first squirt....

I need some advice to reactivate my modelling mojo again. I'm building a Greek Air Force Corsair II, painted it up in the correct SEA colour scheme, knowing fine well I should've lightened each colour a bit, but I didn't. Then I went ahead and decaled, Kleared and weathered it, but it's ended up looking a bit too dark for my liking. Question is, how can I go about lightening up the paintwork and giving a bit of a sun-bleached look to it without ruining the decals? Chris

Really like those. After years of building 1/48 I decided over Christmas to purchase a few airliner kits, just for a change. You've convinced me it's a good idea, but you've set the bar high!

Great cutting work!

Terrific work mate!

I see traffic on the bridge. Wasn't there meant to be road closures as she sailed underneath? you know, for security reasons?

Stunning, and an enjoyable WiP to follow. Just wait til Airfix release the 1/24 scale Wasp, still won't be half as detailed as this...

I know! And my popcorn's all stale now.

My popcorn is hereby open.

Wonderful masterclass on how to sphereoidize your knob ends Nigel!! I'll be trying that meself next time.