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Alan , HDawg ; Thank you for your interest and comments. Tail missing area sorted:

Masks revealed: Too much for today , I'll do the top wing in the morning and get the second color on.

A little of this , a little of that... A huge amount of thought goes in but still ... When the application tape comes off I'll be able to see , and the tail can be plugged in then too. The tail is in the top of this pic: Thank's for the interest and commenting.

Masks applied: ...a little problem there at the front of the tail.

Transfer tape applied and trimmed:

Maskset and parts ready for todays work. I think I can get color #2 on today.

Long time no input... Wrecking the wheel finish turned off the work flow here. Its taken this long for me to look at it again. Here are the wheels in gloss black first coats , some flaws , so I'll begin the slog back to a proper finish:

Thanks for commenting Marklo. A gorgeous ,visceral blue is rendered today , the first of 5 colors: I love it and after a good while to dry we'll get the masks happening.

Thank you , Marklo. I think this procedure may be impossible in the smaller scales though, the shapes would be too small to work with. Decals in those scales may be a better bet. I'm warming up the house in anticipation of the first color application . Last night a review of the work resulted in the change up in colors to these : Thank you for the interest , I'm thinking there will be a real spike in attendance here as I go through this!

Starting off with a light coating of primer:

One step further. Defining and numbering the 5 color handpainted polygonal night camouflage in Corel today:

Contemplation today as I think the upper camo through. Here is the wing , a paper plot and the cut and numbered mask; Fuse and tail:

Landing gear attachment:

Sounds good. Only one reason to offer paint for a nonexistant kit,

Thanks Hdawg. Custom decal try-outs:

Some more parts get finished:

Trying to finish off the wing underside . And the proposed bomb load is proven to be unworkeable: Problem solved : I'll leave the 2 outer racks empty. And the AEG GIV kit is yielding some bomb rack gear that is well moulded , I can rob some parts and not effect the kit too much. And lastly some pencilled in panel lines , completely spurious , and gauge bezels for the rack mounts:

Masked balls get gunmetal pint: All of the undersides are now base painted and sealed. Looking at the weathering and detailing treatments to come.

Masks and painted markings applied with masks developed over 4 years ago . The mask set has become comprehensive. These worked out great:

Thanks HDawg… Pink proprietary rib tape extended decal session results in a nice coloring underside:

Ivory primer: Royal blue : White to begin knocking them down: And a custom light blue mix: Really getting there now.

The wing join can be done easily when the parts are stabilized. Filled with kit stretched sprue: Ball masks and underside painting looming.

I saw 3D printer files available on line to do the entire aircraft.

Smallish update. The small sink mark gets filled: Seams disappear. This would be the way to do this, leaving off the VS & rudder , filling the seams with sprue: And coming back in I stabilized the wings to the jig with some small pieces of double-tape.: … and filled the center joints with sprue: Looks like I made some more work for myself , too much glue and it oozed up into the strut holes.

Nicely done in a very timely fashion. Rigged with?