Stryker

Great Job! Drag Chute is exceptional!!!! Sent you Message!

Nice to see it getting finished................................................................FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

WHATEVER!

Thanks guys

So you actually can finish one!! Great Job Mike!

Nice Job Lloyd!!

I am by far not an airliner guy but am am a Hobbit, LOTR fan and am impressed with the quality of your homemade decals. I look forward to sharing this on Pinnacle Scale Models if you don't mind. May get you some more business too. Great job!!!!

Really Nice work Lloyd! They are getting their moneys worth!

Great Job Bud! Nice to see the viper in a different scheme for a change!

Bravo dude! I really like it!

Great job as always Dave. The figures really bring it to life!

Awesome work as usual Tom!

Nice work Mish!

Great Build Russ!

Nice Job!

BRAVO!

Awesome as always Paul!

Phantastic Tom!

Thanks for the comments to you and everyone. I love weathering anything and especially WWII aircraft. The process I use is really quite simple once you know it but takes practice to get it right and not over the top. To make it easy to read and easy for me to write out I will number the process that I use for mostly olive drab and camo patterned paint work. Of course it varies with what your build is etc. 1. Preshade all the panel lines. Do not use a pen as it is too stark and straight. 2. Spray the base color with light even strokes allowing dry time to monitor the preshading. 3.When dry, I lightly and spottily spray a lighter color than the original. In this case Olive Drab base with a faded olive drab over the top. I used Xtracrylix on this one. Make sure you coat the entire aircraft with FUTURE. 4. Lay the decals on and let them set until you are happy with the result. I sometimes assist them by rolling a wet cotton swab over them extremely lightly to make them seep deep into the grooves. I do this when they are wet with solvent. "CAN BE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS" but the weathered effect can be tremendous and sometimes worth the risk. 5.One thing that I notice is that some people will go through the effort to weather the plane and then stick the decals on and do nothing to them. they seem to forget that the decals are supposed to be paint and should fade and become the same wear and tear as the bird.To do this I use a extremely fine grit sander and lightly go over the decals. 6. I then spray the aircraft with a white oxide,over decals and all. I use Lifecolor for this but the same result can be achieved from very,very thinned down XF2 or any flat white. Spray another coat of future over the whole of the aircraft. 7. Finally, I dust the aircraft moderating from lightly to heavily depending on where I feel it would be getting a lot more dirty, sun faded, and so forth. I usually use a set of powders called Doc O'Brians but in this case I used Vallejo "Earth and Oxide" 73109 pigment. I then spray the aircraft with a dull cote until the shine is gone. That's it. No big secret, just my process. I hope I have made it understandable and that it helps you out with what you wanted to know. Have a good one and Happy Modeling.

Nice work.

Par Excellante!!! Amazing work!

Nice job for an old kit! Just not a lot you can do with this one. .

Ok folks, I have returned with updated photos. I apparently suffered from what I affectionately like to call MMOMMY "Magical Moments of Modeling Mishaps Ya'll". I do not understand how I did it, but I managed to paint and take pictures of my build without realizing I had placed the ailerons on the opposite side aof the aircraft thus making them upside down. Thanks to Tbolt for pointing out that error on my part.

Thanks for the comment Joachim. In this kit it gives you the option of having the ailerons raised or lowered. You can see which one I opted to go with. Several parts were not glued in as I may opt to put her in flight later on.