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Looks like you're having a great time John. I've never been an avid fisherman but I do, on occasion, take our son out for some fishing at the pier and we always seem to have a good time. I never catch anything like THAT though. Nice!

I thought I was about the only one that painted a model with the stabilizers off of the plane. Good to see you back at it.

As I mentioned before, I've kept the leftover markings masks to protect the markings as I apply the green mottle.


I've placed the narrow white cross masks to the upper wings and applied the lighter RLM 82 mottle patterns.



The dark green RLM 83 is then applied.



I'll do a bit of touch-up work and then move on to the fuselage after masking the fuselage markings and tail band.

Looks excellent John!

Incredible!!

Thanks guys! Got on a roll and was able to get the fuselage mottling done! First, I applied the masks over the fuselage markings and taped the black and white tail band. Then I applied some light green RLM 82 mottling on the fuselage.




And then the darker green RLM 83 was sprayed on.



The tape covering the tail band was removed and the top of the black and white band was covered with RLM 82. Here is what the model looks like after this final painting stage.








A gloss coat will be applied as we moved on to the decal stage.

You are going full speed on this now! I'm really liking how the mottling turned out.

That looks excellent John - first class painting!

Wow!! That looks incredible!!

Thanks guys! The last two days have been spent applying decals. Since the green mottle covered much of the stenciling, there wasn't a great number of decals to put on. But since I could not get the Portrait cutter to replicate the very fine black outlines on some of the markings, notably the big yellow "10", decals were used. I spent the majority of these two days patiently trying to get the yellow 10's to conform to the rivets and panel lines. First Microsol and then Solvaset was used and I still couldn't get them to sit down, so I resorted to a knife.





The panel lines within the yellow areas are a bit ragged and I'm trying to clean those up as much as possible. I don't think they'll be an issue after the panel wash but I'm taking the extra time now as decal solvent won't work after a clear coat is applied.



A view of the bottom, which is patiently waiting for the next stage in the build which will be the panel wash.

Looks fantastic. Home stretch now.