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Finished this a couple of months ago, but a now rare ray of sunshine through the window prompted me to take a snap and post. Sorry for the quality of the photo. Not one of my skills. https://drive.google.com/file/d/18350bH1X5BPK8d4PjyrU3c2s3T2A-An4/view?usp=sharing Have to come clean and state it is not 100% OOB as I used some Xtradecals from Hannants. I am happy with some of the end result, but there are things that I really am not chuffed with at all. I managed to get most of the thing built cleanly which was helped by what is a well designed kit. I had closed up the fuselage with the idea of adding crew after I had painted them. Ironically, I was listening to a video describing how cramped this aircraft was when I realised I didn’t have a hope of putting the crew in place after the buttoning up the cabin. 😶 This may have been an ill wind, as they would have got in the way of the machine guns. Used a weak pin wash on panel lines trying to be subtle. I used ground up soft pastels to provide some gentle weathering and exhaust stains. Happy with that. Not so happy with my petrol leak stains achieved by using a pin wash over a matt varnish. Looking at pictures, some aircraft can be found in a right state, but the effect I achieved on the model looks overscale, if you know what I mean. It might work on a 1/35 tank, but I am not sure I like it on this. The other thing that bugged me and is not right are the small clear parts. The windows on top of the wing just look like chunky prisms. How do you get around that? Paint the sides and frames before gluing? The light in the wing leading edge is naff. But I had given up by then! What I should have done is installed these little itty-bitty clear parts, then taken them down to surface level, polished them and only then painted. But I didnt. Never mind. It is a nice looking aircraft which looks good from a safe distance. Thank you for looking. 🙂
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Apologies if this is a well worn subject (nothing specific came up in the search I did before posting), but I have some decals for the forthcoming Airfix Beaufort and one of the schemes that made me get them is for an aircraft with two tone blue uppers. The relevant colours are available from Vallejo in their Model Air series or Xtracolor as enamels but as I'm a brush painter with acrylics neither of them really fit the bill. Does anyone have an equivalent acylic I can use with a brush? Googling doesn't turn anything up, and the paint conversion chart that is my normal go to for this sort of thing doesn't list any of the above colours so doesn't give me any tips. The scheme is number 5 on my list and the kit isn't out yet, so not a huge rush but if you don't ask, you'll never know. Andy
