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That’s a beautiful bird there Mikey!

It’s a Gunze Aqueous color… Orange Yellow. I am out of the house right now and can’t check the item number. But I do love that color! It is so vivid. I prefer to paint those leading edge ID areas over using decals. The decals rarely fit just right.

Most excellent finish here John! Another show stopper!

First class looking build John! That is absolutely gorgeous work! Right down to the pig tail electrical connectors for the rockets! Simply outstanding.

A major milestone reached today... flat coat on and masking removed...



I have a few more detail items to paint and some others to glue on... as things stand right now I ought to have it wrapped up over this holiday weekend

Sounds good Mikey! I saw a couple of CF-18s here at Luke AFB during their Open House & Air Show back in March. It looks like at least one passed thru a gunnery range before being put on display…

Thanks Kari. These sludge washes won’t come in too handy on my armor builds, but for aircraft, they are just what I needed! The simplicity of making them up, application, and removal is hard to beat.

Well, all of our orders are processed thru the HQ in Toronto, so if those folks are off there, no orders some thru for us. Having the US holidays off is just the right thing to do for them. Of course they are not paid holidays, but I’m not complaining.

Man that looks fantastic!

Thanks Mike! Since my last update, I hit the un cooperative upper left wing Hinomaru that was pointed out to me earlier, with a couple doses of Micro Set and got it to snuggle down properly https://i.postimg.cc/ry3K9dF9/IMG-9645.jpg Then this afternoon I made up a homemade sludge wash and applied it...