Lou iv inc" blue"

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

I was thinking Deep sky myself from the British chart. That or Roundel/Insignia blue ? 

[Hockeyboy76]

Lovely set of stripes. 

[Hewy]

21 minutes ago, Hockeyboy76 said:

Lovely set of stripes. 

Thanks H, a nose job today, (inc overspay )and the end of the silver work, a little mistake  to rectify on the anti glare panel , i should have done it in od

 And a few bits to modify  down under

[Joss]

Looking very nice! You're doing a cracking job!

Look forward to seeing more!

Joss

 

[Hockeyboy76]

@Hewy,There’s a NMF GB awaiting your name in the GB chat. 

[almac]

Very impressive work so far Hewy. I’m really liking your work on the cockpit.

 

Cheers Allan

[Ratch]

Just wondering why the stripes don't wrap all the way under the fuselage 

[Cookenbacher]

Wow!

[Hewy]

Thanks @almac, @Cookenbacher,   @Ratch,  the stripes did  wrap under on some,  they may have worn off on others , some have no sign they  were even there,

It looks like lou's are worn off or were never there, also one of the white segments of the gear doors  looks to have worn off or was missed, and the white stripes directly to the side of the drop tanks look to be back to bare metal in places i only have an over exposed colour colour photo of lou from beneath, but  theres a nice black and white one around that show that much better, thanks again all

[stevej60]

Great work Glynn she's looking a winner!

[srkirad]

Good job so far. Don't worry about yellow-at-the-moment antiglare area, OD will cover it very well, and yellow will give it a good base.

[Hewy]

I've  scanned the revell paint instructions to 200%, for anyone's future reference, it is an exact match for 1/32 ,  all the panel lines match ,which i have cut out  using a knife i got with a swivelling blade , to use as masks for the painting,

I really must get me one of those  die cutting machines, cheers all

[srkirad]

Oops, my mistake - I meant on upper cowling when I wrote antiglare - I thought whole upper cowling should be OD instead of yellow, so please take my appologies and ignore that above comment of mine. 😳

[Hewy]

33 minutes ago, srkirad said:

OD instead of yellow, so please take my appologies and ignore that above comment of mine. 😳

S , no probs , it was  od right down to the prop,  before the  yellow nose was painted on 👍 one side started , the darkest olive drab in my arsenal 

Edited January 5, 2020 by Hewy

[Toryu]

Hey - looks good. I'm very satisfied with your decision (maybe even a little darker?). Don't forget that there was an overpainted white (?) recognition stripe on top of the tailplane.

[Hewy]

55 minutes ago, Toryu said:

Hey - looks good. I'm very satisfied with your decision (maybe even a little darker?). Don't forget that there was an overpainted white (?) recognition stripe on top of the tailplane.

Yes a white stripe overpainted ,i belive , But I've  not applied any blue yet 😁😁

Just thinking out loud

Edited January 5, 2020 by Hewy

[Toryu]

Yes, exactly, the RAF vehicle colour came to my mind, too. For the overpainted stripes which look greyish, of course... 😀

[Hewy]

Last bit of work on this for a few days , this is where it currently stands,just a couple of touch ups to do  , I'm happy so far, where it go's from here colour wise i dont know, I'm going to ponder and do a bit more research, 

Cheers all

 

[Hewy]

 

Bear with me ,some will enjoy this,

While messing about with converting an image of the currently painted model first of all the normal picture taken in my light box,all lights in my modelling room are d65

Second  same picture converted to black and white, no hocus pocus

Next a simple app downloaded to recolour black and white images, and the same picture again

What colour does the fuselage spine look?  If the dday stripe covering was a lighter raf green would the blue look a little lighter?

Same image as number 3 but lightened , is there a hint of blue in there or is it my screen, unfortunately I'm  not clever enough to bring the yellow nose back😋

 

Edited January 5, 2020 by Hewy

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

38 minutes ago, Hewy said:

What colour does the fuselage spine look?  If the dday stripe covering was a lighter raf green would the blue look a little lighter?

Same image as number 3 but lightened , is there a hint of blue in there or is it my screen, unfortunately I'm  not clever enough to bring the yellow nose back😋

Ok I'm on an iPhone and the invasion stripes get a very dark blue on the fringes near the green. The Green turns black to my eyes. HTH ? 
 

Dennis

Edited January 5, 2020 by Corsairfoxfouruncle

[Hewy]

Managed to do a bit of painting today due to the weather, still a way to go on the top half ,

The colonel is pretty much finished ,as are the undersides, just some weathering 

 

[Courageous]

Undersides look lovely. That top scheme very unique but it's doing my head in 

 

Stuart

[Hewy]

3 hours ago, Courageous said:

That top scheme very unique but it's doing my head in 

I can't  really belive they'd paint it blue in all honesty either, looks horrid for a start doesn't it🙄

[Toryu]

It looks very special Glynn! On colour pictures the overpaint still appears somehow greyish in my perception. That's why I take it as either some kind of green that mixed with the soluble invasion stripes or RAF top side grey (to get a grey/green pattern like in the 56^th FG) or simply faded OD. But all this is my personal interpretation.

I guess there will never be a consensus and as many different schemes as there are models.

[Biggles87]

Have you tried changing the last photo to black and white to see what the tonal variation looks like?

 

John