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Hi Folks, I hope I'll have enough modelling mojo to finish this one and to get back to the Shackleton. Soooo... I bought that one second hand, and got in the box a Revell kit with resin intakes I strongly suspect are a quite illicit copy of aftermarket ones. Being honest only to a point, I decided to use them anyway. I bought Aires cockpit and as I wanted to do an Air Defence Phantom, I bought Airdoc RAFG Phantom decal sheet. And so it went. The cockpit, painted Gunze H306 and black, with white pen to highlight the buttons and switches and whatnot. I painted the radar screens clear red. I was a bit over-enthusiastic removing stuff from the cockpit sills before integrating the cockpit. Too bad... The lower part of the wing had a stong view about the resin intakes. I had to pacify it using methods I'm not quite proud of: And the kit fought back: The upper parts of the wings are glued: And it's putty time! The cockpit sill was treated with Milliput. Love that stuff, BTW... And after some sanding, reputtying, resanding, painting just for a check and starting it all over again: Nose is painted black, the windshield got a thin coat of clear blue before everything was masked and glued on: There goes the Dark Sea Gray: And it's camouflage time. I made each green part separately: I put kabuki tape on the model, traced the contours on it, then put it on a pad and cut the contour before re-applying the tape to the model: It's a bit long... And now we're done: Before painting the butt, I masked its surroundings: Then, after spraying some Gunze Super Titanium, I removed the masks and said things that should give me a karma low enough to thing coming back as a dung beetle wouldn't be so bad after all. Starting to look like a Phantom, isn't it? For reason I prefer to stay unknown, I first painted the belly Medium Sea Gray. Then I had a brainwave and did it all over again in Light Aircraft Gray: A first attempt at airbrush weathering later: It's weapon time: I don't like code decals with separate individual letters. Really. 92th Sqn markings are on: And now for the bazillion stencils. Oh, one thing interesting to know... When you wipe the wash away, it is of capital importance to use the right solvent to put on the cloth/paper/cat you're wiping the wash with. Top tip of the week: celluloid thinner is NOT the right solvent. Back to the paintshop: And once the wash has been done: Some more airbrush weathering later, I sprayed some Alclad semi-gloss coat and removed the masks from the windscreen and went very naughty again (paint had seeped under the masks)... Now, I'll have to install all these: Next step: the nozzles, some more weathering in the jest exhaust area, and a beer or twelve. Cheers, Sebastien