Special request build, 1/48 La-5

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Beautiful work! A wonderful camo! I’ll look for Testors steel - us this one of the square bottle enamels? I’m not going to simply assume how you did the camo, so I am going to ask, comrade to comrade, was this sable brush or air brush or something else?
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speedgraflex wrote:Beautiful work! A wonderful camo! I’ll look for Testors steel - us this one of the square bottle enamels? I’m not going to simply assume how you did the camo, so I am going to ask, comrade to comrade, was this sable brush or air brush or something else?
Thanks Bruce. Yes, Testors Steel is the one sold in the little square 1/4 oz bottles. I used red sable brushes to apply the paints. Top colors are Polly Scale, and a bit old & thick. I thinned with distilled water and had to do two coats of each color. The underside is Humbrol enamel and also was applied in two thinned coats.
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Looks great. You brush painting voodoo people... can't figure that out.
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It’s definitely a perishable skill. We all grew up with it, but I sure haven’t kept current with hand brushing any aircraft builds. And it sure does seem to take more effort than before.
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Cool!
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Stikpusher wrote:
keavdog wrote:Looks great. You brush painting voodoo people... can't figure that out.
It’s definitely a perishable skill. We all grew up with it, but I sure haven’t kept current with hand brushing any aircraft builds. And it sure does seem to take more effort than before.
It's not easy, that's for sure. I'm still struggle with it and I've never done anything else.

You've managed a top notch job on that though Carlos - it looks excellent!
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Splendid progress and result Carlos! :shoutout:
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Gary and Stuart, thank you. I’ll have the decals on in a few hours. We shall see how that goes.
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Decals are now on. So many to apply… all 10 of them… lol! 6 Red stars, 2 Bort numbers, and the “boosted” stencils on the cowling. Amazingly the Hobbycraft decals worked very well!

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Just gotta add the final bits, do a sealing top coat, and this will be all finished…
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Re: Special request build, 1/48 La-5

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Well done. The bureau grants you two liters of vodka and a bushel of wheat.
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