Tamiya 1/48 F2A-2

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Runs from July 1, 2022 until December 31, 2022

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Thanks guys! The Yellow looks ok up close, better a foot or more away… the Flat Insignia Yellow middle coat had a bit of a rough texture, and that shows thru the Gloss Chrome Yellow… :headslap:
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Just a bit of progress today…
First up, I added the life raft canister/headrest and the rollover bar onto the rear deck

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Then I masked off the canopy and cemented that into place. Masking took quite a while….

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I also glued the forward antenna mast into place then cut it off, as VF-2 did that and instead mounted the antenna wire running from the tail to a stub mast on the left wing. Tomorrow I will resume painting on this one…
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Today, after lots of masking, I airbrushed on the True Blue section leaders band, cowling, and wing chevron

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Next up is lots more masking, then airbrushing all of the aluminum lacquer areas of the fuselage and wing undersides…
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Yeah boy! Great to see a colorful bird between all that camouflaged gear.
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Looks very nice! I especially like the yellow on the canopy!
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Man that looks awesome! :shoutout:
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She’s looking damn good!
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That's coming along really nicely Carlos - looking forward to seeing the end result.

Will you be using the Tamiya decals on this, or have you got an AM set (or are you painting them?)
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Many thanks guys.
mostrich wrote: Thu Oct 20, 2022 2:08 am Yeah boy! Great to see a colorful bird between all that camouflaged gear.
These Yellow Wings aircraft sure are attractive in their colors, that’s for sure!
LyleW wrote: Thu Oct 20, 2022 7:10 am Looks very nice! I especially like the yellow on the canopy!
Lots of fun doing that… and no blood was drawn, which is even more impressive… :whistle:
Stuart wrote: Tue Oct 25, 2022 5:29 am That's coming along really nicely Carlos - looking forward to seeing the end result.

Will you be using the Tamiya decals on this, or have you got an AM set (or are you painting them?)
I’m doing a combination of all of the above Stuart. Some kit decals, I instead ended up painting, to insure that all of the colors matched. I do have some AM decals to use as well, since the kit star cockades look terrible, and a few of the other decals are also questionable. But I do plan to use some kit decals.

I was out of town over the last few days, so this morning I was back at the bench masking again, getting ready for the next airbrush session later today. If that goes well, it’s gloss coat after the drying time.
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Well, todays airbrush session was good, but, as always, there were complications….

The aluminum coat went on just fine on the fuselage and underside of the wings

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Unfortunately when removing the masking, some of the paint on the tail area came up, so I need to do a touch up there, plus on the blue fuselage band. So a day of touch up paint, then dry time before the gloss coat. But at least now all the base colors are on…
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